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Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn Awarded Medal of Freedom

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the still-waiting-for-mine dept.

3l1za writes ""President Bush on Thursday announced the recipients of this year's Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civil award." Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn -- for their design of "the software code used to transmit data over the Internet" -- are among those to be honored next Wednesday. "

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  1. Re:You're not really at "war". by Surt · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    On the other hand, the war on drugs is taking lives at a greater rate here in the US than the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts put together.

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