Five Internet Founders Share First £1 Million Engineering 'Nobel' Prize 55
judgecorp writes "The first Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, worth £1 million, has been shared by five founders of the Internet and the World Wide Web. In addition to Sir Tim Berners Lee and Vint Cerf, the other recipients are Cerf's colleague Bob Kahn, creator of the Mosaic browser Marc Andreessen, and a much less well known Frenchman, Louis Pouzin, aged 82. Working at Bell Labs, Pouzin invented the datagram protocols on which Cerf and Kahn based the TCP/IP protocols. The judges originally planned the prize for a maximum of three winners, but that had to change, thanks to the collaborative nature of the Internet. All the recipients praised their colleagues and pointed out that engineering is always a team effort: 'Fortunately we are still alive,' joked Pouzin. 'It is forty years since we did the things for which we are being honoured.' Awarded in the U.K., the prize is an international effort to create an engineering counterpart to the Nobels. The judges considered entries from 65 countries."
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I think he's a troll trying to make conservatives look bad.
I'm a moderate with liberal leanings, and as far as I have seen, that style of conservative only lives in the imaginations and misconceptions of reality found in the far left kooks. The far right kooks are quite a different creature all together.
Actually, if you look at their mindsets and logical failings, the far left and far right look a lot alike, the only difference is the ideology they choose to wield.