QEprize-2013
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Louis Pouzin, Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf, Tim Berners Lee and Marc Andreessen are the first winners of the QEPrize.
- The Internet and the WWW is an engineering achievement that has
changed the direction of the world. The Internet and www led to a
communications revolution of unprecedented power and impact.
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Today a third of the world’s 7 billion population use the
internet and estimates are that it carries 330 Petabytes of data per
year. This is enough to transfer every character ever written in every
book ever published twenty times over.
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The first QE Prize for Engineering was awarded to five people
who made major contributions to the development of the internet and the
WWW: Louis Pouzin, Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf, Tim Berners-Lee and Marc
Andreesen each played a significant part in the development of the
technology.
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Robert Kahn (left) and Loui Pouzin (right) |
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Louis Pouzin, Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf made seminal
contributions to the protocols (or standards) that together make up the
fundamental architecture of the Internet.
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