[Chapter-delegates] Turing Lecture by Drs Kahn and Cerf

[David McAuley]

Dear Chapter Delegates:

I am passing on a message received from Chris Edmondson
Yurkanan regarding the upcoming Turing Lecture to be
delivered by Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf at the ACM SIGCOMM
conference on August 22nd. Chris's note is below and gives
you 3 ways to hear the lecture.

This is an exciting development. The panel that
Vint and Bob held at the DC Chapter's recent event to
congratulate them on the Turing Award was a riveting
discussion. Please take note and pass this on to your
members and use this lecture as a way to further your goals
and those of ISOC.

Best wishes,
David McAuley
mcauley at isoc.org

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I'm contacting you about a unique event taking place on
Monday, August 22, 2005, in Philadelphia, PA.

This year's ACM Turing Award winners, Vinton Cerf and
Robert Kahn will be delivering the Turing Lecture at the
ACM SIGCOMM 2005 Conference.
Their citation reads:
    "For pioneering work on internetworking, including the
design and implementation of the Internet's basic
communications protocols, TCP/IP, and for inspired
leadership in networking."

You have 3 choices:
* attend the Lecture in Philadelphia, PA, US, Monday Aug
22nd
* watch the webcast live (possibly together with other
colleagues)
* watch the archived webcast when it's convenient for you.

If you are in close proximity to the event, we invite you
to attend the lecture free-of-charge. You are also invited
to the pre-lecture Reception!

Here's the Turing Lecture Schedule at the Univ. of
Pennsylvania (8/22/2005)
4:30 - 5:30pm, Reception, Irvine Auditorium
5:30 - 6:00pm, Seating, Irvine Auditorium
6:00 - 7:30pm, Turing Lecture, Irvine Auditorium (will be
webcast live)

     The Lecture will be a discussion between Vint and Bob
(moderated by Lyman Chapin), with the title:     "Assessing
the Internet: Lessons Learned, Strategies for Evolution,
and Future Possibilities" and afterwards, there will be a
Q&A session with the audience.

Feel free to invite your colleagues, students, and guests
as well. Bob & Vint have expressed a desire for an audience
with a wide set of interests, and of course an audience
intrigued with the Internet. Please note that space for the
lecture is limited; requests will be filled on a
first-come, first-served basis.

To reserve a ticket to attend this memorable event,
you'll need to reserve one here:
http://campus.acm.org/public/TuringLecture/reservation.cfm

For more information on the Turing Lecture and directions,
check out the Turing Lecture website for more details:
http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2005/turinglecture.html

Thanks,
Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan,
on behalf of Vint, Bob, ACM & SIGCOMM

P.S. Don't forget that ACM SIGCOMM will stream it live over
     the Internet that Cerf & Kahn helped create!!!

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If you have not heard about this year's Turing Award or
have not heard about Cerf and Kahn, here's a little
background:

The A.M. Turing Award is often recognized as the "Nobel
Prize of Computing", and has been awarded for 39 years;
however this is the first year that network researchers
have received the Turing Award!!!

Their first paper on "internetworking" was published in
IEEE Transactions on Communications, May 1974: A Protocol
for Packet Network Intercommunication. If you haven't read
their first paper, add it to your summer reading list!

Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf started in 1973 to solve the problem
of how to interconnect a network of networks, i.e. an
"internetwork", or "internet". For Bob, new at DARPA, his
interest was in building and connecting a packet radio
network to the existing ARPA network along with a packet
satellite network. Bob invited Vint to work with him, and
they jointly designed TCP, a protocol with "two headers":
an internetwork header and a process header. It took over 5
years before the two headers were split into two protocols:
IP and TCP. In 1973 Vint was already the chair of the
International Network Working Group, so he was interested
as well in solving the problem of interconnecting several
existing diverse networks: the US ARPA network to the
French network Cyclades & the British network at National
Physics Laboratory.

The following link has a short bio on Cerf and Kahn:
http://www.acm.org/awards/turing_citations/cerf_kahn.html

At a reception at the Computer History Museum June 9th,
Vint and Bob "cited the collaborative nature of their work,
acknowledging the contributions from many in the room who
had made their achievements possible." For more information
see:
http://campus.acm.org/public/membernet/storypage_2.cfm?
ci=July_2005&story=2&CFID=48919977&CFTOKEN=16561738

Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan
(chris at cs.utexas.edu)
Contact info: www.cs.utexas.edu/~chris/