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

[Andreu Vea']

Thanks David and Chris,

I would suggest as I did to the Spanish chapters, to 

1. Bookmark the Webcast page
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigcomm/sigcomm2005/webcast.html in your browser.

2. Download or/and test your Real Audio Player http://www.real.com (unique
way to watch it according the directions given). 

3. And the most important know what time the lecture will be held at your
place (click below for a precalculated time)  

 
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=22&year=200
5&hour=18&min=0&sec=0&p1=198

"See you" there, this time I'll be in the sunny Barcelona,

		andreu



-----Mensaje original-----
De: chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org
[mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org] En nombre de David
McAuley
Enviado el: viernes, 12 de agosto de 2005 9:32
Para: chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org
CC: chris at cs.utexas.edu
Asunto: [Chapter-delegates] Turing Lecture by Drs Kahn and Cerf


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

snip

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!!!

------------------------------------------------------------
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/

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