[chapter-delegates] A celebration for Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn?

[Marie-Anne Delahaut]

Dear Gene and all,

Great idea to honor Vint and Bob through ISOC in the USA.
I had the pleasure to do it in Europe last Friday, as an introduction to the
conference "Foresight of the Internet" organized by the Information Unit of
the Destree Institute in Namur - where you had all been invited through ISOC
lists and newsletter. 

As Borka said on this list, it was a very innovative conference and Vint has
accepted to sponsor the creative project we propose in order to create a
living memory of this event, about "History and foresight of the Internet".
Of course more news will come about this.

Best wishes for the event you organize, Gene, Vint and Bob are worth all the
celebration we can organize in their honor !

Kind regards,

Marie-Anne
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advisor, head of the Information Unit and network administrator
The Destree Institute * www.Wallonie-en-ligne.net/
Internet Society Wallonie * www.Wallonie-ISOC.org/
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Gaines [mailto:gene.gaines at gainesgroup.com] 
> Sent: mardi 8 mars 2005 17:35
> To: chapter-delegates at lists.isoc.org
> Subject: [chapter-delegates] A celebration for Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn?
> 
> 
> All,
> 
> Much discussion of problems on our list.  Heavy.
> 
> Perhaps time for a little fun?
> 
> I have a thought.
> 
> Two fellows named Vint and Bob are members of our local
> Washington DC USA chapter of ISOC.
> 
> They wrote a college paper and came up with this thing called
> TCP/IP. Has become rather widely used.
> 
> Both guys were principal organizers of ISOC and the IETF, have
> been important drivers in the growth and success of both
> organizations, and strong supporters of ISOC chapters.
> 
> Now they are getting an award.  A really important one.
> 
> From the ACM website:
> 
>    The Association for Computing Machinery, has named Vinton G.
>    Cerf and Robert E. Kahn the winners of the 2004 A.M. Turing
>    Award, considered the "Nobel Prize of Computing," for
>    pioneering work on the design and implementation of the
>    Internet's basic communications protocols.
> 
> I propose that ISOC chapters worldwide come together to hold
> an appreciation evening for Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn.
> 
> They are members of our local DCISOC chapter, so I expect my
> chapter will be pleased to organize the evening. I expect we
> will be able to hold it at a location such as the U.S. Library
> of Congress, or perhaps our principal national museum, the
> Smithsonian Institution.
> 
> I think it best that all ISOC chapters join equally in
> sponsoring the event to honor Vint and Bob. This should be an
> international appreciation for Vint and Bob, not just our local
> Washington chapter, not just a U.S. event.
> 
> Hopefully we can arrange to have the evening webcast, people
> from chapters around the world participate and send their
> congratulations via the Internet.
> 
> Could be great fun.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Gene Gaines
> gene.gaines at gainesgroup.com
> Sterling, Virginia
>