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

[borka at e5.ijs.si]

Good idea. It is important that ACM has decided
finally to give the prize to something
so different from the  awards given in the
past. This deserve to be celebrated.
I was a lucky one to congratulate Vint Cerf
in person last week. 


Regards,

Borka


On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Gene Gaines wrote:

> 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
> 
> 

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Institut Jozef Stefan
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
 
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