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

[Lyman Chapin]

Gene,

Vint and Bob have just accepted an invitation from ACM SIGCOMM to 
give their Turing Award lecture(s) at the annual SIGCOMM conference 
on August 22 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. This 
may or may not be useful in your planning/scheduling of a chapter 
event, but I thought that you and the other chapter delegates would 
be interested to know about it.

- Lyman

At 11:34 AM -0500 3/8/05, 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