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> From the New York Times --
>http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/16/technology/16internet.html
>
>Laurels for Giving the Internet Its Language
>By KATIE HAFNER
>
>Late in the summer of 1973, two young scientists in the nascent field of
>computer networks hunkered down in a conference room of the Cabana Hyatt
>Hotel in Palo Alto, Calif., a clean but bland stopping place for salesmen
>and the parents of students at nearby Stanford University. Their goal was
>to thrash out a way to make different, isolated computer networks talk to
>each other.
>They wrote, they sketched, they argued, all the while passing a yellow
>legal pad back and forth to capture ideas as they crystallized. When they
>emerged two days later, they knew they had the makings of a solid
>technical paper. What they did not know was that they had created the
>essential underpinnings of today's vast and sprawling Internet.
>For the work that began on that yellow pad, the Association for Computing
>Machinery plans to announce Wednesday that Vinton G. Cerf and Robert E.
>Kahn will receive the 2004 A. M. Turing Award, widely considered to be the
>computing field's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. (...) In honoring Dr.
>Kahn and Dr. Cerf, the computing association validates one view in the
>highest ranks of computer science that their work made the Internet
>possible. It also revives the public spats in the small community of
>Internet founding fathers over who should be considered the Edison of this age.
>"A lot of people are responsible for the success of the Internet," said
>David Patterson, a professor of computer science at the University of
>California, Berkeley, who is president of the association. "Vint and Bob
>are responsible for the vocabulary of the Internet." (...)
>In that early brainstorming session, Dr. Kahn, 66, and Dr. Cerf, 61, who
>are known in the computing field for their Watson-and-Crick-like teamwork,
>created the structure for Transmission Control Protocol and Internet
>Protocol, or TCP/IP, a set of communications standards that enable
>different computer networks to share information, giving the Internet its
>power and
>reach. (...) No one disputes that Dr. Kahn and Dr. Cerf created the
>original protocol, but factions in computer science point to different
>inventions as being most vital to the Internet's existence. Most notably,
>for the last 10 years, Leonard Kleinrock, a computer scientist at the
>University of California, Los Angeles, has been laying claim to having
>invented packet switching, the general method of splitting up a message
>into digital packets, routing the packets individually and reassembling
>the message on the other end. (...) In recent years, Lawrence G. Roberts,
>who in the late 1960's designed the Arpanet, a precursor of the Internet,
>has been a supporter of Dr. Kleinrock's claim. (...)
>Dr. Cerf and Dr. Kahn, who were informed of the award last week, will
>divide the $100,000 prize, which is named for Alan Mathison Turing, the
>British mathematician and cryptographer who broke German codes during
>World War II. The two, who have collaborated on and off for more than
>three decades, have different styles. Dr. Cerf, a bon vivant who usually
>wears a three-piece suit, is known for his good-natured pragmatism. Dr.
>Kahn is more intense. (...) Yet both men are known for their wry senses of
>humor. "Maybe it's the humor that kept them together," Dr. Tennenhouse
>said. They first met in 1969 at U.C.L.A., after the first Arpanet nodes
>were installed around the country. Dr. Kahn, then working at Bolt, Beranek
>& Newman, an engineering firm, in Cambridge, Mass., spent time at U.C.L.A.
>conducting experiments on the new network.
>Since then, the two men have been intellectually "bound at the hip,"
>seldom straying far from computer networking. In 1973, when they wrote the
>paper outlining their idea, Dr. Cerf had just joined the faculty at
>Stanford University and Dr. Kahn had moved to the Advanced Research
>Projects Agency at the Defense Department, which had funded the original
>Arpanet. (...)
>To determine whose name would appear first on the paper, they tossed a
>coin, and Dr. Cerf won.
>(...) Dr. Cerf said part of the reason their protocols took hold quickly
>and widely was that he and Dr. Kahn made no intellectual property claims
>to their invention. They made no money from it, though it did help their
>careers. "It was an open standard that we would allow anyone to have
>access to without any constraints," he said. Dr. Cerf said he was "pretty
>amazed" by what the Internet had become. He was quick to add, "I suppose
>anyone who worked on the railroad, or power generation and distribution,
>would have
>similar feelings about how amazing it is after you create infrastructure."
>Dr. Cerf is also quite realistic about the recognition his contribution
>deserves. Creating a tool is one thing, he said, but credit for what
>people do with it is something no inventor can claim.
>
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The current wrangle over who invented the Internet was due to the way ARPA
managed the original networking research. They
treated everyone who participated on the early efforts as central to the
final result. Every research project was needed and was
integrated into the whole, thus no one part could be said to have been the
most important. History shouldn't look on this as who
was most important, or who was the creator of the Internet, but should
rather recognize the masterful management that ARPA used
to orchestrate the entire endeavor. The current DARPA could not do so now.
That being said, congratulations to Vint & Bob for their richly
deserved 2004 ACM Turing Award for their watershed work
on tcp/ip.
Diego Saravia
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