Laurels for Giving the Internet Its Language

Anonymous Patron writes The New York Times Reports 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. Vinton G. Cerf and Robert E. Kahn 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.”