Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Cerf, Kahn Honored With Presidential Medal of Freedom

An excerpt of a FDCH e-Media transcript of President Bush's comments, via The Washington Post:

[...] Like Chairman Greenspan, Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn are brilliant men who found great success in their chosen field and have played an extraordinary role in the story of our time. Thirty-two years ago, Dr. Kahn, an engineer, and Dr. Cerf, a computer scientist, figured out how to transmit data between separate computer networks, and to do so quickly, effectively, and routinely. Dr. Kahn called it "internetting." By developing a common digital language for computers across networks, these two men prepared the way for a technological revolution.

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