Internet pioneers win Turing Award
Real AudioThe Association for Computing Machinery has awarded technology's top annual prize, the Turing Award, to Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn.
Working for the U.S. Deaprtment of Defense in the 1960s, they created the networking infrastructure called "TCP." It allowed distant computers to communicate with each other. TCP led to the Internet, and is still behind 'Net applications like the Web and e-mail.
Guest: David Patterson, professor of computer science at UC Berkeley, and president of the association
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