INQUIRER.net: Web pioneers win inaugural $1.5M engineering prize

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Web pioneers win inaugural $1.5M engineering prize Mar 19th 2013, 01:02 LONDON—Five engineers who helped create the Internet were on Monday awarded a $1.5 million prize which British organizers hope will come to be seen as equivalent to a Nobel prize for engineering.   Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf and Marc Andreessen of the United States will share the first ever £1 million (1.2 million euro) Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering with Louis Pouzin of France and Tim Berners-Lee of Britain.   "The emergence of the Internet and the web involved many teams of people all over the world," said Alec Broers, chair of the judging panel.   "However, these five visionary engineers, never before honored together as a group, led the ke... Keep on reading: Web pioneers win inaugural $1.5M engineering prize Media files: Britain-QEPrize-1024x682.jpg (image/jpeg)

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