The creators of the Internet received the Queen Elizabeth Award for inventors

In general, the number of various awards and regalia, which the creators of the Internet received, simply does not count. People, in fact, who created the modern information society, remember how their merits are remembered. The other day, Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Kann, Vinton Zerf, Louis Pouzan and Marc Andreessen received another prize, this time the Queen Elizabeth Prize For Engineering Award.

The amount of the award is quite significant and amounts to one million pounds (about one and a half million US dollars). This amount will be divided into equal shares among all five nominalists. The prize itself is an initiative of the UK government (it has yet to be formally announced to the Queen of Great Britain this year, in June), and is a kind of alternative, or rather, an addition to the well-known Nobel Prize. This year, the Royal Prize was awarded for the first time, and the initiative itself is quite worthy.
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It should be noted that, according to the plan, no more than three inventors should award the Royal Prize for inventors. But this time, based on special considerations, the prize was awarded to five specialists, who created the Internet. The merits of these people are hardly worth re-listing - on Habré clearly know who created what of the five.

And here is a short video, nicely decorated announcement of the award itself:



Via techcrunch + lenta