Four engineers who created the Internet are recipients of the National
Academy of Engineering's 2001 Charles Stark Draper Prize. Join a live
audio Webcast with Vinton Cerf, Robert Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, and
Lawrence Roberts from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. EST, Tuesday, Feb. 20, and ask
questions using an e-mail form, available on the day of the event at
http://national-academies.org.
Earl Bakken and Wilson Greatbatch have won the new Fritz J. and Dolores
H. Russ Prize for inventing the first human heart pacemaker.
The Draper and Russ Prizes will be presented at ceremonies in Washington,
D.C. on February 20. Read more about the
recipients and their inventions.