Live-Streamed Event Commemorates Developments
That Laid the Groundwork for the Modern Internet
PISCATAWAY, N.J., May 13, 2024
/CNW/ -- IEEE, the world's largest technical professional
organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, will
commemorate the IEEE milestone Transmission Control Protocol
(TCP) Enables the Internet, celebrating the first 50 years of
the internet with a May 19, 2024
live-streamed global virtual event to highlight essential
building blocks that made the internet possible — Transmission
Control Protocol (TCP), which ensures that data sent over computer
networks arrives in the right place, free of errors. To register to
watch the livestream starting at 3:00
p.m. ET/12:00 p.m.
PT/19:00 UTC-04
visit https://engage.ieee.org/celebrate-i50.
To mark the anniversary, IEEE, in collaboration with
People-Centered Internet, will host the event, "IEEE i50: A Virtual
Celebration of 50 Years of the Internet," featuring discussions by
technical and business leaders worldwide. The event will include
stories from global leaders who benefit from and struggle with the
current Internet, and discussions of the ways that stakeholders can
shape a people-centered digital future, especially in light of
artificial intelligence (AI).
IEEE Life Fellow Vint Cerf, a vice president at Google who is
frequently referred to as one of the "Fathers of the Internet,"
will sit on a panel to highlight the challenges and opportunities
created by the Internet over the last 50 years. "When we developed
TCP, we had no idea how impactful it would be," Cerf said. "It has
been amazing to see how this project grew into the infrastructure
for technological innovation that it is today."
The IEEE milestone commemorates the publication of the 1974
IEEE Transactions on Communications paper that debuted the
concept of TCP, that supported the "interconnection of
multiple packet-switched networks," forming the architecture of the
internet. Today the internet connects more than five billion people
and countless more devices. TCP enables trillions of dollars in
economic activity annually, inspiring an ecosystem of innovation
and infrastructure around it, including routers, optical fiber
networks, Wi-Fi, cloud computing services and more.
"Today we're celebrating the innovative leaps in technology that
have impacted humanity in such a profound way," said Tom Coughlin, 2024 IEEE President and CEO. "The
internet has transformed the way we live our lives. As we enter the
daunting age of AI, a big task for the future will be applying this
tool effectively in, and through public infrastructure to shape a
people-centered digital ecosystem. Many historic tasks are likely
to become vastly easier as a new generation of infrastructure
emerges that truly takes advantage of our collective
capabilities."
Two Additional IEEE Milestones to Be Celebrated on
May 20
IEEE will also
celebrate two additional milestones as part of this event:
- The IEEE 802 Standards Committee – Since 1980, the IEEE
802 Standards Committee has made significant contributions to
technology and economics by developing global network communication
standards defining, for example, how data is transmitted over both
wired and wireless networks, ensuring compatibility of all
devices.
- Google's PageRank technology – Invented in 1996,
the PageRank citation algorithm was the basis of the Google search
engine and the company's founding in 1998. PageRank helps internet
users quickly find information through useful ranking scores for
all indexed web pages.
Each of the three developments is being recognized through the
IEEE Milestone program, which honors significant technical
achievements in all areas associated with IEEE. Milestones
recognize technological innovation and excellence for the benefit
of humanity, which are found in unique products, services, seminal
papers, and patents.
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to biomedical engineering, electric power, and consumer
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