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Path: English / University / Events and News / Honorary Degree in Information Technology Engineering for Vinton G. Cerf and Robert E. Kahn
Events and News
Vinton G. Cerf and Robert E. Kahn
Laurea Honoris Causa in Information Technology Engineering
Data e luogo
Friday May 26th 2006, at 10.30
Aula Magna Nuova Palazzo "La Sapienza"
Via Curtatone e Montanara, 15 - Pisa
On May 26th, at 10.30 a.m. in the Aula Magna Nuova of the "La Sapienza" Building in Pisa, Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn will be awarded with the Laurea honoris causa in Information Technology Engineering by the University of Pisa.
Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn are the inventors of the TCP/IP, the basic protocol behind the Internet.
For this reason, in 2004, Cerf and Kahn won the Turing Award, considered to be the Nobel Prize of computing.
Programme of the Ceremony
"Address by the Rector"
Prof. Marco Pasquali
"Reading of the motivation"
Prof. Emilio Vitale
Dean of the Faculty of Engineering
"Laudatio"
Prof. Luciano Lenzini
Vice-president of the Board of the Information Technology Engineering Course
"Conferment of the Laurea Honoris Causa"
"Short music break by the University Choir"
directed by Stefano Barandoni
"Lectio Doctoralis"
Dr. Vinton G. Cerf
"Internet technology and policy challenges"
"Lectio Doctoralis"
Dr. Robert E. Kahn
"Managing information in the Internet"
"Meeting"
Vinton G. Cerf e Robert E. Kahn
meet some representatives of the Italian ICT Industry
Aula Magna of the Faculty of Engineering
Friday May 26th, at 3.30 p.m.
Information
Communication Office
Lungarno Pacinotti, 43, Pisa
e-mail: comunicazione@unipi.it
Last update: 24-Nov-2006