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Vinton Cerf, considered one of the fathers of the internet for co-designing the TCP/IP protocol, was inducted into ISOC's Hall of Fame Monday.

GENEVA, Switzerland The best revolutionaries eventually find themselves hailed in tributes and enshrined in museums.

So its almost inevitable that nearly 30 years after the official birthdate of the internet, some of the nets best-known pioneers, radicals, and troublemakers are being inducted into the Internet Societys Hall of Fame.

The inaugural group includes 33 of the nets most influential engineers, evangelists and entrepreneurs including internet fathers Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf; internet standards guru Jon Postel; web inventor Tim Berners-Lee; encryption pioneer Phil Zimmerman; and Mozillas Mitchell Baker.

And, yes, snarky late night comedy aside former vice president Al Gore is being inducted as well.

The inductees were announced Monday in Geneva, Switzerland at Internet Societys annual conference, where the group is celebrating its 20th year. ISOC is home to the Internet Engineering Task Force, the nets technical standards setting body, and is funded largely by the .org top level domain.

While the internets origins are firmly based in American university computer labs and DARPA, the U.S. militarys long-term research arm, Geneva is a natural home for the awards. The World Wide Web was born here at Cern, just a few kilometers from the conference center, and Switzerland has a long history as an international center for diplomacy symbolically important for an organization dedicated to including civil society, engineers, corporations and governments in decisions affecting the net.

But as the revolutionaries celebrate having created the worlds most important communications medium, they also murmur about looming threats to their creation. This year saw the U.S. government push to modify the nets infrastructure to protect the business model of the music and motion picture industry in the U.S., setting off a dramatic protest in the U.S. Around the globe, repressive and authoritarian regimes have reacted to political dissent by installing filters, firewalls and first-world surveillance technologies.

Geneva is also home to the International Telecommunication Union, a U.N. arm that sets rules, standards and rates for international telecommunications, and parts of whose membership has been making noise about exerting more state control over internet governance. That move seen to be driven by non-democratic countries including Russia, China and states in the Middle East is seen as by many at ISOC as a threat to the the core principles of the internet.

But despite those looming clouds, the internets founders and visionaries have much to celebrate. Some two billion people around the world are connected to the internet, where they can communicate locally and globally for virtually no-cost and have access to knowledge, news and gossip at a speed and depth imaginable 30 years ago only by a small handful of people many of whom are being inducted into the hall of fame for envisioning and building that network of networks.

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The Internet Gets a Hall of Fame (Including Al Gore!)

MANCHESTER, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Renesys Corporation, a world leader in Internet Intelligence, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has awarded the company a patent (U.S. No. 8,161,152) for its methods and systems for monitoring Internet routing. The patent recognizes Renesys' unique capability to collect and model the complicated inter-relationships between customers, providers, and peers, from multiple vantage points on the Internet, looking beyond traditional network monitoring.

Despite continuing advances in network and application monitoring tools, the Internet remains a huge blind spot in most companies' strategic and operational plans. Renesys patented technology provides insight into the configuration,stability, safety and health of the Internet as a whole.

"Our specialized method of collecting and correlating Internet routing data on a global basis provides the industry's most comprehensive foundation for analyzing and understanding the Internet. Most people would like to consider the Internet just a utility when it works, but in reality, its a sophisticated system of inter-related networks and providers that is always changing and is often disrupted. Our capabilities provide intelligence, to help organizations make critical buying and operational decisions to optimize their use of the Internet," said James Cowie, CTO, Renesys. "The Internet is the key to economic growth worldwide, making it cost-effective for every company to do business on a global scale. Its a globally robust asset, yet at times locally fragile --- prone to accidental misconfiguration, failure, and attack. We provide the knowledge that organizations need to minimize risk and maximize the value of the Internet."

The patent for monitoring the Internet was awarded to Renesys co-founders Andrew T. Ogielski and James H. Cowie, and is the core technology that powers the companys full suite of Internet Intelligence products, including Market Intelligence, Routing Alarms, and the Internet Health Portal. The original patent application was filed on March 18, 2004 (10/803,767).

About Renesys:

Renesys, the leader in Global Internet Intelligence, provides products, services and thought leadership to network service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide. As a trusted source of deep insight into the Internet since 2000, we offer solutions to help our customers find competitive advantage, operate their businesses more efficiently, and manage the growing risks of increasing dependence on the Internet. The Company is privately held and headquartered in Manchester, New Hampshire and maintains global computing facilities in US, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Additionalinformation is available atwww.renesys.com.

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Renesys Granted Patent for Monitoring Internet Routing by United States Patent Office

WASHINGTON & GENEVA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

The names of the inaugural Internet Hall of Fame inductees were announced today at the Internet Societys Global INET 2012 conference in Geneva, Switzerland. Internet pioneers and luminaries from around the world gathered at the conference to mark the Internet Societys 20th anniversary, and attend an Awards Gala to honor the following 2012 inductees:

Pioneers Circle

Recognizing individuals who were instrumental in the early design and development of the Internet: Paul Baran, Vint Cerf, Danny Cohen, Steve Crocker, Donald Davies, Elizabeth Feinler, Charles Herzfeld, Robert Kahn, Peter Kirstein, Leonard Kleinrock, John Klensin, Jon Postel, Louis Pouzin, and Lawrence Roberts.

Innovators

Recognizing individuals who made outstanding technological, commercial, or policy advances and helped to expand the Internets reach: Mitchell Baker, Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, Van Jacobson, Lawrence Landweber, Paul Mockapetris, Craig Newmark, Raymond Tomlinson, Linus Torvalds, and Philip Zimmermann.

Global Connectors

Recognizing individuals from around the world who have made significant contributions to the global growth and use of the Internet: Randy Bush, Kilnam Chon, Al Gore, Nancy Hafkin, Geoff Huston, Brewster Kahle, Daniel Karrenberg, Toru Takahashi, and Tan Tin Wee.

Commenting on the 2012 Internet Hall of Fame inductees, Internet Society President and CEO Lynn St.Amour stated, This historic assembly of Internet visionaries, innovators, and leaders represents an extraordinary breadth of vision and work. While the inductees have extremely diverse backgrounds and represent many different countries, each individual has an incredible passion for their work. We all benefit from their outstanding contributions to a global Internet, making it one of the greatest catalysts of economic and societal development of all time.

Ral Echeberra, Chairman of the Internet Societys Board of Trustees, noted, "The Internet, which connects more than two billion people around the world today, is the result of many important contributions from creative and visionary individuals over the past several decades. The 2012 Internet Hall of Fame celebrates the advancements of 33 talented people who have made significant contributions to the design, development, and expansion of the Internet."

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Internet Hall of Fame Inductees Honored at Historic First Annual Awards Ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Ray Tomlinson, a principal engineer at Raytheon BBN Technologies who sent the first network email in 1971 and saved the "@" symbol from probable extinction, is being honored among the first inductees into the Internet Hall of Fame for his invention of email. It was Tomlinson who made the historic choice to separate the name of his message's recipient from the name of the host computer using the "@" symbol, now one of the most universally recognized digital icons on the planet. His induction into the Hall of Fame was announced April 23 at the Internet Society's Global INET 2012meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. Raytheon BBN Technologies is a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN - News).

"I am honored to be selected to the Internet Hall of Fame and have my name mentioned among such an elite and accomplished group," said Tomlinson. "The invention of email came out of a personal desire for a more convenient and functional way to communicate. Basically, I was looking for a method that did not require the person to be there when the message was sent and enabled the receiver to read and answer communications at their convenience. I still use email every day. In fact, it is my preferred form of communication."

In 1971, Tomlinson developed ARPANET's first application for network email by combining the SNDMSG and CPYNET programs, allowing messages to be sent to users on other computers. He chose the "@" sign to separate local from global emails in the mailing address. Person-to-person network email was born and "user@host" became the standard for email addresses -- and remains so to this day.

Tomlinson's email program revolutionized communications, fundamentally changing the way people and organizations interact and altering the cadence of every day life. Businesses, from global companies to tiny shops, transformed the way they communicated. People changed their ways of doing everything from shopping to banking to staying in touch with friends and family -- whether across town or on the other side of the world. Today, an estimated 1.9 billion people worldwide use email to communicate. They are sending 300 billion emails a day, eliminating traditional barriers of time and space.

This is the most recent of Tomlinson's many prestigious honors. In 2000, Tomlinson received the George R. Stibitz Computer Pioneer Award from the American Computer Museum. In 2001, he was honored with a Webby Award from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences and was inducted into the Rensselaer Alumni Hall of Fame. In 2002, Discover Magazine awarded him its Innovation Award. In 2004, he earned the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Internet Award. In 2009, he was named the Prince of Asturias Award Laureate for Technical and Scientific Research. In 2011, he was honored with the Eduard Rhein Kulturpreis Cultural Award. Ray Tomlinson is ranked No. 4 on the list of the top 150 MIT-related "ideas, inventions and innovators," compiled by The Boston Globe.

About The Internet Society and Its Internet Hall of Fame

The Internet Society is the world's trusted independent source of Internet leadership. The organization promotes open dialogue on Internet policy, technology, and future development among users, companies, governments, and other organizations. Working with its members and Chapters around the world, the Internet Society enables the continued evolution and growth of the Internet for everyone.

The Internet Society established the Internet Hall of Fame this year to mark its 20th birthday and to acknowledge the Internet's profound impact. An Advisory Board of computer scientists, software engineers, Internet developers, historians, executives, venture capitalists, authors, researchers, futurists, academics, analysts, and journalists selected Internet Hall of Fame honorees from an open nomination process.

About Raytheon

Raytheon Company, with 2011 sales of $25 billion, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, homeland security and other government markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning 90 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as a broad range of mission support services. With headquarters in Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs 71,000 people worldwide. For more about Raytheon, visit us at http://www.raytheon.com and follow us on Twitter at @raytheon.

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Email creator, Ray Tomlinson, inducted into Internet Hall of Fame

62nd Annual Outer Critics Circle Award Nominations Announced; Nice Work Receives Nine Nods

By Andrew Gans 23 Apr 2012

Tony Award nominee Lily Rabe (The Merchant of Venice, Seminar) and Outer Critics Circle nominee Richard Thomas (The Stendhal Syndrome, Race) announced the 62nd annual Outer Critics Circle Award nominations April 23 at the Friars' Club in Manhattan.

Outer Critics Circle Awards honor the best of Broadway and Off-Broadway.

The new Gershwin musical Nice Work If You Can Get It received nine nominations, the most of any production of the season. The new musicals Newsies and Once each received seven nominations.

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62nd Annual Outer Critics Circle Award Nominations Announced; Nice Work Receives Nine Nods