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时间：2014-01-01
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth presented her first ever Prize for Engineering - 英语听力
From VOA learning English
This is the technology report
Britain's Queen Elizabeth
Presented her first ever prize for engineering
Doing a ceremony in late June at Buckingham Palace
Some hope the new award
Will become the engineering equivalent of
The Nobel Prize for scientific achievement
The award includes a prize of one million British pounds
Or about 1 point 5 million dollar's
It was presented to five men who invented the internet
And developed the ways one third
Of the world's population uses it
Americans Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf
And Frenchman Louis Pouzin invented the
Internet's basic protocols
They shared the award with Britain's Tim Berners-Lee
Who created the Worldwide Web and American Marc Andreesen
Who invented the first web browsing software
The morning after they received the award
Three of the winners spoke to
Hundreds of students from London schools
Robert Kahn said the
Internet is so much a part of people's lives
They don't really think about it
To me it's all about the protocols
For making things work together
To link together networks computers application programs
Which a lot of people didn't
Think was a particularly good idea
When we first started out on it
But it's turned out to be very impactful worldwide
Many of the students carry devices much more powerful
Than the computers the men used to develop the internet
They were joined by students in Swaziland
Who took part in the event by way of the internet
Vinton Cerf partner with Robert Kahn
In developing the TCPIP protocol
That makes internet traffic possible
He is now a vice president of google
The significance is not the winning
The significance is the existence of the prize at all
Especially with her Majesty's name attached to it
It elevates engineering to the same level of visibility
And recognition as the Nobel Prizes
Both men say their satisfaction comes
From the wide use of the internet
And the fact that their basic
Technical architecture
Is still a main part of it
But they noted the privacy and
Security issues the internet has created
These issues raised concern most
Recently with news
About US government surveillance
Programs designed to fight terrorism
We are still in the middle of
This rapid evolution of the
Internet and it's applications
And we are going to have to learn as a society
Which things are acceptable and which things are not
What we should prohibit
And what things we should punish people for doing
Those are not tensions that are just easily resolved
Check the box and proceed this way or that way
They require constant attention
Especially in democratic societies
Robert Kahn says technologies
Have always had plusses and minuses
He says the internet is no different
But he also says that even after 40 years
There is no foreseeable end to the demand
For the technology that he and his co-winners developed
And that's the technology report from VOA learning English
