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Best of Engineering, Best of the Web

Louis Pouzin, Robert Kahn, Vint Cerf, Tim Berners Lee and Marc Andreessen were announced as the inaugural winners of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (a £1m global engineering prize) this week. They were selected for their ground breaking work which led to the internet and world wide web.

We’re pretty sure we can’t add much to what’s been written about the web (on the web!), and it’s impact on our lives, so instead we thought we’d bring you a ‘best of the web’ and share a few of the things that caught our attention:

I’m sure that discussions between the judges will have been intense, because there have been so many hugely influential engineering advances, but the web team are worthy winners. The debate will now, no doubt, turn to who should win the next prize!

If you can’t wait for two years, a new initiative was lanched this week in the UK for people to vote the greatest British innovation. It’s a narrower focus, being only British innovations, but voting closes in two days and there’s some great things on the list! If you want to have your say, voting closes in two days.

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