28th March 2013
USA
There is no doubt that the Internet has changed the world as we know it. Being of (slightly) advanced age, I remember the days when the only way to source new knowledge was to ask your mum or dad, thumb through an (out of date) encyclopedia, or search it out in your local library. Now, […]
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19th March 2013
New Delhi, India
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 […]
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22nd June 2012
Toronto, Canada
Nominations for the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering opened earlier this year, and with submissions rolling in and extensive media coverage we thought that it was time for a Canadian update. The QE Prize is a £1 million award made every two years, selected by an international panel of experts and presented by HM […]
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