Louis Pouzin helped create the internet. Now he is campaigning to ensure that its design continues to evolve and improve in future
AT A glitzy ceremony at Buckingham Palace this summer, Queen Elizabeth II honoured five pioneers of computer networking. Four of the men who shared the new £1m ($1.6m) Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering are famous: Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, authors of the protocols that underpin the internet; Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web; and Marc Andreessen, creator of the first successful web browser. But the fifth man is less well known. He is Louis Pouzin, a garrulous Frenchman whose contribution to the field is every bit as seminal.
This article appeared in the Technology Quarterly section of the print edition under the headline “The internet’s fifth man”
From the November 30th 2013 edition
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