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Qiheng Hu’s Internet Hall of Fame 2013 Induction Speech

This hon­or for me is too high. At this excit­ing moment, my sin­cere grat­i­tude first of all goes to the ini­tia­tors and cre­ators of the great Internet, which has changed and is chang­ing the world, includ­ing my country.

Stephen Kent’s Internet Hall of Fame 2013 Induction Speech

It occurred to me belat­ed­ly that I real­ly should just tweet my accep­tance speech. Except I don’t have Twitter account, so that makes it harder.

George Sadowsky’s Internet Hall of Fame 2013 Induction Speech

After two weeks we were nowhere. And it drove home to me the con­cept of infor­ma­tion pover­ty in a way that no oth­er expe­ri­ence had.

Gihan Dias’s Internet Hall of Fame 2013 Induction Speech

In 2002, I took up anoth­er chal­lenge. That is, how we make these com­put­ers avail­able for peo­ple who do not speak English?

Glenn Ricart’s Internet Hall of Fame 2013 Induction Speech

The first Internet exchange with­out a gate­way in the mid­dle appears to have been in College Park, begin­ning in about 1986, and I was for­tu­nate enough to be at the right place at the right time.

Haruhisa Ishida’s Internet Hall of Fame 2013 Induction Speech (Posthumous)

He was hap­py work­ing with the peo­ple of com­put­er sci­ence, and work­ing for the Internet or com­put­ers. And this is all that I can say.

Nii Quaynor’s Internet Hall of Fame 2013 Induction Speech

I know this hon­or is not for me alone but also for the bil­lions who still do not have the ben­e­fit of the Internet. But I accept it and thank every­one on their behalf as well.

Henning Schulzrinne’s Internet Hall of Fame 2013 Induction Speech

The sec­ond phase is nobody cared. That’s a real­ly good thing. Because you can actu­al­ly do engi­neer­ing work with­out hav­ing grand ambi­tions or hav­ing lots of peo­ple, say at oth­er stan­dards orga­ni­za­tions, sud­den­ly get inter­est­ed. They did­n’t know what was hit­ting them. 

Ida Holz’s Internet Hall of Fame 2013 Induction Speech

For devel­op­ing coun­tries like ours, the Internet is a means of col­lab­o­rat­ing and access to knowl­edge all around the world alike.

Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder’s Internet Hall of Fame 2013 Induction Speech

This is a very great hon­or and I’m proud, hon­ored, but not so lit­tle sur­prised to be here. But still, even though I’m not a trou­ble­mak­er, I may well not be an evan­ge­list, but I’m a real­ly real­ly stub­born lady.