held yesterday, open and archived. vint cerf and bob kahn: assessing the internet: lessons learned, strategies for evolution, and future possibilities.

The A.M. Turing Award is often recognized as the "Nobel Prize of Computing", and has been awarded for 39 years; however this is the first year that network researchers have received the Turing Award!!! (brian e carpenter)

brian foote says it all:

to summarize:
Evolution: Tough problem Layering: Honored in the breach Future: Who knows?

and he also quotes "mystical" (at least for me) thomas jay peckish II:

The Turing Award has been called the Nobel Prize in Computer Science, in the same sense, one must presume, that a Daytime Emmy Award could be thought of as a Nobel Prize in Soap Opera.