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听力文本
From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth presented her first ever Prize for Engineering, doing a ceremony in late June at Buckingham Palace. Some hope the new award will become the engineering equivalent of the Nobel Prize for scientific achievement.
The award includes a prize of one million British pounds, or about $1.5 million. It was presented to five men who invented the Internet and developed the ways one third of the world's population uses it.
Americans Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf, and Frenchman Louis Pouzin invented the Internet's basic protocols. They shared the award with Britain's Tim Berners-Lee, who created the Worldwide Web and American Marc Andreesen, who invented the first web browsing software.
The morning after they received the award, three of the winners spoke to hundreds of students from London schools.
Robert Kahn said the Internet is so much a part of people's lives, they don't really think about it.
"To me, it's all about the protocols for making things work together - to link together networks, computers, application programs - which a lot of people didn't think was a particularly good idea when we first started out on it. But it's turned out to be pretty impactful worldwide."
Many of the students carry devices much more powerful than the computers the men used to develop the Internet. They were joined by students in Swaziland who took part in the event by way of the Internet.
Vinton Cerf, partner with Robert Kahn in developing the TCP/IP protocol that makes Internet traffic possible. He is now a vice president of Google.
"The significance is not the winning. The significance is the existence of the prize at all, especially with Her Majesty's name attached to it. It elevates engineering to the same level of visibility and recognition as the Nobel Prizes."
Both men say their satisfaction comes from the wide use of the Internet and the fact that their basic technical architecture is still a main part of it.
But they noted the privacy and security issues the Internet has created, these issues raised concern most recently with news about U.S. government surveillance programs designed to fight terrorism.
(Cerf:) "We are still in the middle of this rapid evolution of the Internet and its applications. And we are going to have to learn, as a society, which things are acceptable and which things are not, what we should prohibit, and what things we should punish people for doing."
(Kahn:) "Those are not tensions that are just easily resolved - check the box and proceed this way or that way. They require constant attention, especially in democratic societies."
Robert Kahn says technologies have always had "plusses and minuses," he says the Internet is no different. But he also says that even after 40 years, there is no foreseeable end to the demand for the technology that he and his co-winners developed.
And that's the Technology Report from VOA Learning English.
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词汇解释
1.equivalent a.等价的，相等的 n.等价物，相等物
Mr.Li's pay is the equivalent of about $80 a month.
李先生的报酬大约等于每月80美元。
2.protocol n.协议，草案，礼仪
Interactive stream transmission protocol.
交互流传输协议。
3.elevate 提升，举起，提升......的职位
He was elevated to the post of president.
他被提拔到总裁的职位。
参考译文
这里是美国之音慢速英语科技报道。
6月底，英国女王伊丽莎白在白金汉宫的仪式上颁发首个工程奖。有人希望该奖项将成为科学发明成就方面可与诺贝尔奖比肩的奖项。
颁奖包括一个100万英镑的奖，相当于150万美元。该奖被授予给五个人，他们发明了互联网，并开发出供全世界三分之一的人使用的互联网使用方式。
美国人罗伯特·卡恩、文顿·瑟夫和法国人路易斯·蒲赞发开了互联网文本协议，英国人蒂姆·博纳斯·李开发了万维网，美国的马克·安德森开发首个浏览器，他们五个人共同分享了这一奖项。
就在他们得奖后的第二天早上，其中的三名获奖者向伦敦学校的数百名学生作了讲话。
罗伯特·卡恩说，互联网已经是人们生活的一部分，人们甚至不会想到它。
“对我来说，正是文本协议将一切链接起来，链接网络、电脑、应用程序，而在我们当时开发出来时，很多人并不认为是很好的主意。但是结果表明它在全世界都产生了影响。”
许多学生带着的电脑，比这些开发者当初开发网络时使用的电脑强大很多。斯威士兰的学生们也通过互联网参加了这个活动。
文顿·瑟夫和罗伯特·卡恩合作开发了TCP/IP协议，该协议使得互联网通讯成为现实。他目前是谷歌的副总裁。
“意义不在于获奖，而是奖项本身的存在，特别是上面有女王的名字，这就将工程奖提高到和诺贝尔奖同样的知名度和认可度。”
两人都表示，互联网得到广泛应用，同时他们的基本技术框架仍是互联网的重要组成部分，而正是这些让他们感到满意。
不过他们都注意到互联网带来的隐私和安全问题，由于美国政府最近在打击恐怖主义的监视项目上的新闻，这些问题最近引发人们的关注。
(瑟夫)“互联网及其应用目前仍在快速演化，整个社会应该学会明白哪些可以接受，哪些不可以，应该禁止什么，应该如何惩罚人们做的坏事。”
(卡恩)“这些问题都不容易解决，勾选后进行各种运行，需要进行持续的关注，尤其是在民主国家。”
罗伯特·卡恩说科技总是存在优缺点，他说互联网也一样。但他说即使是40年后，他和合作者开发的技术仍没有可以预见的结局。
