Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering

The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, is a global engineering prize that rewards and celebrates the engineers responsible for a ground-breaking innovation in engineering that has been of global benefit to humanity.

QEPrize Winners 2013: The Internet and the Web The Internet and the Web have revolutionised the way we communicate and enabled the creation of whole new industries.

• Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf and Louis Pouzin made seminal contributions to the protocols that together make up the fundamental architecture of the Internet.
• Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web and vastly extended the use of the Internet beyond email and file transfer.
• Marc Andreessen, while a student and working with colleagues, wrote the mosaic browser, which made the Web accessible to anyone.