Aug. 3 event to be streamed live from Berlin, Germany

Internet2 Chief Technology Officer Steve Wolff will be inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame on Saturday, Aug. 3 in Berlin, Germany. The ceremony will be streamed live starting at noon EDT at https://new.livestream.com/internetsociety/2013internethalloffame.

Wolff is being recognized for being instrumental in the early design and development of the Internet. Wolff, the former National Science Foundation director for networking, was responsible for the development of the NSFNET – the first open computer network in the U.S. for the support of research and higher education. 

He is one of 32 individuals honored by the Internet Society for their groundbreaking contributions to the global Internet. Other notables being inducted include Mark Andreesen, who created Mosaic--the first widely used Web browser; Henning Schulzrinne, who co-developed the key protocols to enable Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP); and Aaron Swartz, Internet activist and Reddit co-founder.

“Steve has truly earned this recognition as a member of the Hall of Fame’s Pioneer Circle for being one of the early and most important Internet visionaries,” said H. David Lambert, Internet2 president and chief executive officer. 

“I feel very honored to be named to the Internet Hall of Fame, and doubly so to be in the company of so many peers and colleagues from those pioneering days when around the globe we worked with common purpose,” said Steve Wolff.  “The frontier  seems as wide today as it did then.”

To learn more about Wolff’s work shaping the early design and development of the Internet, visit his bio at http://bit.ly/SteveWolff.

More details on the 2013 Internet Hall of Fame inductees can be found at http://www.internethalloffame.org/. You can follow the Internet Hall of Fame on Facebook and on Twitter at @Internet_HOF.