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Marconi Honors Privacy Pioineers
New Marconi Fellows Whitfield Diffie, center left, and Martin Hellman, center right, hold their Marconi Awards, flanked by John Jay Iselin, left, and Martin Meyerson, right, president and chairman, respectively, of the Marconi International Fellowship Foundation. Hellman and Diffie, who created mathematical formulations to protect private communications on the Internet, were honored at the Marconi Foundation's annual dinner in Low Library on October 10. They share the $100,000 Fellowship prize that is often called the "Nobel prize in telecommunications. "At a symposium that preceded the awards, George Heilmeier, chairman emeritus of Bellcore, discussed the future of information systems. His prediction: The network of the future will be less "robust" than the network of today. Whitfield Diffie warned of security concerns for information that
is outsourced, saying that encryption solves only 1% of the privacy
problem while Martin Hellman credited their success to disregarding
obstacles and "being foolish in the best sense of the word."
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