On July 15th, SONIC Director Noshir Contractor participated as a panelist at an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Internet, held at the Royal Society in London. Fellow panelists include Sir Nigel Shadbolt from Oxford, Dame Wendy Hall from Southampton, Vicki Nash from Oxford Internet Institute, and Hannes Werthner from Technical University of Vienna. Panelists were joined by respondent Vincent “Vint” Nerf, the co-inventor of Internet. Read more about the event here.