US net pioneer hails Rudd's 'breathtaking' network | The Aus

theaustralian.news.com.au — CALL him Kevin Rudd's $43billion man. Larry Smarr, a 60-year-old US physicist and one of the pioneers of the internet, says the Rudd Government's announcement last month of a new broadband network is "breathtaking" and puts Australia at the forefront of government policy around the world embracing "intelligent infrastructure". May 19, 2009 View in Crawl 4