Why Larry and Sergey Should Win the Turing Award

16 points by smiljo 6 years ago | 4 comments

Havoc 6 years ago |

Author makes a good point. Hard to dispute that they made a massive difference in organizing the worlds knowledge.

>artificial intelligence about five even before Hinton/Bengio/LeCun when it actually started working.

That’s hilarious

smiljo 6 years ago | |

I couldn't resist the little jab about AI. :)

Saying this as a big fan of the old guard, McCarthy in particular.

maringrbic 6 years ago |

Who else do you think should win?

smiljo 6 years ago | |

As a distributed systems guy I'm partial to Nancy Lynch. But that's distributed systems, a field which has already had awards.

Search engines getting a couple of awards seemed like a no-brainer.