Why Larry and Sergey Should Win the Turing Award
medium.comAuthor 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
I couldn't resist the little jab about AI. :)
Saying this as a big fan of the old guard, McCarthy in particular.
Who else do you think should win?
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.