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I greatly admire the guy but does TBL OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS really need another award or title? All that money and publicity could be directed towards prom
by septimus111 10y ago
I greatly admire the guy but does TBL OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS really need another award or title? All that money and publicity could be directed towards promising junior researchers who need it!
- kbart 10y agoTuring Award is the highest IT award (hence "the Nobel Prize of computing") given for a lifetime's work. If some junior scientists would do something as groundbreaking, I'm sure they will receive this award too (after some time maybe; web wasn't invented yesterday either).
- septimus111 10y agoI guess I like the Fields medal model better - it's awarded only to people younger than 40 to encourage future achievements.
- racl101 10y agoTim Berners Lee did amazing work from which everybody, you, me and any billion dollar company founder like Zuckerberg has benefited many times over. He deserves all the recognition and awards he gets and more. He deserves this award and he shouldn't have to give up to any up-and-comers. Let them figure it out. They're already standing on the shoulders of this giant. That's Tim's contribution.
- septimus111 10y agoWell yeah, his contributions are immeasurable, my argument is more about the social utility of placing the money there.