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Richard Stallman hmmm, i think Turing Awards are more biased towards theoretical contributions to CS (even for systems people). Although Stallman has made gre
by pgbovine 16y ago
Richard Stallman
hmmm, i think Turing Awards are more biased towards theoretical contributions to CS (even for systems people). Although Stallman has made great contributions to the field of computing, he isn't an academic CS researcher, so he might not be in the running :/
- kenjackson 16y agoI thought about that too, so I had checked what ACM said: "It is given to an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the computer field" I think his work with GNU has been one of the most important technical contributions to the community we've seen. On a non-technical note, his push for free software has also been incredibly influential for the community. While I disagree with a lot of ideology and in particular the ideology behind the GPL personally, I think the world is generally better for it.