I'm not going to comment on the politics of who deserves to win research awards, but as an aspiring researcher (PhD in progress) I do respect Schmidhuber's atte

I'm not going to comment on the politics of who deserves to win research awards, but as an aspiring researcher (PhD in progress) I do respect Schmidhuber's attention to detail in tracing the intellectual lineage of novel ideas. In my current research area, I find that most of the interesting observations and questions were posed in the early days of the field, and I am reluctant to attempt to publish something that simply "rediscovers" those concepts with a fresh coat of paint (figuratively) but doesn't actually make a meaningfully novel contribution.