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There are plenty of awards granted for great work in computer science, electrical engineering, or any number of other fields. It doesn't make them Nobel prizes
by oldgradstudent 3y ago
There are plenty of awards granted for great work in computer science, electrical engineering, or any number of other fields.
It doesn't make them Nobel prizes.
At least the ACM never attempted to hang on the coattails of the the Nobel Prize by naming the Turing award for Alfred Nobel.
- Hamuko 3y ago>At least the ACM never attempted to hang on the coattails of the the Nobel Prize by naming the Turing award for Alfred Nobel. Aren't they riding on the coattails of Turing instead?
- oldgradstudent 3y agoTuring wasn't nearly as well known as he is now. The cryptoanalysis of the Enigma remained classified until the early 1970s, long after the Turing award was established (the first award was given in 1966).