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Strange; I rarely think of the cash award with the Nobel prize.
by NegativeK 12y ago
Strange; I rarely think of the cash award with the Nobel prize.
- duaneb 12y agoWhat do YOU imagine would push the turing award closer to the nobel prize?
- waterlesscloud 12y agoPrestige, which you can only partially buy.
- NegativeK 12y agoAbsolutely prestige. If one of the wealthiest people in the world won a Nobel prize, nobody would say "billionaire and $1M prize winner, et cetera".
- asdfologist 12y agoCall it a Nobel prize.
- Turing_Machine 12y agoWell, it worked for the economists, more or less. The "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel" is almost invariably called the "Nobel Prize in Economics", even though it's a separate deal that didn't exist until 1969.
- mentat 12y agoA big hunk of gold so you can tell stories like: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2014/10/10/nobel-prize-airport-security/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2014/10/10/...
- nmcfarl 12y agoThat is a good story! Beyond the hunk of gold, they could also have the king of Sweden hand you the hunk of gold. I think that's a good touch.
- kens 12y agoI was expecting the amazing story of Niels Bohr dissolving Nobel prize medals in acid to hide them from the Nazis: http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/10/03/140815154/dissolve-my-nobel-prize-fast-a-true-story http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/10/03/140815154/disso...
- dllthomas 12y agoMe too, but I realize there are more things necessary to that story that we'd really rather not introduce for the sake of the story...
- nileshtrivedi 12y agoWhy gold when we have BitCoin? :)
- greendestiny 12y agoWell a Nobel prize is awarded for the significance of the breakthrough, and the Turing award is more for the significance of the person. I think it would be good to have an award in computer science that celebrated and validated breakthroughs (though it doesn't have to be the Turing award).