Leslie Lamport awarded Turing Award
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Re: Leslie Lamport awarded Turing Award
#2What took so long? And, come on, you have to at least mention Latex.
edit: they do, on a more full citation: http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/lamport_1205376.cfm
Re: Leslie Lamport awarded Turing Award
#3(In June, 2013.)
Re: Leslie Lamport awarded Turing Award
#4While his work on distributed computing was certainly great, I find it curious that the press release doesn't even mention the achievement of Lamport that probably was important to lot more people: The creation of LaTeX. Sure, its not something typically honored by the Turing Award but leaving it out entirely? Come on!
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Re: Leslie Lamport awarded Turing Award
#6(In June, 2013.)
The award for 2013 is being given in June 2014, it was only announced today -- http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2014/turing-awar...
Re: Leslie Lamport awarded Turing Award
#7While his work on distributed computing was certainly great, I find it curious that the press release doesn't even mention the achievement of Lamport that probably was important to lot more people: The creation of LaTeX. Sure, its not something typically honored by the Turing Award but leaving it out entirely? Come on!
Well, LaTeX is a (slight) improvement over TeX, which was written by D Knuth. I don't think that is what they would give a Turing Award to someone for.
Re: Leslie Lamport awarded Turing Award
#8What took so long? And, come on, you have to at least mention Latex. edit: they do, on a more full citation: http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/lamport_1205376.cfm
What took so long, indeed. As long as I have been associated with the ACM on behalf of the practitioner, I have complained about this to anyone and everyone. Many thought he had already won (!) and a few believed that he didn't deserve to win because he is "merely a popularizer" (!!), and some (rightfully, probably) encouraged me to inject myself in the process if I felt so strongly about it. There was no way I was going to do that, so I had resigned myself to a lifetime of merely complaining about it. I was elated to discover this morning that my complaining has been cut short, and that Lamport has won the award that is long overdue to him!
Re: Leslie Lamport awarded Turing Award
#9What took so long? And, come on, you have to at least mention Latex. edit: they do, on a more full citation: http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/lamport_1205376.cfm
It should be LaTeX, not Latex :)
Re: Leslie Lamport awarded Turing Award
#10While his work on distributed computing was certainly great, I find it curious that the press release doesn't even mention the achievement of Lamport that probably was important to lot more people: The creation of LaTeX. Sure, its not something typically honored by the Turing Award but leaving it out entirely? Come on!
> achievement of Lamport that probably was important to lot more people
Not necessarily. We all use distributed systems that have been influenced by Lamport. It's just that we don't even think about it when we do it.