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Re:Why Larry and Sergey Should Win the Turing Award by Havoc on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @07:06PM (#22622429)
Author makes a good point. Hard to dispute that they made a massive difference in organizing the worlds knowledge.

>artificial intelligence about five even before Hinton/Bengio/LeCun when it actually started working.

That’s hilarious

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Re:Why Larry and Sergey Should Win the Turing Award by smiljo on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @07:09PM (#22622455)
I couldn't resist the little jab about AI. :)

Saying this as a big fan of the old guard, McCarthy in particular.

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Re:Why Larry and Sergey Should Win the Turing Award by maringrbic on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @07:27PM (#22622582)
Who else do you think should win?
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Re:Why Larry and Sergey Should Win the Turing Award by smiljo on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @07:34PM (#22622633)
As a distributed systems guy I'm partial to Nancy Lynch. But that's distributed systems, a field which has already had awards.

Search engines getting a couple of awards seemed like a no-brainer.

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