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nacs on Nov 13, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Lifts the Turing Award into Nobel Territory

Props to Google for stepping up where Intel left off.

Sounds like a good way for Google to find some big-name (post-award), PR-worthy, highly-qualified new employees.

waterlesscloud on Nov 13, 2014 [–]

These awards are given to well-known people fairly late in their careers, by design.

jeffreyrogers on Nov 14, 2014 | [–]

Ken Thompson had already invented UNIX and C when Google hired him.

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