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James_Althoff at i2

Feb 7, 2002, 12:19 PM

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2001 Turing Award

Some news.

Jim

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----- Message from Gary Chapman <gary.chapman[at]mail.utexas.edu> on Thu, 7
Feb 2002 08:41:00 -0600 -----

Subject: 2001 Turing Award
Please feel free to pass on this message:

Dear friends,

I'm happy to pass on the news that the 2001 Turing Award, the highest
award in computer science, has been awarded to Johan Dahl and Kristen
Nygaard of Norway, for their invention of object-oriented
programming, the most widely used programming paradigm in the world
today.

The formal citation of the award is on the Web at
http://www.acm.org/announcements/turing_2001.html. The Association
for Computing Machinery will present the A.M. Turing Award, its most
prestigious technical honor, at the annual ACM Awards Banquet on
April 27, 2002, at the University of Toronto in Canada.

It has been my privilege and honor to serve on the selection
committee for the Turing Award, in a group of five people, and I am
particularly pleased by this year's award. Congratulations, Kristen!

Best to all,

-- Gary

Gary Chapman
LBJ School of Public Affairs
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
gary.chapman[at]mail.utexas.edu

kkeller at speakeasy

Feb 7, 2002, 1:20 PM

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In article <mailman.1013109679.5469.python-list[at]python.org>,
James_Althoff[at]i2.com writes:

> ----- Message from Gary Chapman <gary.chapman[at]mail.utexas.edu> on Thu, 7
> Feb 2002 08:41:00 -0600 -----
>
> I'm happy to pass on the news that the 2001 Turing Award, the highest
> award in computer science

Damn--I thought the award was for the person who best impersonated
a Turing machine. :)

--keith

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marklists at mceahern

Feb 7, 2002, 1:34 PM

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Keith Keller wrote:
> Damn--I thought the award was for the person who best impersonated
> a Turing machine. :)

Do you have any nominees?

// mark

andy47 at halfcooked

Feb 7, 2002, 4:32 PM

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"Mark McEahern" <marklists[at]mceahern.com> wrote in
news:mailman.1013114112.28909.python-list[at]python.org:

> Keith Keller wrote:
>> Damn--I thought the award was for the person who best impersonated a
>> Turing machine. :)
>
> Do you have any nominees?
>
> // mark
>

I believe there is currently only one Tim-bot.

We could turn it into a chant if you want

There's-only-one-Timmy-bot-bot,there's-only-one-Timmy-bot-bot-ly y'rs,
Andy
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philh at comuno

Feb 7, 2002, 4:35 PM

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On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 12:20:50 -0800, Keith Keller <kkeller[at]speakeasy.net> wrote:
>In article <mailman.1013109679.5469.python-list[at]python.org>,
> James_Althoff[at]i2.com writes:
>
>> ----- Message from Gary Chapman <gary.chapman[at]mail.utexas.edu> on Thu, 7
>> Feb 2002 08:41:00 -0600 -----
>>
>> I'm happy to pass on the news that the 2001 Turing Award, the highest
>> award in computer science
>
>Damn--I thought the award was for the person who best impersonated
>a Turing machine. :)

But only using 9 commands.

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James_Althoff at i2

Feb 7, 2002, 5:11 PM

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[Keith Keller]
> Damn--I thought the award was for the person who best impersonated
> a Turing machine. :)

[Mark McEahern]
>Do you have any nominees?

Seriously though, if you are interested in the history of object-oriented
programming, Simula (Dahl and Nygaard -- 2001 Turing Award winners) is a
fascinating place to start.

For example, check out:

SIMULA begin
Graham M. Birtwistle, Ole-Johan Dahl, Bjoern Myhrhaug, and Kristen
Nygaard.
Petrocelli/Charter, New York (1975).
ISBN 0-88405-340-7.

http://www.isima.fr/asu/asubook.html

Of course, if you really want to dive into the primordial-soup mother lode
(of OO), go straight to Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad thesis (MIT 1963).

http://arc.cs.odu.edu:8080/dp9/getrecord/oai_rfc1807/0018.mit.theses/1963-10

Alan Kay -- the creator of Smalltalk -- has called Sketchpad "the most
astonishing piece of work ever done by a single person in the field of
computing" (paraphrasing).

Happy reading,

Jim

skip at pobox

Feb 7, 2002, 9:26 PM

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>> Damn--I thought the award was for the person who best impersonated a
>> Turing machine. :)

Mark> Do you have any nominees?

I operate about as slow as a true Turing machine at times. Perhaps I'll
nominating myself if I can unjam this damn paper tape that runs around my
waist...

--
Skip Montanaro (skip[at]pobox.com - http://www.mojam.com/)

jajvirta at cc

Feb 8, 2002, 2:02 AM

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Thu, 7 Feb 2002 23:32:27 +0000 (UTC) Andy Todd wrote:
> "Mark McEahern" <marklists[at]mceahern.com> wrote in
> news:mailman.1013114112.28909.python-list[at]python.org:
>
>> Keith Keller wrote:
>>> Damn--I thought the award was for the person who best impersonated a
>>> Turing machine. :)
>>
>> Do you have any nominees?

> I believe there is currently only one Tim-bot.

Given the recent modifications made by the PSU that gave timbot
abilities to perform like human [1, 2], I'd say that he indeed
is a strong candidate for this kind of award.

[1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-February/085107.html
[2] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-February/085042.html

joost_jacob at hotmail

Feb 8, 2002, 4:49 AM

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[James_Althoff]
>
> http://arc.cs.odu.edu:8080/dp9/getrecord/oai_rfc1807/0018.mit.theses/1963-10
>
> Happy reading,
>

That link has a bib. record but no thesis, the thesis itself is not
available online?

<sholden at holdenweb

Feb 8, 2002, 6:56 AM

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"Jarno J Virtanen" <jajvirta[at]cc.helsinki.fi> wrote in message
news:slrna6751a.abe.jajvirta[at]sirppi.helsinki.fi...
> Thu, 7 Feb 2002 23:32:27 +0000 (UTC) Andy Todd wrote:
> > "Mark McEahern" <marklists[at]mceahern.com> wrote in
> > news:mailman.1013114112.28909.python-list[at]python.org:
> >
> >> Keith Keller wrote:
> >>> Damn--I thought the award was for the person who best impersonated a
> >>> Turing machine. :)
> >>
> >> Do you have any nominees?
>
> > I believe there is currently only one Tim-bot.
>
> Given the recent modifications made by the PSU that gave timbot
> abilities to perform like human [1, 2], I'd say that he indeed
> is a strong candidate for this kind of award.
>
> [1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-February/085107.html
> [2] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-February/085042.html

I have the ACM Turing Award Lectures from 1966-1985. It was being
remaindered at a railway station bookstore for $3.00. How are the mighty
fallen :-)

While some of the lectures show a uniquely interesting perspective on our
ever-broadening field, some of them are only fit for use as an insomnia cure
(I was going to say toilet paper, but then I realised they are too valuable
as an insomnia cure to subject to one-time-only usages). This would make Tim
an unlikely recipient -- most of his stuff would be eliminated on the
grounds of it's inherently interesting nature.

I thought the actor that the PSF paid to personate Tim at the Conference was
very believable, and a nice guy. I gave him a business card, which I'm
hoping he passed on to the real Tim for scanning.

only-one-timbot-ly y'rs - steve
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aahz at panix

Feb 8, 2002, 8:39 AM

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In article <slrna663pr.d87.philh[at]comuno.freeserve.co.uk>,
phil hunt <philh[at]comuno.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 12:20:50 -0800, Keith Keller <kkeller[at]speakeasy.net> wrote:
>>In article <mailman.1013109679.5469.python-list[at]python.org>,
>> James_Althoff[at]i2.com writes:
>>>
>>> I'm happy to pass on the news that the 2001 Turing Award, the highest
>>> award in computer science
>>
>>Damn--I thought the award was for the person who best impersonated
>>a Turing machine. :)
>
>But only using 9 commands.

I can impersonate that Turing machine in 7 commands.
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James_Althoff at i2

Feb 8, 2002, 11:58 AM

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[James_Althoff]
>
>
http://arc.cs.odu.edu:8080/dp9/getrecord/oai_rfc1807/0018.mit.theses/1963-10

>
> Happy reading,
>

[joost_jacob]
>That link has a bib. record but no thesis, the thesis itself is not
>available online?

It is available online as scanned pages from the thesis. If you click on
the first link in the "Available Service Providers" box the resultant page
shows a link to the thesis, namely:

http://theses.mit.edu/Dienst/UI/2.0/Describe/0018.mit.theses/1963-10

Click the link "Overview of thumbnail pages" and start reading!

Jim

joost_jacob at hotmail

Feb 8, 2002, 3:06 PM

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> [James_Althoff]
> >
> > Happy reading,
> >
>
> Click the link "Overview of thumbnail pages" and start reading!
>

Thank you, happy indeed, it is very interesting and keep in mind it is from 1963 !

DavidA at ActiveState

Feb 12, 2002, 6:30 PM

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OT: The press release from the ACM at
http://www.acm.org/announcements/turing_2001.html is subtitled:

"Norwegian Team Developed Concepts for Software Now in Home
Entertainment Devices"

So the fact that the x-box uses OO is the most important impact of OO in
the world.

Gotta love the press release world. =)

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