[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Who's winning 2030's Turing Award ?
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       Ask HN: Who's winning 2030's Turing Award ?
        
       The question is a bit tongue in cheek, but there is a point hidden.
       By definition, the Turing Award is meant for long lasting
       contribution ; meaning the recipients get their prize a long time
       after their work has been done.  Which means that, "by
       construction", someone is working _today_ on something that will be
       a worthy of a prize in the middle of the 2030s.  If not "what
       people", what topic do you think are candidates ?
        
       Author : phtrivier
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2021-04-11 21:33 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
       | arjunnarayan wrote:
       | This is a fun question. Here are some candidates, focusing on the
       | fields without undue focus on persons, as requested. For each
       | field you can draw different shaped circles including or
       | excluding people, and it's less obvious today which contributions
       | will be sustained through the rest of the decade, justifying
       | their inclusion/exclusion. So let's focus on innovating work that
       | feels Turing worthy. The award committee can think through
       | persons. I'm going in decreasing order of confidence that there
       | will be a prize.
       | 
       | * Algorithmic Game Theory. This is a little bit of a cheat, as
       | there I'm so confident that this is Turing worthy that I'd bet
       | that there will be a prize sooner than 2030 here.
       | 
       | * Cryptocurrencies. There will be a crypto prize, but I have no
       | idea how they'll draw a circle around a specific contribution or
       | researcher. You could focus on Proof-of-Work, you could focus on
       | developments in cryptographic primitives, but there will be some
       | prize here at some point.
       | 
       | * Differential privacy. I'm personally biased here as I did my
       | PhD in differential privacy, but it feels like a field that will
       | eventually get a Turing award. Privacy as a field was completely
       | changed by differential privacy.
       | 
       | * Distributed computing. There will be more prizes in this field,
       | so much has happened beyond the Lamport and Liskov prizes. Large
       | scale distributed computing/the cloud has won, and this will be
       | recognized in some form. One reason why this might wait until the
       | 2030s even though much has happened is that its still an active
       | area with much uncertainty. I have my own opinions, but this is
       | the surest area that I feel will get a prize of some sort but
       | where the specifics of the winner could break in several
       | different directions.
       | 
       | * Software Defined Networking has "won". So it will probably be
       | recognized at some point.
       | 
       | * Type theory. Given the Aho/Ullman prize, it will probably be 10
       | years before Programming Languages comes back into the rotation.
       | I think type systems have made a lot of progress (linear types,
       | dependent types, ...), are still making a lot of impact, and that
       | will get recognized in some form. It feels "up next" in the PL
       | rotation.
        
       | kungito wrote:
       | Either Svelte or React creators
        
         | angrais wrote:
         | For the Turning Award?
         | 
         | This is defined by wiki as:
         | 
         | "The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the
         | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions "of
         | lasting and major technical importance to the computer field."
         | 
         | Its the Nobel price of computing, so I am not sure that a
         | specific piece of software or its creators would warrant
         | receiving this award. Rather, it's for theoretical
         | contributions to the field, e.g. LeCun et Al., for deep
         | learning.
        
           | tracyhenry wrote:
           | It's not true that it needs to be theoretical. e.g. Michael
           | Stonebraker is awarded for making databases practical.
           | 
           | But the creator of React might not get the Turing award
           | anyways because they are not in academia.
        
       | breck wrote:
       | I think Linus and Junio for git is a no brainer. If they don't
       | get that by 2030 it would be silly.
       | 
       | Wolfram also is a no brainer.
       | 
       | Deep learning will get at least one more. Chris Lattner and the
       | llvms perhaps? I don't know what work led to the M1 but it feels
       | ground breaking.
       | 
       | I'd also like to see perhaps aaronsw and alexandra elbakyan win
       | one.
       | 
       | I think my collaborators will win won for 2-D/3-D languages if
       | this prediction comes true: https://longbets.org/793/ . Sounds
       | arrogant and probably a mistake in my math but I'm betting on it.
        
       | 27182818284 wrote:
       | Jeff Dean would be high on the list, I'd think. I think he has
       | maybe even won the other awards below the Turing already.
        
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