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==Turing for Lick==

It's a major crock that Lick doesn't have a [[Turing Award]]. We just never got organized at MIT (his home institution) to press for one. But the way Turing's are given out is (or were, in that era - I don't know about now) semi-disorganized; they didn't do a wide search, etc. The only reason that Corby has one (in 1990, 7 years ''after'' Ken and Dennis, who worked in Corby's footsteps) was that ''I'' bestirred myself to organize an effort to do so; I remember getting Joel Moses (then head of the CS dept at MIT) to support it. I wonder if they do posthumous Turings (they don't, for Nobels); if they do, I'll have to send an email out to some people and see about organizing one for Lick. [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 14:29, 26 December 2023 (CET)