Charles P. Thacker Wins ACM Turing Award (opens in new tab)

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26 pointsyacin16y ago3 comments

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wmf16y ago

This is a good choice IMO. Even decades later, Thacker is still doing interesting work: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/bee3.aspx

yacinOP16y ago

Agreed. It's also nice to see Xerox PARC (indirectly) pushed to the spotlight. I think a lot of CS students in my generation (and younger) are unfamiliar with all the cool stuff PARC did back in the day.

The book "Dealers of Lightning" is fantastic for anyone interested in the stories behind Xerox PARC and all the other tech achievements that happened there.

aschobel16y ago

Funny timing since iPad pre-orders start in a few days which is taking a different approach than the Alto

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