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2003 MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Winners Announced
ccnull writes "This year's list of 24 MacArthur Fellows has been released. Each winner of the so-called 'Genius Grant' receives $500,000, no strings attached. 2003's winners include a blacksmith, a biomedical engineer, a computation geometer, a biophysicist, a nurse, and a short story writer 'crafting witty, experimental prose.'"
Just think how much iron $500,000 will buy!
You don't apply ?? I still don't know how the people are found for the grant ?
Bit of Article.....
Several hundred nominators assist the Foundation in identifying people who should be considered for a MacArthur Fellowship. Nominators, who are appointed each year and serve anonymously, are chosen from many fields of endeavor and challenged to identify people who demonstrate exceptional creativity and promise. A 12-member Selection Committee, whose members also serve anonymously, meets regularly throughout the year to review nominee files, narrow the list, and make final recommendations to the Foundation's Board of Directors. Typically, between 20 and 25 Fellows are selected each year.
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What???
where, in 1968, were teachers paid the same as doctors?
maybe senior tenured university profs. maybe.
Why, yes, I AM a Pagan Libertarian.
Teachers are the ONE proffesion, other than Nurses and Public servents such as Police and fire fighters who can never get paid enough.
there is no problem, and BTW, if Teachers did make as much that you say tehy are over paid, there would not be problems with teacher shortages, especialy in Math, Special ed, etc.
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And why not an open source programmer?
(You probably know this, but for the benefit of others): It's already happened. A well-known developer called RMS got the MacArthur grant 13 years ago.
Today, there's enough $$$ coming into OS from corps like IBM that the charitable committees will look for something less outwardly profitable to fund.
What you're seeing are the concentrations of the top "genius" schools, like Harvard, MIT, Yale, etc. There are simply more high end schools in Boston, New York, and California than there are in other places. Since this is an academic award, it only makes sense that this is the case. Some of these people are probably from "the other 39", but currently live near their school. You can be born a genius, but you need an equally good education to take full advantage of it.
Only in a libertarian "what the market will bear" aspect, not in a "value of what is produced" aspect. Teachers will work for less if they have no other choices or if they honestly care about the children, that doesn't mean that they're getting overpaid, it might mean that they're getting taken advantage of.
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Blinn, James F.
Demaine, Erik
Holland, John H.
Jurafsky, Daniel
Rus, Daniela
Shor, Peter
Sims, Karl
Stallman, Richard
Winfree, Erik
Wolfram, Stephen
The MacArthur Foundation site has the fellows sorted by field. These eleven were the ones they classed under "Computer Science".