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Leslie Valiant Wins 'Nobel Prize' of Computing
autospa writes "ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery today named Leslie G. Valiant of Harvard University the winner of the 2010 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his fundamental contributions to the development of computational learning theory and to the broader theory of computer science. Valiant brought together machine learning and computational complexity, leading to advances in artificial intelligence as well as computing practices such as natural language processing, handwriting recognition, and computer vision. He also launched several subfields of theoretical computer science, and developed models for parallel computing. The Turing Award, widely considered the 'Nobel Prize in Computing,' is named for the British mathematician Alan M. Turing. The award carries a $250,000 prize, with financial support provided by Intel Corporation and Google Inc."
Too bad he hasn't come up with a way for computers to extend the length of CmdrTaco's 5mm micropenis.
The Turing Award, widely considered the 'Nobel Prize in Computing,' is named for the British mathematician Alan M. Turing.
Turing, you say? Hmm, can't say I ever heard of anyone by that name. Was he famous or something?
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
I think this is one of the best article summaries I've read on SlashDot in a while. It's actually informative, doesn't assume too much, and is not a complete troll. There is also a complete lack of advertising.
Bah! That field is a complete waste of time.
Artificial Intelligence will never be a match for Genuine Stupidity.
Unless you want to suggest the Turing Award is as biased and corrupt as the Nobel Prize awards, you shouldn't conflate the two.
butt if it makes you feel better/anything, that's good? "we're not leavin' 'till it's even", the bips chortle convincingly.
we do have our intentions; too complicated?
1. DEWEAPONIZATION (not a real word, but they like it) almost nothing else good happens until some progress here.
2. ALL BABYS CREATED/TO BE TREATED, EQUALLY. (a rough interpretation (probably cost us. seems like a no-brainer but they expressed that we fail on that one too(:)->) 'we do not need any 300$ 'strollers', or even to ride in your smelly cars/planes etc..., until such time as ALL of the creators' innocents have at least food, shelter, & some loving folks nearby.' again, this is a deal breaker, so pay attention, that's cheap enough, & could lead to our survival?
3. THOU SHALT NOT VACCINATE IRRESPONSIBLY. this appears to be a stop-gap intention.
the genuine feelings expressed included; in addition to the lack of acknowledgment of the advances/evolution of our tiny bodies/dna (including consciousness & intellect), almost nobody knows anymore what's in those things (vaccines) (or they'd tell us), & there's rumor much of it is less than good (possibly fatal) for ANY of us. if it were good for us we'd be gravitating towards it, instead of it being shoved in our little veins, wrecking them, & adversely affecting our improving immune systems/dna/development? at rite-aid, they give the mommies 100$ if they let them stick their babys with whoknowswhat? i can see why they're (the little ones) extremely suspicious? they're also asking that absolutely nobody be allowed to insert those corepirate nazi 'identity' 'chips' in their tiny frames. they know who they, and we, are, much better than we ever will? many, oddly? have fading inclinations to want to be reporters of nefarious life threatening processes, ie. 'conspiracies', as they sincerely believe that's 'stuff that REALLY matters', but they KNOW that things are going to be out in the open soon, so they intend to put their ever increasing consciousness, intellect, acute/astute senses & information gathering abilities, to the care & feeding of their fellow humans. no secrets to cover up with that goal.
4. AN END TO MANUFACTURED 'WEATHER'.
sortie like a no-(aerosol tankers)-fly zone being imposed over the whole planet. the thinking is, the planet will continue to repair itself, even if we stop pretending that it's ok/nothing's happening. after the weather manipulation is stopped (& it will be) it could get extremely warm/cold/blustery some days. many of us will be moving inland..., but we'll (most of us anyway) be ok, so long as we keep our heads up. conversely, the manufactured 'weather' puts us in a state of 'theater' that allows US to think that we needn't modify our megaslothian heritage of excessiveness/disregard for ourselves, others, what's left of our environment etc...? all research indicates that spraying chemicals in the sky is 100% detrimental to our/planet's well being (or they'd talk to US about it?). as for weather 'extremes', we certainly appear to be in a bleeding rash of same, as well as all that bogus seismic activity, which throws our advanced tiny baby magnets & chromosomes into crisis/escape mode, so that's working? we're a group whose senses are more available to us (like monkeys?) partly because we're not yet totally distracted by the foibles of man'kind'. the other 'part' is truly amazing. we saw nuclear war being touted on PBS as an environmental repair tool (?depopulation? (makes the babys' 'accountants' see dark red:-(-? yikes. so what gives?
thanks for your patience & understanding while we learn to express our intentions. everybody has some. let us know. come to some of our million baby play-dates. no big hurry? catch your breath. we'll wait a bit more. thanks.
do the math. check out YOUR dna/intentional healing potential. thanks again.
..Obama wins the 'Turing Award' of Peace.
Why didn't I come up with this?
I could have been somebody.
Q: why don't the smelly babys get their own blog?
so they would stop interfering with 'stuff that matters' here on /., & rob could stop blocking those 3 broadband lines?
A. now there's some industrious thinking along the lines of what we were hoping for from this crowd of way savvy non-mutants. much better than the earlier response of vandalism(s), & ongoing censorship/deletion, like the corepirate nazi mutants do IT? details to follow. we know we'll have to put the site up 'bunker' style, based on our experiences to date. thanks. mynuts won; doesn't quite fit the motif
There is nothing having to do with the Nobel Prize whatsoever. The little quotes don't make it forgivable.
This is purely a trick to get more eyes on the story, and is quite despicable.
Turing had the award named after him for his achievements and success. In that respect, calling it a 'Nobel Prize' of computing is rather insulting. Anyone who would normally be interested by this award knows who Turing is, and probably (rightfully so) has more respect for that award than the Nobel Prize.
It should say that the Nobel Prize is an award like the Turing award, in non-computational areas of science.
If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits
This article was actually written by a machine powered by Valiant's ideas, thus making it simultaneously a turing test troll and an advertisement.
Leslie Valiant Wins 'Nobel Prize' of Computing ...
"ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery today named Leslie G. Valiant of Harvard University the winner of the 2010 ACM A.M. Turing Award...
Yes, Virginia, in the mainstream press we may have to explain to ordinary people that the Turing award is the computer science equivalent of a Nobel prize, the same way that we have to explain that the Fields Medal is the analogue for the field of mathematics. But this is Slashdot, and I expect my nerds and my geeks to Know This Stuff.
(and before you youngsters complain that you're young and still learning, pipe down. You all know how to look it up on Wikipedia in about 5 seconds)
Heck, they might as well change the tag line of the website to "Slashdot: News for Technically-adept persons. Articles of interest to their quaint population."
coding is life
The Turing Prize should have gone to Watson, as it (he?) passed the Turing test, or at least won Jeopardy.
Here's the link to the citation describing Les Valiant's work: http://www.acm.org/news/featured/turing-award-2010
If they would only give the award once to someone who just documented how programs work. They should have an award for that.
Yeah, who needs that boring theory crap anyway? (sarcasm)
Didn't slashdot used to be for tech folks or am I confusing it with some other site?
I can name several econ nobel laureates who, in my not overly well-informed opinion, have made a genuine net positive contribution to the world.
Every heard of game theory and Nash equilibria? That'd be John Forbes Nash. How about Vickrey auctions---they might add a little more honesty to the world, and help people allocate goods more efficiently. How about Kenneth Arrow, proving that social decision making processing will always have flaws (so we can stop looking for the perfect ones and start discussing trade-offs)? Or how about Daniel Kahnemann, for reminding economists the danger of their foolish assumptions about human rationality? ;-)
But of course, I'm eager to learn so if econ is corrupt please enlighten me as to how.
Almost all comments here on /. are about nobel prices or about the summary but not about Valians research in CS. What gives?! On the other hand, this is /. after all, silly me ...
To contribute something to the topic: So he invented PAC learning, I took a Machine Learning course a while back, we studied this concept in Tom Mitchell's "Machine Learning" book, but quite honestly, I cannot remember this that well.
Does anybody know some good online resources (class slides etc.) about PAC learning? I mean there are plenty of examples for this online, but if somebody also took a ML course or knows some course slides that are of great quality (or can write some lines with explanations), I would really appreciate this.