Why There's No Nobel Prize In Computing

alphadogg writes "When Nobel Prizes are dished out each fall, the most accomplished professionals in computing, telecom and IT have usually been left out in the cold. That's because there is no Nobel Prize for these fields, and it's unlikely there will be one any time soon. According to the Nobel Foundation: 'The Nobel Prizes, as designated in the Will of Alfred Nobel, are in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace. Only once has a prize been added — a Memorial Prize — The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, donated by Sweden's central bank to celebrate its tercentenary in 1968. The Nobel Foundation's Board of Directors later decided to keep the original five prizes intact and not to permit new additions.' So, if IBM, Google, Apple or some other deep-pocketed tech company wanted to make a big donation along the lines of what Sweden's central bank did in 1968, maybe it could sway the Nobel Foundation to add a prize. But it most likely wouldn't be officially called a Nobel Prize."

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Re:If there was enough interest..

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I doubt that they would. Right now they are trying to figure out what the government plans on doing to them, with their "I hate companies" policies. Obama is constantly talking about his plans to devistate corporations, who are just evil money stealing basterds, and his talks of greatly increasing government regulations on all businesses. They're busy trying to deal whith the crap he's throwing on their plate, and expecting to be screwed over big time. Don't expect them to create an annual award when they are wondering if the government is going to do a takeover on them. The government would see an award of $1,000,000 as enough money to create or save six $20,000 jobs for one year.