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Obama Names National Medal of Science, Technology & Innovation Winners
alphadogg writes Computer scientists who made breakthroughs in areas such as software architectures and database management systems were among those named National Medal of Technology and Innovation winners by President Barack Obama. These awards, along with the National Medal of Science, are the nation's highest honors for achievement and leadership in advancing the fields of science and technology. Overall, 18 medalists were named.
If a war criminal wants to give you a prize, the proper thing to do is to refuse it.
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Hes more deserving of this than that Nobel peace prize he got a few years back
Can't disagree with that, although I'd go further and say that if anyone wants to give you a prize, the sensible thing to do is to refuse it.
Really? I'd decline a prize from him, in order to avoid destroying the meaning of the award.
Developer of one of the first commercially successful database management systems, GE's IDS, which used what today is called a network data model. It became the orthodoxy that Codd's relational database model overthrew. Also led the CODASYL committee which produced the three-level architecture for a database system (external, conceptual, physical) which was embraced by Codd, and is still taught today.
It really pisses you off that neither of the previous warmongers, Bush I and Bush II got a Nobel Peace Prize, doesn't it?
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
I am not so much interested in the names but rather the racial makeup of the winners. What could possibly be more important than ensuring that minorities are properly represented in Science, Technology and Innovation? I protest these awards until proper x-American is added to the list of names.
I thought for sure that Bennett Haselton would be a winner this year.
Not really. Like Obama, they didn't deserve it.
The way I figure it is like this, I've done nothing for peace. Oddly enough that's way more than quite a few people that have won it. (Like Arafat and Kissinger) Therefore logically I must have won it as well. (Since I did more for peace) Of course when people ask where my prize is I say they probably lost it in the mail. Either that or they're still trying to get through the list of people that also did more for peace by doing nothing and are ahead of me alphabetically.
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If a war criminal wants to give you a prize, the proper thing to do is to refuse it.
Haven't heard the "war criminal" accusation before. Care to enlighten us?
Anyone know of a list that includes their technical accomplishments?
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Are we just completely ignoring the whole racism angle? Is that what we do now? Just pretend that racism doesn't exist, and that deliberately snubbing an African-American Nobel Peace Prize winner is not racist? What universe are we in now?
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
No. Looking at the history of people who have gotten it, you are more likely to get it trying to kill Jews or destroy Israel more than any other actions. In that way Arrifat, Carter, and Obama all deserve it. Look back and see that Ghandi never got it and that pretty much sums it up as the award given to most anti-semetic behavior and has nothing to do with peace. Not really sure why the Nobel committe hates Jews so much, but they do and like to brag about it.
Charles W. Bachman was the guy who "fought with" Dr. Codd over database models. Bachman championed "navigational" databases, which depended on the management of "visible" pointers connecting data nodes. Dr. Codd's vision was closer to Set Theory, and generally "won" in that relational is the dominant database flavor today. Bachman's work still influenced various implementation issues common to both kinds being that working navigational databases came first.
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"Prizes are for children." -- Charles Ives, upon being given, but refusing, the Pulitzer prize
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... They're all muzzie jihadist goatfuckers, right?
> It really pisses you off that neither of the previous warmongers, Bush I and Bush II got a Nobel Peace Prize, doesn't it?
Beware! But it pisses me royally off that Obama got one.
Once again, compared to numbers in the industry, white men are under-represented in these token awards !
Why are we letting our white men down ?!
What do we have to do to save this generation of white men from failure in the Token-Awards field ?!
Please describe in what way Arafat, Carter and Obama have tried to "kill Jews". Note that Israel is a nation state with a racist immigration policy, so any policies they have against Israel cannot be regarded as policies against Jews.
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It's got nothing to do with his skin colour. Why are you bringing this up? Closet racist?
Why do you hate Henry Kissinger?
My plan to kill all the jews is to start with their homeland. The diaspora then can be disposed of in very small units. If I start with the diaspora, then the central power in Israel will intervene in my plan.
I don't like the guy, and I did not vote for him.
However, to speak correctly you should say "President Obama" and not simply "Obama".
It pissed me off when the media kept saying "Bush" instead of "President Bush", and I continue to feel the same.
Despite criticism of Obama (actually the Obama administration; he plays golf) botching foreign affairs to the point of re-igniting the cold war and arming our enemies in Syria, you must say Obama does an excellent job of presenting awards and things like that. He's the best I've ever seen in that regard. Have Putin match that!
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