Obama Names National Medal of Science, Technology & Innovation Winners

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Obama Names National Medal of Science, Technology & Innovation Winners

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday October 5, 2014 @02:33AM from the have-a-medal dept.

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.

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fuck all ya'all by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-05 02:37 · Score: -1

Obama likes it, so they must all be liars.
The earth is 6000 years old, evolution ain't real, and you suck.
A warmonger with a Nobel Peace Prize... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-05 02:38 · Score: -1

...giving out other gold stars to fellows with brains, opportunity, and not much in the way of values.
I preferred "everyone gets a prize" primary school, to be honest.
1. Re:A warmonger with a Nobel Peace Prize... by bill_mcgonigle · 2014-10-05 02:44 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  If a war criminal wants to give you a prize, the proper thing to do is to refuse it.
  
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2. Re:A warmonger with a Nobel Peace Prize... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-05 02:48 · Score: 0
  
  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.
3. Re:A warmonger with a Nobel Peace Prize... by CaptainDork · 2014-10-05 03:02 · Score: 0
  
  It really pisses you off that neither of the previous warmongers, Bush I and Bush II got a Nobel Peace Prize, doesn't it?
  
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4. Re:A warmonger with a Nobel Peace Prize... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-05 04:38 · Score: 0
  
  Not really. Like Obama, they didn't deserve it.
5. Re:A warmonger with a Nobel Peace Prize... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-05 05:22 · Score: 0
  
  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?
6. Re:A warmonger with a Nobel Peace Prize... by DNS-and-BIND · 2014-10-05 05:37 · Score: 1
  
  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?
  
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7. Re:A warmonger with a Nobel Peace Prize... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-05 05:53 · Score: 0
  
  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.
8. Re:A warmonger with a Nobel Peace Prize... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-05 06:53 · Score: 0
  
  > 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.
9. Re:A warmonger with a Nobel Peace Prize... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-05 07:51 · Score: 0
  
  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.
10. Re:A warmonger with a Nobel Peace Prize... by Lord+Maud'Dib · 2014-10-05 08:26 · Score: 1
  
  It's got nothing to do with his skin colour. Why are you bringing this up? Closet racist?
11. Re:A warmonger with a Nobel Peace Prize... by radarskiy · 2014-10-05 09:13 · Score: 1
  
  Why do you hate Henry Kissinger?
Did he nominate himself? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-05 02:44 · Score: 0

Hes more deserving of this than that Nobel peace prize he got a few years back
1. Re:Did he nominate himself? by CaptainDork · 2014-10-05 03:04 · Score: 1
  
  What are you smoking? "He" didn't deserve any National Medal of Science at all, and actually, he didn't get any.
  
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2. Re: Did he nominate himself? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-05 03:15 · Score: 0
  
  But at least he's not the opposite of what this medal is awarding. He won a Nobel peace prize for starting wars all around the world lol.
3. Re: Did he nominate himself? by sribe · 2014-10-05 03:27 · Score: 0
  
  He won a Nobel peace prize for starting wars all around the world lol.
  Name one war he started.
4. Re: Did he nominate himself? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-05 03:30 · Score: 0
  
  It was always burning since the world's been turning.
5. Re: Did he nominate himself? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-05 03:32 · Score: -1
  
  Works war 3.
  The war on the middle class.
  The war on American citizens on bringing infected aliens across the boarder and Ebola infected citizens.
6. Re: Did he nominate himself? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-05 04:22 · Score: -1
  
  The war against whites
7. Re: Did he nominate himself? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-05 07:17 · Score: 0
  
  Lybia, Syria.
  Got two for you there. Unlike the "war monger" Bush, he didn't get Congressional approval for either (waiting for Congress to go into recess before starting the newest one so he wouldn't have to even ask), nor did he go to the UN first.
8. Re: Did he nominate himself? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-05 11:12 · Score: 0
  
  So enforcing a ceasfire in Libya is a "war" and attacks on outlaw groups that oppose the Syrian government is a war on Syria. What a moron.
9. Re: Did he nominate himself? by Nehmo · 2014-10-05 20:08 · Score: 1
  
  Name one war he started.
  The US (in addition to some European rich guys) funded the insurrection in Ukraine that led to the removal of the (albeit weak) elected government. This directly led to the current conflict. We (the US) were not simply a bystander.
  
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Obama the Nobel Prize Winner? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-05 02:49 · Score: 0, Insightful

Really? I'd decline a prize from him, in order to avoid destroying the meaning of the award.
1. Re:Obama the Nobel Prize Winner? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-05 03:07 · Score: 0
  
  The Nobel Prize committee is probably disappointed they didn't influence Obama to become a great champion of peace.
  But the people of the United States benefit from having a President who exercises American military power and diplomacy in the tradition of Realpolitik.
2. Re:Obama the Nobel Prize Winner? by guises · 2014-10-05 18:08 · Score: 1
  
  disappointed they didn't influence Obama
  This is missing the intent. The prize was given to Obama, not to influence him but to influence the people around him. It was basically an endorsement of his campaign promises, a statement: "People elsewhere in the world like what this guy is saying, or at least it's a big improvement. You, as a country, could stand to move in this direction."
  
  Maybe they underestimated just how partisan politics are here, but instead of encouraging people to support Obama's stated goals (e.g.: closing Guantanamo - a big campaign promise) it just caused them to deride the prize and, to some extent, the opinions of the rest of the world. Just look at how people talk about the UN. China went the same way: for many years they talked about how they were being slighted because no Chinese person in China had ever won a Nobel prize. Then when Liu Xiaobo won it in 2010 they turned against the prize altogether, dismissing it as unimportant.
Charles Bachman by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-05 02:52 · Score: 0

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.
Diversity? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-05 03:09 · Score: 0

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.
1. Re:Diversity? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-05 03:20 · Score: 1
  
  "What could possibly be more important than ensuring that minorities are properly represented in Science, Technology and Innovation?"
  Ensuring that individuals who actually did something of significance to the human race are awarded, rather than some nobodies based on skin color who didn't do anything except hold a title?
  Damn, this disqualifies Obama from the Nobel Peace prize, not that the Nobel Peace prize hadn't already been tarnished long before Obama.
2. Re:Diversity? by just_a_monkey · 2014-10-05 03:48 · Score: 1
  
  So gender is not important to you? Tsk, tsk, tsk...
  
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3. Re: Diversity? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-05 03:52 · Score: 0
  
  Dumb. Minorities will be in the awards category when they achieve at a level comparable with others. Worked example: Jews. This is about merit, not demographics.
4. Re:Diversity? by Teresita · 2014-10-05 04:37 · Score: 1
  
  Proud member of the gender "minority" that happens to be 51% of the population...but then again, minorities have to do with putting people in victim classes as a wedge for political solutions, and nothing to do with actual numbers.
5. Re:Diversity? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-05 04:53 · Score: -1
  
  Fucking racist white pig. Little Tray-tray deserves an award in science and an honorary PhD from MIT. DIN DO NUFFIN.
6. Re:Diversity? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-05 04:58 · Score: 0
  
  Minorities are just one possible manifestation of discrimination and oppression. While certainly it is often easier for the more to turn on the few, given the right circumstances even one can dominate the many.
7. Re: Diversity? by Lord+Maud'Dib · 2014-10-05 08:29 · Score: 1
  
  Whoosh! As with the other comments you are obviously oblivious to the sarcasm. Are you all so blinded by this PC stupidity?
Very disappointed. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-05 03:31 · Score: 0

I thought for sure that Bennett Haselton would be a winner this year.
I always like to say I'm a NPP winner myself by NotSoHeavyD3 · 2014-10-05 05:05 · Score: 4, Insightful

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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1. Re:I always like to say I'm a NPP winner myself by Tanuki64 · 2014-10-05 05:16 · Score: 1
  
  You can be glad that the Nobel Price rules forbid to give the price posthumously. Else Hitler would have gotten it long ago. Probably twice. Once for his contribution to the unification of Europe. And once for the world.
2. Re:I always like to say I'm a NPP winner myself by davester666 · 2014-10-05 06:04 · Score: 1
  
  He didn't actually manage to unite the whole world, but he did try pretty hard.
  
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3. Re:I always like to say I'm a NPP winner myself by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-05 06:53 · Score: 0
  
  The way I figure it is like this, I've done nothing for anybody.
  FTFY.
  You kids don't have a clue how the world works.
4. Re:I always like to say I'm a NPP winner myself by Tanuki64 · 2014-10-05 07:26 · Score: 1
  
  Good enough. For Obama 'he might try' was enough to get the prize.
5. Re:I always like to say I'm a NPP winner myself by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-05 12:31 · Score: 0
  
  They all he deserves is a 'participation' trophy. Prizes are meant to award success.
Deeds by Tablizer · 2014-10-05 05:34 · Score: 1

Anyone know of a list that includes their technical accomplishments?

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1. Re:Deeds by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-05 05:50 · Score: 0
  
  If it's Obama making the decision, I'm pretty sure none of that really matters. Case in point, his 2 supreme court selections. I'm sure the rape culture theory or check your white privilege science will be on this list of technical accomplishments.
Charles W. Bachman and databases by Tablizer · 2014-10-05 06:10 · Score: 2

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.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

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Prizes are for children by Le+Marteau · 2014-10-05 06:23 · Score: 0

"Prizes are for children." -- Charles Ives, upon being given, but refusing, the Pulitzer prize

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1. Re:Prizes are for children by serviscope_minor · 2014-10-05 21:36 · Score: 1
  
  "Prizes are for children." -- Charles Ives, upon being given, but refusing, the Pulitzer prize
  "Comments from like that are from idiots" -- serviscope_minor, upon seeing a very stupid quote on slashdot.
  See? Anyone can say stupid shit without backing it up. Doesn't make it correct or incorrect.
  
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Let me guess... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-05 06:45 · Score: 0

... They're all muzzie jihadist goatfuckers, right?
Men under-represented, as usual. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-05 07:18 · Score: 0

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 ?!
War criminals cheering war criminals by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-05 08:11 · Score: 0

news at 11
proof by counter-example by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-05 10:23 · Score: 0

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.
Use the correct title by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-05 11:53 · Score: 0

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.
Obama is a great MC by Nehmo · 2014-10-05 19:54 · Score: 1

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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