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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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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.
Did you know 80 to 90% of the moderators on slashdot wouldn't recognize a troll even if one dragged them under a bridge.
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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Table-ized A.I.