Why There's No Nobel Prize In Computing 229
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."
Well, (Score:5, Funny)
At least I have a reason for never winning a Nobel Prize, unlike all those writers.
Re:here's how it would go down (Score:4, Funny)
They'd just end up giving it to somebody like Zuckerberg rather than somebody like Knuth.
Why would a dead german polar bear receive a prize in computing?
Thanks to Zuckerberg we can now exchange cute lolcats with our thousands of friends! We had no way to do this before Facebook existed.
He deserves this prize more than anyone else (and especially a bear, you fool).
Re:here's how it would go down (Score:5, Funny)
And cunt is someone who explains the joke, i.e. you.