Computer/software industrial is big and rich enough to have our own Nobel type Award for significant contributors to the Art, Design and Science of Computer/Software.
Good PR, karma, ego boost for everyone work in the fields.
Like "Academy of motion picture arts and sciences" - "Academy of Computer Sciences, Software and Design" All winners get A Golden Keyboard and $1 million real cash.
If I have choice, I would like to nominate:
"Dennis Ritchie" - inventor of C language.
"Bill Joy" inventor of gdb.
"Guido van Rossum" inventor of Python
"Brendan Eich" inventor of Javascript.
"Linux"
"AT&T System V"
"BSD"
Note that Dennis Ritchie already received the Turing award in 1983 for inventing and writing UNIX.
In fact, more than half of the Turing awards are for practical inventions and software: work on programming languages and compilers, TCP/IP, operating systems, relational databases. And even many of awarded "theoretical" achievements had working software that demonstrated or automated the maths parts.
I'm not arguing against an "Art and Design" award - but just noting that the Turing award is not that far off, it covers Computer Science contributions much more widely than just proving CS maths theorems.
Good PR, karma, ego boost for everyone work in the fields.
Like "Academy of motion picture arts and sciences" - "Academy of Computer Sciences, Software and Design" All winners get A Golden Keyboard and $1 million real cash.
If I have choice, I would like to nominate: