On 18/08/2015 09:02, Marc Balmer wrote:
Yep! But, let's be honest, how many laymen know what a Turing award is? Probably if you went to the grocery store and told the owner you won a Turing award vs. you won a Nobel prize I suspect the effect would be remarkably different! Well, unless the owner were a former computer scientist. :-)Am 18.08.15 um 01:35 schrieb Lorenzo Donati:On 05/05/2015 12:13, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:The Lua Workshop 2015 will be held in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 15-16, courtesy of King. There is a web page for the Workshop atFor a moment I thought it was "The King" of Sweden! Too good to be true to be recognized at such an high level for we poor SW developer! We don't even have a Nobel prize! :-)There is the Turing Award which is widely seen as the Nobel prize in informatics. FWIW, his years laureate is Prof. Michael Stonebreaker of PostgreSQL fame.
Sad truth, though :-(
http://luastockholm2015.se/ A page at lua.org will be up soon at http://www.lua.org/wshop15.html Registration is open: http://luastockholm2015.se/#ATTEND We hope to see many of you there. --lhf, for the Lua teamCheers! -- Lorenzo