Why there's no Nobel Prize in Computing

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11 points·alphadoggs··7 comments

Next up: why Shakespeare never wrote a play about the Internet.

Now, if you want to discuss why there is no Nobel Prize in Mathematics...

Sadly it's not because Nobel's wife/mistress had an affair with a Mathematician [1] :)

[1] http://www.snopes.com/science/nobel.asp

Even from the article you mentioned it is not exactly clear if that was true. It was a juicy read though for 100 year-old rumor from a pseudo-gossip column though.

I used to hear similar kinds of stories between Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. It doesn't mean they're true.

This is the de facto Nobel Prize in Computing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Award

The Nobel Prizes were established in 1895, before Alan Turing started the field of Computer Science.

But quite a bit after Lady Ada started it in 1842 :)

I've don't believe that there should be a specific category for computing. I believe many of these categories should be consolidated into one. In many years there hasn't been enough advancements to warrant an award. Mankind's process has not been rapid enough where it is necessary to have a category for separate scientific fields. This also includes computing.

Isn't that since Computing falls under umbrella of Mathematics and there is no Nobel prize for Mathematics (due to Nobel's wife having lover who was a Mathematician, so Nobel excluded the whole Math field from getting the prize) - Computing must have Turing Award instead

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