I feel like we should maybe not give life time achievement awards to people that invented a technology that has zero deployment, that has no path to deployment, and that has fostered a very unhealthy amount of snake oil vendors, especially when there is an alternative technology available to solve the same problem, and that technology is already deployed and has comparatively next to no downsides, at a time when we really really need to start deploying it more widely.

But that's just me, I guess.

@sophieschmieg if that's their lifetime achievement, what does that say about their life
@jrose eh, the technology itself *is* a nifty physics experiment. The problem is more that it is just a nifty physics experiment, and the Turing award is not a physics prize.

@sophieschmieg couldn’t they be given the FIFA Computing Award?

@jrose