2001 Turing Award

Jarno J Virtanen jajvirta at cc.helsinki.fi
Fri Feb 8 04:02:34 EST 2002


Thu, 7 Feb 2002 23:32:27 +0000 (UTC) Andy Todd wrote:
> "Mark McEahern" <marklists at mceahern.com> wrote in 
> news:mailman.1013114112.28909.python-list at python.org:
> 
>> Keith Keller wrote:
>>> Damn--I thought the award was for the person who best impersonated a
>>> Turing machine.  :) 
>> 
>> Do you have any nominees?

> I believe there is currently only one Tim-bot.

Given the recent modifications made by the PSU that gave timbot 
abilities to perform like human [1, 2], I'd say that he indeed
is a strong candidate for this kind of award.

[1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-February/085107.html
[2] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-February/085042.html



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