One of them! One of them!

[kickaha]

Met with the new team today.

I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. I was skeptical, but... what they want to do, I've done, and what I want to do, they've done. The research dovetails wonderfully, and I think we can push each other's research ahead a couple of years in just a few months.

And they don't need convincing.

Oh. Yeah. Baby.

Any doubts I had about this move were utterly erased today.

Comments

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

LOL

There ain't no CS Nobel anywho... :)

Would you settle for a Turing award? That I can shoot for... *mrfle* *snicker* *bwahahahahaha*


*sigh*

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

Don't worry. Nobody will ever mistake you for a human respondent. :)

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

LOL

No, no, not the Turing *Test*, the Turing *Award* (turing award). Closest thing CS has to the Nobel, really.

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

Your link above is busted. Did they take yours away?

Hmm, what could you have done to get a Turing Award revoked? I shudder to think...

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Try this one: http://awards.acm.org/homepage.cfm?srt=all&awd=140

And I'll never tell... you're just jealous that you didn't think of it first. ;)

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

Ah--I've figured it out. Or at least, I've figured out a scenario that would result in revocation.

Step 1: Build SkyNet.
Step 2: Connect SkyNet to every piece of machinery in the world.
Step 3: Accept Turing Award.
Step 4: Judgment Day.
Step 5: Hijinks ensue.
Step 6: The remnants of humanity rip your Turing Award from your cold, dead hands.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

I believe that's known as "Gosling's Plan". Lucky for us, Java's simply too underpowered for step 4.

Of course, by the time he finished step 3, it might have finally matured... :D

[franktheavenger.livejournal.com]

The idea of Skynet being Java-based is offensive even to me. :p

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

It's the T-1, with JavaBeans!

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

I'd think you'd need at least a T-3 to control all that machinery--lag is a Bad Thing when you're engineering a nuclear Armageddon.