I'd like to introduce you to Nir Shavit
Nir has just catapulted himself into the elite community of people i lovingly refer to as techno celebs by winning the
Gödel Prize
(the fact that he has a striking resemblance to Rocky Balboa didn't hurt either.)
Here's the skinny:
- May 10, 2004 - Congratulations to Nir Shavit, Sun Labs, member of the Scalable Synchronization Research Group, Sun Labs at Massachusetts, and Maurice Herlihy, Professor, Brown University and consultant to the Scalable Synchronization Research Group! Their paper, "The Topological Structure of Asynchronous Computability" (see sidebar) by Maurice Herlihy and Nir Shavit, Journal of the ACM, Volume 46, Issue 6 (1999) has been awarded the Gödel Prize for the year 2004.
you can get the whole story here.
so let's just recap.
in the space of a week the MaryMaryQuiteContary blog has covered the topological structure of asynchronous computability, the heisenberg uncertainty principle and java cetacean.
not bad for a girl who managed to graduate from college without taking a single math, computer or science class, eh?
mary