Re: Buchberger Jenks Award?
Ilias Kotsireas <[email protected]>
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thank you for this inspirational quote from Doron, Tim. note that SIGSAM has managed to honor Bruno with the prestigious Paris Kanellakis Award in 2007 http://www.sigsam.org/Awards/KanellakisAward.html I personally spend a lot of time working on his nomination, with Mark Giesbrecht, Emil Volcheck and others. In the end, we were delighted to be successful. see here: http://www.sigsam.org/awards/jenks/ for the procedures governing the Jenks Award. all the best, Ilias On Thu, 8 Sep 2016, Tim Daly wrote: > But the MOST significant contribution by 20th-Century human > mathematicians and computer scientists was the creation of COMPUTER > ALGEBRA. It is still in a very preliminary stage, but is already > revolutionizing the way we DO and THINK about mathematics. Even computer > foes often `cheat' and use Maple or Mathematica on the side. It is a > scandal that, so far, the pioneers of computer algebra did not get their > due recognition by the mathematical establishment. One glaring > oversight, reminiscent of G?del only becoming a professor at the age of > 47, is that Bruno BUCHBERGER, the great pioneer of computer algebra, > whose algorithm revolutionized all the spectrum of mathematics, from > robotics to very abstract algebraic geometry, does not get a tiny > fraction of the recognition granted to the Atiyahs and the Botts. He is > not even a member of the Academy of Science of his native Austria! But > one should not fault this or that specific Academy. After all, at least > today, national academies consist of members of that narrow-minded, > short-sighted species called humans. Bruno Buchberger's heritage, and > his Gr?bner Bases will survive long after most of the current members of > the Austrian Academy of Science will be forgotten. > > -- quote from Doron Zeilberger (http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Opinion47.html) > > Tim > > >