On: Google Lifts the Turing Award into Nobel Territory

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Props to Google for stepping up where Intel left off.

Sounds like a good way for Google to find some big-name (post-award), PR-worthy, highly-qualified new employees.

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These awards are given to well-known people fairly late in their careers, by design.

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Ken Thompson had already invented UNIX and C when Google hired him.