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Re: [Axiom-developer] Buchberger Jenks Award?
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Ilias Kotsireas |
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Re: [Axiom-developer] Buchberger Jenks Award? |
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Thu, 8 Sep 2016 05:19:38 -0400 (EDT) |
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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