Author makes a good point. Hard to dispute that they made a massive difference in organizing the worlds knowledge.

>artificial intelligence about five even before Hinton/Bengio/LeCun when it actually started working.

That’s hilarious

I couldn't resist the little jab about AI. :)

Saying this as a big fan of the old guard, McCarthy in particular.

Who else do you think should win?

As a distributed systems guy I'm partial to Nancy Lynch. But that's distributed systems, a field which has already had awards.

Search engines getting a couple of awards seemed like a no-brainer.