[clue] Ken Thompson Awarded the Japan Prize for UNIX

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On May 20, 2011, at 3:08 PM, Will wrote:

I think he should get the Nobel Prize but I guess this is pretty good! :-)

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/japan-prize-honors-googler-ken-thompson.html 



What Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson have done .... eclipses the achievements of the Nobel prize winners for "peas" and for "echo-nomics" ...... 
Did they get anything more than a "photo op " ?   Like maybe some $$$ ?
99guspuppet
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