I just came to learn something awesome about a friend of mine.
J Sifakis was a friend and my senior colleague at INPG Grenoble where I went to do my doctorate. He did his "these d'etat" in 1979, just a year before me. He was a real bright guy. But I did'nt know how bright he really was, till a few days ago.
A few days ago, while scanning the web I came across this incredibly big news. Sifakis was awarded the Turing Award for 2007 by ACM. the Turing Award is like the Nobel Prize. There is no Nobel for Computer Science. Turing Award is the Nobel of computer science.
It gives a great feeling to recall that I worked, lived, walked with great scientists like Sifakis.
partha
