Yes , that is an excellent article ..... thanks for posting ! On a related topic , I notice that Diffie and Hellman were recently given the Turing Award for their work in cryptography ... .... well deserved IMO.
... my edit ^ Of course they could always refuse it . It would be their membership fee to join what is possibly the world's most exclusive club , comprised solely of people who were awarded major academic honors yet chose to turn them down. Grigori Perelman is the most recent member I can think of . He was awarded the Fields Medal for his formal proof of the Poincaré conjecture but decided he didn't want it ( including the money ! ). Jean-Paul Sartre declined the Nobel Prize . Anyone on MDL that knows of other " members " of this club , please chime in . Yeah I know , it's well off-topic .... sorry . Maybe I should start a new thread elsewhere on MDL ? Suggestions ?