>Turing awards are all theorists game, not engineers
Robert Metcalfe just won the award for Ethernet. Go scan through the list of Turing winners again. It is not just awarded to pure theorists. There’s a huge slant to academics who also found (or caused) massive commercial success, especially in recent years.
Bellard could get hit by a bus tomorrow and have
>the most important video tool ever
>the most important emulation tool ever
>the best text compression tool ever
…on his resume. And with those tools he’s not just wrapping algorithms cooked up by others, but also innovating on fundamental theory. VirtualBox and the Android emulator? That’s QEMU. Every video platform in existence? Thin wrappers to FFmpeg. Seems deserving to me, and certainly seems as or more impactful that many names on that winners list.
