Charles P. Thacker Wins ACM Turing Award

This is a good choice IMO. Even decades later, Thacker is still doing interesting work: <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/bee3.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/bee3.aspx</a>

Funny timing since iPad pre-orders start in a few days which is taking a different approach than the Alto