eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) (06/05/90)
In article <26878@metropolis.super.ORG> lerici@metropolis.UUCP (Peter W. Brewer) writes: >I offer lunch/dinner to the first to achieve 1/4 TeraFlop. Oh come! Alan Karp offered $100. Bell gives $2,000 (now is it?). Both paid. CRI gives their Gigaflop prize. IBM now has their contest $25K (but has to be on a 3090 VF). ETA is ... well. Pancho Barnes gave steaks to supersonic pilots. The people in the Crypto community: Hellman/Diffie and Rivest, Adleman, and Shamir offered $100 for breaking their codes. Peter Capek (IBM), the chair for the Unix and Big Iron Session at Denver Usenix, suggested a "Miya-Prize" to me 2 weeks ago the "the year's best hack." I am considering this ($100) as part of the yearly Hacker's conference. The quality of the hack should be based on the level of "The Legends of Caltech" and "More Legends of Caltech." Not supercomputers, but good hacker fun. Peter, Glenn Tenney, and I are discussing this. "Best" to selected by committee. This to prove hacking isn't dead. That is... Unless you are feeding the whole company, and they choose the restaurant. 8) Lunch for all IBM at Chez Panisse..... Wow what a concept...! --e. nobuo miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov {uunet,mailrus,other gateways}!ames!eugene