Shaw Prize adds a computer science category

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA grave development in the world of awards: the Shaw Prize now has four categories, and the fourth is computer science.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSince two thousand four it has honored astronomy, life science and medicine, and mathematical sciences.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe South China Morning Post says computer science was announced earlier this year.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThree categories for more than twenty years, and now a fourth. Historians will call it the Great Expansion.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHank, it's one new category. Nobody was displaced.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe paper says it is fully in keeping with the vision of Run Run Shaw, the late Hong Kong film mogul and philanthropist.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA vision, Vera. Of the founder.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWhich is exactly my point. The founder's vision was consulted, the category was announced, and the process was followed. That's a clean rollout.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA clean rollout. For a trophy.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorImportance rating: mildly, and I'm being generous.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe prize now covers the stars, the body, the numbers and the computers, and I still can't get the studio printer to work.