{"id":3754,"date":"2010-03-09T13:44:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T20:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=3754"},"modified":"2010-03-09T13:44:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T20:44:04","slug":"what-you-can-do-with-an-undergrad-degree-in-physics-win-a-turing-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2010\/03\/09\/what-you-can-do-with-an-undergrad-degree-in-physics-win-a-turing-award\/","title":{"rendered":"What You Can Do With An Undergrad Degree in Physics: Win a Turing Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Thacker is the 2009 <a href=\"http:\/\/amturing.acm.org\">Turing Award Winner<\/a>.  Microsoft has a very nice article about <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/news\/features\/thacker-030910.aspx\">his career<\/a>.  For the physicists out there, note that he has a B.S. in physics from Berkeley (1967)&#8230;he was trying to support his grad studies when he took his first job with computers and was &#8220;hooked.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Thacker is the 2009 Turing Award Winner. Microsoft has a very nice article about his career. For the physicists out there, note that he has a B.S. in physics from Berkeley (1967)&#8230;he was trying to support his grad studies when he took his first job with computers and was &#8220;hooked.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-physics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}