Announcements of the 2016 Nobel Prizes
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/about/prize_announcements/Already some have already been announced.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/10/04/british-trio-win-nobel-prize-physics/91523336/British trio win Nobel Prize in physics
Why put this in Computer News? Because the work these men are doing may lead to major breakthrough in computer power.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/04/world/2016-nobel-prize-physics/Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to British trio for study of exotic matter
"This year's laureates opened the door on an unknown world where matter can assume strange states," said the Nobel Foundation in a statement Tuesday.
"They have used advanced mathematical methods to study unusual phases, or states, of matter, such as superconductors, superfluids** or thin magnetic films
The winners get recognition and more funding for their research. Not this year, but soon we might have super computers in every school.
**Superfluidity is the characteristic property of a fluid with zero viscosity which therefore flows without loss of kinetic energy. When stirred a superfluid forms cellular vortices that continue to rotate indefinitely. Superfluidity is found in astrophysics, high-energy physics, and theories of quantum gravity.
