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I like to think that racism and sexism and other prejudices are largely gone from our society, but I'm still occasionally disappointed.

Here's another mixed message in the news: A woman has won the Turing Award. That shouldn't have been a news item at all, but it turns out a woman has never won the Turing award before. It's a sign of progress that it's happened, but a sad reflection on our society that it hasn't happened before.

Of course, some are asking "What's the Turing Award?" Glad you asked. It's named for Alan Turing, a big cheese in computers from way back. No, not a "big cheese" in the "boss" sense, but "big cheese" in the "father of modern computer science" sense.

I could go on, but at this point I'd just be parroting the articles in the links above. So, just go there and read the articles if you're interested.