<p>ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) gives out many awards to computer scientists and software engineers who make advances in both theoretical and applied computer science.</p>
<p>Why is it that I haven’t heard of them recognizing John Resig who graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology? He created jQuery, where he essentially was like “Hmm css tags use the HTML id and class tags to uniquely identify and format specific portions of the document, what if I took that idea and applied it to javascript, thus increasing the power and ease of use of javascript by 10 fold”</p>
<p>I know this is silly but I feel like jQuery was such a neat innovation and so many people use it based on my experience (especially jQuery mobile for mobile version of sites), so why doesn’t the ACM recognize him? He may not have come up with some new awesome Mathematical model for statistical AI or Computational Game theory or created the MapReduce programming model, BUT his innovation was still a good contribution to the field of computer science/software engineering imo.</p>