Your suggestion for a Nobel Prize in Informatics is interesting! It could recognize the growing importance of computer science and its applications. Endowing it with Bitcoin would certainly add a modern twist, reflecting the intersection of technology and finance.

I think there already exists the Turing Award. But in my opinion, Geoffrey Hinton got the Nobel Prize of physics well deserved, because he utilized the so called Boltzmann machine and the concept of free energy and energy minimization, originated in statistical physics, to boost deep learning. And also the Hopfield networks were inspired from the idea of energy minimization when traveling from an input to the most similar stable attractor. Artificial neural networks, when mimicing biological neural networks, have to be energy efficient. And this is a kind of problem for which the solutions are likely to be found in physics. It could be interpreted this way: Hopfield and Hinton developed very simple but applicable physical models of more or less homogeneous parts of the biological brain. No informatics in this sentence. But it's just another example, illustrating that physics and informatics are deeply interconnected.

Hi Mike Hammes,I find your argument very coherent and good; it shows that a clever and broad-minded understanding of fields of research and application is very useful for arriving at comprehensible insights – well done!