This years most notable nobel prize

Goes to Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg for the discovery of "giant magnetoresistance", the area of course: Physics.
This will in time lead to great improvements of magnetically based storage devices such as hard drives.
The scientists also predict the development of MRAM technology (Magnetic RAM) , wich eventually will lead to crash-proof, instant booting computers.
When I heard the news of this my inner nerd went haywire. This is surely a milestone in computer science.