Professor gets &#36;1.2 million tech prize
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The winner of a $1.2 million prize for his inventions in light and laser technology said Friday he will give away some of his money to promote research at universities and organizations that help developing countries.
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Walter H. G. Lewin, a physics professor at M.I.T., has found devotees across the country and beyond with his free online lectures.
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By Carrie Mason-Draffen, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Jun. 22--When Jonathan Huang received his bachelor's degree in computer science from Stony Brook University last month, he had some big bragging rights.
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A George Mason University chemistry professor has won a $1 million engineering prize for developing a simple and inexpensive means of filtering arsenic from well water, an advance that is already preventing serious health problems in hundreds of thousands of people in his native Bangladesh and could...
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By Larry Rulison, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Feb. 10--TROY -- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute made a risky bet on an Internet startup, and it paid off to the tune of $3.3 million.
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TOKYO A visiting professor at Northwestern University is the winner of one of this year's Kyoto Prizes -- a Japanese award for achievement in the arts and sciences.
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Professor Raj Reddy, an Indian researcher in artificial intelligence and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.Has designed a wirelessly networked personal computer worth just 250 US dollars intended for the four billion people around the world who ...
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The designers of the first privately manned rocket to burst into space were handed a &#36;10 million check Saturday, a prize designed to encourage technology that will open the heavens to tourists.
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11/22/04- The founder of an information technology company and his wife are giving 44 million dollars to the University of Michigan.
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MIT's Martin Culpepper shows how to build simple machines that move with nanometer precision.
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Description: Finn Kydland and Edward Prescott win the Nobel Prize in economic science. They will share the $1.3 million prize for their work in explaining how factors such as changes in economic policy and technology drive business cycles.
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Aaron Goldin, this week&#39;s Person of the Week, won the grand prize at the Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science and Technology.
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By Erica Perez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Jun. 7--The Greater Milwaukee Foundation has awarded its annual Shaw Scientist prizes of $200,000 each to two young Wisconsin scientists whose work has shown promise for groundbreaking research.
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The prize's sponsor, the Association for Computing Machinery, cited Frances Allen's work in automatic program parallelization, which allows software to use multiple processors to improve speed.
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HELSINKI, Finland -- The winner of a $1.2 million prize for his inventions in light and laser technology said Friday he will give away some of his money to promote research at universities and organizations that help developing countries.
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A British firm wins a prestigious Artificial Intelligence prize for the second year running.
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Aug 17 - Professor Raj Reddy, an Indian researcher in artificial intelligence and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Has designed a wirelessly networked personal computer worth just 250 US dollars intended for the four billion people around the ...