Professor Gets $1.2 Million Tech Prize
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By MATTI HUUHTANEN 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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Inventors across the country are being asked to find a way to lighten the load U.S. soldiers carry on their backs -- largely due to the high-tech gear that uses batteries -- and the solution will be decided in a $1 million contest.
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The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation has given Carnegie Mellon University $20 million toward construction of a new computer science building.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. The founder of an information technology company in Virginia and his diabetic wife are giving 44 (m) million dollars to the University of Michigan for creation of a Type one diabetes research center.
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Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder of both the MIT Media Lab and the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child, delivers the last keynote at the American Academy for the Advancement of Sciences annual meeting, focusing on the groundbreaking work of the OLPC, which has delivered thousands of laptops to children in the developing world. Alexis Madrigal reports from Boston.
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PITTSBURGH -- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given $20 million to Carnegie Mellon University to help fund construction of a new computer science building.
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The vaunted "$100 laptop" that Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers dreamed up for international schoolchildren is becoming a slightly more distant concept.
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A University of Kentucky professor is pushing to set up a telescope in Australia that students could use via the Internet.
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Walter H. G. Lewin, a physics professor at M.I.T., has found devotees across the country with his online lectures.
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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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After going half a century without producing a Rhodes scholar, Georgia Tech on Sunday celebrated for the second time in two years when the prestigious scholarship was awarded to another one of its students.
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The US National Science Foundation has awarded a $1m grant to researchers in the US who want to put speech recognition on a chip, a move the project&#39;s proponents claim will revolutionise the way we communicate.
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How does it feel to be the first woman to receive the nation's top computer science award? Sweet, indeed, says Frances Allen, the IBM Fellow Emerita who this week received the prestigious A.M. Turing Award.
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Science & environment: A team of surgeons and engineers have been awarded Â£2.1m to build a sophisticated surgical robots
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An academic real world -- plus, a chance to win $1,000.
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A University of Connecticut scientist may have discovered a new and efficient way to clone
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A screensaver and social network for people with Alzheimer's wins a Microsoft-led software design prize.