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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With a wave of his hand over a homemade receiver, Georgia Tech professor Joy Laskar shows how easily &#151; and quickly &#151; large data files could someday be transferred from a portable media player to a TV.
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The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded the A.M. Turing Award to Frances Allen, a computer scientist at IBM and the first woman to receive the prestigious prize.
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The $1.8 billion facility will demonstrate a novel technology to fight global warming.
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The nation's highest honor for science will be awarded to eight individuals next month, while technology awards will go to six people, a company and a foundation.
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The founder of an information technology company and his diabetic wife are giving &#36;44 million to the University of Michigan for creation of a diabetes research center.
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Frances Allen, an IBM computer science veteran, to be honored by ACM for her work on program optimization and Ptran.
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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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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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InfoWorld - The chairman of the world&#39;s largest contract electronics manufacturer, which assembles gadgets from Apple&#160;iPods to Nintendo&#39;s Wii game console, pledged NT$15 billion (US$454.4 million) to Taiwan&#39;s most prestigious university to build a new cancer ward and fund research against the disease.
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Helsinki, Sept. 8 (Jiji Press)--University of California Prof. Shuji Nakamura on Friday received one million euros in award for the 2006 Millennium Technology Prize for his development of new, revolutionary sources of light, including blue light-emitting diodes.
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A $250,000 architecture prize is announced at TED. The award might seem like pocket change these days, but it's the X Prize of architecture. Better still: The winner gets to build a computer lab. By Erika Stalder. For more TED news, including real-time blog updates, see Wired News' special TED coverage.
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Aaron Goldin, a senior San Dieguito High School Academy in Encinitas, CA, won the $100,000 Grand Prize scholarship in the individual category for inventing the âGyro-Gen,â a gyroscope that converts ocean wave energy into electricity.
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An American and a Norwegian economist were awarded the Nobel prize for economics on Monday for their efforts to demonstrate that innovative new technologies and shocks, such as a sharp increase
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(InfoWorld) - The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded the A.M. Turing Award to Frances Allen, a computer scientist at IBM and the first woman to receive the prestigious prize. Allen, a fellow emerita at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, was given the award for her contributions in the area of program optimization, a way of modifying a program to run more efficiently and improve performance. The award is named after the British mathematician A.M. Turing and includes a $100,000 prize. In particular, ACM cited Allen's work in automatic program parallelization, which allows programs to use multiple processors to improve speed. The group said her efforts "contributed to advances in the use of high performance computers for solving problems such as weather forecasting, DNA matching, and national security functions." The group will present the award to Allen at a ceremony in June.
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By Valerie Strauss, Washington Post Staff Writer  Scientist Robert P.H. Chang of Northwestern University had no trouble persuading education officials in Mexico to introduce the burgeoning field of nanotechnology to schools there, but it's been a far tougher sell in the United States.
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WASHINGTON - The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Maine $239,020 for environmental research, according to U.S. Sens. Olympia J. Snowe and Susan Collins.