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Friday, November 12, 2010

#ALGORITHMS: "Algorithm pioneer wins Kyoto Prize"

 Laszlo Lovasz receives the Kyoto Prize which includes $550,000 cash plus recognition for technological achievement on par with Nobel Prize.
Algorithm pioneer Laszlo Lovasz, whose mathematical methods have enabled myriad breakthroughs in information technology—from 3G to WiFi to 4G—has received the Kyoto Prize, a $550,000 award that some believe rivals the Nobel Prize in international stature. Awards were also bestowed on Japanese physician Shinya Yamanaka for his seminal discovery that skin-cells can be substituted for those obtained from embryos, and South African artist William Kentridge for his invention of the now widespread animation technology called "drawings in motion."
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