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Webby Awards 2009
Science & Technology >> Webby Awards 2009
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The Webby Awards, established in 1996, are recognized as the premier awards for Websites. The awards cver a huge range of categories, with honors presented in approximately 70 fields including interactive advertising, online film and video, blogging and writing. This past year's Webbys received nearly 10,000 entries from the United States (all 50 states) and around the world (over 60 countries). The Webby awards are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, whose members choose the nominees and vote for the Webby Award winners. The general public votes online for the People's Voice Awards.
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Stockholm ( October 5, 2009)- A team of three American researchers have been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
According to the Royal Academy of Swedish Sciences, the winners, Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak won for major breakthroughs in the study of cell biology.
They have solved “a major problem in biology: how the chromosomes can be copied in a complete way during cell divisions and how they are protected against degradation. The Nobel Laureates have shown that the solution is to be found in the ends of the chromosomes – the telomeres – and in an enzyme that forms them – telomerase,” the Academy said in its press release.
“These discoveries had a major impact within the scientific community. The ageing process has turned out to be complex and it is now thought to depend on several different factors, the telomere being one of them. Research in this area remains intense.
“The discoveries by Blackburn, Greider and Szostak have added a new dimension to our understanding of the cell, shed light on disease mechanisms, and stimulated the development of potential new therapies.”
The three will share a cash prize of 10 million Swedish Kroner. |
New York, NY (May 5, 2009) – The 13th annual Webby Award winners were announced today with big winners including Jimmy Fallon (Webby Person of the Year), Trent Reznor (Webby Artist of the Year) and Twitter (Webby Breakout of the Year).
Other special achievement honorees included Sarah Silverman, Lisa Kudrow and Seth MacFarlane.
Multiple winners were led by NPR (7 Webbys), NYTimes.com (6 Webbys), NBC.com (6 Webbys), Next New Networks (5 Webbys) and PBS (4 Webbys).
For a full list of Webby Award Winners and nominees CLICK HERE
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NEW YORK, March 10, 2009 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named Barbara Liskov of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) the winner of the 2008 ACM A.M. Turing Award.
The award cites Liskov for her foundational innovations to designing and building the pervasive computer system designs that power daily life. Her achievements in programming language design have made software more reliable and easier to maintain. They are now the basis of every important programming language since 1975, including Ada, C++, Java, and C#. The Turing Award, widely considered the "Nobel Prize in Computing," is named for the British mathematician Alan M. Turing. The award carries a $250,000 prize, with financial support provided by Intel Corporation and Google Inc.
The first U.S. woman to be awarded a Ph.D. from a computer science department (in 1968 from Stanford University), Liskov revolutionized the programming field with groundbreaking research that underpins virtually every modern computer application for both consumers and businesses. Her contributions have led to fundamental changes in building the computer software programs that form the infrastructure of our information-based society. Her legacy has made software systems more accessible, reliable, and secure 24/7. |
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