tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/218798420 2008-06-19 13:47:13 -0400 School of Engineering <p>MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer has won the Millennium Technology Prize, the world's largest award for technology innovation.</p><p>Langer was chosen "for his inventions and development of innovative biomaterials for controlled drug release and tissue regeneration that have saved and improved the lives of millions of people," according to Technology Academy Finland, which gives the award every other year.</p><p><a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/langer-millennium-0611.html" target="_blank">More info</a></p> 523 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/218738800 2008-08-06 12:26:30 -0400 School of Engineering <p> Tim Berners-Lee, an MIT senior research scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web, has been awarded the first Millennium Technology Prize. The award of 1 million euros ($1.2 million) was established in 2002 and backed by the Finnish government.</p><p> The prize committee said Berners-Lee's contribution strongly embodied the spirit of the award, given "for an innovation that directly promotes people's quality of life, is based on humane values and encourages sustainable economic development."</p><p><a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2004/berners-lee.html"> More info</a></p> 340 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/218681300 2008-07-16 14:01:20 -0400 Lemelson-MIT Program <p>Joseph DeSimone, Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry at of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is a polymer expert who has inventions in green manufacturing, nanomedicine and medical devices. His lab-to-market entrepreneurship and commitment to mentorship are hallmarks of his career.</p><p><a href="http://web.mit.edu/invent/a-winners/a-desimone.html" target="_blank">Biography</a></p><p><a href="http://mit.edu/invent/n-pressreleases/n-press-08LMP.html" target="_blank">Press Release</a></p><p><img alt="DeSimone" src="http://mit.edu/invent/n-pressreleases/downloads/desimonesmall.jpg" width="180" /></p><p>?</p> 327 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/218619620 2008-10-21 10:43:10 -0400 School of Engineering Dean Suresh presents the 2008 Lemelson Prize 419 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/218551880 2008-11-20 10:23:22 -0500 X-Prize Idea Contest <p>MIT LFM students are finalists in X PRIZE Foundation’s "Crazy Green Idea" Contest.</p> <p>Cast <a href="http://www.xprize.org/crazy-green-idea" target="_blank">your vote now</a> for Energy X PRIZE: Reduce Home Energy Usage</p> <p>A team of LFM 2010 students has been named one of three national finalists in the X PRIZE Foundation’s “What’s Your Crazy Green Idea?” video contest on YouTube. Sponsored by Prize Capital, the competition invited contestants to submit a two-minute video describing what they would propose for an X PRIZE in Energy and the Environment.</p> <p>The video, produced by LFM team members Jonathan Dreher, Mike Norelli, and Jeremy Stewart, is entitled Energy X PRIZE: Reduce Home Energy Usage. It was created in conjunction with ESD.932 “X PRIZE Workshop: Grand Challenges in Energy,” taught by Dr. Erika Wagner, within the new LFM energy and sustainability track, which offers a new engineering major in this arena for LFM students.</p> <p>The LFMs’ video was selected from 133 submissions by the X PRIZE Foundation, an educational nonprofit prize institute whose mission is to create radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. The winner will be chosen by online voting, which runs through Nov. 30. The contestants receiving the most votes will win a $25,000 award from Prize Capital and have their Crazy Green Idea explored as the next X PRIZE in Energy and the Environment.</p> <p>View the LFM video at <a href="http://www.xprize.org/crazy-green-idea" target="_blank">www.xprize.org/crazy-green-idea</a>. -- and don’t forget to vote by Nov. 30!</p> 121 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/218484020 2009-05-13 18:22:29 -0400 MIT Museum The MIT Museum presents MIT Professor Frank Wilczek in a Lunch with a Luminary event, part of the 2009 Cambridge Science Festival. Prof. Wilczek, a recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, discusses his life, work, and current interests in this conversation with MIT Museum Director John Durant and the Festival audience. 3458 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/218458860 2009-06-05 15:17:53 -0400 Lemelson-MIT Program Tim Lu received the 2008 $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for inventing a series of bacteriophage platforms that offer more effective and enhanced treatment, which promise to penetrate defenses of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and bacterial biofilms in order to combat infections. In addition, Lu’s antibacterial platforms can be quickly and inexpensively designed. They can be produced to thwart infections from bacteria that breed on a multitude of surfaces, including medical, industrial and food-processing equipment. Tim presented his work at EurekaFest at MIT in June, 2008. 826 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/218439100 2009-07-10 11:01:07 -0400 MIT Public Service Center Videos Scot Frank is a co-inventor of SolSource, a portable solar concentrator that can be used for heating the home, cooking and electricity generation. It was created to withstand the high winds of remote mountainous regions. Scot Frank and fellow teammates of SolSource Tibet received an IDEAS Award from the MIT IDEAS Competition in 2008 for their innovative design of the solar concentrator. In 2009, Scot found himself on two IDEAS teams, HeatSource and Global Citizen Water Initiative, in which both teams received awards to continue their work and implementation of their ideas. Scot has also received two other Public Service Fellowships that helped to inform his project work in solar and heat energy and water quality issues. 37