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emet Prize
and other awards
Edward Felten, David Harel, Sarit Kraus, and others
are honored for their contributions to computer science,
technology, and electronic freedom and innovation.
The a.m.N. foUNDatIoN, Frank- lin Institute, Electronic Fron- tier Foundation, and other organizations recently recog- nized leading computer scientists and technologists.
emet Prize
David Harel and Sarit Kraus were honored with EMET Prizes by the A.M.N.
Foundation for the Advancement of
Science, Art, and Culture in Israel for
excellence in the computer sciences.
Harel, a professor of computer science
at the Weizmann Institute of Science,
was recognized for his studies on a
wide variety of topics within the discipline, among them logic and computability, software and systems engineering, graphical structures and visual
languages, as well as modeling and
analysis of biological systems.
Kraus, a professor of computer science at Bar-Ilan University, was recognized for her expertise in the field of
artificial intelligence, along with her
significant contributions to the field of
autonomous agents, and studies in the
field of multiagent systems.
which has enabled programmers and
engineers to educate lawyers on technology relevant to legal cases of significance to the Free and Open Source
community, and which, in turn, has
taught technologists about the workings of the legal system; and
Hari Krishna Prasad Vemuru, a security researcher in India, who revealed
security flaws in India’s paperless
electronic voting machines, and endured jail time and political harassment to protect an anonymous source
who enabled him to conduct the first
independent security review of India’s
e-voting system.
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ftc chief technologist
Edward Felten, a professor of computer science and public affairs at Princeton University, was named the U. S. Federal Trade Commission’s first Chief
Technologist. Felten, a vice-chair of
ACM’s U.S. Public Policy Council, will
advise the federal agency on evolving
technology-related issues of consumer
protection, such as online privacy and
cybersecurity, and antitrust matters,
including tech industry mergers and
anticompetitive behavior.
franklin institute Laureate
John R. Anderson, R.K. Mellon University Professor of Psychology and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, was named a 2011 Laureate by
the Franklin Institute and awarded the
Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer
and Cognitive Science “for the development of the first large-scale computational theory of the process by which
humans perceive, learn, and reason,
and its application to computer tutoring systems.”
Prince Philip Designers Prize
Bill Moggridge, director of the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, was awarded the 2010
Prince Philip Designers Prize, an annual award by the Duke of Edinburgh
that recognizes a lifetime contribution to design, for his contributions to
the GRiD Compass laptop. Released
in 1982, the GRiD Compass is widely
credited as being the forerunner of today’s modern laptop.
eff Pioneer awards
The Electronic Frontier Foundation
presented its 2010 Pioneer awards to
four individuals who are extending
freedom and innovation in the digital
world. The honorees are:
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