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MILLENNIUM TECHNOLOGY PRIZE: Awarded by Finland's Millennium Prize Foundation, the $1.8 million prize recognizes innovative technologies having a significantly positive impact on society in areas such as healthcare and the development of sustainable energy supplies. Courtesy of the Millennium Prize Foundation

Scientists at Bell Labs, Harvard--M.I.T. and the University of Leicester are among the finalists for the $1.8-million Finnish award

By Larry Greenemeier/ http://www.sciam.com/

Trailblazing technologies that improved high-speed long-distance communication, provided the blueprint for mobile phone networks, introduced DNA fingerprinting, and created new drug delivery systems were announced Tuesday as finalists for Finland's 2008 Millennium Technology Prize.

The Millennium Prize Foundation established the biennial award in 2004 to recognize innovative approaches in areas such as health care and sustainable energy. It looks at "specific, groundbreaking innovation that has a clear, measurable impact on people's quality of life," Finnish entrepreneur Jorma Ollila, who chairs both Nokia's and Royal Dutch Shell's boards of directors, said during a press conference at the New York Academy of Sciences announcing the six scientists who will share the $1.8-million award. The foundation will announce the winner, who takes home $1.3 million of the purse, on June 11 in Helsinki. The other finalists will share the remaining money...

More: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=millennium-foundation-technology

Note: Looks like what my proposed Xtreme Science Foundation (XSF) wants to do for all inventors (inclusive non-scientists) and for "xtreme" technologies (too "unconventional" for the current science), starting with the XS-NRG prize (for energy) and then XS-MED (for medicine), XS-SPD (propulsion), etc. If Joma Ollila (or any other entrepreneur with vision) reads this, I need your help now; please contact Vlad.


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