Beijing, April 8, 2014, — Professor Shi Yigong, Dean of School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, was awarded the Gregori Aminoff Prize in Crystallography 2014 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences’ Annual Meeting on March 31. He is the first scientist from China who has won the Prize since it was established in 1979.
Prof. Shi Yigong (left) receives the Aminoff Prize.
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Tsinghua’s Shi Yigong Awarded Aminoff Prize 2014
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Data Storage Pioneer Wins $1.4 Million Millennium Technology Prize
San Jose, Calif. and Helsinki, April 9, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — IBM today announced that researcher and IBM Fellow, Dr. Stuart Parkin, is the winner of the prestigious Millennium Technology Prize, awarded every two years by the Technology Academy Finland (TAF), an independent foundation aimed at supporting scientific research and new technologies that will benefit humanity. Dr. Parkin is selected for his discovery and invention of the “spin valve,” which enabled a more than 1,000-fold increase in the ability of computer hard-disk drives to store data. This groundbreaking technology gave us the ability to organize, archive, analyze and share vast amounts of human history, culture and knowledge in digital form. The prize is worth 1 million Euros, or about 1.4 US dollars.
(This picture of Dr. Parkin is from ibm.com.)
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NPR: The Internet Can Be ‘A Scary Place’ with Tech Outsourcing
By Aarti Shahani for NPR News, aired on KQED station
When you hear the word outsourcing, you might think of threats to American jobs. To cyber experts, there’s another threat: to our data.
This week, thousands of the industry’s leading minds from around the world are discussing the Internet and security at their annual powwow in San Francisco at RSA Conference. These topics matter more and more to us non-experts, especially as people become the victims of cybercrime.
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Natural-product-based Inhibitor to Treat Parkinson Identified by Chinese Researchers
By Wu Fang, Research Institute of Systems Biomedicine
Shanghai, March 20, 2014, –A novel natural-product-based inhibitor for the treatment of Parkinson has been identified from the endemic plant in Xishuangbanna as a result of the interdisciplinary cooperation between biology and chemistry, led by Wu Fang research group, from Shanghai Jiaotong University(SJTU) Shanghai Center for Systems Biomedicine, and Zhang Weidong research group, from School of Pharmacy. The findings have been published on the ACS Chemical Biology, a well-known periodical of American Chemical Society (ACS).
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NASA Congratulates Gravity’s Seven Oscar Awards
On its website, NASA and several of its astronauts have congratulated the makers of the movie Gravity for winning seven Oscar awards this year, including an award for director Alfonso Cuaron.
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Gov. Patrick Joins MassChallenge to Launch 2014 Global Startup Programs
Boston, February 12, 2014 -– Governor Deval Patrick today joined Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and MassChallenge founder Akhil Nigam to announce the 2014 startup accelerator competition. MassChallenge also announced the anticipated launch of MassChallenge UK in London in December 2014. MassChallenge CEO John Harthorne joined the event via video conference from Tel Aviv to simultaneously kick off the MassChallenge Israel 2014 program.
“The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is well positioned to continue its leadership among the global innovation economy because of our strategic investments in innovation, education and infrastructure,” said Governor Patrick. “MassChallenge’s new program in the UK and its programs in Boston and Israel do important work to connect these hubs of entrepreneurship.”
Governor Patrick and Boston Mayor Walsh celebrate the Commonwealth’s globally recognized Life Sciences supercluster at the ribbon cutting ceremony for Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ global headquarters in Boston Innovation District (Photo: Taylor Nealand / Governor’s Office).
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Chuck Martin Publishes New Book on Mobile Influence
Boston, Jan. 20, 2013, –Chuck Martin is a New York Times business best-selling author, CEO of Mobile Future Institute and the Editor of the MediaPost mCommerce Daily, where he writes the daily MobileShopTalk column. Martin has been a leading pioneer in the digital interactive marketplace for more than a decade.
Chuck Martin (middle) answers questions from Chinese business executives at a mobile Internet conference at IBM software campus in Littleton, Mass. in December 2013 (photo provided by Cheers Publishing).
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Top Ten Google Searches of 2013
(from chinadaily.com.cn)
They reveal the good and the bad, but the bottom line is that Google searches are a tiny window into our global consciousness. In 2013, Google’s top global searches revealed our our joy, our pain, and our curiosity.
No. 10 North Korea
North Korean soldiers stand on Kim Il-Sung square during a military parade marking the 60th anniversary of the Korean war armistice in Pyongyang on July 27, 2013.
“North Korea” was Google’s No. 10 global trending search of 2013.
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University of Utah Biologists Reveal Ultrafast Recycling of Neurotransmitter-Filled Bubbles
Salt Lake City, Dec. 4, 2013 –- University of Utah and German biologists discovered how nerve cells recycle tiny bubbles or “vesicles” that send chemical nerve signals from one cell to the next. The process is much faster and different than two previously proposed mechanisms for recycling the bubbles.
Prof. Jorgensen (left) and Dr. Watanabe, authors of the Nature paper (From University of Utah News Center).
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IBM Demonstrates Quantum Phenomenon for the First Time Using a Plastic Film
ZURICH, Dec. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — For the first time, scientists at IBM Research (NYSE: IBM) have demonstrated a complex quantum mechanical phenomenon known as Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC), using a luminescent polymer (plastic) similar to the materials in light emitting displays used in many of today’s smartphones.
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