Announced 4 inventions won the 2008 Millennium Technology Award

This year's International Millennium Technology Award is awarded to four scientific inventions in high-tech industries. The amount of 1.8 million USD is the total value of honoring new achievements.

The ebiri chemical can increase the optical fiber network capacity.(Photo: sciam.com)

The Finnish Academy has just held a press conference to announce the award-winning scientific works, namely the invention of DNA fingerprint recognition techniques, artificial tissue materials, and basic principles for mobile telecommunications networks and fiber Internet. All these inventions were made by six scientists.

Professor Alec Jeffreys, Department of Genetics at Leicester University (UK) is a researcher nominated for the invention of DNA fingerprint recognition method. The jury said, "There is no other invention in the area of ​​modern genetics that has made a profound impact on millions of people around the world like this famous invention."

The final nomination list also includes the invention of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Robert Langer, who has discovered a drug that can control the mechanism of eliminating foreign tissue in the body. According to the Finnish Academy, this is a technique that can retain and improve the lives of millions of people.

The algorithm named after the honorary professor of the University of Southern California was chosen to be nominated for a digital award that changed the socio-economic life. Andrew J. Viterbi found the basic principle to build a modern digital radio telecommunications system.

The invention of amplification of optical fiber signaling by ebiri can increase the optical fiber network capacity of a group of three scientists nominated for the fourth award-winning invention. That is researcher Emmanuel Desurvire working for Thales Technology Development Group (France), Randy Giles of Bell Laboratories (USA) and Professor David N. Payne of Southampton University (UK).

The Millennium Technology Award is an international award launched by the Finnish government and the National Industry Association since 2004. The award is awarded every two years by the Finnish president for those Individuals achieve achievements in the field of energy and ecological environment, IT and telecommunications, new materials, and medicine.

The 2008 Millennium Millennium Technology Award Ceremony will be held on June 11, the first prize received $ 1.2 million, each remaining prize received $ 180,000. In 2006, the Japanese professor Shuji Nakamura found LED display technology and MIT scientist Tim Berners-Lee, inventing the World Wide Web technology, became two nominations for victory.