The Kaloy Foundation has created a Prize called "International Kaloy Prize - University of Geneva" , in order to support research about the relationship between neurosciences and cognitive sciences - on one hand - and the theory of knowledge and the philosophy of the brain function - on the other. More info
On May 8, 1828, Swiss businessman and social activist Henry Dunant was born. He is best known for the creation of the International Committee of the Red Cross in 1863. Also the 1864 Geneva Convention was based on Dunant's ideas. In 1901 he received the first Nobel Peace Prize together with Frédéric Passy.
Millennium Problems In order to celebrate mathematics in the new millennium, The Clay Mathematics Institute of Cambridge, Massachusetts (CMI) has named seven Prize Problems. The Scientific Advisory Board of CMI selected these problems, focusing on import
On Amazon EC2 you can run many of the proven IBM platform technologies with which you’re already familiar, including IBM DB2, IBM Informix, IBM Lotus Forms Turbo, IBM Lotus Web Content Management, IBM Mashup Center, IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM WebSphere sMash, and IBM WebSphere Portal Server, WebSphere eXtreme, and InfoSphere DataStage/QualityStage with its corresponding Windows client.
On November 6, 1880, while working in the military hospital in Constantine, Algeria, French military surgeon Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran discovered that the cause of malaria is a parasite. For this work and later discoveries of protozoan diseases Laveran was awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
L. Seabra Lopes, and A. Teixeira. 8th Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Encontro
Cient�fico do Rob�tica 2008, (2008)Vencedor do "Best Artificial Intelligence Paper" sponsored by the
Portuguese Artificial Intelligence Association (APPIA) , recognizing
the most outstanding paper describing applications of Artificial
Intelligence in Robotics..