Tech visionary gets inventor prize
News In short order, the peripatetic inventor learned he was $500,000 richer, the recipient of the Lemelson-MIT prize. The Lemelson prize is named after Jerome Lemelson, a former toy industry executive and inventor famous for filing patent infringement...
[April 26, 2001, 8:53]
Buzzing bots behave like bees
News Swarming robots that can act in concert and mimic the behaviour of bees have netted James McLurkin, a 30-year-old doctoral candidate in computer science, the annual Lemelson-MIT Student Prize. The Lemelson-MIT Student Prize is one of the larger...
[February 27, 2003, 10:06]
Claims to barcode patents dismissed
News Philip Pro, chief judge of the US District Court in Las Vegas, on 23 January ruled against defendant the Lemelson Medical, Education & Research Foundation, calling the claims of 14 of its patents -- some of which dated from the 1950s -- invalid...
[January 28, 2004, 8:30]
Genome pioneer wins inventor prize
News Leroy Hood, a pioneer of the project that mapped out the complete set of human genes, was awarded the $500,000 (about £320,000) Lemelson-MIT Prize on Thursday for inventing "four instruments that have unlocked much of the mystery of human biology".
[April 25, 2003, 7:54]
Robot race draws crowd
News An MIT grad student, James McLurkin, won the Lemelson-MIT Student Prise for his work on swarming robots that can tackle coordinated tasks, similar to how bees work. More than 100 teams have applied to enter a robotic-car contest sponsored by the...
[October 31, 2003, 8:25]
