World Technology Award 2011

Last night, Peter Madsen and I had a great time at the UN building at the World Technology Award 2011. As written in my previous blog post Copenhagen Suborbitals were nominated in the category “Space Corporate” together with fellow nominees: Canadian Space Agency, GeoEye, Sierra Nevada Corporation and SpaceX.

World Technology Award 2011

Backlink: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/10/world-technology-award-2011/

Award for Math Model that Relates Biomarkers of Asthma with Clinical Outcomes

The Seeker is looking for a collaboration partner to build a mathematical model that relates biomarkers of asthma with clinical outcomes.

Award for Math Model that Relates Biomarkers of Asthma with Clinical Outcomes

Backlink: http://www.kdnuggets.com/2010/12/innocentive-model-biomarkers-asthma-outcomes.html

Somerville wins bad sex award

Rowan Somerville took this year's "Bad Sex" in literature award, for the following passage in his novel, The Shape of Her. Often awarded to moistly verbose descriptions of the mechanics, this time the judges favored the Irish author's brief but utterly disabling similes.

Somerville wins bad sex award

Backlink: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/0W1AAJLA8YM/somerville-wins-bad.html

Microsoft Gets High Court Review on I4i Patent Award

Nov. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Supreme Court will consider making some patents more vulnerable to legal challenge, agreeing to hear Microsoft Corp.’s appeal in a case that forced changes in the company’s Word software and may cost it $300 million.

Microsoft Gets High Court Review on I4i Patent Award

Backlink: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-11-29/microsoft-gets-high-court-review-on-i4i-patent-award.html