-- Second annual Bell Labs Prize contest kicks off with
$175,000 in cash prizes,
collaboration with world-leading researchers and $100,000 to the academic institution associated
with first place winner
MURRAY HILL, New Jersey,
March 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Bell
Labs, the industrial research arm of Alcatel-Lucent, announced the
Second Annual Bell Labs Prize. The Bell Labs Prize is a competition
that gives researchers, in participating countries around the
globe, the chance to introduce their ideas to the world, and
collaborate with world-renowned Bell Labs researchers.
The Bell Labs Prize winners will take home cash awards worth as
much as $100,000, and the chance to
further develop their ideas at Bell Labs. The goal of the Prize is
to allow innovators around the globe to:
- Collaborate with the global Bell Labs community of researchers
to 'change the game' in science, engineering, mathematics, or
computer science
- Tackle the great challenges in communications, collaboration
and connectivity that will enable the future 10 years from now, by
finding solutions that are 10x better that today's solutions in one
or more dimensions
"Coming on the heels of last year's hugely successful
competition where we saw some phenomenal ideas ranging from social
networks to Bio-networks, to wearable networks, we expect this
year's competition to provide the same impact...or more," said
Marcus Weldon, President of Bell
Labs. "We think that the energy, innovation and collaboration the
Bell Labs Prize brings to our industry and our research community
is incredible and we strongly believe the winning entries will have
the power to fundamentally change our world in profound ways."
About the Bell Labs Prize
The Bell Labs Prize is a competition rewarding 10x game-changing
proposals in the field of information and communications
technologies and related software systems and applications. The
competition is open to anyone in one of the participating
countries, who 'owns' an idea and meets the eligibility
requirements.
Three prize winners will receive a grant of either $100,000 (grand prize), $50,000 (second prize) or $25,000 (third prize). Additionally, through the
process, Bell Labs may engage with other contest participants as
part of the company's recruitment investment in top talent. The
deadline to enter the first phase of the contest is April 22, 2015. For more information, visit the
Bell Labs Prize web site. No purchase or payment necessary to enter
the competition. Void where prohibited.
2014 Bell Labs Prize Winners
In December of 2014 the $100,000
first prize was awarded to Emmanuel
Abbe, assistant professor at Princeton
University for his work around Shannon Theory of Social
Networks and Beyond; The $50,000
second prize was presented to Patrick
Reynaert, associate professor at the University of Leuven,
Belgium on Gigabits Through
Plastic; and the $25,000 third
prize went to the team of Matilde Sanchez
Fernandez, Ana Garcia Armada
and Eva Rajo-Iglesias all from the
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid,
Spain whose project was called Unleash the Wireless Power
of your Device: Blended Antenna HUBs for your Unconstrained Mobile
Cloud Experience.
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ALU)
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