The prestigious prize will be awarded in an honorable ceremony to be held on May 9, 2010 at Tel Aviv University, in the presence of President Shimon Peres. * The value of the prizes - 3 million dollars - a million for each time dimension
The management of the Dan David International Prize, an international prize of 3 million dollars, for extraordinary achievements, announced today the winners of the prize for 2010.
The Dan David Prize, which annually awards three prizes of one million dollars each, the result of a joint initiative of the Dan David Foundation and Tel Aviv University, has been awarded since 2002 to individuals and institutions with outstanding and unique achievements and a proven contribution to humanity - in the natural sciences, art, humanities, business or In service for the public, without discrimination of any kind, in each of the dimensions of time: past, present and future. (a million dollars per time dimension).
The Dan David Prize is named after the businessman and international philanthropist Dan David and is administered by Tel Aviv University. The president of the university, Professor Yosef Klefter serves as the chairman of the board of the award.
Dan David Prize winners donate 10% of their winnings to scholarships for outstanding doctoral and post-doctoral students. Ten scholarships of $15 each are awarded this year to outstanding PhD students and post-doctorates from universities around the world and ten additional scholarships are awarded to outstanding PhD students and post-doctorates from Tel Aviv University. Scholarship recipients join the Internet forum of Dan David Prize scholarship recipients, which serves as a platform for discussions and consultations on the research topics that occupy them.
The final candidates for the 2010 Dan David Prize were chosen by professional committees, consisting of distinguished members from the academic community (some of them Nobel laureates) and the international business community.
The recipients of the Dan David Prize for 2010, in the dimensions of the past, present and future, are:
Past - in the field of "March to Democracy"
Mr. Giorgio Napolitano, President of the Italian Republic - for his contribution to the strengthening of democratic values and institutions in Italy and Europe, and to the integration of the extreme left parties and their members in the democratic structure of parliamentary politics.
The present - in the field of "literature - the story of the 20th century"
Mr. Amitabh Ghosh (Bengal, India, / New York, USA) - for his books that describe the history of the 20th century from a post-colonial perspective, and examine a supranational understanding of the self, which is seen as the intersection of many identities created from a collision between Languages and cultures, displacement, exile and war.
Ms. Margaret Atwood (Toronto, Canada) - for being a multi-faceted and versatile writer, who examines in her books national and supra-national issues of the 20th century, such as colonization, feminism, structures of political power and oppression, and the desecration and exploitation of nature.
Future - in the field of "computers and telecommunications"
The winners of the award in the future dimension were chosen based on their pioneering and path-breaking discoveries, which prepared the ground for further revolutionary developments.
Prof. Michael Rabin (Harvard University, USA) - for the important results of his research, which significantly influenced the design of computer and communication technology, today and in the years to come, and especially for his work to improve privacy, and to create ways to encrypt data in a way that cannot be deciphered, in a world where Secrecy, privacy and protection are becoming an essential social need.
Prof. Leonard Kleinrock (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) - for a significant research contribution to the beginning of the field of communication networks, for laying down the basic principles on which many of the most important aspects of computer networking and information communication are based, and for developing the mathematical key of "packet switching", the fundamental component of the Internet.
Dr. Gordon Moore (Woodside, California, USA) for his pioneering contributions to the technology of integrated circuits based on semiconductors, and for the development of "Moore's Law", which states that the number of transistors on a single chip will double every two years. Moore's Law has become the guiding principle of the semiconductor industry, which is increasing the power of the chips it produces, while at the same time reducing the costs of electronics.
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7 Moore's law is subject to interpretations, and is not set in stone. This is between a year and a half to two years, when the industry is sometimes ahead and sometimes behind.
It seems to me that Prof. Michael Rabin (one of the winners) is employed by the Hebrew University. Does anyone know why he is associated with Harvard in the article?
And following the previous comment (which I wrote), why does it seem to me that Moore's Law talks about doubling every 18 months and not every two years, as written in the news.
The university's public relations wrote "And about the development of the mathematical key of "packet switching", the fundamental component of the Internet." What is the "you" in the middle of the sentence? But that's not why I wrote this comment. "(packet switching)" is not "packet switching"; The terminology in Hebrew is "portion branding".
Kurzweil showed that technological development grows at an exponential rate, like evolutionary development. Moore had picked up on this, at least in the semiconductor field, a few years earlier.
Kurzweil claimed that Moore's Law will be valid even when we reach the physical size limits in current technology, because then a new technology will come into use that bypasses the old limitations, for example three-dimensional construction of semiconductors (which is indeed already partially implemented, for example in flash memory components).
Moore's Law is basically a law that should convince the industry to move as one unit. When everyone knows when the next technology is going to come in they will do everything to meet the goals. To some extent, Moore's Law is a self-sustaining law. Moore's law in the future will probably talk about the amount of calculations per unit area in a given time. Because smaller than that is impossible, we are already approaching the size of individual atoms.
Najib - strong!
Moore's Law will cease to be relevant in 2018 according to the Aztec calendars (the Mayan calendars are complete nonsense)
I wonder when the day will come when Moore's Law will no longer be valid. After all, I believe that he also did not think about the problems in the structure of the transistor that is a few nanometers in size.