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EE Times tech writer wins Japan fellowship
10/1/2010 2:33 PM EDT
R. Colin Johnson, veteran technology correspondent for EE Times, has been named a winner of the 2010 Kyoto Prize Journalism Fellowship.
Johnson, who is based in Portland, Ore., was one of two winners of the annual fellowship, which was awarded this week in conjunction with the 26th annual Kyoto Prize, Japan’s version of the Nobel Prize. The journalism fellowship is administered by Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego.
Fellowship winners travel to Japan for one week to attend the Kyoto Prize awards ceremony and interview the prize winners. This year’s recipients include Laszlo Lovasz, the Hungarian-born mathematician who has specialized in a discipline called discrete mathematics. Lovasz “has provided a link among numerous branches of mathematics through his advanced research on discrete structures and algorithms,” the Kyoto Prize committee said in a statement.
Johnson said Lovasz’s work built on research by Claude Shannon, who is credited with inventing the information theory for point-to-point radio communications. “Lovasz used geometry to update Shannon's algorithms for the cell-tower-hopping algorithms used today,” Johnson said.
Also named as a 2010 Kyoto Prize Journalism Fellow was Alice Park, a senior reporter for Time magazine.
The Kyoto Prizes will be awarded on Nov. 10, with laureate lectures and workshops running through Nov. 12.
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phoenixdave
10/1/2010 4:20 PM EDT
Congratulatons!!
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R_Colin_Johnson
10/1/2010 5:18 PM EDT
Dave, thanks so much.
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kdboyce
10/1/2010 4:48 PM EDT
Congratulations Colin.
If you haven't been to Kyoto before, you will enjoy it. If you have, you already know. I am looking forward to your interviews there.
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R_Colin_Johnson
10/1/2010 5:17 PM EDT
I have been to Kyoto before, but it was over 15 years ago. I hear a lot of modernization has occurred, but that the old-culture feel is still present. I'll be filing my reports from their in the first week of November.
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lifewingmate
10/1/2010 5:08 PM EDT
As a active member of the Austin chapter of the Society for Technical Communication and an adjunct professor for tech comm, I am so pleased to see
Colin's success championing our field. Thank you for your hard work and enjoy your recognition/reward!
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R_Colin_Johnson
10/1/2010 5:18 PM EDT
Thanks for the suport, and I love your handle: "lifewingmate"
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R_Colin_Johnson
10/1/2010 5:15 PM EDT
Thank you all. I am honored to have won the Kyoto Prize Journalism Fellowship and look forward to the exclusive access I will have to the Kyoto Prize winners, especially Laszlo Lovasz, who by all accounts is a modern-day Claude Shannon--the father of information theory.
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Baolt
10/1/2010 8:00 PM EDT
Congratulations Colin. Well done and wishing further success.
its really pitty and kind of shame, i live in BP. momently but no media coverage about Mr. Lovasz and this price concerned. Such scientist should be honored at every platform especially at his home country.
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R_Colin_Johnson
10/3/2010 1:10 PM EDT
Thanks, Baolt. I believe that Lovasz is honored in his own country, he is currently the director of the Mathematical Institute at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. As a citizen of both Hungary and the United States, he has also been a professor of computer science at Yale University and a senior researcher at the Microsoft Research Center.
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iniewski
10/2/2010 10:50 AM EDT
Congratulations Colin, I always read your posts and enjoy them, very timely. Kyoto is a great city, have fun! Kris
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R_Colin_Johnson
10/3/2010 1:12 PM EDT
Thanks iniewski. I always appreciate you input and I know the other readers enjoy your comments too. I have been to Kyoto once, but look forward to becoming reacquainted.
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Sanjib.Acharya
10/3/2010 12:22 PM EDT
Hi Colin, congratulations on winning 2010 Kyoto Prize Journalism Fellowship and wish for more in the time to come! This sets a big encouragement for the EETimes team as well!
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R_Colin_Johnson
10/3/2010 1:16 PM EDT
Thanks Sanjib, My colleagues are all patting me on the back, but I feel that the whole team deserves the credit. Thanks again.
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KB3001
10/3/2010 4:05 PM EDT
Congratulations Colin. It's always a pleasure to read you here. Enjoy your trip to Kyoto and we look forward to reading from you there.
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yalanand
10/4/2010 2:55 AM EDT
Heartly congratulations Colin and team.
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prabhakar_deosthali
10/5/2010 6:43 AM EDT
Hearty Congratulations Colin. It is a big encouragement for us moderators to have such internationally acclaimed personalities as part of the EE Times team.
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sksdesigns
12/4/2012 1:14 AM EST
I've only joined this due to interest I have in finding sgt. Dane Phelps, Hawaii, of whom you have a photo of in your article. Please reply. This is an urgent issue regarding a criminal case. Regards, Selene K. Shine
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DanePhelps
12/4/2012 12:53 PM EST
SSG Phelps here. Contact me and tell me what government office or law firm you work for. However, I don't believe it is really that hard to find me. In the meantime I will report this post to my Judge Advocate General office, to Criminal Investigations Division, and other sources that are sure to find out who you really are and how you are violating an international court order for stalking and harassment.
Yes. Due to your horrible use of the English language I can only presume that this can be one person saying this is regarding a criminal case. Do you want to know what really gave it away though? Your signature... "Regards." Have a wonderful day Mr Weitzel.
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Dane Phelps
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DanePhelps
12/4/2012 1:07 PM EST
Everyone,
I am terribly sorry for Mr Weitzel's (a.k.a. Selene Shine) post on such a wonderful story. This comment bar was meant for congrats. Evidently some people have no manners.
Again, I am very sorry for this man's behavior.
Respectfully,
Dane Phelps
SSG/USA
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