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Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony Tonight

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the looking-at-it dept.

Ellen Spertus writes "The Eleventh First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony will be held in Cambridge, MA, on Thursday, Oct. 4, to honor scientific achievements that cannot, or should not, be reproduced. The ceremony, which will be webcast live and broadcast later on Science Friday, is sponsored by The Annals of Improbable Research. The accompanying Ig Informal Lectures will be held Saturday, Oct. 6, at MIT."

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  1. Re:Similar prize for software? by IncarnationTwo · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you did read through the pages to the past winners you might have noticed that they have a category of computer science (from year 2000 awards):

    COMPUTER SCIENCE Chris Niswander of Tucson, Arizona, for inventing PawSense, software that detects when a cat is walking across your computer keyboard.

    Some others of past winners are quite hilarious too. So for the lazy ones: link to past winners is here [improbable.com].

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