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MacArthur Foundation Announces Genius Grants

Posted by chrisd on from the chrisd-pinhead-awards-to-follow dept.

Chagasi writes: "The MacArthur Foundation has announced this year's 'Genius Grant' awards. The complete list of the 24 recipients can be read here(1) at their web site and here(2) via Google's news service. The winners include a robotics researcher from Dartmouth studying robotics, and a paleoethnobotanist from Penn State studying the ancient plants and foods of prehistoric peoples."

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  1. Re:Grants for open source developers by WolfWithoutAClause · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Richard Stallman won one of these a few years ago; and he well deserved it too. Without the GPL or the toolset he created Linux would probably have languished in obscurity like Minix did.

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