Nokia Bell Labs opens competition for ideas with power to disrupt future of human experience by 10 fold
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* Fourth annual competition seeks top global innovators and researchers with
'Future X' technology ideas to improve the human experience
* Competition offers winners cash prizes up to $175,000 and the opportunity to
collaborate with renowned Nokia Bell Labs researchers on idea development
9 March, 2017
Espoo, Finland - Nokia Bell Labs today opens its global competition for the
fourth annual Nokia Bell Labs Prize. The Prize recognizes innovators with game-
changing ideas in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics with the
potential to disrupt or profoundly change the state of human existence and
experience by a factor of 10.
Researchers, scientists and innovators in participating countries around the
globe are invited to enter their idea proposals until May 1, 2017. Prizes up to
$175,000 will be awarded to the first, second and third place winners, who will
also be rewarded with an opportunity to collaborate with world-renowned Nokia
Bell Labs researchers on the development of their ideas.
The Nokia Bell Labs Prize competition is geared towards innovative proposals
that look to solve broader societal and humanistic challenges. These might
include ideas that offer disruptive innovations connecting all humans, senses,
things, systems, infrastructure, or processes that enable a future where new
knowledge is created with an associated 'sixth sense' whose purpose is to save
time.
Marcus Weldon, president of Nokia Bell Labs & CTO for Nokia, said: "The energy,
innovation and collaboration the Nokia Bell Labs Prize brings to our industry
and our research community is incredible, and I am always amazed at the breadth
of ideas this competition generates. We look forward to a new round of entries
and are excited by the possibilities to fundamentally change our world in
profound ways."
The competition continues Nokia Bell Labs' rich tradition of finding solutions
to some of the greatest challenges facing the information and telecommunications
industry. Nearly 1,000 applicants have submitted ideas to the Nokia Bell Labs
Prize competition since its inception in 2014. Previous finalists have come from
Belgium, Canada, Germany, Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, the UK, and the
U.S. They include grand prize winners offering solutions that enable a better
Internet of Things (IoT), and new ways to simplify Big Data to extract
actionable information and knowledge.
* In 2016, a team of two PhD students from the University of Southern
California, Sungwon Chung and Hooman Abediasl, along with their professor,
Hossein Hashemi, created large-scale plasmonic optical phased-array
technology - an architectural innovation for nanodevices. Together, they
developed the technology to enable a wide range of applications across free-
space communications, biomedical diagnostics, and inexpensive sensing for
self-driving cars.
* In 2015, Brandon Lucia, assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University,
presented a new way for developers to bring their communications and sensing
applications into environments with scarce energy, such as inside living
organisms, or attached to infrastructure without access to power, or even in
deep space. Unlike traditional machines with tethered power or batteries,
these outage-tolerant systems can compute intermittently and even scavenge
their surroundings for energy.
* In 2014, Emmanuel Abbe, assistant professor at Princeton University,
proposed new algorithms and methods for extracting actionable information
from Big Data. In doing so, he was able to apply the information theory
limit developed by Bell Labs pioneer Claude Shannon to make practical, fast
computations on massive social and complex graph-based networks.
Resources:
* More about the Bell Labs Prize
* Read the book The Future X Network, A Bell Labs Perspective
* Find out more about Bell Labs innovations
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About Nokia
Nokia is a global leader innovating the technologies at the heart of our
connected world. Powered by the research and innovation of Nokia Bell Labs, we
serve communications service providers, governments, large enterprises and
consumers, with the industry's most complete, end-to-end portfolio of products,
services and licensing.
From the enabling infrastructure for 5G and the Internet of Things, to emerging
applications in virtual reality and digital health, we are shaping the future of
technology to transform the human experience. www.nokia.com
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