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EU Names Winners of Information Society Technology Prizes

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 24, 2006 - 3:02am.
Brussels - The EU has presented this year's European Information Society Technology (IST) Grand Prizes to a trio of companies hailing from France, Denmark and the Netherlands. The companies were given $240,000 apiece for developing a digital content fingerprinting system to deter multimedia pirates (France-based AdvestiSEARCH); computer memory that can survive radiation and temperatures of as high as 200°C (Netherlands-based Nanomech); and a security system that recognizes your face (Denmark-based Guardia Control System). Twenty IST awards were awarded in total; France, Germany, Spain and the U.K. accounted for most of this year's winners, with each country producing three prize-winning companies.
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