Nokia Bell Labs opens competition for ideas with power to disrupt future of human experience by 10 fold
March 09 2017 - 12:01PM
Press Release
- 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
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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
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