Word: lemelson
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...that now prevails over the long silence that followed in the wake of the mass killings which took place in the mid-60s in Bali—deeply embedded anger is passionately released, experiences of discrimination and pain fervently expressed. In a film both moving and disturbing, psychological anthropologist Lemelson explores the lives of four individuals and their families in Indonesia, and reveals their suffering through “one of the largest unknown mass killings of the 20th century.”Produced and directed by Lemelson and edited by two-time Academy Award winner Pietro Scalia...
Sources: New York Times; Reuters; New England Journal of Medicine (2); AP (2); Lemelson-M.I.T. Invention Index Study...
...lifesaving potential. Rodney Brooks, director of M.I.T.'s artificial-intelligence lab, says the scope of McLurkin's work is remarkable. "A lot of us have worked on insect-robot things," he says, "but James has taken the technology farther than anyone else." Indeed, last year McLurkin won the prestigious Lemelson-M.I.T. prize for inventiveness and creativity...
Sources: New York Times; AP; U.S. Census Bureau; Lemelson-M.I.T. Program
...PATENTS Jerome Lemelson Bar-code reader, computer-controlled tourniquet, audiocassette-drive mechanism, magnetic-recording system...