11/10/2010

The non-profit Inamori Foundation today presented AIT Scientific Board member and distinguished lecturer Dr. László Lovász with its Kyoto Prize in "Basic Sciences", which focuses for 2010 on Mathematical Sciences.

A citizen of both the United States and Hungary, Dr. Lovász, 62, received the award for his outstanding contributions to the academic and technological possibilities of the mathematical sciences. Among many positions held throughout his distinguished career, Dr. Lovász has also served as a senior research member at Microsoft Research Center and as a professor of computer science at Yale University. At present, among his other engagements, Dr. Lovász takes part in helping the work of AIT-Budapest.

President Barack Obama congratulated Dr. Lovász in writing yesterday.

You can read more on the website of the Kyoto Prize.