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	Academy Award
		The Awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a professional honorary organization which as of 2003 had a voting membership of 5816, with actors, with a membership of 1311, making up the largest voting block.
		Academy Awards are nicknamed "Oscars", which is also the nickname of the statuette (the name is said to have been born when Academy librarian Margaret Herrick saw the statuette on a table and said: "It looks just like my uncle Oscar!").
		The awards were first given at a banquet in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on May 16, 1929 but there was little suspense since the winners of the awards had already been announced three months earlier on February 18.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/a/ac/academy_award.html (957 words)

	Academy Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Academy Awards are nicknamed " Oscars " which is also the nickname of statuette (the name is said to have born when Academy librarian Margaret Herrick saw statuette on a table and said: "It just like my uncle Oscar!").
		The awards first given at a banquet in the Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on May 16 1929 but there was little suspense since winners of the awards had already been three months earlier on February 18.
		The greatest number of Academy Awards won a film is 11 this distinction is by 3 films: Ben-Hur Titanic and The Return of the King.
	www.freeglossary.com /Academy_Award (1117 words)

	Academy Award - Simple English Wikipedia
		The Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars, are the best-known movie awards in the United States.
		The awards have been given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1927.
		Academy Award, Scientific or Technical – 1931 to present at three levels
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Academy_Award (130 words)

	Engineering News at NC State
		The award honors an individual for outstanding technical or scientific contributions in thermophysics related to the study and application of the properties and mechanisms involved in thermal energy transfer and the study of environmental effects on such properties and mechanisms.
		She is a member of the Engineers' Council and the Textile Engineering Society, and she has worked as a tutor for the College of Engineering and as a research assistant for the College of Textiles.
		The award is the highest honor given by the NSF to young university faculty in science and engineering.
	www.engr.ncsu.edu /news/awards/awards.arc.99.spring.html (4729 words)

	2002 Scientific and Technical Awards - 75th Academy Awards - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
		The Scientific and Technical Academy Awards will be presented on Saturday evening, March 1, 2003, at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA.
		Scientific and Technical Awards are given for devices, methods, formulas, discoveries or inventions of special and outstanding value to the arts and sciences of motion pictures that also have a proven history of use in the motion picture industry.
		Academy Awards for Scientific and Technical achievement for 2002 are:
	www.oscars.org /75academyawards/scitech.html (726 words)

	Academy Award
		The Awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a professional honorary organization which as of 2002 had over 6000 members.
		Academy Awards are nicknamed "Oscars", which is also the nickname of the statuette (the name is said to have been born when Margaret Herrick[?] saw the statuette on a table and said: "It looks just like my uncle Oscar!").
		Academy Award of Scientific or Technical Merit[?] - a statuette
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/os/Oscars.html (706 words)

	Faculty Honors and Awards in the Mechanical Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Austin
		Received the Glenn Murphy Award from the Nuclear and Radiological Division of the American Society of Engineering Education, recognizing his notable professional contributions to the teaching of undergraduate and graduate nuclear engineering students.
		This the inaugural award was for his visionary development and implementation of an integrated technology entrepreneur program at the university, and work to create similar programs at 17 other universities globally.
		This award was presented at the Heat Transfer Dinner during the ASME International Congress and Exposition, in November 2005, in Orlando, Florida.
	www.me.utexas.edu /faculty/fac_awards2000.shtml (2253 words)

	Academy Award
		The Awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a professional honorary organization which as of 2003 had a voting membership of 5816.
		There is also a wide belief that awards are given for "political" reasons -- for instance, rewarding an artist whose career has included many good works but has not thus far received an Academy Award.
		Such influence is nothing new -- it is widely believed that the early media mogul William Randolph Hearst ran a campaign to ensure that Citizen Kane, a film regarded by many as the greatest of all time -- did not receive Oscars (it received only one, despite nominations in nine categories).
	www.knowledgefun.com /book/a/ac/academy_award.html (767 words)

	The Advanced Academy of Georgia
		The Advanced Academy of Georgia is located on the campus of the University of West Georgia and is a residential, early-entrance-to-college program for gifted and talented students who wish to accelerate their academic programs.
		The mission of the Advanced Academy of Georgia is to provide an enriched, residential, early-entrance-to-college program for carefully selected, bright, and motivated high school students who are interested in accelerating their academic careers.
		The Academy seeks to provide opportunities for educational advancement in an environment that also supports students in developing the skills that will help to ensure their success, both in the Academy and as future leaders.
	www.westga.edu /~academy (1290 words)

	AVS 52nd International Symposium: Major Awards & Recipients (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Albert Nerken Award was established in 1984 by Veeco Instruments, Inc. in recognition of its founder, Albert Nerken, a founding member of AVS, and his early work in the field of high vacuum and leak detection, and contributions to the commercial development of that instrumentation.
		The award is presented to a young scientist or engineer (35 years of age or under) for outstanding theoretical or experimental work, at least some of which must have been published in JVST.
		She joined the Department of Chemical and Bio-molecular Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles, as an Assistant Professor in 1999, was appointed the William F. Seyer Chair in 2000, and is currently an Associate Professor.
	www2.avs.org /symposium/boston/majaward.html (2100 words)

	55th Annual Emmy Awards
		The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has announced the recipients of the 2003 Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards.
		Engineering Plaques are for accomplishments showing a high level of engineering that are important to the progress of the industry.
		The awards are overseen by the Technology and Convergence Awards Committee Co-Chairs Cristy Trembly (Engineering subcommittee) and Brian Seth Hurst (Interactive subcommittee).
	www.emmys.tv /primetime/2003/awards/2003engineering.php (199 words)

	Wings (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The film was the first film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture (then called "Best Picture, Production"), in 1929.
		It was also the only film to ever win the Academy Award for Engineering Effects.
		The film was written by John Monk Saunders (story) and Louis D. Lighton and Hope Loring, and directed by William A. Wellman, with an original orchestral score by John Stephan Zamecnik (J S Zamecnik), which was uncredited.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wings_(movie) (359 words)

	The National Academy of Public Administration
		The Academy Panel convened for this task found that the ISO achieved the projected first year savings (which are expected to recur in future years), and had performed well overall.
		The Academy released two FEMA reports in 1993 and 1994 at the request of Congress and former FEMA director James Lee Witt.
		Responding to recent studies citing the need for better data to understand the extent and economic effects of off-shoring, the Academy was asked by the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Science, State, Commerce and Justice to conduct a comprehensive study of off-shoring activities and their major economic effects.
	www.napawash.org (3508 words)

	Wired 11.05: MATRIX2
		With four Academy Award nominations to their credit, the members of the core Matrix team reconvened in February 2000 at a secret location near the beach outside of Los Angeles.
		Effects designers have been swapping CG faces onto the heads of stunt doubles for more than a decade, but typically, these faces were seen for only brief moments, from afar, or were occluded by other effects, like flames or smoke.
		This was the Wachowskis' name for a visual effect that didn't exist yet: an action sequence that slowed time to a sinuous crawl and then cranked it back up to normal speed as the camera pivoted rapidly around it.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/11.05/matrix2_pr.html (4631 words)

	Press Releases
		The NOGI Award was created in the 1950s and it is the oldest and most prestigious award in the diving industry.
		He was awarded an Honorary Masters of Science by the Trustees of his alma mater, Brooks Institute of Photography for extraordinary contributions to art, science and photography.
		He was awarded a degree in engineering from the Ecole Supérieure des Arts et Métiers in Aix-en-Provence (1946/49) and a Master of Science in Marine Geology at the University of California (Berkeley) in 1960.
	www.auas-nogi.org /wst_page6.html (2931 words)

	Academy Award
		Star Style at the Academy Awards: A Century of Glamour
		Academy Award Winners' Movie Posters (The Illustrated History of Movies Through Posters Series; Vol.
		Such influence isn'thing new - it is widely believed that the early media mogul William Randolph Hearst ran a campaign to ensure that Citizen Kane, a film regarded by many as the greatest of all time - did not receive Oscars (it received only one, despite nominations in nine categories).
	www.news-server.org /a/ac/academy_award.html (929 words)

	Walt Disney’s
		Many of the water effects scenes would be shot here, including the memorable fight with the giant squid and all the underwater miniature effects.
		Wrapping the tentacles of a small squid, sculpted and cast by Chris Mueller, around the eleven-foot model and tying the ends with thread, Hammeras pulled the squid away on a guide wire, then he cleverly reversed the film, which gave the illusion that the monster was swimming toward the camera, instead of away from it.
		The practical effects on this model are best seen in the sequence of the Nautilus splitting the water as she is attacking.
	www.disneysub.com /pub/harry.html (16021 words)

	Engineering
		Intelligence test - Artificial intelligence is unlikely to replace engineers, says Charles Clarke, but knowledge-based tools are already playing an important part in testing and 'genetically engineering' complex design processes.
		But before these molecules were crafted into modern engines, virtual facsimiles of them were subjected to vivid, lifelike simulations of these actions, the whole shebang conjured by an artificial intelligence as sophisticated as anything conceived of in The Matrix.
		Structural engineering is defined as a field which encompasses design, fabrication, construction and maintenance of buildings, bridges, towers, dams and other similar structures.
	www.aaai.org /AITopics/html/engin.html (3703 words)

	William D. Wagner Award - 2004 Awardee
		The William D. Wagner Award, established in 2003, is presented annually to a person in the field of national and international worker health and safety who is an outstanding example of commitment and dedication to the creation and dissemination of occupational exposure values (OEVs).
		Daniel L. Johnson, Ph.D. is the 2004 recipient of the Wagner Award.
		Johnson earned a B.S. degree in Engineering from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point (1958), two M.S.E. degrees in Aeronautical Engineering and Instrumentation Engineering, respectively, from the University of Michigan (1960), and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado (1971).
	www.acgih.org /members/awards/wagner.htm (473 words)

	2003 Scientific & Technical Awards \| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
		The Scientific and Technical Academy Awards were presented on February 14, 2004, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Pasadena.
		Academy Awards for Scientific and Technical achievement for 2003 are:
		Measuring his valuable contributions to the invention and implementation of robotic camera systems in decades rather than years, his efforts have aided motion control in becoming a core technology that has supported the renaissance of visual effects.
	www.oscars.org /scitech/2003/winners.html (583 words)

	Profound Effects - Management Profiles
		Perry Kivolowitz received an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Technical Achievement Award in 1996 for his design and invention of shape based warping and morphing (Elastic Reality®).
		Paul Miller was the principal engineer behind the IRIX® version of Elastic Reality.
		From 1992 to present, he was founder and CEO of Breadsmith, an award winning franchised national chain of European bread stores.
	www.profoundeffects.com /company/mgmt (481 words)

	Visiting Committee - Department of Chemical Engineering - Home
		Awarded the University Cooperative Society's Research Excellence Award for Best Research Paper.
		Thepaper being awarded is "Novel Complexation Hydrogels for Oral Peptide Delivery: In vitro Evaluation of their Cytocompatability and Insulin-Transport Enhancing Effects Using Caco-2 Cell Monolayers." (2004)
		College of Engineering Award for Outstanding Engineering Teaching by an Assistant Professor(2005)
	www.engr.utexas.edu /che/directories/Recent_faculty_award.cfm (341 words)

	Auburn University News
		Madsen is an associate professor of mechanical engineering in Auburn’s Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.
		He is recognized by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his role in the software solution – created by MRI and licensed for entertainment to Giant Studios – that applied a unique biometric approach that has influenced the development of motion-capture technology for motion pictures.
		Motion capture is the recording of movement – from simple change in body position to complex contortions of the face and muscle masses – for real-time or delayed analysis.
	www.ocm.auburn.edu /news_releases/madsen.html (798 words)

	Apple’s Final Cut Pro Wins Emmy Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Final Cut Pro, Apple’s professional video and film editing software, will receive a 2002 Emmy Engineering Award for its impact on the television industry from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
		Apple’s first Emmy was awarded in 2001 for the company’s invention and popularization of FireWire, a high-speed interface which is widely used in the film and video production industries.
		Apple has also been recognized with a GRAMMY Award for its technical contributions to the music industry and recording field.
	www.apple.com /hotnews/articles/2002/08/emmy (371 words)

	IMDb: Academy Awards, USA: 1992 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		His partner Bill Lauch accepted the award on his behalf.
		An Oscar statuette was aboard the shuttle to commemorate the event.
		Georg Thoma; Heinz Feierlein; Engineering department of Sachtler AG - For the design (Thoma) and the development (Feierlein/Sachtler) for a range of fluid tripod heads.
	www.imdb.com /Sections/Awards/Academy_Awards_USA/1992 (1090 words)

	GoHastings.com Item Information
		THE JAZZ SINGER was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1996.
		Nugent Slaughter won an Academy Award for Engineering Effects, and Warner Brothers received a special award for producing this, the first talking picture.
		Though there were one or two sound pictures prior to THE JAZZ SINGER, this film effectively ended the era of silent movies.
	www.gohastings.com /catalog/item/item.asp?prodid=32976630 (211 words)

	DFRFX - DV To Film, 35mm Film Recording, Video Tape To Film Transfers
		John Schnall's latest short film, "The Binding Of Isaac", recently received the "Director's Choice" Award at the 2005 Black Maria Film Festival which toured the USA in 2005 and has also been selected to be showcased at 2005 Ottawa Intl.
		A sequence specially processed with in-camera effects, enhanced digitally at DFRFX, was sepia-toned after transfer to 35mm and was included in the feature.
		Congrads to Sam Chen for an award-winning animation, which has qualified for Academy Award competition.
	www.dfrfx.com (1267 words)

	Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
		For projects that demonstrate originality in specifying a research problem or defining an engineering project; as well as creativity in executing the project and utilizing engineering principles/methods to solve the problem.
		Awarded to a rising senior, this scholarship award will be for $5000 per year for 4 years.
		For outstanding achievement in the area of engineering, this largest single special award is a $10,000 scholarship.
	www.sciserv.org /isef/results/sao2003.asp (5359 words)

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