US computer graphics scientist wins Kyoto Prize

 An American regarded as the father of computer graphics, an Indian literary critic and a Japanese molecular cell biologist are winners of the annual Kyoto Prize, Japan's highest private award for global achievement.

The Inamori Foundation said Friday that U.S. computer scientist Ivan Sutherland won the advanced technology prize. Sutherland is perhaps best known for developing the Sketchpad in 1963. The graphics interface program that allowed users to manipulate figures on a screen through pointing a device — an innovation that helped people use computers without the need for complicated programming.

Gayatri Chakrovoty Spivak , an Indian literary critic and educator whose work focuses on those marginalized by Western culture, including immigrants, the working class and women, won the arts and philosophy prize. A professor at Columbia University, she is known in literary circles for her essay, "Can the Subaltern Speak?" about the economically dispossessed.

Japan's Yoshinori Ohsumi, a molecular biologist at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, was awarded the basic sciences prize for his contributions in the significance of autophagy, now regarded as a vital cell-recycling system that may aid in future developments to treat neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, cancer and other age-related ailments.

The Inamori Foundation is a charitable body established in 1984 by the founder of Japanese electronic component maker Kyocera Corp., Kazuo Inamori.

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IAD Revolutionizing its iPhone Game Application Development Services

Sunnyvale, California - IAD revs up with its iPhone game application development following a survey report according to which, the addressable market for mobile game users have shoot up to 125 million people in US and UK. The survey report given by GamesIndustry International states that smartphone and tablet gaming is on the rise whereas game consoles have faced a gradual decline in their usage. IAD developers remarked on this report saying that the report is an indication to iPhone development companies to accelerate and polish game development service.

IAD's expert team of iPhone game developers also believe that the iPhone app development companies should be prepared beforehand for this heave in mobile game development because this raise is soon going to show its impact on iPhone game application development. Adding further explanation to the survey, one of the most experienced developers of IAD said, "Use of iPhone as gaming platform has increased considerably, and iPad has added fuel to the fire. According to the survey figures, the numbers of mobile gamers have increased by 11 million mobile gamers in the last 12 months. At this increasing rate, we, that is, iPhone game developers need to come up with fresh ideas for games."

IAD, which has already developed and delivered many successful projects in iPhone game application development, is sure that this rise in the number of mobile gamers will give them more projects for iPhone game development. The expert iPhone game developers of the company have already started accumulating ideas for development of addictive, interactive games.

A senior technical leader of IAD remarked, "Compared to last year we have got more projects in iPhone game development. With the rumours of iPhone 5, I knew that something like this was likely to happen. This huge increase has given us a good chance to serve our clients as well as to several iPhone game freaks. Hence, we have accelerated our game development process. We are trying to gather as many unique ideas as possible."

However, the company also speculates that with the advent of iPhone 5, this number is likely to increase manyfold. It also says that this situation would help it to optimize its success.

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Microsoft's Surface tablet promising, but questions remain

Microsoft Corp's new Surface tablets look promising, but many questions need to be answered before it can rival Apple Inc's iPad, analysts said the day after the company made its first foray into the computer hardware business.

The shares of the world's largest software company jumped 3.7 per cent as Wall Street and investors welcomed Microsoft's move. But analysts had questions about the lack of enthusiasm among developers in creating applications that run on the new Windows 8 operating system and the absence of hard details on pricing and availability.

"Though pricing details are unclear ... Microsoft will need to significantly undercut the iPad to be competitive," Jefferies analyst Peter Misek said.

The Surface tablet will come in two versions, one running Windows RT, based on the same chip designs that power most tablets, and a higher-performance version running Windows 8 Pro.

"The most important factor in the success of a tablet is its ecosystem. Based on our discussions with developers, we find the lack of enthusiasm concerning," Misek said.

Misek expects Windows 8 tablets to struggle to compete with the iPad, which offers over 225,000 apps, and to a lesser extent with Google Inc's Android-based tablets, such as the Galaxy Tab. 

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