If you want a shot at the $100,000 Bell Labs Prize, you’d better hurry up and put some polish on that great idea: the deadline is 15 July.
The prize ($50,000 and $25,000 prizes are also on the line) comes from Alcatel-Lucent’s research arm, which is no stranger to big prizes: 12 of its researchers have shared in seven Nobel Prizes for Physics over the years. Winners will have a chance to work with Bell Labs to further their research as well.
In addition to recognising individual winners, Bell Labs will offer $100,000 donation to the accredited institution of higher learning at which the top winner is enrolled at the time the application is submitted.
How to win the prize? Come up with a “10x game-changing proposal in the field of information and communications technologies and related software systems and applications.” You’ll need to outpace Bell Labs itself here, as the outfit recently demoed a broadband breakthrough of showing how a copper line can handle a 10Gb/s broadband connection.
Bell Labs is based in Murray Hill, New Jersey, though recently opened a satellite location near Tel Aviv, which focused on cloud computing, and another office will be announced in Europe later this month.
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