Overview of XPRIZE prizes and Fields Medal background

368 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? non-governmental organization to put a man in space was $10 million, awarded in 2004. There are a growing number of XPRIZEs, including, at the time of writing: * Google Lunar XPRIZE, $30m to put a rover on the Moon. * Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE, $10m to make your mobile phone into a hand held medical health scanner, similar to the Star Trek tricorder. « Nokia Sensing CHALLENGE, $2.25m to build a hand-held medical scanner. « Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPRIZE, $2m to create a method to measure the ocean’s pH. Fields Medal The equivalent of a Nobel Prize for mathematics is a Fields Medal. Joseph Field provided the money and helped set up the prize. Today it is administered as part of the International Mathematical Union. You must be under 40 to receive the prize. Andrew Wiles was 45 when he solved Fermat's Last Theorem, so they created a special prize for him called a Fields Fellowship. Until recently only men had received the prize. However in 2014 Maryam Mirzakhani won the prize for her work on the geometry of Riemann surfaces. Fields Medal HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016058