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2014 Laureates of Dan David Prize – 1Million US$ each for Outstanding Scientific, Technological, Cultural, or Social Achievements Having an Impact on Our World

Reporter: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN

THE PRIZE AND ITS SPIRIT
The Dan David Prize is a joint international enterprise, endowed by the Dan David Foundation and headquartered at Tel Aviv University.

The Dan David Prize recognizes and encourages innovative and interdisciplinary research that cuts across traditional boundaries and paradigms. It aims to foster universal values of excellence, creativity, justice, democracy and progress and to promote the scientific, technological and humanistic achievements that advance and improve our world.

The Dan David Prize covers three time dimensions – Past, Present and Future – that represent realms of human achievement. Each year the International Board chooses one field within each time dimension. Following a review process by independent Review Commitees comprised of renowned scholars and professionals, the International Board then chooses the laureates for each field.

The Past refers to fields that expand knowledge of former times.
The Present recognizes achievements that shape and enrich society today.
The Future focuses on breakthroughs that hold great promise for improvement of our world.

Three prizes of one million US dollars each are granted annually in the fields chosen for the three time dimensions. The prizes are granted to individuals or institutions with proven, exceptional, distinct excellence in the sciences, arts, and humanities that have made an outstanding contribution to humanity on the basis of merit, without discrimination of gender, race, ethnicity, color, religion, language, nationality, disability, or political affiliation.

The Dan David Pize laureates donate 10% of their prize money to graduate students in their respective fields, thereby contributing to the community and fostering a new generation of scholars. It is also unique in its outreach efforts to the wider community. Since its inception, the Dan David Prize has embarked upon two exciting innitiatives:

The Dan David Prize, in conjunction with the Unit for Science Oriented Youth at Tel Aviv University has initiated the ‘Name Your Hero’ Essay Competition for High School Youth throughout Israel. High school students are encouraged to make a difference and present their choice of candidate and/or suggestions for fields, to the mutual benefit of the Dan David Prize and the students; the fields selected for a given year are influenced by the students’ input and the students’ scholarship and creative writing skills are advanced.
A Scholars Forum has been established comprised of Dan David Prize scholarship recipients worldwide doing research in the various fields selected since the inception of the Dan David Prize. This forum serves as a platform for Dan David Prize scholars to discuss research topics, present individual research and exchange ideas and suggestions
For a better understanding of the drive behind the creation of the Prize, press here for Mr. Dan David’s speech at the Inaugurational Ceremony of the Prize, on May 12th 2002.

http://www.dandavidprize.org/about/about-the-prize

The Dan David Prize is an international prize which annually awards three prizes of US$ 1 million each for outstanding scientific, technological, cultural, or social achievements having an impact on our world. Each year fields are chosen within the three Time Dimensions – Past, Present and Future.

2014 LAUREATES TO BE ANNOUNCED IN FEBRUARY

The three review committees, comprised of world-renowned experts in their fields, have finalized their deliberations on the nominations received and have submitted their recommendations to the Dan David Prize Board. The Board will announce their decision in February.

2014 Scholarship Applications Deadline for Receipt: February 28, 2014

See our website http://www.dandavidprize.org for scholarship application instructions

http://www.dandavidprize.org/media-events/newsletter-archive/archive/view/listid-1-mailing_list/mailid-22-dan-david-prize-monthly-news-jan-2014

PAST – HISTORY & MEMORY

Mr. Krzysztof Czyzewski

Mr. Pierre Nora

Prof. Saul Friedlander

PRESENT – COMBATTING MEMORY LOSS

Prof. John A. Hardy

Prof. Peter St. George-Hyslop

Prof. Brenda Milner

FUTURE – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, THE DIGITAL MIND

Prof. Marvin Minsky is Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prof. Minsky is one of the.

Innovators For The Public

KRZYSZTOF CZYZEWSKI
Civic Engagement
Sectors: Citizen/Community Participation, Conflict Resolution, Intercultural Relations/Race Relations
Target Population: Children, Citizen Sector Organizations, Communities
The Borderland Foundation / Fundacja Pogranicze

Poland, Europe
Krzysztof Czyżewski is introducing a new civic space where citizens can peacefully discuss the conflicts that separate them. Focusing on educating a new generation of young people who are tolerant and sensitive to diversity in a contemporary world, Krzysztof is establishing a network of cultural and social centers that brings together local residents from diverse backgrounds to develop their communities.
This profile below was prepared when Krzysztof Czyzewski was elected to the Ashoka Fellowship in 2003.

INTRODUCTION

Krzysztof Czyżewski is introducing a new civic space where citizens can peacefully discuss the conflicts that separate them. Focusing on educating a new generation of young people who are tolerant and sensitive to diversity in a contemporary world, Krzysztof is establishing a network of cultural and social centers that brings together local residents from diverse backgrounds to develop their communities.

THE NEW IDEA

Krzysztof engages entire communities in a broad array of long-term strategies that address the cultural and racial prejudices that exist in their neighborhoods. He has created a complex program to address historical sources of conflict and rediscover community history. Krzysztof provides an open space for meeting and confrontation of different points of view, cultures, and nationalities. Once the walls between cultural and religious groups are torn down, participants can ultimately become cocreators and visionaries of a new integrated community.

In order to model the new civic society, Krzysztof has launched the Borderland Foundation in Sejny, a village on the border between Lithuania and Poland. Through this local pilot, the Borderland Foundation is able to demonstrate to a broader audience how to create initiatives that transform conflict into a positive, new community identity. Looking ahead to long-term solutions, Krzysztof’s work draws on the participation of all community members but specifically targets young people. By transforming young people’s perceptions and roles within communities scarred by historical divides, the Borderland Foundation is creating a new vision for the future of those communities. By operating as a training and publication center, Krzysztof’s work in Sejny is spreading globally.

SOURCE

https://www.ashoka.org/fellow/krzysztof-czyzewski 

Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Mémoire

Pierre Nora

THE ACCELERATION OF HISTORY: … An increasingly rapid slippage of the present into a historical past that is gone for good, a general perception that anything and everything may disappear – these indicate a rupture of equilibrium.

19 pp. PDF

SOURCE

http://www.timeandspace.lviv.ua/files/session/Nora_105.pdf

Humanitas: Saul Friedlander at the University of Oxford Lecture

Friedlander is a world authority on the Holocaust but he is also a survivor: hidden as a Jewish child in occupied France in a Catholic convent. His intellectual discipline may be that of the historian but his writing is animated by the passion of memory that only his generation can fully express. (Tim Gardam, The Guardian)

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Humanitas: Saul Friedlander at the University of Oxford Lecture

Protein May Hold the Key to Who Gets Alzheimer’s

John A. Hardy

“Alzheimer’s disease research has changed enormously over the 25 years I have been doing it: when I started we knew almost nothing. Now we really have an outline understanding of the disease. I hope we will progress from understanding to treatments!!!”

WATCH VIDEO

Fondation pour la Recherche sur Alzheimer – Grand Prix Européen de la Fondation pour la Recherche sur Alzheimer.

Alzheimer’s Disease – The Neurodegenerative Diseases Initiative (HD) | A film by the Wellcome Trust

Peter St. George- Hyslop

“My laboratory focuses upon understanding the causes and molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer Disease, Parkinson Disease and Fronto-Temporal Dementia.”

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Alzheimer’s disease – The Neurodegenerative Diseases Initiative (HD) | A film by the Wellcome Trust

Brenda Milner, Neuropsychologist

Meet legendary neuropsychologist Dr. Brenda Milner, credited with many landmark discoveries in the study of human memory and the temporal lobes. She was named one of 25 Transformational Canadians

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Brenda Milner, Neuropsychologist

Immortal Minds are a Matter of Time

Marvin Minsky

“A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they aren’t flexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it.”

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Dr. Marvin Minsky — Immortal minds are a matter of time

SOURCE

http://www.dandavidprize.org/laureates/2014

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