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Critics Pounce on China's Top Science Prize
China's professional computer society, the China Computer Federation, seemed to disagree with the selection of Zhang Yaoxue's work for China's top science award.
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Controversy has erupted over China's highest science prize for 2014. Critics are blasting the winning project, on network computing, as not innovative and undeserving.
On January 9, the State First-Class Natural Science Award went to Zhang Yaoxue, a computer scientist and member of the prestigious Chinese Academy of Engineering, and his team. The 200,000 yuan ($32,000) annual prize is considered prestigious because it is awarded sparingly: Nine times in the past 15 years there have been no winners.
That's why many scientists are fuming over the selection of Zhang's "transparent computing" research for the 2014 award.
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