"The Siemens Foundation scholarship money will help
increase the number of teachers going into America's classrooms. The Siemens
Foundation will fund the scholarships as part of its mission to support and
enhance math and science education in America's high schools.

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The New Jersey-based Siemens Foundation will provide $1 million in
scholarships over the next five years for undergraduate and graduate students
who wish to pursue careers in teaching math, science and technology. The two
organizations will select scholarship recipients each year.
"If American technology companies are to continue creating cutting edge
innovations and high paying jobs, we need to be sure that all American high
school students develop the necessary math and science skills they will
require to take advantage of these opportunities," said Thomas N.

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The
collaboration of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund and the United Negro
College Fund will assist 85 Historically Black Colleges and Universities in
their efforts to encourage minority students in pursuing a career in science
and mathematics."
One advantage of the method is that for many applications the
amount of real-time computing power required is well within the
capabilities of mobile/portable devices such as cell-phones and PDAs.com/newscenter

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This is a
partnership between three institutions who are committed to improving the
quality of science and math education in our nation's schools.philips.

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"We all know that good schools are impossible without good teachers," said
Wilbert Bryant, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Higher Education Programs,
Department of Education. This makes this grant unique for two reasons: There is a need
for more qualified minority math and science teachers, and HBCUs have long
been the training ground for new leaders in education as well as
mathematicians, scientists and engineers . Michael Lomax, UNCF's President and CEO.

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For example, by evaluating inputs from temperature sensors and
smoke detectors distributed throughout a building, an intelligent fire
alarm system could automatically route you to the safest exit rather
than the nearest exit, indicating the way with illuminated signs or
relaying directions to your mobile phone.

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With activities in
the three interlocking domains of healthcare, lifestyle and technology
and 160,900 employees in more than 60 countries, it has market
leadership positions in medical diagnostic imaging and patient
monitoring, color television sets, electric shavers, lighting and
silicon system solutions.

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philips. News from Philips is located at
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"Siemens' grant is critically important because it can help to address one
of the most pressing needs facing our nation's children and that is the need
for more teachers in math, science and engineering," said Dwayne Ashley, CEO
and President, Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund."
"The growing shortage of qualified math and science teachers in this
country will impact America's economy for years to come if it is not
addressed," said Dr. "The Siemens
Teacher Scholarships will allow more minority students to pursue careers in
math and science, which will ultimately increase the nation's success in
producing more qualified math and science teachers. Dorst at
today's annual meeting of the NYIPLA in New York (USA), not only
recognizes the innovation and hard work that the two Philips
scientists put in to develop the technology and get it patented.

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The Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund has 47 member public HBCUs;
the UNCF provides operational support to the 38 private institutions.

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Business Editors/Technology Writers/Science Editors

NEW YORK----Whenever you want to plan
a route from A to B, whether it is driving somewhere in your car or
getting a robot to carry out complex maneuvers, the chances are you
can do it faster and more efficiently using an algorithm developed by
two senior scientists at Philips Research.3 billion in 2004.

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Overall, support from
organizations like the Siemens Foundation has helped UNCF support more
minorities in higher education and we are excited to be a part of this
scholarship program. They proposed a computer
representation in which the 'goal' (the required destination in the
case of simple route mapping) radiates a series of waves into a
mathematical model of the environment. Karen Trovato, Principal Member of
Research Staff in the Interventional Guidance Department of Philips
Research .

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Each organization will receive $500,000 to be
awarded to students accepted to any one of the nation 's 85 historically black
colleges and universities (HBCUs) that are members of the two organizations .
This program marks the first time the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund
and the UNCF will collaborate in an effort to target both private and public
colleges.

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A second advantage of the technique is that it is easily adapted
to any goal-centered application, provided you can model interaction
between one or more goal-centered optimization parameters and the
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Two
organizations that are active in promoting post-secondary education for
minority students -- the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund and the UNCF --
will administer the funds. Another example cited by
Karen Trovato is a car that automatically maneuvers itself in and out
of tight spaces such as parking bays.

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"It is therefore imperative that
we provide the necessary resources to broaden the pool of qualified math and
science teachers, especially in communities that have been traditionally
under-represented in the fields of science and technology.
The intensity of a wave at any given point in this mathematical
model represents a particular path-planning optimization
characteristic such as distance from the goal.

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also an endorsement of the value of software patents by one of the
world's leading patent organizations. The waves spread out,
interacting with the environment (for example, as they meet solid
objects) in a way that locally changes the gradient of their
corresponding optimization characteristic.
"It is a bit like locating a mature lump of cheese in a labyrinth
of caves," said Dr Leo Dorst, now an assistant professor at the
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Karen Trovato and Dr. Leo Dorst the '2005 Inventor of
the Year' award from the New York Intellectual Property Law
Association (NYIPLA), one of the USA's leading organizations for the
development and administration of intellectual property interests. The
award, which was presented personally to Dr.
Instead of trying to continuously compute a complex set of
equations based on Newtonian physics (the laws of motion), which takes
an inordinate amount of time, Trovato and Dorst adopted a radically
different approach to path planning. Anything dropped into the
environment that wants to optimally reach the goal merely has to sense
these gradients and follow the path of the wave back to its source.
"I remember listening to a math lecture on the conceptual problem
of shifting a grand piano and quickly coming to the realization that
using a classical approach you just would not have the computing power
to do it in real time," said Dr.

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Their method is so
successful at optimizing computerized route-planning operations that
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Million Dollar Scholarship Fund Established to Encourage Minority Students to Pursue Careers in Teaching Math and Science

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Trovato and Dr.com/newscenter

About Royal Philips Electronics

Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI)
is one of the world's biggest electronics companies and Europe 's
largest, with sales of EUR 30.

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High-resolution pictures are available from:
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WASHINGTON, Department of Education -- The
Siemens Teacher Scholarships, a collaboration between the Thurgood Marshall
Scholarship Fund, the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) and the Siemens
Foundation , aimed at encouraging minority students to pursue teaching careers
in math and science, was officially announced today at the Department of
Education. "All you have to do is
follow your nose. "Then on hearing the ideas of Leo Dorst, I knew that between
us we could come up with the solution. The technology is also likely to
find important application in the Philips vision of Ambient
Intelligence -- environments that are aware of our presence and
responsive to our needs.

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McCausland,
Chairman of the Board, Siemens Foundation. "All students deserve a
sound, quality education that will set them on the road to economic
prosperity.

Philips Scientists Win Prestigious '2005 Inventor of the Year' Award for Work on Path Planning

Granted under a patent titled 'Method and Apparatus for Path
Planning' this innovative technology adds to the extensive patent
portfolio that has come out of Philips Research -- one of the largest
patent portfolios in the world generated by a private research
organization.

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