Second Annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration Announced

NEW YORK, March 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation today announced the second annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration (MATC). The Mellon Awards, in values of $50,000 and $100,000, honor not-for-profit organizations for leadership in the collaborative development of open source software tools with particular application to higher education and not-for-profit activities. More information on the awards, including a listing of last year’s winners and the 2007 online nomination form, is available at http://matc.mellon.org/.

The awards will be presented at the Fall Task Force meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information in Washington, DC on 13 December 2007, by Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium and the inventor of the World Wide Web. The recipients will be selected by the MATC Award Committee, which includes Berners-Lee, Mitchell Baker (CEO, Mozilla Corporation), John Seely Brown (former Chief Scientist, Xerox Corp.), Vinton G. Cerf (Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google, Inc.), John Gage (Chief Researcher and Director of the Science Office, Sun Microsystems, Inc.), and Tim O’Reilly (Founder and CEO, O’Reilly Media).

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is a philanthropic organization with offices in New York City and Princeton, NJ. The MATC awards are a project of the Foundation’s Program in Research in Information Technology (RIT). More information about the MATC awards, including the full content of this release, is available at http://matc.mellon.org/.

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