FW: NBP-Announce: GENERAL: Touch of Genius Prize for Innovation Winners
Peter Altschul <[email protected]>
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-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony Grima Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 11:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: NBP-Announce: GENERAL: Touch of Genius Prize for Innovation Winners 2007 Touch of Genius Prize for Innovation Winners Four years ago, when the Gibney Family Foundation stepped up to the plate to fund "Louis Braille: A Touch of Genius," Frank Gibney stipulated that support for the book was only half of the offering. The other half was support for a $20,000 prize which would be awarded by National Braille Press each year, to encourage and reward individual innovation, reflecting back on Louis Braille's accomplishments. This year, for the first time, National Braille Press, in partnership with The Gibney Family Foundation, is pleased to announce the winners of the 2007 Touch of Genius Prize for Innovation: Karen Gourgey and Steven Landau for the Talking Tactile Tablet. The Talking Tactile Tablet (TTT) is an inexpensive and simple computer peripheral device that acts as a viewer for tactile diagrams, maps, and illustrations. Users place one of many overlay sheets on the TTT device and explore a graphic using touch sense and/or vision. Dr. Gourgey and Mr. Landau have created a library of software programs for the Talking Tactile Table system, all promoting tactile literacy. Dr. Karen Gourgey is Director of the Computer Center for Visually Impaired People (CCVIP) at Baruch College, City University, in New York City, and Steven Landau is Director of Research at Touch Graphics, Inc., also in New York City. For more information on the 2008 Touch of Genius Prize for Innovation, please visit our website January at: http://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/braille/louisbraillebook.html _______________________________________________ Nbp mailing list [email protected] PLEASE DO NOT respond to this message! It is an automated message and your query will not reach us. Send questions to [email protected] . Visit us at http://www.nbp.org To unsubscribe from this list, go to: http://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/query/unsub.html?list=elist VICUG-L is the Visually Impaired Computer User Group List. Archived on the World Wide Web at http://listserv.icors.org/archives/vicug-l.html Signoff: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected]