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Nominees wanted for MacRobert Award

A Royal Academy of Engineering product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Jan 10, 2005

The Royal Academy of Engineering is looking for contenders for the MacRobert Award 2005, worth GBP 50,000 tax-free to the winner, plus the solid gold MacRobert Award Medal.

The Royal Academy of Engineering is looking for contenders for the MacRobert Award 2005, worth GBP 50,000 tax-free to the winner, plus the solid gold MacRobert Award Medal.

The closing date for entries is 31st January 2005.

Now in its 36th year, the MacRobert Award is Britain's biggest award for innovation in engineering.

Open to individuals or teams of up to five people from any size of company who have exploited a major engineering breakthrough, the winner will be announced at the Academy's Awards Dinner in London in June 2005.

We welcome entries from any field of engineering or technology as long as they are innovative, commercially successful and benefit society.

A team of engineers at IBM UK won the 2004 MacRobert Award for innovation in engineering for its WebSphere MQ family of software products, which has helped businesses save billions of dollars by providing a failsafe means of exchanging business-critical information between computer systems, irrespective of their location and regardless of whatever hardware, programming language, operating system or communication protocol they use.

"We are delighted that the IBM WebSphere software family has been honoured with this prestigious award by the Royal Academy of Engineering", says Graham Spittle, Hursley Laboratory Director and IBM's Vice President, Business Integration Development.

"WebSphere MQ is one of the most important and successful distributed system technologies in the industry today, and we are proud that this achievement was initiated by a UK team".

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