Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, won the Millennium Technology Award

The results of the 2012 Millennium Technology Awards were finally announced. One of the winners was the father of Linux, Linus Torvalds, which means open source. The achievements of technology and Linux are recognized by the academic community and the general public.

Millennium Technology Prize (Millennium Technology Prize) is the Finnish government and industry co-founded an award The Technology Academy Finland (TAF) issued, since 2004, held once every two years The aim is to reward those who have made significant contributions to the science, technology and IT world, and is hailed as “Nobel Prize in Engineering”. Judging that Linus Torvalds won the award is that he created the widely used Linux, which has a profound impact on the development model of the open source software and the Web platform. The mission-critical systems and Android phones of countless enterprises run on the Linux core he created. It is estimated that there are more than 30 million users worldwide.

The awards ceremony will be held on June 13, 2012 in Helsinki, Finland. This award is of great significance to Linus Torvalds, except for the first time in his hometown, the winner will receive a prize of 1 million euros. Although Linus Torvalds has won numerous awards in the past, the financial return from the “father of Linux” is not much. The most profitable is the stock that Red Hat gave him. The Millennium Technology Prize will select two winners each time, and the other winner will be Yamanaka Yamanaka who develops iPS cells.