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BBC News: Linux Creator Linus Torvalds Shares Millennium Tech Prize

By Linux_Foundation - June 13, 2012 - 8:49am

Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, has been named joint winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize.

He shares the honour with Dr Shinya Yamanaka, a stem cell scientist.

More at BBC News [1]

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[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18423502