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class=792583309-13032009>52°North is pleased to announce the winners of the
first 52°North Student Innovation Prize for Geoinformatics!</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN class=792583309-13032009>1.
First prize: Thorsten Deelmann and Martin Wilden from the Institute for
Geoinformatics in Muenster, Germany for their proposal "<STRONG>Prioritizing
tasks for a Web Processing Service</STRONG>". </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN class=792583309-13032009>2.
Second prize: Victor Gonzales Cortés from the Universidad Politécnica in
Valencia, Spain for his proposal "<STRONG>SQL Script Profile for 52°North
WPS-T</STRONG>". </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN class=792583309-13032009>3.
The special award for applied open source development: Amos Kabo-Bah and Yin Zun
from the International Institute for GIS and Earth Observation (ITC) in
Enschede, the Netherlands for their proposal "<STRONG>Developing a GUI for
Modelling the Water Quality of the 52°North Dinkel River</STRONG>".
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<P align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN
class=792583309-13032009>more information: <A
href="http://52north.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=291:ip09winners&catid=35:news-lnews-mila&Itemid=252">http://52north.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=291:ip09winners&catid=35:news-lnews-mila&Itemid=252</A></P></SPAN></FONT>
<P align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>-----<BR><BR>Dipl.-Geogr. Ann
Hitchcock<BR>52°North Initiative for Geospatial Open Source Software
GmbH<BR>Martin-Luther-King-Weg 24<BR>48155
Münster<BR>Germany<BR><BR>Geschäftsführer: Dr. Albert Remke, Dr. Andreas
Wytzisk<BR>Amtsgericht Münster HRB 10849<BR><BR>Tel.: +49 (0)251 74 74-
520<BR>Fax: +49 (0)251 74 74-
530<BR><BR>hitchcock@52north.org<BR>www.52north.org
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