Infosys Prize

The existing prize categories will remain largely unchanged, except for Economics, which will now be a separate category instead of being under Social Sciences

The Infosys Prize holds significance as many of the past awardees have gone on to win international accolades

The Infosys Prize focuses on the achievements of the recipients and awards them for their contributions to science and research impacting India

The Infosys Prize focuses on the achievements of the recipients and awards them for their contributions to science and research impacting India

Murthy was speaking at the awards ceremony of Infosys Prize 2021

Hari Balakrishnan of MIT has been working on inferring bad driving behaviour using sensor data from phones and other IoT devices in vehicles to help reduce thousands of road crashes each year

The prize consists of a gold medal, a citation and a purse of $100,000

The winners of the Infosys Prize 2019 were announced across six categories -- Engineering and Computer Sciences, Humanities, Life Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Social Science

Infosys Science Foundation is a not-for-profit trust with a corpus of Rs 140 cr