IBM Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) Innovation Award
--The IBM UIMA Innovation Award is an international award competition designed to encourage the use of open source and open standards-based tools for academic curricula and research. The UIMA framework supports the hard work of advancing the state-of-the-art in Natural Language Processing and more generally algorithms for unstructured information (text, audio, video) analysis, in real-world settings and on configurations ranging from stand-alone laptop computers to large clusters of servers.

• Eric Nyberg, 2005, 2006