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Segway inventor Dean Kamen is receiving the Hunt Institute's inaugural Visionary Award Wednesday night.
Kamen, who will receive the first-ever Hunt Institute Visionary Award tonight, also invented the iBot stair-climbing, battery-powered wheelchair and more than 440 other patentable devices, many of them related to medicine. Currently, he is perfecting a low-power water purifying system and creating solar-powered devices to be used in underdeveloped countries.
President Bill Clinton presented Kamen with the National Medal of Technology in 2000 for advancing medical care through his inventions and advancing science through his organization, FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology). FIRST sponsors scientific competitions and helps hook up budding scientists with scholarship money.
Kamen is best known for creating the Segway, a two-wheeled vehicle on which riders travel standing up. Segway has proved a boon to tour groups, mall cops and injured veterans.
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"We are honoring Dean Kamen for his success, his vision and his support in training a new generation of engineers who are committed to meeting the challenges of the developing world," said Hunter Hunt. He and his wife, Stephanie, founded Southern Methodist University's Hunt Institute of Engineering and Humanity, which is devoted to solving problems faced by impoverished communities.The institute will recognize Kamen's work and give him the inaugural Visionary Award at tonight's ceremony, part of a weeklong "Engineering and Humanity" series of events promoting free-market solutions to developing-world problems.
For more information, visit SMU.edu.
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