The Hanoitimes - The 2010 Vietnam Land Talent Awards Ceremony was held in Hanoi o­n November 21 to honour nine information technology products, a series of medical research, and two scientists.

This is the sixth year that the Vietnam Association for Encouraging Studies, VTV, and the Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group have co-organized such an event for the fields of IT and natural science.

Participants in the ceremony included State Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan, and IT entrepreneurs and experts.

Addressing the event, Ms Doan said that the award-winning products and scientists represent Vietnamese intelligence and have made significant contributions to the country’s development.

This year’s first prize worth VND100 million went to an IT product with great potential, a system for digitizing human cognition, which enables a patient to use his thoughts to communicate and operate some electrical appliances such as a TV and lights without assistance from other people.

Second prize worth VND50 million was awarded to an IT product for transport businesses.

However, there were no prizes awarded in the category for collective products.

For the first time, Nguyen Quang Tuan and Pham Manh Hung, both from the Vietnam Cardiology Institute, were awarded for their research o­n coronary stent intervention.

Other awards were also given to a biologist and a physicist in the field of natural science.