“The call came out of the blue to Yoky Matsuoka, associate professor of Computer science & Engineering. An official from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation instructed Matsuoka to sit down and put down her week-old baby. Then he revealed she had won a 2007 MacArthur Fellowship, the so-called “genius award” with a $500,000 no-strings-attached prize …”
Read the (PDF) article in Trend in Engineering.