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Fri 12 Dec 2009Software to identify artworks wins prize
AN IRISH company’s mobile phone application that can identify a painting from a snapshot has won an award and $100,000 (€66,000) from Google.
Plink, an Irish start-up company set up by two Oxford University computer science doctoral students, took a top prize in the education and reference section of Google’s second global Android Developers Challenge (ADC2). Android is Google’s mobile phone operating system.
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