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About CELEST What is CELEST? CELESTial Manifesto Mission Thrusts Overview Virtual Tour People Administrative Structure Faculty Staff Participating Institutions External Advisory and Scientific Review Board Diversity Outreach Committee Educational and Scientific Resources Curriculum Materials Scientific Materials News and Events NSF Highlights Working with CELEST			HONORS AND AWARDS (January – December 2006) Gail Carpenter and Stephen Grossberg: Exclusive worldwide license for five patents sold by Boston University to Intellectual Ventures, LLC in November 2005. Upfront fee = $200,000 plus 10% of any profits received from sublicensing income: Carpenter, G.A. & Grossberg, S., U.S. Patent No. 5,142,590: Pattern recognition system (Filed: November 27, 1985. Issued: August 25, 1992. European Patent No. 0244483, issued July 15, 1992). (ART 1). Carpenter, G.A. & Grossberg, S., U.S. Patent Nos. 4,914,708 and 5,133,021: System for self organization of stable category recognition codes for analog patterns (Filed: June 19, 1987. Issued: April 3, 1990 and July 21, 1992). (ART 2). Carpenter, G.A. & Grossberg, S., U.S. Patent No. 5,311,601: Pattern recognition system with variable selection weights (Filed: January 12, 1990. Issued: May 10, 1994). (ART 3). Carpenter, G.A., Grossberg, S., & Rosen, D.B., U.S. Patent No. 5,157,738: Rapid category learning and recognition system (Filed: December 19, 1990. Issued: October 20, 1992). (ART 2 A). Carpenter, G.A., Grossberg, S., & Reynolds, J.H., U.S. Patent No. 5,214,715: Predictive self organizing neural network. (Filed: January 31, 1991. Issued: May 25, 1993). (ARTMAP). Patents sold by Boston University to Intellectual Ventures LLC, November 2005 Stephen Grossberg: Invited to be an editor of the journal Cognitive Neurodynamics, February. Re-elected to the Board of Governors of the International Neural Network Society (INNS). STUDENTS: David Silverman received an Undergraduate Research Award, Department of Psychology, Boston University, May.