{"id":21773,"date":"2023-05-24T09:15:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T07:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=21773"},"modified":"2023-05-24T11:22:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T09:22:04","slug":"polhemsradet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2023\/05\/24\/polhemsradet\/","title":{"rendered":"Polhemsr\u00e5det"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was invited, and I have accepted, to become a member of Polhemsr\u00e5det<\/a><\/em>, the “Polhem Council”, that works for the Polhem Prize nomination committee and serves to appoint the award winners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I consider it a great honor to get to serve on this board. I am not an engineer by education, but I do know my way around a few engineer topics and in particular things around software and computer related technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This assignment is done on a voluntary basis, there is no money involved. I am joining a council chock-full of intimidatingly impressive people as its seventh member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Polhem Prize<\/a>, which I was awarded in 2017<\/a>, is Sweden’s oldest engineering award<\/strong>. It was first awarded a person in 1878.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Polhem Prize is awarded for “a [Swedish] high-level technical innovation or an ingenious solution to a technical problem. The innovation must be available on the open market and be competitive. It has to be sustainable and environmentally friendly.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More details about the prize, how it works and other council members can be found on the Swedish site for Polhemspriset<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was invited, and I have accepted, to become a member of Polhemsr\u00e5det, the “Polhem Council”, that works for the Polhem Prize nomination committee and serves to appoint the award winners. I consider it a great honor to get to serve on this board. I am not an engineer by education, but I do know … Continue reading Polhemsr\u00e5det<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[227,242],"class_list":["post-21773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-award","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21773"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22457,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21773\/revisions\/22457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}