Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, has been named joint winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize. He shares the honour with Dr Shinya Yamanaka, a stem cell scientist.
Technology Academy Finland said Mr Torvalds’s achievements had “had a great impact on shared software development, networking and the openness of the web”.
It is the first time the bi-annual award has been split. Each man receives 600,000 euros ($752,000; £483,000).
Mr Torvalds developed the first version of a Linux operating system while studying at the University of Helsinki, Finland in 1991.
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