In 1997, a team of researchers led by John Gustafson from Ames Laboratory ( located on the Iowa State campus ) finished building a working replica of the Atanasoff – Berry Computer at a cost of $ 350, 000.

At the 1997 ceremonies, a team of " cryogenic sex researchers " distributed a pamphlet titled " Safe Sex at Four Kelvin ".

In 1997, the Association of Logic Programming bestowed to fifteen recognized researchers in logic programming the title Founders of Logic Programming to recognize them as pioneers in the field:

Three researchers at NIST have been awarded Nobel Prizes for their work in Physics: William D. Phillips in 1997, Eric A. Cornell in 2001, John L. Hall in 2005, which is the largest number for any US government laboratory.

A group of Australian researchers have proposed ( based on a 1997 study in rats ) that oxycodone, unlike morphine ( the effect of which is mediated by μ-opioid receptors ), acts on κ-opioid receptors.

In 1997, researchers proposed a simpler classification that reduced the number of major types to six and gave them descriptive names .< ref > These six major types are listed here.

It was created by researchers Lee Giles, Kurt Bollacker and Steve Lawrence in 1997 while they were at the NEC Research Institute ( now NEC Labs ), Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

From 1997 to 2003 Lee was director of the RIKEN-BNL Research Center ( now director emeritus ), which together with other researchers from Columbia, completed a 1 teraflops supercomputer QCDSP for lattice QCD in 1998 and a 10 teraflops QCDOC machine in 2001.

When using PBL, learners in the classroom become researchers and often work in small groups to analyze problems, determine solutions, and evaluate solutions ( Hoffman and Ritchie, 1997 ).

In 1997, researchers from the National Cancer Institute confirmed this taxonomic ranking following their phylogenetic studies.

The Internet2 Project was originally established by 34 university researchers in 1996 under the auspices of EDUCOM ( later EDUCAUSE ), and was formally organized as the not-for-profit University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development ( UCAID ) in 1997.

On December 9, 1997, Digital Equipment Corporation and SYSTRAN S. A. launched AltaVista Translation Service, which was developed by a team of researchers at Digital Equipment.

The 1997 TV movie Soul Mates, starring Raver, is shown by market researchers at Television Preview.

The synthesis of celecoxib was first described in 1997 by a team of researchers at Searle Research and Development.

Explicitly parallel instruction computing ( EPIC ) is a term coined in 1997 by the HP – Intel alliance to describe a computing paradigm that researchers had been investigating since the early 1980s.

In 1997, a consortium of twelve universities ( four Swedish and eight Danish ) from both sides of the Sound has been established, opening up all courses, libraries and other facilities to all students, teachers and researchers from the region.

The research mission at UMMS was augmented in 1997 with the acquisition of the financially-ailing Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research, the Shrewsbury, Massachusetts institution where researchers developed the combined oral contraceptive pill during the early 1960s.

The phrase ICT had been used by academic researchers since the 1980s, but it became popular after it was used in a report to the UK government by Dennis Stevenson in 1997 and in the revised National Curriculum for England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2000.

In his 1997 interview with Charles Platt, Podkletnov insisted that his gravity-shielding work was reproduced by researchers at universities in Toronto and Sheffield, but none have come forward to acknowledge this.

The first papers on the theory were published from 1997 onwards by a group of researchers around Andrei Shleifer.

Several important fossil mammal discoveries have been made that have led researchers to question many of the relationships proposed by McKenna and Bell ( 1997 ).

The WIEGO network was founded in April 1997 by a group of ten activists, researchers, and development practitioners, based around the globe, who worked on the informal economy and articulated a shared concern that the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy were not well understood, valued, or supported in policy circles or by the international development community.

Solomon is the founder and former executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, an organization founded in 1997 " as a national consortium of independent public-policy researchers, analysts and activists.

* TV is Good, on Channel 7 ( 1997 – 1998 ; localized version of ABC ad campaign )

*" TV is Good, on NewsChannel 8 " ( 1997 – 1998 ; localized version of ABC ad campaign )

Prior to the implementation of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office Act 1996 enacted by the British Parliament, Hong Kong represented its interests abroad through the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices ( HKETOs ) and via a special office in the British Embassies or High Commissions, but the latter has ceased after the sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred to the PRC and became a special administrative region ( SAR ) of the PRC in 1997.

Due to the 1997 unrest in Albania and the Kosovo War in 1998 – 1999 ethnic Albanian traffickers enjoyed a competitive advantage, which has been eroding as the region stabilises.

* Valašské královstí ( Kingdom of Wallachia ) is a tongue-in-cheek micronation established by Tomáš Harabiš, with the Czech actor Bolek Polívka as its king in 1997 in the territory of Moravian Wallachia, for the purpose of promoting the region and tourist activities.

Out of all the currencies of the Latin American region, the nuevo sol is the most stable and reliable, being the least affected by the downturn in the value of the US dollar ; during late 2007 and early 2008, the exchange rate fell to 2. 69 to 1, which had not been seen since 1997.

The country then experienced economic crisis in 1997 with the rest of the region.

The most profitable company in the region is Fiat Auto-Poland S. A. in Bielsko-Biała with a revenue of PLN 6. 2 billion in 1997.

Observations from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in 1997 revealed an " elongated bright central region " that peaked at 9 ″ ( 70 AU ) to the northeast of Vega.

As a result of its efforts to improve the region, the IDA has helped bring electricity to an additional 66 million Africans since 1997, helped build or restore 240, 000 kilometers of paved roads, and helped enroll an additional 15 million African children in school since 2002.

In May 1997, Nature Genetics published the discovery by Ercole Rao and colleagues of the X / Y chromosome pseudoautosomal region ( PAR1 ) SHOX gene, haploinsufficiency of which leads to short stature in Turner syndrome ( 45, X ).

In 1997, Thessaloniki was celebrated as the European Capital of Culture, sponsoring events across the city and the region.

According to the 1997 treaty, a Russian naval base would continue to be located in Sevastopol and the adjoining region on the terms of a 20-year renewable lease, following a long diplomatic and political dispute between Russia and the newly independent Ukraine.

* National City ( Kalamazoo was formerly the corporate HQ of First of America Bank, which merged with National City Bank in 1997 ), National City has since been purchased and merged with PNC Bank which still maintains a large corporate building in Texas Township, and several downtown along with branches in the region.

* Butterfly Festival-Next to last weekend in June, honors the multitudes of butterflies ( both rare and nonrare ) found in the bluff region of Mount Magazine, founded in 1997.

In a similar manner, Channel 4 also showed pages from Oracle until 1989 and 4-Tel On View until 1997 and in the late 1980s some ITV companies broadcast a programme called Jobfinder which consisted of teletext pages showing details of job vacancies in their region and other jobseeking related information.

The benefits Mitsubishi had seen because of its strong presence in south-east Asia reversed themselves as a result of the economic crisis in the region which began in 1991 with the advent of the collapse of the Japanese asset price bubble, referred to in Japan as the beginning of the Lost Decade and continued to 1997.

Battle Royale takes place in 1997 in an alternate timeline — Japan is a member region of a totalitarian state known as the.

Responsible government was never granted ; the governor remained head of government until 1997, when the role as head of the region and head of government was taken up by the chief executive.

It was authorized by the special administrative region government to continue to represent the central government after 1997, and it was renamed The Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong SAR on January 18, 2000.

A more typical result of surface dew points above are extreme precipitable water readings as well as other indices used to forecast severe thunderstorms and flooding such as Convective available potential energy as was illustrated in early June 2008 when thunderstorms originating in Minnesota and Iowa mushroomed when hitting the area of extreme dew points in South-Central and South-East Wisconsin from and inaugurated the third wave of upper Middle West flooding ( the first was snowmelt from the record-breaking winter snows and the third was the widespread rains in excess of and up to during early August 1997 ) by producing extremely heavy rain over the region, with many areas receiving and a few areas of in 3 to 6 hours ' time.

* Somaliland region of Somalia – November 23, 1997 – UN negotiates with clan elders for release of five kidnapped aid workers.

The last Telstar, based on the GF platform, was released in 1997, but was only sold in Japan, as Ford was now marketing the Mondeo in the Asian-Pacific region.

James Cameron, the director of the 1997 film Titanic, spent time in his childhood in the Caledon region to the south and still has family there.

In 1997 and 2000 the region received especially heavy rains, leading to record flooding of the Fitzroy and other rivers.