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 localized the region of the IP < sub > 3 </ sub > receptor involved with binding of IP < sub > 3 </ sub > to between amino acid residues 226 and 578 in 1997.

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.

Adams ( 1997 ) have also proposed an etymology based on the connection with the Indo-European dawn goddess, from " very " and " to shine ".

In the January 1997 State of the Union address, Clinton proposed a new initiative to provide coverage to up to five million children.

A major programme of remedial work on the West Coast Main Line started in 1997 and finished in 2009, far over budget (£ 10bn ), many years late and still not bringing the line up to the standards originally proposed by Railtrack.

At a summit in Aleppo, Syria, in 1997, the World Council of Churches ( WCC ) proposed a reform in the calculation of Easter which would have replaced the present divergent practices of calculating Easter with modern scientific knowledge taking into account actual astronomical instances of the spring equinox and full moon based on the meridian of Jerusalem, while also following the Council of Nicea position of Easter being on the Sunday following the full moon.

In July 1997, PGP Inc. proposed to the IETF that there be a standard called OpenPGP.

The World Council of Churches proposed a reform of the method of determining the date of Easter at a summit in Aleppo, Syria, in 1997: Easter would be defined as the first Sunday following the first astronomical full moon following the astronomical vernal equinox, as determined from the meridian of Jerusalem.

In 1997, The Federal Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility and Compliance Act was proposed in the U. S. legislature to correct the shortcomings of the original section 508 ; the original Section 508 had turned out to be mostly ineffective, in part due to the lack of enforcement mechanisms.

First proposed in 1997, many of the beneficiaries of this 2009 allocation were developing countries.

The UML Partners ' UML 1. 0 specification draft was proposed to the OMG in January 1997.

Samuel Eliot Morison ( 1971 ) suggested the southern part of Newfoundland ; Erik Wahlgren ( 1986 ) Miramichi Bay in New Brunswick ; and Icelandic climate specialist Pall Bergthorsson ( 1997 ) proposed New York City.

A similar plan was proposed in 1989 by J. T. Early, and again in 1997 by Edward Teller, Lowell Wood, and Roderick Hyde.

In 1997, Prime Minister Lester Bird announced that a group of ecologically sensitive islands just off Antigua's northeastern coast, previously proposed for national park status, were being turned over to Malaysian developers.

Guitarist Derek Bailey proposed " non-idiomatic improvisation " as a more accurately descriptive term, claiming the form offers musicians more possibilities " per cubic second " than any genre ;< ref name =" Guitar Player January 1997 "> Guitar Player, January 1997 Interestingly, John Eyles notes that Bailey has been quoted as saying that free improvisation is “ playing without memory ”.

The Cape Town Principles and Best Practices, adopted by the NGO Working Group on the Convention on the Rights of Children and UNICEF at a symposium on the prevention of recruitment of children into the armed forces and on demobilization and social regeneration of child soldiers in Africa in April 1997, proposed that African Governments should adopt and ratify the Optional protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict raising the minimum age from 15 to 18, and that African Governments should ratify and implement other pertinent treaties and incorporate them into national law.

To honor the cookie's creation in the state, on July 9, 1997, Massachusetts designated the chocolate chip cookie as the Official State Cookie, after it was proposed by a third-grade class from Somerset, Massachusetts.

In the 1980s, another northern extension of the Route 21 freeway was proposed to U. S. Route 46 in Clifton ; this section was built between 1997 and 2000.

In order to end the popular chant, city solicitor Michael Barry proposed renaming the city to Ocean Park in 1997, but this failed to pass.

The second merit review criterion, that of the broader societal impacts of the proposed research, has been met with opposition from the scientific and policy communities since its inception in 1997.

Although he rejected this scholarship, Martin Mayer wrote in 1997 that since the late 1980s it had been “ clear ” that continuing the Glass-Steagall prohibitions was only “ permitting a handful of large investment houses and hedge funds to charge monopoly rents for their services without protecting corporate America, investors, or the banks .” Hyman Minsky, who disputed the benefits of “ universal banking ,” wrote in 1995 testimony prepared for Congress that “ repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, in itself, would neither benefit nor harm the economy of the United States to any significant extent .” In 1974 Mayer had quoted Minsky as stating a 1971 presidential commission ( the “ Hunt Commission ”) was repeating the errors of history when it proposed relaxing Glass-Steagall and other legislation from the 1930s.

In 1997 the Clinton Administration proposed that “ wholesale financial institutions ” ( known as “ woofies ”) be authorized to be members of the Federal Reserve System but not “ banks ” under the Bank Holding Company Act because they would own non-FDIC insured banks that would only take deposits of $ 100, 000 or more.

It could be argued that it is this ethic that formed the underlying arguments proposed by Governments at the Kyoto summit in 1997 and three agreements reached in Rio in 1992.

A referendum in 1997 -- seven years after the end of Communist rule -- proposed to restore the monarchy in the person of Zog's son Leka Zogu who, since 1961, has been styled " Leka I, King of the Albanians ".