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November 2024: Awarded the Edison Award for "visionary leadership in artificial intelligence and transformative technology"
The Edison Awards did not list this as a 2024 'Edison Award.' In November 2024, the organization announced Huang as the 2025 Edison Achievement Award honoree.
Full reasoning
The official Edison Awards materials use a different award name and year than the article.
- The Edison Awards' own page for Huang labels him the "2025 Edison Achievement Award honoree."
- The organization's November 12, 2024 press release says it was announcing Jensen Huang as a 2025 Edison Achievement Award Honoree.
So the article's wording is inaccurate in two ways: it calls the honor an "Edison Award" rather than the Edison Achievement Award, and it presents it as a 2024 award, even though the official announcement identifies Huang as the 2025 honoree.
2 sources
- Jensen Huang - Edison Awards
2025 Edison Achievement Award honoree Jensen Huang
- The Edison Awards Announces Jensen Huang of NVIDIA as 2025 Achievement Award Honoree
Nov 12, 2024 ... announces Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, as a 2025 Edison Achievement Award Honoree.
Spencer launched a bar in Taipei in 2015 that was honored as one of the top 50 bars in Asia by Forbes.
Forbes did not confer that ranking. Spencer Huang's bar R&D Cocktail Lab was featured on Asia's 50 Best Bars, a list that Forbes reported on but said was released by Drinks International.
Full reasoning
This sentence mixes up who ranked the bar.
- The Taipei Times identified Spencer Huang as one of the founders of R&D Cocktail Lab in Taipei.
- Forbes' own 2016 article about the ranking says "Drinks International ... just released its inaugural Asia's 50 Best Bars list" and includes "R&D COCKTAIL LAB, TAIPEI" on that list.
So the bar was indeed recognized as a top-50 bar in Asia, but the recognition came from Asia's 50 Best Bars / Drinks International, not from Forbes. Forbes was reporting on the list, not issuing the honor itself.
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- Bittersweet concoction - Taipei Times
R&D, which stands for "Research & Development," is the brainchild of three entrepreneurs ... Spencer Huang ... open R&D in January this year.
- Asia's 50 Best Bars 2016 Announced
Drinks International—the magazine behind the acclaimed World's 50 Best Bars awards—just released its inaugural Asia's 50 Best Bars list ... R&D COCKTAIL LAB, TAIPEI