Former President A P J Abdul Kalam felicitated the six winners.
The annual award includes a pure gold medal, a citation and a prize purse worth $ 100,000 or its equivalent in the Indian rupees.
The Infosys Science Foundation on Thursday awarded winners of Infosys Prize 2010 recognising their outstanding achievements in scientific research.
Infosys felicitates outstanding researchers in various fields.
Infosys Technologies and Association for Computing Machinery have signed an agreement to create a new annual award that recognises young scientists and system developers.
Nilekani is an organised person and his strength is simplification of complex ideas, said Murthy.
The company's net profit stood at Rs 2,875 crore (Rs 28.7 billion) in the same period last year.
'India is a country where many of the problems need local solutions and some be solved using basic science.'
Infosys' spending on research and development has registered a decline.
Nilekani said the issue has been blown out of proportion as Aadhaar have built far too many security layers and it is not possible to randomly pore it.
Vishal Sikka said such a plan is on the anvil.
India needs to invest a lot more money in science research and translate this research into products and solutions for its people, says trustee at the Infosys Science Foundation and co-founder at Infosys Kris Gopalakrishnan.
'Children are curious by nature, so I thought of writing these books, which provide creative but convincing explanations and also teach values like sharing is caring,' Sudha Murty tells Chintan Girish Modi.
Banerjee, 58, was educated at the University of Calcutta, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D in 1988. He is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Sudha Murty has various roles -- philanthropist, author, teacher, wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt -- and she revels in each one of them, discovers Savera R Someshwar.
"A writer must be like a sponge. I absorb everything from different parts of life."
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