**COMMERCIAL IMAGE** In this photo taken by Feature Photo Service for IBM: IBM scientists, Drs. James Wynne, left, and Rangaswamy Srinivasan, center, pose with President Obama at the National Medal of Technology and Innovation Awards Ceremony at The White House in Washington D.C., Friday, February 1, 2013. Wynne, Srinivasan and Samuel Blum, who receives the award posthumously, were honored with the country’s most prestigious award given to leading innovators for technological achievement, for their discovery of a new form of laser surgery that enabled LASIK and PRK eye surgery. Today more than 25 million people worldwide have benefited from the procedure. This is the tenth time IBM has received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. (Rich Riggins/Feature Photo Service for IBM)
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