read this on FXguide. congrats Vlado
"SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING AWARDS (ACADEMY PLAQUES)
To Vladimir Koylazov for the original concept, design and implementation of V-Ray from Chaos Group.
V-Ray’s efficient production-ready approach to ray-tracing and global illumination, its support for a wide variety of workflows, and its broad industry acceptance were instrumental in the widespread adoption of fully ray-traced rendering for motion pictures."
Just saw this on Twitter. Congratulations Vlado! Incredibly well deserved too 
Yes, warmest congratulations. Kudos!
Wooho! Take that, Corona. 
Jokes aside, congrats to Vlado and the whole team behind this amazing software! Definitely deserved.
Congratulations Vlado !!!
Congratulations Vlado, really deserved !
And congratulations to the entire Chaosgroup team for their wonderful work.
WOWOW nice one !! congrats, Vlado !!!
Awesome!!!
Well deserved, Congrats Vlado!
Congratulations to Vlado and the team! That’s some well-deserved recognition!
This is awesome. Congrats to everybody involved! 
Long overdue and well deserved!
Thank you guys! It’s awesome indeed I didn’t really think it will happen so it’s definitely a big surprise (and a good start of the year too :)) It’s quite an acknowledgement of the work all of us have done over the years.
Best regards,
Vlado
Congratulations Vlado. A well deserved award !
OMG! Amazing, congrats!
Contratulations Vlado&Co!!
nice achievement!!!
Vray is the best !!!
Vlado is the King !
Hail to the King !
TV interview with Vlado. no subtitles.
Watched it live on TV, it was а very interesting interview (I had set up a calendar event on my phone haha ). Needs to be subtitled and uploaded on the Chaos website.
+1. Couldn’t understand anything, but it looks like fun. The photos of Vlado in the 90ies sure are!