Point Cloud Library (PCL) has been recognized with the Grand Prize of the 2011 Open Source Software (OSS) World Challenge (www.ossaward.org). This is the 5th year for the World Challenge, whose purpose is to promote the development of open source software and to expand the interaction between open source communities all over the world. An international committee evaluated a total of 56 open source projects from 22 countries for this year’s World Challenge. Their job must have been difficult…