2003 Summit & Awards

The 2002 World Technology Summit & Awards

Award Winners & Finalists

Winners are in RED

Arts

• Ms. Kitsou Dubois - Choreographer and researcher in dance, KI Productions
• Mr. Masaki Fujihata ­ Artist
• Ms. Lynn Hershman Leeson - Artist/Professor, University of California, Davis
• Mr. Michael Naimark - Independent media artist and researcher, Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences
• Mr. Marko Peljhan ­ Director, Projekt Atol

Biotechnology

• Dr. Leonard Adleman ­ Professor, University of Southern California
• Dr. Ruedi Aebersold ­ Professor, Institute for Systems Biology
• Dr. Peter Schultz ­ Professor, The Scripps Research Institute
• Dr. Marc Van Montagu - Professor Emeritus, Ghent University
• Prof. Shigeyuki Yokoyama - Project Director, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) & Department of Biophysics & Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo

Communications Technology

• Mr. John Gage - Chief Researcher, Sun Microsystems
• Mr. Kenji Kosaka - (former) Senior Vice-Minister for Public Management, Home Affairs, and Posts and Telecommunications of Japan
• Dr. Dennis Ritchie & Mr. Kenneth Thompson - Bell Laboratories
• Dr. Ronald Rivest, Dr. Adi Shamir & Dr. Leonard Adleman ­ MIT
• Mr. Linus Torvalds ­ Creator, Linux

Design

• Prof. Ron Arad ­Professor of Design Product, Royal College of Arts & Desginer, Ron Arad Associates Ltd.
• Dr. Santiago Calatrava ­ Architect, Callatrava Valles SA
• Mr. Jonathan Ive - Vice-President of Industrial Design, Apple Computers
• Mr. Bill Moggridge ­ Director, IDEO
• Mr. Karim Rashid - Industrial Designer, Karim Rashid Inc.

Education

• Mr. Tak-Wai Chan ­ Professor, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, ROC
• Dr. Pedro Hepp ­ Professor, Unversidad de La Frontera
• Dr. Roy Pea - Professor of Education and the Learning Sciences, Stanford University
• Dr. Sreedher Ramamurthy - Director, Electronic Media Production Centre, Indira Gandhi National Open University
• Mr. Allan Weis ­Founder and CEO (retired), Advanced Network & Services, Inc.

Energy

• Dr. Ashok Gadgil - Senior Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Dr. Nasim Khan ­ Chairman, National Commission for Alternative Energy
• Dr. David Mills - Principal Research Fellow & Head of Solar Energy Group, School of Physics, University of Sydney
• Mr. Alan Thomson ­ CEO, Wavegen
• Mr. Greg Yurek ­ CEO, American Superconductor

Entertainment

• Mr. Dan Farmer ­ Network Security Administrator, EarthLink
• Mr. Bill Gates - Chief Technology Architect, Microsoft Corporation
• Mr. Shawn Hardin & Chris Swain - Governors, Interactive Media Peer Group, Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
• Mr. Pekka Palin ­ Founder, OpenMobile Corporation, Finland
• Mr. Michael Robertson ­ CEO, Lindows.com

Environment

• Mr. Francis E. K. Britton ­ MD, EcoPlan International
• Mr. Mohamed El-Kassas - Emeritus Professor, University of Cairo
• Dr. Keto Mshigeni - Pro Chancellor for Academic Affairs Research, University of Namibia
• Dr. Rosa Maria Valdebenito Sanhueza ­ EMBRAPA (Brazilian National Agricultural Research Organization)
• Prof. Jianghong Zhao ­ Director, Department of Industrial Design, Hunan University

Ethics

• Prof. Dan Brock - Director, Center for Biomedical Ethics, Brown University
• H. Exc. Mrs. Vigdis Finnbogadottir ­ (former) President, Republic of Iceland
• Prof. Deborah Johnson ­University of Virginia
• Dr. Alain Pompidou ­ Professor of Medicine, University Rene-Descartes
• Prof. Ren Zong Qiu - Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Finance

• Prof. Paul Gompers - Harvard Business School
• Mr. William Hambrecht - Founder, Chairman & CEO, WR Hambrecht & Co.
• Mr. Jeff Maggioncalda - President & CEO, Financial Engines, Inc.
• Prof. Robert Shiller ­ Yale University
• Prof. Jeremy Siegel - Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Health & Medicine

• Prof. Bruce Beutler ­ The Scripps Research Institute
• Dr. Carl J. Brandt ­ Founder & Medical Director, NetDoktor A/S
• Sir Paul Nurse ­ Head, Cancer Research UK
• Dr. James Thomson ­ Professor, University of Wisconsin
• Dr. Elias Zerhouni - Executive Vice Dean, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine & Director, National Institutes of Health

IT - Hardware

• Prof. Leonard Adleman ­ University of Southern California
• Mr. David Ditzel - Vice-Chairman, CTO and VP Marketing, Transmeta Corporation
• Prof. Shuji Nakamura ­University of California, Santa Barbara
• Mr. Jon Rubinstein ­ SVP, Hardware Engineering, Apple Computer
• Mr. Gary Starkweather - Architect & Senior Researcher, Microsoft Corporation

IT - Software

• Mr. Cheolsoo Ahn - President & CEO, Ahnlab, Inc.
• Dr. Gerard Berry - Chief Scientific Officer, Esterel Technologies
• Mr. Grady Booch - Chief Scientist, Rational Software
• Prof. Gregor Kiczales ­ University of British Columbia
• Mr. Elon Musk ­ Chairman, Musk Foundation
• Mr. Ray Ozzie - Chairman & CEO, Groove Networks

Law

• Mr. Thomas Bruce & Prof. Peter Martin - Co-Directors, Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School
• Prof. Graham Greenleaf, Mr. Andrew Mowbray & Mr. Philip Chung - Co-Directors, Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII)
• Hon. Randall Rader - Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit & & Professor, George Washington University Law School
• Mr. Marc Rotenberg - Executive Director, EPIC
• Mr. Elliot Spitzer - Attorney General, New York State

Marketing Communications

• Mr. Francesco Ciccolella - Senior Vice President, LEGO Company
• Mr. Zhang Ruimin - Founder & CEO, Haier
• Mrs. Sivan Tafla ­ Founder, Ad4ever interactive Technologies, Inc.
• Dr. Daniel Vasella - Chairman and CEO, Novartis
• Mr. Donald Wisniewski ­ President, Cybiko

Materials

• Dr. Angela Belcher - University of Texas & Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Prof. Charles Lieber ­ Harvard University
• Dr. Richard Martel, Dr. Phaedon Avouris & Dr. Joerg Appenzeller - Research Staff, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
• Dr. Wim Richter & Dr. Michael Thomas - CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research)
• Prof. Reshef Tenne ­Weizmann Institute of Science

Media & Journalism

• Mr. John Brockman ­ Editor, Edge Foundation
• Mr. Neil Budde - Publisher, The Wall Street Journal Online, Dow Jones & Co. Inc.
• Mr. Jean-Marie Colombani ­ Director, Le Monde
• Mr. Gerhard Peter Moosleitner ­Editor-in-Chief (retired), Gruner & Jahr AG.
• Mr. Walter Mossberg - Personal Technology Columnist, The Wall Street Journal

Policy

• Dr. K.Y. Amoako, Dr. Karima Bounemra Ben Soltane & Ms. Aida Opoku-Mensah ­ United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
• Dr. Sophia Huyer - Executive Director, Gender Advisory Board, UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development
• Mr. Jonathan Lash ­ President, World Resources Institute
• Prof. Lydia Makkubu - Vice Chancellor, University of Swaziland
• Dr. Karl Pister - Chancellor Emeritus, University of California

Social Entrepreneurship

• Ms. Yitamben Gisèle ­ President, ASAFE (Association pour le Soutien et l'Appui a la Femme Entre (ASAFE)
• Mr. David Green - Executive Director, Project Impact
• Mr. Bunker Roy ­ Director, The Barefoot College
• Mr. Noah Samara - Chairman & CEO, WorldSpace Corporation
• Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy ­ Chairman, Aravind Eye Care System

Space

• Prof. Jacques Blamont - Chief Scientist and Adviser to the Director General, CNES (Centre National Etudes Spatiales)
• Prof. Roger-Maurice Bonnet - Directeur General Adjoint for Science, CNES (Centre National Etudes Spatiales)
• Mr. Eddy Hartenstein - Chairman and CEO, DIRECTV, Inc.
• Mr. Gerd Hirzinger ­ Director, Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, DLR German Aerospace Center
• Dr. Edward Weiler - Associate Administrator for Space Science, NASA

WTN 2002 CORPORATE FINALISTS

Biotechnology

• Celera Genomics
• Genencor International
• Geron Corporation
• Grain BioTech Australia Pty Ltd
• Invitrogen

Communications Technology

• EZchip Technologies
• Hewlett Packard
• Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs
• Nokia
• NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
• QUALCOMM
• SimbaNet (T) Ltd.

Energy

• Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE
• FuelCell Energy, Inc
• Hydrogenics
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Toyota

Environment

• ALL Species Foundation
• Botswana Technology Centre
• Las Gaviotas (Colombia's Model City)
• Development Alternatives
• Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies
• Toyota
• Unilever

Finance

• Battery Ventures
• Financial Engines
• Financial Technology Ventures
• Gate2Growth
• The Markle Foundation

Health & Medicine

• Advanced Tissue Sciences
• Affymetrix
• Applied Digital Solutions, Inc.
• Given Imaging
• WorldSpace Corporation

IT - Hardware

• Apple Computer
• IBM Corporation
• Juniper Networks
• Research In Motion, Limited
• Sony Computer Entertainment Corp.

IT - Software

• Apple Computer
• Esterel Technologies
• ILOG
• PayPal, Inc.
• Tmax Soft Co., Ltd.

Materials

• Carbon Nanotechnologies, Inc.
• IBM Corporation
• Iljin Diamond Co., Ltd.
• Nanomix
• Nano-Tex, LLC

Space

• Chinese Academy of Space Technology (CAST)
• MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.
• NASA/Industry Team: International Space Station Assembly
• SaTReCi
• XM Satellite Radio

The 2005 World Technology Summit and Awards

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