2003 Summit & Awards

The 2003 World Technology Summit & Awards

Award Winners & Finalists

The Arts

Winner: Mr. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer - Artist

Prof. Alexander Galloway - New York University
Prof. Ken Goldberg - University of California Berkeley
Prof. Peter Weibel - ZKM Karlsruhe
Prof. Tamas Waliczky - University of Mainz

Biotechnology (Individual)

Winner: Dr. Leroy Hood - Institute for Systems Biology

Dr. Stanley Crooke - Isis Pharmaceuticals
Dr. Jennie Mather - Raven Biotechnologies, Inc.
Prof. Svante Paabo - Max-Planck-Institut fuer Evolutionaere Anthropologie
Dr. Sumio Sugano - Human Genome Center, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo

Biotechnology (Corporate)

Winner: International Rice Genome Sequencing Project

Cambridge Antibody Technology
Genentech, Inc.
The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo (IMSUT)
Sangamo BioSciences, Inc.

Communications Technology (Individual)

Winner: Prof. Kilnam Chon - KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology)

Dr. Arun Netravali - Lucent Technologies
Dr. David Reed - MIT Media Lab
Prof. Ken Sakamura - University of Tokyo
Dr. Terry Turpin - Essex Corporation

Communications Technology (Corporate)

Winner: QUALCOMM, Inc.

ARM Holdings Ltd.
Auto-ID Center
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Fraunhofer Institut Integrated Circuits IIS

Design

Winner: Mr. Issey Miyake and Mr. Dai Fujiwara - Miyake Design Studio

Dr. Kyung-won Chung - Korea Institue of Design Promotion
Mr. Naoto Fukasawa - Naoto Fukasawa Design
Mr. Bert Rutan - Scaled Composites
Mr. Peter Schreyer - Volkswagen

Education

Winner: Dr. Robert Tinker - The Concord Consortium

Mr. David Copeland - CWA New Media
Dr. Sugata Mitra - NIIT (National Institute for Information Technology),
Prof. Roy Pea - Stanford University
Mr. Aim Premji and Mr. C. V. Madhukar - Azim Premji Foundation

Energy (Individual)

Winner: Prof. Zhiqiang Yin - Tsinghua University

Dr. Subhendu Guha & Dr. Jeffrey Yang - United Solar Systems Corp.
Mr. Kiyotaka Hamajima - Toyota Motor Corporation
Prof. Anne Grete Hestnes - Norwegian University of Science & Technology
Dr. Peter Meyers - First Solar

Energy (Corporate)

Winner: Environ. Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Capstone Turbine Corporation
Eletra Industrial Ltda
Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California Davis
Solar Energy and Energy Conversion Laboratory, University of Florida

Entertainment

Winner: Mr. Derek Sivers - CD Baby

Mr. James Cameron - Lightstorm Entertainment
Mr. Jen-Hsun Huang, Mr. Curtis Priem & Mr. Chris Malachowsky - Nvidia Corporation
Mr. Randal Kleiser - RK Productions
Mr. Hisashi Yamada - Toshiba Corporation

Environment (Individual)

Winner: Prof. R. Malcolm Brown - University of Texas Austin

Dr. Boris Berenfeld - The Concord Consortium
Dr. Glyn Vale - Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich
Prof. T. Nejat Veziroglu - University of Miami
Mr. P. Vivekanandan - SEVA (Sustainable-agriculture & Environmental Voluntary Action)

Environment (Corporate)

Winner: Hypercar, Inc.

Airtricity
Caisse Commune / City Car Club / Statoil Bilpool
Future Harvest
Moreland Energy Foundation Limited

Ethics

Winner: Peter Singer - Princeton University

Prof. Norman Daniels - Harvard School of Public Health
Prof. Raanan Gillon - Imperial College London
Dr. James H. Moor - Dartmouth College
Prof. Simon Rogerson - De Montfort University

Finance (Individual)

Winner: Prof. Muhammad Yunus - Grameen Bank

Mr. Jim Breyer - Accel Partners
Prof. Darrell Duffie - Stanford University
Prof. Andrew W. Lo - MIT Sloan School of Management
Mr. Eliot Spitzer - New York State

Finance (Corporate)

Winner: Intel Capital

Apax Partners, Inc.
Coller Capital
Grameen Bank
Walden International

Health & Medicine (Individual)

Winner: Prof. Jean-Laurent Casanova - Necker Medical School and INSERM U550

Dr. William Dougherty
Prof. Ian Hunter - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Vladimir Mironov - Medical University of South Carolina
Prof. Yair Reisner - Weizmann Institute of Science
Dr. John Santini, Jr. - MicroCHIPS, Inc.

Health & Medicine (Corporate)

Winner: Weizmann Institute of Science

Antree Systems Limited.
Cygnus, Inc.
VivoMetrics, Inc.
WorldSpace Corporation

IT - Hardware (Individual)

Winner: Mr. Ted Clark - Hewlett Packard

Prof. Stephen Benton - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Toshi T. Doi with Mr. Masahiro Fujita and Mr. Koji Kageyama - Sony Corporation
Dr. Yulun Wang - InTouch Health, Inc.
Dr. Mark Yim - Palo Alto Research Center

IT - Hardware (Corporate)

Winner: Apple

Intel Corp.
Kyocera
Matrix Semiconductor
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

IT - Software (Individual)

Winner: Mr. Larry Page & Mr. Sergey Brin - Google

Dr. Toshi T. Doi with Mr. Masahiro Fujita and Mr. Koji Kageyama - Sony Corporation
Dr. Ian Foster - Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Prof. Nancy Lynch and Dr. Stephen Garland - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mr. Guido van Rossum - Zope Corporation

IT - Software (Corporate)

Winner: Sony Corporation

IBM Corporation
Lixto Software GmbH
LTU Technologies
The MOVES Institute

Law

Winner: Prof. James Boyle - Duke Law School

Mr. Hisamitsu Arai - Intellectual Property Strategy Headquarters, Cabinet Secretariat
Prof. Yochai Benkler - New York University School of Law
Prof. Paul Goldstein - Stanford Law School
Prof. Pamela Samuelson - UC Berkeley

Marketing Communications

Winner: Mr. Larry Page and Mr. Sergey Brin - Google

Mr. Mark Hurd - NCR Corporation
Mr. Michael Vitelli - Sony Electronics
Mr. Andrew Windsor - Lastminute Network Ltd.
Mr. David Zolkwer - Jack Morton Worldwide Ltd.

Materials (Individual)

Winner: Prof. Charles Lieber - Harvard University

Prof. A. Paul Alivisatos - University of California, Berkeley
Prof. Anthony G. Evans - Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara
Dr. C. T. Liu - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Prof. Samuel Stupp - Northwestern University

Materials (Corporate)

Winner: Dow Chemical Company

Centre for Polymer Technology, CSIR (Council for Scientific & Industrial Research)
Hydrocarbon Technologies, Inc.
Motorola Labs
NanoMuscle
Nanosys Inc.
Tsinghua University
Zyvex Corporation

Media & Journalism

Winner: Dr. Krishna Bharat - Google Inc

Mr. Adam Bly - SEED Magazine
Mr. Robert Cringely - Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
Prof. Roger Fidler - Kent State University
Dr. Igor Shompolov and Mr. Nicolay Mitushin - Phystech-Center of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Policy

Winner: Prof. Clement Dzidonu - International Institute for Information Technology (INIIT)

Congressman Sherwood Boehlert - U.S. Congress
Ms. Shafika Isaacs - SchoolNet Africa
Prof. Calestous Juma - Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Dr. Claudio Jose Marinho Lucio - State Secretary for Science, Technology & the Environment, State of Pernambuco, Brazil
Senator John Vasconcellos - California State Senate

Social Entrepreneurship

Winner: Mr. Rodrigo Baggio - Committee for Democracy in Information Technology

Mr. Peter Armstrong - OneWorld International Ltd
Mr. Rubem César Fernandes - Viva Rio
Mr. Jim Fruchterman - The Benetech Initiative
Arvind Gupta

Space (Individual)

Winner: Dr. Peter Diamandis - X PRIZE Foundation

Mr. Steve Chamberlain - Integral Systems, Inc.
Dr. Charles Elachi - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA
Ms. Mary Ann Elliott - Arrowhead Global Solutions, Inc.
Mr. Daniel Goldin - Council on Competitiveness
Dr. Lou-Chuang Lee - National Space Program Office
Prof. Brian Williams - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Space (Corporate)

Winner: X PRIZE Foundation

Analytical Graphics, Inc.
Astrium
Pioneer Rocketplane
SpaceDev

The 2005 World Technology Summit and Awards

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