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2004 World Technlogy Summit & Awards

2004 World Technology Award Winners & Finalists

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The Arts

Winner: David Rokeby, Independent

Perry Hoberman, Visiting Professor, Interactive Media Division, USC School of Cinema-Television
Tatsuo Kogawa, Professor of Communication Studies, Tokyo Keizai University
Marcos Novak, California NanoSystems Institute/MAT/Art Studio, UC/Santa Barbara
Yukiko Shikata, Associate Curator, Mori Art Museum
Jeffrey Shaw, Executive Director, iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research University of New South Wales
 

Biotechnology (Individual)

Winner: Ehud Shapiro, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Weizmann Institute

Reuven Agami, The Agami Group, Netherlands Cancer Institute
Andre Koltermann/Ulrich Kettling, Co-Founders, DIREVO Biotech AG
Jennifer Thompson, Professor, Dept of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town
Ron Weiss, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering/Molecular Biology, Princeton University
 

Biotechnology (Corporate)

Winner: Advanced Cell Technology

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
Epigenomics
Genentech
Neurocrine Biosciences
 

Communications Technology (Individual)

Winner: David P. Reed, Adjunct Professor, Media Arts and Sciences, MIT and HP Fellow, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

Claude Berrou/Alain Glavieux (deceased), Professor/Asst Director, ENST Bretagne
Carver Mead, Chairman/Founder, Foveon
Joh-Yong Yun, Vice Chairman/CEO, Samsung Electronics
Niklas Zennstrom, Co-Founder, Skype
 

Communications Technology (Corporate)

Winner: Skype

eBay
QUALCOMM
Vodafone
Vonage
 

Design

Winner: Paola Antonelli, Curator, Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

Yves Behar, Founder, fuseproject
Mark Dziersk, Senior VP - Design, Herbst LaZar Bell Inc (HLB)
Charles L. Jones, VP, Global Consumer Design, Whlrlpool Corporation
William McDonough/Michael Braungart, Co-founders , McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC)
Marcel Wanders, Marcel Wanders Studio
 

Education

Winner: Cristian Cox, Minister of Education, Government of Chile

Peter Copen, Founder/President, The Copen Family Fund
Adrian David Cheok/ZhiYing Zhou, Mixed Reality Lab, National University of Singapore
Gilbert Paquette, Research Director, Télé-université
Roger Schank, CEO, Socratic Arts
Claudia Zea, EAFIT University
 

Energy (Individual)

Winner: Martin Green, Research Director, Centre for Advanced Silicon Photovoltaics and Photonics, U. of New South Wales

Hashem Akbari, Group Leader/Principal Investigator, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Alec Brooks, Chief Engineer, AeroVironment
Ting Chu, Retired, University of South Florida
Ferdinand Panik, Director, Fuel-Cell Project, DaimlerChrysler
 

Energy (Corporate)

Winner: AeroVironment

Carmanah Technologies
Corning
DaimlerChrysler
Energy Conversion Devices
First Solar
 

Entertainment

Winner: Richard Marks, Manager, Special Projects group, US R&D, Sony Computer Entertainment

John Beezer, President, Shared Media Licensing
Bram Cohen, Creator, BitTorrent
Mark Cuban, Founder, HDNet
Will Poole, Senior VP, Windows Client, Microsoft
Steve Scherf/Ty Roberts, Co-Founders, Gracenote
 

Environment (Individual)

Winner: Ken Livingstone, Mayor, London, United Kingdom

Banwari Lal, Director, Biotechnology Division, TERI (India)
Pamela G. Marronne, Founder/Chairman, AgraQuest
David McKenzie, Founder, Wild Meadow Systems Ltd.
Marina Silva/Luciana Franco & Sérgio Cardoso & Monica Cardoso & Paulo Ferreira & Adriana Hemerly & Liszt Vieira, Minister for the Environment/Instituto de Pesquisas, Government of Brazil/Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro
 

Environment (Corporate)

Winner: AgraQuest

Pew Initiative on Food & Biotechnology
Solar Frost Research
Stockholm Partnership for Sustainable Cities
Waipuna Systems
Waste and Environmental Technologies
 

Ethics

Winner: Kristin Shrader-Frechette, O'Neill Family Professor of Philosophy/Concurrent Professor of Biological Sciences , University of Notre Dame

Richard Dawkins, Charles Simonyi Professor For The Understanding Of Science, Oxford University
Susana Finquelievich, Director, Research Program on Information Society, Institute Gino Germani , University of Buenos Aires
Simon Rogerson, Director, Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University
Gregory Stock, Director, Program on Medicine, Technology, and Society, School of Public Health, UCLA
John Weckert, Professorial Fellow, ARC Special Research Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University
 

Finance (Individual)

Winner: Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Jeremy Coller, CEO, Coller Capital
Maurice (Hank) Greenberg, Chairman, American International Group, Inc. (AIG)
Paul Krugman, Professor, Economics and International Affairs, Princeton University
Sanford (Sandy) I. Weill, Chairman, Citigroup
 

Finance (Corporate)

Winner: General Atlantic Partners

AIG
Benchmark Capital
Nth Power
Sofinnova Ventures
 

Health & Medicine (Individual)

Winner: Alan Chow & Vincent Chow, Co-Founders, Optobionics Corporation

Ralph Baric, Professor, Epidemiology/Microbiology/Immunology, University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill
Tejal Desai, Director, Laboratory of Therapeutic Micro and Nanotechnology, Boston University
Bruno Lemaître, Lemaître Lab, Centre Génétique Moléculaire
Mark Tuszynski, Director, Center for Neural Repair, UC/San Diego
Victor Velculescu, Assistant Professor of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University
 

Health & Medicine (Corporate)

Winner: Intuitive Surgical

Hydra Biosciences
Institute for OneWorld Health
Lodox Systems
Quantum Dot
 

IT - Hardware (Individual)

Winner: Charles Black/Kathryn Guarini, Physical Sciences Department /Silicon Technology Department, T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM

Mike Arneson/William Bandy, Co-Founders, Matrics
James Collier, Co-Founder/CTO, CSR
Kaigham (Ken) Gabriel , Founder/Chairman/CTO, Akustica
Gerwin Gelinck, Senior Scientist, Philips Research/Co-Founder, Polymer Vision, Philips Technology Incubator, Philips
Gilman Louie, President/CEO, In-Q-Tel
Sae WooNam, Superconducting Transition-Edge Sensor (TES) Based Detectors Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
 

IT - Hardware (Corporate)

Winner: Apple

AMD
Google
Kirtas Technologies
Motorola
 

IT - Software (Individual)

Winner: Daphne Koller, Associate Professor, Robotics Laboratory, Computer Science Department (& Theory Group), Stanford University

Roberto Cipolla/Duncan Robertson, Professor/Research Associate, Information Engineering Division, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
Chip Elliott, Principal Engineer, BBN Technologies
Dimitri Kanevsky/Stéphane Maes, Research Staff Member, Human Language Technologies, T.J. Watson Research Center/Chief Architect for Mobile and Advance Technologies, IBM/Oracle
Lydia Kavraki, Director, Physical and Biological Computing Group, Department of Computer Science, Rice University
Rick Stevens, Director, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
 

IT - Software (Corporate)

Winner: Apple

CipherTrust
Cloudmark
Macromedia
Opera Software
 

Law

Winner: Pamela Samuelson, Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, Boalt Hall School of Law, UC/Berkeley

William Fisher III, Hale and Dorr Professor of Intellectual Property Law/Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School
Mark Lemley, Professor of Law and Faculty Scholar/Director, Stanford Center for Law, Science and Technology, Stanford Law School
Sergio Silveira, President-Director, Brazilian National Information Technology Institute
Fred von Lohmann, Senior Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation
 

Marketing Communications

Winner: Cindy McCaffrey, Vice President, Corporate Marketing, Google

Beth Comstock, Corporate Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, General Electric (GE)
Colin Tarry, Chief Executive, Inditherm plc
Linda Thrane, Executive Director, Council for Biotechnology Information
Andrew Williamson, Head of Marketing & Communications, Science Museum (London)
 

Materials (Individual)

Winner: Charles Lieber, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

Angela Belcher, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering and Biological Engineering, MIT
Anthony Cheetham, Director, International Center for Materials Science, UC/Santa Barbara
John William Goodby, President, International Liquid Crystal Society
Hongkun Park, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Harvard University
 

Materials (Corporate)

Winner: Nanosys

Nanomix
Nanophase Technologies
Plastic Logic Ltd
TWI Ltd
 

Media & Journalism

Winner: Dan Gillmor, Business and Technology Columnist , San Jose Mercury News

Simon Andreae, Head of Science, Channel 4 Television (UK)
Merrill Brown, Founder/Principal, MMB Media LLC
Roger Fidler, Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Kent State University
Brian Greene, Professor of Physics/Mathematics, Columbia University
Glenn Reynolds, Blogger/Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law, Instapundit.com/University of Tennessee
Eugene Smirnov, President, National Academy for Intellectual and Social Technologies (Russia)
 

Policy

Winner: Bruce Alberts, President, National Academy of Sciences

Kurt Gottfried, Chair, Union of Concerned Scientists
Visagan N.S. Naidoo, Education Specialist, Commonwealth of Learning
Carlos Pacheco, Founder, INOVACAMP Innovation Agency, Campinas University/UNICAMP
Karen Poniachik, Executive VP, Foreign Investment Committee, Government of Chile
 

Social Entrepreneurship

Winner: Fabio Luis de Oliveira Rosa, Executive Director, Institute for the Development of Natural Energy and Sustainability/IDEAAS (Brazil)

Sushmita Ghosh, President, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public
Muhammad Ibrahim, Executive Director, Centre for Mass Education in Science/CMES (Bangladesh)
Mandira Kumar, Founder, SUTRADHAR
Kristine Pearson, Founding Executive Director, Freeplay Foundation
Amitabha Sadangi, Executive Director, International Development Enterprises (India)
 

Space (Individual)

Winner: Burt Rutan, Founder, Scaled Composites

Richard Cook/Peter Theisinger, Flight Operations Manager, Mars Pathfinder/Mars Exploration Rover project manager, JPL/NASA
Lou-Chuang Lee, Director, National Space Program Office (Taiwan)
Elon Musk, Founder, SpaceX
Colin Pillinger, Director, Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute, Open University (UK)
 

Space (Corporate)

Winner: Surrey Satellite Technology

JPL/Cassini Huygens Mission
Scaled Composites
SpaceX
Spectrum Astro