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THE 2012 WORLD TECHNOLOGY AWARD FINALISTS (SCROLL DOWN TO SEE ALL 20 CATEGORIES)

These Award Finalists are those individuals (in 20 categories) and companies/organizations (in 10 categories) who are -- in the opinion of the WTN Fellows and Founding Members, through Awards voting process -- doing the innovative work of "the greatest likely long-term significance" in their fields. They are those creating the 21st century.

The Winners will be announced from the stage at a black-tie gala and ceremony at Time Conference Center at the World Technology Awards gala/ceremony on the evening of October 23rd, at the conclusion of the two-day (Oct. 22/23) World Technology Summit conference held at the Time & Life Building in New York City.

ARTS

WINNER

FINALISTS

Mark Coniglio - Composer/Media Artist, Co-founder Troika Ranch

Joe Davis - Artist & Research Affiliate, Department of Biology at MIT & George Church Laboratory at Harvard Medical School

Markus Kayser Studio - Markus Kayser Studio

Aaron Koblin - Artist & Designer, Data Arts Team in Google's Creative Lab

Golan Levin - Director of the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and Associate Professor of Electronic Time-Based Art at Carnegie Mellon University

OTHER NOMINEES

Amit Sood
Onyx Ashanti
Jae Rhim Lee
Nick Smith
Luke Jerram
Shaahin Amini
David Cope
Arturo Castro
Karthik Ramani & Wei Gao
Natasha Tsakos
Nathalie Miebach
Simon Colton
Miguel Nacenta
Tom Abel
Alex Ljung & Eric Wahlforse
Timo Toots

BIOTECHNOLOGY (INDIVIDUAL)

WINNER

FINALISTS

Payal Agarwal - Associate Professor of Pharmacy, Notre Dame of Maryland University

Dmitry Bulavin - Associate Professor, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR Singapore

Michael Danquah - Chemical and Bioprocess Engineer, Monash University

Donald Ingber - Director, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University; Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology, Harvard Medical School & Vascular Biology Program, Boston Children's Hospital; Professor of Bioengineering, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Miriah Meyer - Assistant Professor, School of Computing, University of Utah

Richard Wilson - Director, The Genome Institute at Washington University

David Young - Senior Lecturer, Musculoskeletal Research Group, Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University

Jonathan Loh Yuin-Han - Principal Investigator at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR Singapore

OTHER NOMINEES

Nina Tandon
Loh Yuin-Han
Linda Griffith
Mark Spengler
Molly Stevens
Linda Pilarski
Dianna Bowles
Bill Rutter
Robert Coughlin
Rick Haselton
Maharaj Kishan Bhan
Richard Gonzalez
John XJ Zhang
David Baker/Timothy Whitehead/ Sarel Fleishman
Janet Iwasa
Mohidus Samad Khan
Tim Surgenor
Daniel Palanker
Mary Chan
Gary Green
Harish Lavu
Aydogan Ozcan
Rahul Sarpeshkar

BIOTECHNOLOGY (CORPORATE)

WINNER

FINALISTS

Complete Genomics

Fibrocell Science, Inc.

Genomatica

Omeros

Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University

OTHER NOMINEES

Cellular Dynamics International
Foundation Medicine
Integrated Diagnostics
Life Technologies
Organovo
Genentech
Humacyte
Harvard Bioscience
Flowonix
GE
Diagnostics For All
Bug Agentes Biol�gicos
Fate Therapeutics
Kane Biotech
Amgen
Neuro Sky
RxAnte, Inc.
Genomind

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY(INDIVIDUAL)

WINNER

FINALISTS

Ranveer Chandra - Senior Researcher, Mobile Computing Research Center, Microsoft Research

Sir Richard Friend - Cavendish Professor at the University of Cambridge and Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor at the National University of Singapore

Paul E. Jacobs - CEO, Qualcomm

Jun Murai - Professor, Faculty of Environmental Information, Keio University (Japan)

Deb Roy - Director, MIT Media Lab's Cognitive Machines Group

Anton Zeilinger - Professor of Physics, University of Vienna and Director, Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

OTHER NOMINEES

Ilja Laurs
Dennis Mortensen
Charlie Rowan
Nolan Wright
Kevin Systrom
Vlad Sejnoha
Leonhard Korowajczuk
Moshe Pritsker
Ruth Bergman
Rachna Singh
Peter Sweatman
Gil Hirsch
Amir Alexander Hasson
Aakar Gupta
Prem Kumar
Ari Dychovsky
Nobuo Yoshida
Dina Katabi
Dag Kittlaus
Diane Malarik
Gerhard Rempe
Umar Saif
Ajit Narayanan
Jony Ive CBE
Rui Yan
Roel Vertegaal
Jake Sigal
Ben Silbermann

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY(CORPORATE)

WINNER

FINALISTS

Cisco Systems

Dropbox

Ushahidi

OTHER NOMINEES

AT&T, Inc. - Application Resource Optimizer (ARO)
AT&T, Inc. - Speech Mashup�
Skybox Imaging
Gogo
Akamai
Zaarly
Badoo
Square
Tapjoy
Foursquare
Flipboard
Shopkick
GetGlue
Twilio
Lookout
Bump
Twitter
Tumblr
Byliner
The Awl Network
BuzzFeed
Castlight
Assistiveware
Chartbeat
Socialcam
Barclays Pingit
Appcelerator
Instagram
magicJack VocalTec
AVEA
tyntec
Path
July Systems
RingCentral
Lilee Systems
ApartmentList
Crimson Hexagon
2tor
iCache Inc.
MWW Group
Adobe

DESIGN

WINNER

FINALISTS

David Kelley - Co-founder, IDEO

Dick Powell - Co-founder, Seymourpowell

Andrew Slorance - Founder, iimaginedesign.com & Creator of Carbon Black wheelchair

Scott Summit - CEO & Founder, Bespoke Innovations

Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby - Founders, Barber Osgerby

OTHER NOMINEES

Frank Stephenson
Sunghan Kim
Gadi Amit
Jay Osgerby & Edward Barber
Clive Grinyer
Yves Behar
Tony Fadell
Andrew Slorance
Franz von Holzhausen
Tad Toulis
Lance Hussey
Simon Waterfall
Mike Kruzeniski
Robert Brunner
Gunther Kuhn
Dan Formosa
Martin Ruegg

EDUCATION

WINNER

FINALISTS

Cathy N. Davidson & David Theo Goldberg - Founders, HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition

Michael Karnjanaprakorn - CEO/Co-Founder, Skillshare

Emma Mercier - Research Associate, SynergyNet: Multi-touch in Education, Durham University

Chip Paucek - Co-Founder, 2tor

Suneet Singh Tuli - CEO, Datawind

OTHER NOMINEES

Jose Ferreira
Dan Rosensweig
Marjorie Scardino
Gunnar Counselman
Vibhu Mittal
Cheryl Meral
Zach Posner
Andrew Cohen
David Jaffe
Stephan Stephensen
Amit Maimon
Anant Agarwal
Don Spear
Marina Kim
Peter Vogel
Yishan Wong
Robert Romano
Patrick Supanc

ENERGY (INDIVIDUAL)

WINNER

FINALISTS

Alexander Balandin - Professor of Electrical Engineering and Founding Chair of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside

Amit Goyal - ORNL Distinguished Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Tennessee

Andy Hamiltion - Engineer, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

Lars Jeuken - Reader in Biophysics, University of Leeds

Laurence Kemball-Cook - Director, Pavegen Systems

Zheng Liu - Research Scientist, Rice

OTHER NOMINEES

Shivansh Padhy
Xiong (David) Wen Lou
Jay Keasling
William Sims
Paul Lorenzini
Guy Matthews
Kevin DeWhitt
Arthur Hebard
Vincent Sprenkle
Zhong Lin Wang
Mas Subramanian
Nguyen Minh & Eric Armstrong
Jim Ansley
Jerry Martin
Deli Wang
Yun Hang Hu
Jeffrey Grossman
Greg Baker

ENERGY (CORPORATE)

WINNER

FINALISTS

Agilyx

Lanza Tech

Siemens

The Plant

Torrey Hills Technologies, LLC

Trilliant

OTHER NOMINEES

Babcock and Wilcox
First Solar
Goldwind
Sakti3
Semprius
Joule Unlimited
NuScale
FlexEnergy
SustainX, Inc.
TGO Green Energy Gym Technology
Alta Devices
Suntech
Envision
SolarEdge
Achates Power
BioFuelBox
Enphase Energy

ENTERTAINMENT

WINNER

FINALISTS

Chris Aiken - Head Developer and President, AikenLabs - Immersive Motion

David Helgason - CEO and Co-Founder, Unity Technologies

Todd Howard - Game Director and Executive Producer, Bethesda Game Studios

Lisa Pickelsimer - Executive Director of Video Product Development, Cox Communications

Olivier Bau & Ivan Poupyrev - REVEL technology developers and Researchers, Disney Research, Pittsburgh

OTHER NOMINEES

Steve Perlman
Michael Zyda
Matt Jones
Spencer Richardson
Scott Holmes
Mikael Hed
Francisco Varela
Jake Sigal
Blake Krikorian
Tom Cosgrove
Ben Silverman
Anthony Wood
Amos Pizzey
Suranga Chandratillake
John Lasseter
Binod Toshniwal
Tim Sweeney
Ivan Poupyrev

ENVIRONMENT (INDIVIDUAL)

WINNER

FINALISTS

Randy Cortright - Founder & Chief Technical Officer, Virent, Inc.

Ellen Jordan - Professor and Extension Dairy Specialist, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service

Ma Jun - Founder, Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE), China

Derek Lam - DEHTLET & World Marketing Development Centre Ltd

Dara O'Rourke - Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley and Co-Founder, GoodGuide

Clive van Heerden - Senior Director of Design-Led Innovation, Philips Design

OTHER NOMINEES

Lyndon Rive
Duncan Wingham
Burkhold Schulz
Vincent Callebaut
Allert Jacobs
Rolf Bonsack
Alex van der Beek
William Delaney Jr.
John Bwati Gondwe
Joseph Gho
Matti Alihuhta
Hal Aronson
Sofia de Meyer
Prashant Kamat
Christina White
Praveen Kumar Gorakavi
Lizette Smook

ENVIRONMENT (CORPORATE)

WINNER

FINALISTS

Bug Agentes Biologicos

Cascadia Windows Ltd.

CH2M Hill

ECO Kettle

ecoATM, Inc.

IDE Technologies Ltd.

Recyclebank

Streetline

OTHER NOMINEES

Centro de Educacao Popular e Formacao Social - CEPFS (Center for People's Education and Social Development)
B9 Shipping
Gevo
Solvatten
Alta Bike Share
Ecotricity
Ice Energy
Sensordrone
BlueWing Enviromental Solutions and Technology
Lemnis Lighting
Clean Current Power Systems
InEnTec
Solazyme
e-Cycle
Nest
CERDEC
SRISTI (Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions)

ETHICS

WINNER

FINALISTS

Anthony F. Beavers - Professor of Philosophy, University of Evansville

Patrick Lin - Director, Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University

James Moor - Professor of Philosophy, Dartmouth College

Thomas Murray - Senior Research Scholar & President Emeritus, The Hastings Center

John Weckert - Professor of Computer Ethics, Charles Sturt University

OTHER NOMINEES

Jacob Appel
Anita Allen
Chris MacDonald
Richard Spinello
Herman Tavani
Mildred Cho
Fritz Allhoff
Simon Rogerson
Jean Freymond
Lawrence Lessig
Martha Farah
Robert Sparrow
George Bekey
Selmer Bringsjord
Kevin Warwick
N.L.J.L. Manders-Huits
Noel Sharkey
Jonathan Montgomery
Keith Abney

FINANCE (INDIVIDUAL)

WINNER

FINALISTS

Reid Hoffman - Co-founder, LinkedIn

Ben Horowitz - Co-founder, Andreessen Horowitz Co-founder & CEO, Opsware

Vinod Khosla - Founder, Khosla Ventures

Scott Livingston - Chairman & CEO, Livingston Securities LLC

Bill Maris - Managing Partner, Google Ventures

OTHER NOMINEES

Jim Breyer
Marc Andreessen
David Sze
Peter Fenton
Josh Kopelman
Paul Madera
Peter Thiel
Kevin Efrusy
Jeremy Levine
Andrew Cuomo
Barry Silbert
Jack Dorsey
Ben Milne
Joshua Reich
Sharon Wienbar
Jason Calacanis
Jack Hidary

FINANCE (CORPORATE)

WINNER

FINALISTS

Bessemer Venture Partners

DFJ Gotham

Garage Technologies Ventures

Khosla Ventures

New Enterprise Associates

OTHER NOMINEES

Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Andreessen, Horowitz
Benchmark Capital
MK Capital
Freestyle Capital
Mayfield Fund
Floodgate Fund
Digital Capital Advisors
Spark Capital
First Round Capital
Founders Fund
Founder Collective
Foundry Group
General Catalyst Partners
LaunchBox Digital
TechStars Boulder
Financial Inclusion Network & Operations

HEALTH & MEDICINE (INDIVIDUAL)

WINNER

FINALISTS

Larry Benowitz - Professor of Surgery and Ophthalmology, Boston Children's Hospital

Linda Griffith - Professor of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Michael Nitsche - Professor of Medicine, University of Gottingen

Aydogan Ozcan - Professor, UCLA School of Engineering

Dimos Poulikakos - Professor & Chair of Thermodynamics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Ting Shen - Co-founder & CEO, NanoLite Systems

Nina Tandon - Staff Associate, Columbia University Laboratory for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering

OTHER NOMINEES

Richard Merkin
Garet Hil
Richard Wilson
Klas Tybrandt
Stephen Lee
Richard Schwartz
Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena
Kevin Tracey
David Young
Christopher Newgard
Ethan Austin
John Melo
Shraddha Thakkar
Sathy Balu-Iyer
Paul Watt
Harold Kohn
Dennis Lo

HEALTH & MEDICINE (CORPORATE)

WINNER

FINALISTS

Amyris

Ekso Bionics

Neurosky

Oncogenex

USC Body Computing

OTHER NOMINEES

BioMoti
mc10
Preventice
Starling Innovations
Massachusetts General Hospital Voice Center
OptiMedica
Partners in Health - Medical Informatics Team

IT HARDWARE (INDIVIDUAL)

WINNER

FINALISTS

Charles Hull - Co-founder, Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, 3D Systems

Vijay Kumar - Professor of Engineering, University of Pennsylvania

Steve Lee - Project Glass Lead, Google

Dharmendra Modha - Manager & Lead Researcher, Cognitive Consulting Group at IBM Almaden Research Center

Ren Ng - Founder & Executive Chairman, Lytro

OTHER NOMINEES

Arindam Basu
Andreas Heinrich
Tony Kenyon
Bre Pettis
Joe Wang
Brian Johnson
Howie Choset
Tan Lee
Martin Pfeiffer
Fumitoshi Terashima
Steve Dai
Yeo Kiat Seng
Daniel Frankel
Ron Diftler
Ephrahim Garcia & Michael Goldfarb
Gary McMurray
Daniel Nocera
Boris Lukiyanchuk
Tony Jun Huang
Vera Smolyaninova
Krishna Palem

IT HARDWARE (CORPORATE)

WINNER

FINALISTS

Cubify

Google

Lytro

MakerBot

Redbox

OTHER NOMINEES

Qualcomm
IBM
Ossur
3M
ASUS
Basis
Panasonic
Samsung
Apple
HTC America
Omron
Sony
Hitachi
SARTRE
Altobridge Limited
Alcatel Lucent
Logitech
NLT Technologies, Ltd
iCache Inc.

IT SOFTWARE (INDIVIDUAL)

WINNER

FINALISTS

Bruce Donald - Professor of Computer Science, Duke University

Sean Gourley - Chief Technology Officer, Quid

Roger Jones - Co-Founder, Chairman, Chief Scientific Officer & Chief Operating Officer, Qforma

Mik Kersten - Co-founder & CEO, Tasktop Technologies

Daniel Ratai - Founder, Leonar3Do

OTHER NOMINEES

Alexis Kalogeropoulos
Ping Tan
Jim Austin
Dave Winer
Joe Dada
James Hemmer
Zvi Guterman
Thomas Pun
Reed Hastings
Avery Wang
Will Glaser
Robert Jackman
Dr. Aldo Faisal
Todd Humphreys
Dieter Mesotten
Scott DeLoach
Dr. Mustafa Altinakar
Marcel Van de Burgwal
David Holz
Marc Benioff

IT SOFTWARE (CORPORATE)

WINNER

FINALISTS

APPEO

Aurasma

Leap Motion

Palantir Technologies

Salesforce

OTHER NOMINEES

Acquia
Appirio
National Marrow Donor Program
Esri
Dexter + Chaney
Sonatype
Globus Online
Computer Software Innovations
CloudFlare
Living PlanIT SA
Voxiva
Skyfoundry
Tridium
Y Media Labs
Netmark
Applico
Oracle FLEXCUBE
SAP
Symantec
Activision Blizzard
CA Technologies
Cisco
Dassault Systems
TOA Technologies
Rocket Fuel
TAZA Systems
L V Prasad Eye Institute
Plixer International, Inc.
digital publishing AG | Speexx
GFI Software
BMC Group
Appthority
Epicor Software Corporation
Rally Software
HTC America
Get Satisfaction
Killer
Icertis Inc.
EPM Live

LAW

WINNER

FINALISTS

Marvin Ammori - First Amendment Lawyer

Peter Menell - Professor of Law, University of California- Berkeley Law School

Jason Schultz - Professor of Law, University of California- Berkeley Law School

Lea Shaver - Professor, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law

Tim Wu - Professor, Columbia Law School

Chistopher Yoo - Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School

OTHER NOMINEES

Jason Schultz
Lea Shaver
Steven Ferrey
Roque El-Hayek
David Broadwin
William Abrams
David Feigenbaum
Mark Bettencourt
Wendy Pifher
Russell Weiss
Bruce Dick
Robert Cantone
Harry Rubin
Julie Petruzzelli
Gregory Stone
David Westenberg
Peter Brown
Lee Osman
Gerald Swiss

MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS

WINNER

FINALISTS

Joan Casas Cervero - Founder & CEO, uWhisp

Rebecca Coleman - Co-founder, Something Massive

Carol Kruse - Senior VP of Marketing, ESPN

Natalie Massenet - CEO, Net-a-Porte

Rebecca Van Dyck - Marketing Executive, Facebook

OTHER NOMINEES

Mike Nolet
Kevin Brown
Chip Perry
Brett Hurt
Andrew Henning
Cliff Mintz
Mark Pincus
Daniel Ek
Julia Nable
Judy Kirpich
Chris Erb
Sergio Barrientos
Winston Binch
Philip Clarke

MATERIALS (INDIVIDUAL)

WINNER

FINALISTS

Harry Atwater - Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science, California Institute of Technology

Sarbajit Banerjee - Professor, University of Buffalo

Paul Edmiston - Founder & Chief Science Officer, ABSMaterials, Inc.

Amit Goyal - Chair, UT-Battelle-ORNL Corporate Fellow Council

Frank Koppens - Professor, Institut de Ciecies Fotoniques

OTHER NOMINEES

Michael Bartlett
Nick Herbert
Sascha Peters
Tim Mackerodt
Michael Strano
Linyou Cao
Andrew Lee Qian Wang
Luke Hanley
Allan Green
Massood Tabib-Azar
Satish Nagarajaiah
Onur Hamza Karabey
Tim Young

MATERIALS (CORPORATE)

WINNER

FINALISTS

Concrete Canvas

Ecovative Design

RTI International

Siluria

Soitec

Thin Film Electronics

OTHER NOMINEES

MC10 Inc.
T-INK, Inc.
EADS
Haute Innovation
NeptuTherm
Alphyn Industries, Inc.
Kokoshout
BlingCrete
Luminoso
NatureWorks LLC
Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability
Applied Materials
Wildcat Discovery
Intel
MiaSole
The Dow Chemical Company
Ineos
Nanocomp Technologies

MEDIA & JOURNALISM

WINNER

FINALISTS

Dan Hogan - Co-creator, ScienceDaily

Walter Isaacson - President & CEO, Aspen Institute

Neal Stephenson - Author of README & Founder of Hieroglyph

Kara Swisher - Co-Executive Editor, AllThingsD

David Weinberger - Author, Too Big to Know & Co-Direction of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab

OTHER NOMINEES

Seth Weintraub
Tom Warren
Nilay Patel
Dan Frommer
Ben Parr
Rory Cellan-Jones
John Benson
John Gruber
Tim Stevens
Mike Masnick
Zach Epstein
Stuart Dredge
David Pogue
Martin Giles
Eric Savitz
Jon Swartz
Geoffrey Moore
Douglass Rushkoff
Jim Champy

POLICY

WINNER

FINALISTS

David Bollier - Author, Activist, Blogger & Consultant

Aneesh Chopra - First Chief Technology Officer of the United States

Linda Hallman - Executive Director & CEO, The American Association of University Women

Angela Merkel - Chancellor of Germany

Barack Obama - President of the United States

Vivek Wadhwa - Vice President of Academics and Innovation, Singularity University

OTHER NOMINEES

Al Gore
Bill Clinton
Kavita Berger
Patrick Vittet-Philippe
Pablo Chavez
Leah Belsky
Micah Altman
Kevin Werbach
Suzanne Spaulding
Michael R Nelson
James Greenwood
Christopher Evans
David Cameron

SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

WINNER

FINALISTS

David Del Ser & Mark Pedersen - Founder & Chairman, Frogtek

Melissa Rich - President, InterSchola

Becca Robison - Creator, AstroTots

Roy & Bertrand Sosa - Founders, RISE (Relationship and Information Series or Entrepreneurs)

Greg Van Kirk - Co-founder, Community Enterprise Solutions

OTHER NOMINEES

James Pope
Mari Kuraishi
David Crosby
Scott Warren
Michael Gainer
Divine Bradley
Socheata Poeuv
Blake Mycoskie
David McKinney
Sarah Beatty
Rick Steele
Merry Korn
Kevin Trapani
Beth Williams
David Griswold
Steve Katsaros
Julie Silver & Diane Stokes
Traci Claussen
Wendell Brown

SPACE (INDIVIDUAL)

WINNER

FINALISTS

Mark Adler - Deputy Mission System Manager, Mars Exploration Rover Mission

Bas Lansdorp & Arno Wielders - Creators, Mars One Project; and Gerard't & Paul Romer - Ambassadors, Mars One Project

Roman Keane & Wei-Ming Zhang - Collaborators, antimatter-powered rocket engine; High School Senior, Western Reserve Academy & Senior Research Fellow, Kent State University (respectively)

Elon Musk - CEO and Chief Designer, SpaceX

Adam Steltzner - NASA Engineer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

OTHER NOMINEES