Computerworld Honors Program Presents Prestigious 21st Century Achievement Awards.

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- 10 champions of information technology honored at black tie gala in Washington, D.C., last night

Ten organizations from around the world were honored last night for their positive contributions to the global information technology revolution with the Computerworld Honors Program's prestigious 21st Century Achievement Award for 2005.

This year's awards were presented at a black tie gala held at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. The awards ceremony was attended by more than 250 guests, including leaders of the information technology industry, former award recipients, judges, scholars and diplomats representing many of the 54 countries from which the 18-year-old program's laureates have come.

"The Computerworld Honors Program 21st Century Achievement Awards are presented to companies from around the world whose visionary use of information technology promotes positive social, economic and educational change," said Bob Carrigan, president and CEO of Computerworld and chairman of the Chairmen's Committee of the Computerworld Honors Program. "The recipients of these awards are the true heroes of the information age and have been appropriately recognized by the leading IT industry chairmen as true revolutionaries in their fields."

The 21st Century Achievement Award recipients for 2005 are:

Business & Related Services

    Acxiom Corporation
    for Customer Information Infrastructure
    Nominated by EMC

    Education & Academia

    Australian Government, Department of Defense
    for Learning Management System
    Nominated by Deloitte

    Environment, Energy & Agriculture

    Broward County Environmental Protection Department, Florida,
    for Creation of a New Mobile Inspection and Monitoring System
    Nominated by Sybase

    Finance, Insurance & Real Estate

    Sprint
    for Industry Solutions
    Nominated by Sybase

    Government & Non-profit Organizations

    Aidmatrix
    for Global Relief Network
    Nominated by Accenture

    Manufacturing

    Cambium Forstbetriebe
    for Log Tracking System
    Nominated by Progress Software

    Media, Arts & Entertainment

    Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
    for Optimizing Digital Media
    Nominated by EMC

    Medicine

    Northern Lights Health Region
    for Health Care "Anytime, Anywhere"
    Nominated by Cisco Systems

    Science

    European Southern Observatory
    for Data Flow System of the European Southern Observatory
    Nominated by Sybase

    Transportation

    OnStar
    for Advanced Automatic Crash Notification (AACN)
    Nominated by Verizon

In addition to recognizing the efforts of the above outstanding organizations, the Computerworld Honors Program also presented a series of Leadership Awards at the gala designed to honor the extraordinary achievements of individuals whose positive contributions to the information technology revolution have left an indelible mark on the world. This year, General Motors group vice president and CIO Ralph Szygenda and Red Hat chairman, CEO and president Matthew Szulik are the recipients of the EMC Award for Information Leadership and the Morgan Stanley Leadership Award for Global Commerce, respectively.

The gala represented the culmination of a process that originated at the start of the year. The 10 award recipients were chosen from more than 250 nominations submitted this year by the industry chairmen and CEO's who serve on the program's Chairmen's Committee. One hundred sixty-two of those 250 were honored as laureates at ceremonies in San Francisco on April 3, 2005, when their case studies officially became part of the Computerworld Honors 2005 Collection. From the 162 laureates, an academy of distinguished judges then nominated 48 finalists to attend last night's awards gala.

Case studies from the 2005 Computerworld Honors Collection and additional information about the 2005 Collection is available at www.cwheroes.org, where the entire collection is available to scholars, researchers and the general public.

About the Computerworld Honors Program

Governed by the Computerworld Information Technology Awards Foundation, a Massachusetts not-for-profit corporation founded by International Data Group (IDG) in 1988, the Computerworld Honors Program searches for and recognizes individuals and organizations who have demonstrated vision and leadership as they strive to use information technology in innovative ways across 10 categories: Business and Related Services; Education and Academia; Environment, Energy and Agriculture; Finance, Insurance and Real Estate; Government and Non-Profit Organizations; Manufacturing; Media, Arts and Entertainment; Medicine; Science; and Transportation. Each year, the Computerworld Honors Chairmen's Committee nominates organizations that are using information technology to improve society for inclusion in the Computerworld Honors Online Archive and the Collections of the Global Archives. The Global Archives represents the 100-plus institutions from more than 30 countries that include the Computerworld Honors Collection in their archives and libraries.