The Wall Street Journal Announces Winners of Its Second Global Technology Innovation Awards; Winners From the U.S., Canada, Switzerland, Japan, Hungary, France, Nepal and the United Kingdom.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- The Wall Street Journal, the world's leading business publication, today announced the results of its second global Technology Innovation Awards. The awards recognize technological breakthroughs by individuals, companies and organizations around the world in a wide range of areas, including medicine, software, hardware, the Internet, wireless and broadcasting. The judges selected Gold, Silver and Bronze winners overall and gave an Honorable Mention to two organizations. The judges also named winners in each of the 12 industry categories and chose 20 runners-up. Winners and runners-up come from the U.S., Canada, Switzerland, Japan, Hungary, France, Nepal and the United Kingdom. "Innovation is the key for any company to have continued success, and through these awards The Wall Street Journal recognizes these technological breakthroughs throughout the world," said Karen Elliott House Karen Elliott House is a journalist and former executive at the Wall Street Journal and its parent dompany Dow Jones. She served as President of Dow Jones International and then publisher of the WSJ before her retirement in the spring of 2006. , publisher of The Wall Street Journal, and senior vice president, Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance & Company. "This year's winners showed the creative thinking that has allowed them to rise to the top of their respective industries." The full listing of winners and runners-up follows. Technology Innovation Winners 2005 Overall Winners --Gold Winner -- 454 Life Sciences (U.S.): Low-cost gene sequencing. --Silver Winner -- Ecology Coatings (U.S.): Environmentally friendly Environmentally friendly, also referred to as nature friendly, is a term used to refer to goods and services considered to inflict minimal harm on the environment.[1] coatings. --Bronze Winner -- Alien Technology Alien Technology is a manufacturer of RFID technology. The company is headquartered in Morgan Hill, California, with an RFID tag manufacturing facility in Fargo, North Dakota, the Alien RFID Solutions Center, in the Dayton, Ohio area, and sales offices in the US, Europe and Asia. (U.S.): Manufacturing process that reduces cost of RFID tags. --Honorable Mention -- MIT/Environment and Public Health Organization (U.S./Nepal): Inexpensive water-filtration system. Category Winners and Runners-Up Biotech-Medical --Winner -- 454 Life Sciences (U.S.): Low-cost gene sequencing. --Runner-Up -- Frank McKeon, professor of cell biology Cell biology The study of the activities, functions, properties, and structures of cells. Cells were discovered in the middle of the seventeenth century after the microscope was invented. , Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. It is a prestigious American medical school located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. (U.S.): Discovery of p63 gene and invention of antibody that diagnoses prostate cancer prostate cancer, cancer originating in the prostate gland. Prostate cancer is the leading malignancy in men in the United States and is second only to lung cancer as a cause of cancer death in men. . AsymmetRx markets the cancer test. --Runner-Up -- Dr. Anthony Furnary, Providence St. Vincent Medical Center Providence St. Vincent Medical Center, located at 9205 SW Barnes Road, Portland, Oregon, is Providence Health & Services’s largest Oregon hospital. St. Vincent has specialized programs including Providence Heart and Vascular Institute, Oregon Medical Laser Center, Providence (U.S.): Insulin drip for diabetics needing open-heart surgery open-heart surgery Any surgical procedure opening the heart and exposing one or more of its chambers, most often to repair valve disease or correct congenital heart malformations (see congenital heart disease). . Medical Devices --Winner -- Optimyst Systems Inc. (U.S.): Eye-medication device that emits a fine mist, which is more efficient than eye drops eye drops eye npl → gouttes fpl pour les yeux eye drops eye npl → Augentropfen pl . --Runner-Up -- Clozex Medical (U.S.): Needleless wound-closure device. --Runner-Up -- GE Healthcare GE Healthcare is a $18 billion (USD) unit of General Electric (GE). It employs more than 46,000 people worldwide and is headquartered in Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. GE Healthcare is the first GE business segment headquartered outside the United States. (U.S.): Technology that can image the heart in five beats or less. --Runner-Up -- IBM Research IBM Research, a division of IBM, is a research and advanced development organization and currently consists of eight locations throughout the world and hundreds of projects. (U.S.): Mouse adapter enabling people with hand tremors to use a PC normally. --Runner-Up -- DMetrix (U.S.): Digital microscope system that images large areas at high resolution. --Runner-Up -- Stereotaxis stereotaxis /ster·eo·tax·is/ (-tak´sis) 1. stereotactic surgery. 2. thigmotaxis. ster·e·o·tax·is or ster·e·o·tax·y n. 1. (U.S.): Cardiology instrument-control system. Energy and Power --Winner -- Solar Integrated Technologies (U.S.): Solar roof system using single-ply roofing membrane. --Runner-Up -- Energy Innovations (U.S.): Solar electricity system that uses mirrors to reflect the sun's rays into a receiver. --Runner-Up -- ABB n. 1. Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence, Noun 1. ABB - an urban hit squad and guerrilla group of the Communist Party in the Philippines; formed in the 1980s (Switzerland): Device using lightweight optical fiber to measure electrical current. --Runner-Up -- Chevron (U.S.): Hydrogen fuel stations that eliminate need to transport raw hydrogen to filling stations. Environment --Winner -- MIT/Environment and Public Health Organization (U.S./Nepal): Inexpensive water-filtration system. --Runner-Up -- CO2 Solution (Canada): Recycling process for carbon dioxide carbon dioxide, chemical compound, CO2, a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that is about one and one-half times as dense as air under ordinary conditions of temperature and pressure. . Materials and Other Base Technologies --Winner -- Ecology Coatings (U.S.): Environmentally friendly coatings. Network/Broadband/Internet --Winner -- Riverbed Technology Riverbed is a corporation providing wide area data services (WDS). Riverbed Technology's world headquarters is located in San Francisco, California. (U.S.): Network appliances that speed data transfer between remote offices and central servers. Security (Facilities) --Winner -- ObjectVideo (U.S.): Software that monitors multiple feeds from video cameras and can detect potential threats. Security (Network) --Winner -- Fujitsu Laboratories (Japan): Device that can read the veins in the palm of a person's hand. --Runner-Up -- Skybox sky·box n. An elevated, usually enclosed private compartment for viewing events at a sports stadium. Noun 1. skybox - an elevated box for viewing events at a sports stadium Security (U.S.): Automated assessments of network security risks. Semiconductors --Winner -- Alien Technology (U.S.): Manufacturing process that reduces cost of RFID tags. --Runner-Up -- Hewlett-Packard Labs (U.S.): Molecular crossbar latch The cross-bar latch is a technology created by Hewlett-Packard in February of 2005. This technology has the power to possibly replace the transistor. Transistors are currently the main component in the processors of all electronic devices. , a technology that HP believes could replace the transistor. --Runner-Up -- Texas Instruments See TI. (company) Texas Instruments - (TI) A US electronics company. A TI engineer, Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958. Three TI employees left the company in 1982 to start Compaq. (U.S.): Integrating technologies onto a single chip for cellphones, reducing handset size and cost. Software --Winner -- Agitar Software (U.S.): Tool that helps software designers find and fix bugs when writing new programs. --Runner-Up -- Transitive transitive - A relation R is transitive if x R y & y R z => x R z. Equivalence relations, pre-, partial and total orders are all transitive. (U.S.): QuickTransit software, which lets all software applications run on all computer platforms. --Runner-Up -- Graphisoft (Hungary): 5D construction-management system. --Runner-Up -- Xerox (U.S./France): Software that identifies digital images and categorizes the content, allowing search and retrieval. --Runner-Up -- Xerox (U.S./France): Software that can "read" electronic documents and decide how they should be classified. Transportation --Winner -- QinetiQ (U.K.): Airport radar system for detecting runway debris. Wireless --Winner -- Freescale Semiconductor (U.S.): Development of ultrawideband wireless technology. --Runner-Up -- BT (U.K.): BT Fusion, a combined fixed and mobile-phone service offering cost and voice quality of land lines. --Runner-Up -- Airgo Networks (U.S.): Technology that lets Wi-Fi perform at speeds faster than a wired network. The Journal solicited nominations from all over the world through advertisements in the Journal and through the Innovation Awards Web site, www.dowjones.com/innovation. The Journal received some 750 applications from around two dozen countries. Applicants completed a rigorous form that requested extensive details relating to their entry and why it constituted a true innovation. Wall Street Journal editors then screened the applications and selected 104 semifinalists. Journal editors looked for innovativeness, clarity of explanation and whether the innovation was covered by patents or had achieved some kind of track record. The winners were selected by a independent panel of esteemed judges* from companies and organizations such as Sun Microsystems Labs, VMware Inc., Oxbridge Capital Ltd. and Xerox Corp. The judges considered these crucial factors, among others, in making their selections: --Innovation should go well beyond what already exists and cannot simply represent incremental improvements. --Innovations need to address major challenges for which new solutions would have a wide-ranging impact in a particular industry. --The application needs to be supported by rigorous data rather than unsubstantiated claims of potential. The award winners can be found in the Journal Report today in the print editions of The Wall Street Journal, The Wall Street Journal Asia and The Wall Street Journal Europe. The winners can also be found online at www.wsj.com. * Editor's Notes The following served as judges for The Wall Street Journal's Technology Innovation Awards, None of them voted on any entries in which their companies or organizations may have had an interest. Asheem Chandna Venture Partner Greylock Partners Robert Drost Distinguished Engineer and Director Sun Microsystems Labs Diane Greene Co-Founder and President VMware Inc. Anthony Komaroff Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Editor-In-Chief Harvard Health Publications Richard S. Lang Chairman of the Department of General Internal Medicine The Cleveland Clinic Editor-In-Chief Cleveland Clinic Men's Health Advisor Pedro Nueno Professor of Entrepreneurship IESE Business School, Spain Executive President China Europe International Business School, China Jane Royston Branco Weiss Professor of Entrepeneurship and Innovation Swiss Federal Institute of Technology President CreateSwitzerland Kenny Tang Founder and Chief Executive Oxbridge Capital, Ltd. Peter Terwiesch Chief Technology Officer ABB Ltd. Sophie V. Vandebroek Chief Engineer Xerox Corp. 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