The World Technology Network Honors the Most Innovative Individuals in Science and Technology.

NEW YORK -- The World's Best and Brightest in 20 Categories Are Named Fellows of Prestigious Organization and Contenders for 2005 World Technology Network Award

The World Technology Network (WTN) announced today the top individuals deemed the most innovative in the world of science and technology. Voted by their peers in 20 categories such as biotechnology, ethics, entertainment and space, the top five individuals in each category have been named WTN Fellows. The WTN is a global meeting ground, a virtual think tank, and an elite club whose members are all focused on the business and science of bringing important emerging technologies of all types (from biotechnology to new materials, from IT to new energy sources) into reality.

The World Technology Awards honors individuals and corporations from 20 technology-related sectors viewed by their peers as being the most innovative and whose work has the greatest likelihood of long-term significance. Each year, one Fellow is eligible to be selected as the winner of their category, and will be announced at the World Technology Awards Gala dinner on November 15th, 2005, at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, California. The World Technology Awards is held in association with TIME magazine, CNN, and Science magazine among others. The Gala will conclude the two-day World Technology Summit.

Nominees for the 2005 World Technology Awards are identified based on an intensive, global process over a period of many months. Nominating members are primarily elected WTN Fellows from previous awards cycles, number more than 800, and are spread out over 60 countries.

"The World Technology Network Awards program is an historic event. This year's group of Fellows represent what is imminent, possible, and important in and around emerging technologies. The WTN brings key players together -- from the most cutting-edge technologists to the most forward-thinking financiers and from the world's leading corporations to the world's newest start-ups -- helping to make things happen sooner and better than they might have," said James P. Clark, founder and chairman of the World Technology Network. "It truly is an honor and a privilege to be a part of this elite group of individuals."

Here is a complete list of this year's WTN Fellows:

Arts

--Jim Campbell, Artist

--Toshio Iwai, Iwai Lab/MRSystems Corporation

--Golan Levin, Carnegie Mellon University 

--Ben Rubin, Artist

--Gerfried Stocker, Ars Electronica Center 

Biotechnology

--George Church, Harvard University

--Woo Suk Hwang, Seoul National University 

--Ulrich Kettling, DIREVO Biotech AG

--Steen Rasmussen, Los Almos National Laboratory

--Nadrian Seeman, New York University 

Communications Technology

--Vanu Bose, Vanu, Inc.

--Thomas DeFanti, University of Illinois at Chicago 

--Masayoshi Son, Softbank Corporation

--Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE, Inc.

--Linus Torvalds, Open Source Development Labs

Design

--Mario Bellini, Bellini Studios

--Ross Lovegrove, Lovegrove Studio

--Mike and Kathy McCoy, McCoy & McCoy Associates

--Bill Moggridge, IDEO

--Richard Sapper, Industrial Designer

Education

--Mizuko Ito, University of Southern California 

--Sherif Kamal, American University in Cairo 

--Mahesh Ratna Shakya, Communication for Development Palpa (Nepal)

--Shiv Sivakumar, ITC Ltd.

--Elliot Soloway, University of Michigan 

--Elizabeth Stock, Computers for Youth

Energy

--Subhendu Guha, United Solar Ovonic

--James Dumesic and Randy Cortright, University of Wisconsin/Madison

--Nathan Lewis, California Institute of Technology 

--Daniel Nocera, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

--Robert Williams, Princeton University

Entertainment

--Christian Castle, Snocap

--Bram Cohen, BitTorrent

--Jon Lech Johansen, Nanocrew

--Lawrence Lessig, Stanford University

--Keita Takahashi, Namco

--Michael Weiss, StreamCast Networks, Inc

Environment

--Satish Agnihotri, Government of Orissa, India

--Jose Ivo Baldani, Embrapa Agrobiologia (Brazil)

--Shu-Ting Chang, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

--Priyadarshini Karve, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute

--Hans Monderman, Voorwerk/Voorwerk Foundation

--Rajendra Singh, Tarun Bharat Sangh 

Ethics

--Manuel Castells, University of California Berkeley

--Ruth Chadwick, Lancaster University

--Michael S. Gazzaniga, Dartmouth College

--Tony Hope, Oxford University

--Lawrence Lessig, Stanford University

--John Weckert, Charles Stuart University

Finance

--David Chao, Doll Capital Management (DCM)

--Richard Duval, ZOPA

--Nancy Floyd, Nth Power

--Promod Haque, Norwest Venture Partners (NVP)

--Richard Kramlich, New Enterprise Associates (NEA)

--Mike Milken, FasterCures

Health and Medicine

--Alim-Louis Benabid, University of Grenoble, France

--John P. Donoghue, Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems

--Carlos Lima, Egaz Moniz Hospital

--Andreas Lendlein and Robert Langer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

--Erez Golan and Eyal Kolka, TopSpin Medical

IT Hardware

--Holly Gates, E Ink Corporation 

--Sumio Iijima, NEC

--Kunle Olukontun, Standford University

--Geordie Rose, D-Wave Systems, Inc.

--Huiling Shang, IBM

IT Software

--Nancy Amato, Texas A&M University

--Mark Billinghurst, HIT Lab New Zealand

--Stuart Card, PARC

--Olivier Guinnard and Gregoire Ribordy, id Quantique

--David Haussler, Howard Hughes Medical Institute/UC Santa Cruz

--Larry Peterson, Princeton University

Law

--Yochai Benkler, Yale University

--Dan Burk, University of Minnesota 

--James Love, Consumer Project on Technology

--Arti Rai, Duke University

--R. Anthony Reese, University of Texas at Austin 

Marketing Communications

--Scott Farber, Valerie Garing Combs and Sean Van der Linden, Ingenio

--Jeffrey Immelt, General Electric

--Gregory Lee, Samsung Electronics, Co.

--Mike McCue, Angus Davis and Marci Gottlieb, Tellme Networks, Inc.

--Stan Ng, Apple Computer

--Steve Sturm, Toyota

Materials/Nanotech

--Youngseon Choi and Dr. James R. Baker Jr., University of Michigan

--Michael Graetzel, EPFL -- Lausanne

--Wolfgang Ketterle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

--David R. Liu, Harvard University

--Daniel Rugar, John Mamin, Raffi Budakian and Benjamin Chui, IBM

Media and Journalism

--Phillip Campbell, Nature

--Craig Forman, Yahoo! Inc.

--Sreenath Sreenivasan, Columbia University

--Harold Varmus, Patrick O. Brown and Michael Eisen, Public Library of Science (PLoS)

--Jimmy Wales, Wikimedia Foundation

Policy

--Tony Blair, Prime Minister, United Kingdom

--Bob Epstein and Nicole Lederer, E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs)

--Bjorn Lomborg, Copenhagen Consensus

--Silvio Meira, CESAR (Brazil)

--John McCain and Joseph Lieberman, Senators, U.S. Congress

Social Entrepreneurship

--Tralance Addy, Water Health International

--Ricardo Eugenio Bertolino, Ecoclubes

--Vicky Colbert, Escuela Nueva Back to the People Foundation

--Dr. Madhukar Deshpande, Vigyan Vahini

--Walter Fust, Swiss Agency for Development and cooperation (SDC)

--Lekha Singh, AidMatrix

Space

--Yuri Koptev, Russian Space Agency (RKA)

--Walter Kroll, Helmholtz Association

--Elon Musk, SpaceX

--Burt Rutan, Scaled Composites, LLC

--Steven W. Squyres, Cornell University & NASA

--Dennis Ray Wingo, Orbital Recovery

For more information on the World Technology Network, World Technology Awards and World Technology Summit, please visit: www.wtn.net.

About World Technology Network

The World Technology Network is a New York-headquartered organization that was created to "encourage serendipity" -- happy accidents -- amongst those individuals and companies deemed by their peers to be the most innovative in the science and technology world. The WTN's areas of interest range from IT and communications to biotech, energy, materials, space, as well as related fields such as finance, marketing, policy, law, design, and ethics. Each year, WTN members are brought together through an ongoing global series of regional roundtables, global Summits, and other events. In 2004, the WTN also convened the World Energy Technologies Summit at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The WTN also publishes "WTN Update," a monthly collection of news items covering the innovative work of the WTN membership. The central events in the WTN calendar include the annual World Technology Summit and World Technology Awards -- the culmination of a global judging program through which new members are nominated and selected and by which the network grows and is refreshed.