The World Technology Network Honors the Most Innovative Individuals in Science and Technology; The World's Best and Brightest in 20 Categories Are Named Fellows of Prestigious Organization.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 World Technology Network (WTN WTN Watertown (Wisconsin) WTN Working Telephone Number WTN World Television Network WTN Wright Technology Network WTN World Timber Network WTN Womens' Television Network (Canada) ) 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 biotechnology, the use of biological processes, as through the exploitation and manipulation of living organisms or biological systems, in the development or manufacture of a product or in the technological solution to a problem. , ethics ethics, in philosophy, the study and evaluation of human conduct in the light of moral principles. Moral principles may be viewed either as the standard of conduct that individuals have constructed for themselves or as the body of obligations and duties that a , entertainment and space, the top 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 Long-term Three or more years. In the context of accounting, more than 1 year. long-term 1. Of or relating to a gain or loss in the value of a security that has been held over a specific length of time. Compare short-term. significance. Each year, one Fellow is eligible to be selected as the winner of his or her category, and is announced at the World Technology Awards Gala dinner on November November: see month. 15th, 2005, at San Francisco City Hall The City Hall of San Francisco California, opened in 1915, in its open space area in the city's Civic Center, is a Beaux-Arts monument to the brief "City Beautiful" movement that epitomized the high-minded American Renaissance of the period 1880-1917. in San Francisco, California “San Francisco” redirects here. For other uses, see San Francisco (disambiguation). The City and County of San Francisco (EN IPA: [sænfrənˈsɪskoʊ] . The World Technology Awards is held in association with TIME magazine, CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. , 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 e·lect v. e·lect·ed, e·lect·ing, e·lects v.tr. 1. To select by vote for an office or for membership. 2. To pick out; select: elect an art course. WTN Fellows from previous awards cycles, number more than 800, and are spread out over 60 countries.
Here is a complete list of this year's WTN winners:
The Arts
Jim Campbell, Artist
Biotechnology
Woo Suk Hwang, Seoul National University
Communications Technology
Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE, Inc.
Design
Ross Lovegrove, Lovegrove Studio
Education
Shiv Sivakumar, ITC Ltd.
Energy
Subhendu Guha, United Solar Ovonic
Entertainment
Bram Cohen, BitTorrent
Environment
Priyadarshini Karve, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute
Ethics
Ruth Chadwick, Lancaster University
Finance nominees
Richard Kramlich, New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
Health & Medicine
Andreas Lendlein and Robert Langer, Mass. Institute of Technology
(MIT)
IT Hardware
Holly Gates, E Ink Corporation
IT Software
David Haussler, Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ UC Santa Cruz
Law
Yochai Benkler, Yale University
Marketing Communications
Scott Faber and Sean Van der Linden, Ingenio
Materials
Daniel Rugar, John Mamin, Raffi Budakian and Benjamin Chui, IBM
Media & Journalism
Harold Varmus, Patrick O. Brown and Michael Eisen, Public Library
of Science (PLoS)
Policy
Tony Blair, Prime Minister, United Kingdom
Social Entrepreneurship
Vicky Colbert, Escuela Nueva Back to the People Foundation
Space
Steven W. Squyres, Cornell University & NASA
"The World Technology Network Awards program is an historic event. This year's group of Fellows represent what is imminent Impending; menacingly close at hand; threatening. Imminent peril, for example, is danger that is certain, immediate, and impending, such as the type an individual might be in as a result of a serious illness or accident. , 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 James, person in the Bible James, in the Gospel of St. Luke, kinsman of St. Jude. The original does not specify the relationship. James, rivers, United States James. P. Clark, founder and chairman of the World Technology Network. "It truly is an honor As a verb, to accept a bill of exchange, or to pay a note, check, or accepted bill, at maturity. To pay or to accept and pay, or, where a credit so engages, to purchase or discount a draft complying with the terms of the draft. and a privilege A permission or right. In information security, it refers to the modes of operation that a user or a process is granted. Examples include user-level privilege, operator privilege and supervisory 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 Faber 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 serendipity happy finding of an unexpected object or solution while searching for something else. " -- 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 bi·o·tech n. Informal Biotechnology. biotech Noun short for biotechnology Noun 1. , 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 UNESCO: see United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. UNESCO in full United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 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 nom·i·nate tr.v. nom·i·nat·ed, nom·i·nat·ing, nom·i·nates 1. To propose by name as a candidate, especially for election. 2. To designate or appoint to an office, responsibility, or honor. and selected and by which the network grows and is refreshed re·fresh v. re·freshed, re·fresh·ing, re·fresh·es v.tr. 1. To revive with or as if with rest, food, or drink; give new vigor or spirit to. 2. . |
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