Utah Technology Council Names Inductees to 2006 'Hall of Fame' Event; Dr. Jim Kajiya and Dr. Dinesh Patel to Be Honored at Friday, Oct. 27 Event.SALT LAKE CITY -- The Utah Technology Council (UTC (Coordinated Universal Time, Temps Universel Coordonné) The international time standard (formerly Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT). Zero hours UTC is midnight in Greenwich, England, which is located at 0 degrees longitude. ) is pleased to announce its eighth annual "Hall of Fame" awards dinner. The celebration will honor and induct in·duct v. To produce an electric current or a magnetic charge by induction. technology leaders Dr. Jim Kajiya Jim Kajiya is a pioneer in the field of computer graphics. He is perhaps best known for the development of the rendering equation. Kajiya received his PhD from the University of Utah in 1979, was a professor at Caltech from 1979 through 1994, and is currently a researcher at and Dr. Dinesh Patel. The black-tie event will take place at 6 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 27, at the Little America Hotel, 500 S. Main, Salt Lake City. The "Hall of Fame" event honors individuals with Utah ties who have made key contributions to the information technology and life science industries through new technology, innovation and leadership. These contributions have resulted in job growth, commercialization of technology and increased growth and development of the nation's technology sector and economy. The UTC welcomes members of Utah's technology industries, as well as business and community leaders, to join in honoring this year's inductees. Dr. Jim Kajiya An Academy Award winner, Jim Kajiya began his career as a hardware designer. He worked for Quad Eight Electronics where he designed automated mix-down equipment and SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, White Plains, NY, www.smpte.org) A professional society for motion picture and TV engineers with more than 9,000 members worldwide. It prepares standards and documentation for TV production. time-code synchronizers. He then joined Evans and Sutherland as the project engineer for its frame buffer -- the first commercially available random access frame buffer. Kajiya received his doctorate in computer science from the University of Utah The University of Utah (also The U or the U of U or the UU), located in Salt Lake City, is the flagship public research university in the state of Utah, and one of 10 institutions that make up the Utah System of Higher Education. and spent 15 years at the California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology, at Pasadena, Calif.; originally for men, became coeducational in 1970; founded 1891 as Throop Polytechnic Institute; called Throop College of Technology, 1913–20. , working as an assistant and associate professor of computer science. He has published many papers on mathematical models for computer vision, high-level programming languages and mathematical logic for computer science. Kajiya spent several years as the senior researcher at Microsoft Research and is currently a director of research at Microsoft. His recent work has focused on very high-quality computer graphics, graphic hardware design and developing programming languages. In 1991, he received the SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics, www.siggraph.org) The arm of the ACM that specializes in computer graphics and interactive techniques. Providing publications, workshops and conferences, it has served technicians and researchers as well as the artist and business community Technical Achievement Award and was awarded an Academy Award (technical certificate) in 1997. Kajiya has served on the external advisory board of the Defense Mapping Agency, the National Neurocircuitry Database Committee for the National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine, as well as the SIGGRAPH executive committee. Dr. Dinesh Patel Dinesh Patel, a managing director and founding partner of vSpring Capital, is considered by many to be the father of biotechnology and pharmaceuticals in the Mountain West region. Founder, chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Ashni Naturaceuticals, a company focused on development and marketing of naturaceutical products, Patel has served as chairman and CEO of TheraTech, a biotechnology company which he took public and sold for $350 million to Watson Pharmaceuticals. He also served as CEO and co-founder of Salus Therapeutics, a biotech firm developing nucleic acid-based therapeutics, which was sold to Genta for $30 million. Recently selected as the first Utah recipient of the prestigious Ellis Island Medal, Patel has been the recipient of numerous other awards, including the Utah Asian Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Business Award, U.S. Small Business Administration's Business Achiever Award, the Utah Scientific Technology and Development Pioneer of Progress Award, the Governor's Medal for Science and Technology, Utah Engineering Experiment Station Pathfinder Award and the Mountain West Venture Group's "Entrepreneur of the Year" award. He serves on various non-profit boards. Patel received his bachelor's degree in Pharmacy at Gujarat University in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. He went on to receive his master's degree from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy A college of pharmacy generally refers to a tertiary educational institution (or part of such an institution) which is involved in the education of future pharmacists and pharmaconomists. and his Ph.D. in Physical Pharmacy from the University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. . Utah Technology Council's "Hall of Fame" celebration begins with a networking reception at 6 p.m., followed by dinner starting at 7 p.m. For information on sponsorships and tables, contact Mark Lehnhof at 801-568-3500 or mark@utahtechcouncil.org. Proceeds will help foster the growth of Utah's technology community. About UTC As the premier professional organization for Utah's more than 3,700 technology companies, the Utah Technology Council, the power of UITA UITA Utah Information Technology Association UITA Union Internationale des Travailleurs de l'alimentation, de l'agriculture, de l'hôtellerie-Restauration, du Tabac et des Branches Connexes and ULSA ULSA Universidad La Salle ULSA Ultra Low Sidelobe Antenna , exists to form closer relationships with industry and community leaders, develop superior management talent, sharpen professional skills and help gain access to capital. For more information on UTC, please visit http://www.utahtechcouncil.org. Note: An image of Dr. Jim Kajiya can be found at: http://www.utahtechcouncil.org/newsimages/kajiya.jpg An image of Dr. Dinesh Patel can be found at: http://www.utahtechcouncil.org/newsimages/patel.jpg |
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