The World Technology Awards are presented annually by The World Technology Network (The WTN) at its World Technology Summit to individuals and corporations achieving significant, lasting progress in categories pertaining to science, technology, the arts, and design. The first World Technology Summit and Awards took place on November 12, 1999, at the National Museum of Science and Industry

National Museum of Science and Industry

The National Museum of Science and Industry is a collection of British museums, comprising:* The Science Museum, incorporating the Science Museum Library and the Wellcome collections of the history of medicine at South Kensington in London....

 in London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. Currently the Awards are held at the Time-Life Building

Time-Life Building

The Time-Life Building, located at 1271 Avenue of the Americas in Rockefeller Center in New York opened in 1959 and was designed by the Rockefeller family's architect Wallace Harrison, of Harrison, Abramovitz, and Harris.The Time & Life Building was the first of four buildings in Rockefeller...

 in New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

  The Awards are given in association with Time

Time (magazine)

Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...

, NASDAQ

NASDAQ

The NASDAQ Stock Market, also known as the NASDAQ, is an American stock exchange. "NASDAQ" originally stood for "National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations". It is the second-largest stock exchange by market capitalization in the world, after the New York Stock Exchange. As of...

, Fortune

Fortune (magazine)

Fortune is a global business magazine published by Time Inc. Founded by Henry Luce in 1930, the publishing business, consisting of Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated, grew to become Time Warner. In turn, AOL grew as it acquired Time Warner in 2000 when Time Warner was the world's largest...

, AAAS

American Association for the Advancement of Science

The American Association for the Advancement of Science is an international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the...

, Science

Science (journal)

Science is the academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is one of the world's top scientific journals....

, NYAS

Nyas

Nyas means establishment. It means establishment of your own desired God within your desired body organ accompanied by chanting of mantras. This is done to relax out the tired out body or any specific organ and to fill it with new energy. Nyas is an important method to remove dosh of our body...

, and The Technology Review.

History

The WTN was founded by its current chairman, James P. Clark. The first set of 20 awards was presented in 2000. The 2001 World Technology Summit was held in London at Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine and the National Museum of Science & Industry. The 2002 World Technology Summit was held in New York City, in part at United Nations headquarters. The 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 World Technology Summit & Awards took place in San Francisco, with the Summits at leading hotels and the Awards ceremony at San Francisco City Hall.

In 2002, the WTN added a Corporate (designated by "Corp", below) award to 10 of the categories. These categories are listed separately. In 2001, the WTN added three categories: Education, Entertainment, and Social Entrepreneurship. In 2002, WTN discontinued three categories: Commerce, Transportation and Start-up Companies.

The X Prize Foundation

X Prize Foundation

The X PRIZE Foundation is a non-profit organization that designs and manages public competitions intended to encourage technological development that could benefit mankind....

 and WTN announced the WTN X Prize

WTN X Prize

The WTN X Prizes are a series of upcoming prizes inspired by the Ansari X-Prize but will cover all areas of science and technology.It was first formally announced by Peter Diamandis of the X Prize Foundation and James P. Clark of the World Technology Network on October 7, 2004 at the WTN's 2004...

 in October 2004.

The Arts

ARts

aRts, which stands for analog Real time synthesizer, is an audio framework that is no longer under development. It is best known for previously being used in KDE to simulate an analog synthesizer....

• 2000 : Paul DeMarinis
  Paul DeMarinis
  Paul DeMarinis is an American electronic music composer, sound, performance, and computer-based artist.-Education:In 1971, Demarinis received a B.A. in Music and Filmmaking Interdisciplinary from Antioch College...
  
  , Multimedia Electronic Artist; Creator, "The Edison Effect"
• 2001 : Steina and Woody Vasulka
  Steina and Woody Vasulka
  Steina Vasulka and Woody Vasulka are pioneers of video art, having practiced in the genre since its early days in the late 1960s....
  
  , Artists, Art and Science Laboratory
• 2002 : Michael Naimark
  Michael Naimark
  Michael Naimark is a media artist and researcher who often explores “place representation.”- Biography :Naimark helped found a number of prominent research labs including the MIT Media Laboratory , the Atari Research Lab , the Apple Multimedia Lab , Lucasfilm Interactive , and Interval Research...
  
  , Artist and Researcher, Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences
  Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences
  or IAMAS is a public university at Ogaki, Gifu, Japan, founded in 2001.-External links:*...
  
  
• 2003 : Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
  Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
  Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is a Mexican-Canadian electronic artist who works with ideas from architecture, technological theater and performance. He holds a Bachelors of Science in Physical Chemistry from Concordia University in Montreal...
  
  , Artist
• 2004 : David Rokeby
  David Rokeby
  David Rokeby is an artist who has been making works of electronic, video and installation art since 1982.His early work Very Nervous System is acknowledged as a pioneering work of interactive art, translating physical gestures into real-time interactive sound environments...
  
  , Independent
• 2005 : Jim Campbell
  Jim Campbell (comic artist/musician)
  Jim Campbell , a.k.a. "Angry Jim", is a U.S. comic artist and musician living in Brooklyn, New York.-Biography:While studying at the Kansas City Art Institute, he founded the band Ottomen with fellow Illustration students David Stevenson and George Garcia...
  
  , Artist
• 2006 : Perry Hoberman
  Perry Hoberman
  Perry Hoberman , is an installation artist who has worked extensively with machines and media. His career has included stints with Laurie Anderson and the USC Interactive Media Division....
  
  
• 2009 : Usman Haque and Adam Somlai-Fischer artists
• 2011 : Marco Tempest
  Marco Tempest
  Marco Tempest is a Swiss magician based in New York City. He is reputed for his multimedia magic and use of interactive technology and computer graphics in his illusions and presentations. He stars in the eight part television series "The Virtual Magician"...
  
  , Technoillusionist

Biotechnology

Biotechnology

Biotechnology is a field of applied biology that involves the use of living organisms and bioprocesses in engineering, technology, medicine and other fields requiring bioproducts. Biotechnology also utilizes these products for manufacturing purpose...

• 2000 : John Sulston, Director, Sanger Centre
  Frederick Sanger
  Frederick Sanger, OM, CH, CBE, FRS is an English biochemist and a two-time Nobel laureate in chemistry, the only person to have been so. In 1958 he was awarded a Nobel prize in chemistry "for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin"...
  
  
• 2001 : Dr. Craig Venter
  Craig Venter
  John Craig Venter is an American biologist and entrepreneur, most famous for his role in being one of the first to sequence the human genome and for his role in creating the first cell with a synthetic genome in 2010. Venter founded Celera Genomics, The Institute for Genomic Research and the J...
  
  , President & CEO, Celera Genomics, Inc.
  Celera Genomics
  Celera Corporation was a business unit of the Applera Corporation, but was spun off in July 2008 to become an independent publicly traded company. In May 2011 Quest Diagnostics Incorporated completed the acquisition of Celera, which thus became a wholly owned subsidiary...
  
  
• 2002 : Dr. Ruedi Aebersold
  Ruedi Aebersold
  Rudolf Aebersold is a Swiss biologist, regarded as a pioneer in the fields of proteomics and systems biology. Prof. Aebersold has primarily researched techniques for measuring proteins in complex samples, in many cases via mass spectrometry...
  
  , Professor, Institute for Systems Biology
  Systems biology
  Systems biology is a term used to describe a number of trends in bioscience research, and a movement which draws on those trends. Proponents describe systems biology as a biology-based inter-disciplinary study field that focuses on complex interactions in biological systems, claiming that it uses...
  
  
  • Corp : Genecor International
• 2003 : Dr. Leroy Hood
  Leroy Hood
  Leroy Hood is an American biologist. He won the 2011 Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize “for automating DNA sequencing that revolutionized biomedicine and forensic science” and the 2003 Lemelson-MIT Prize for inventing "four instruments that have unlocked much of the mystery of human biology" by...
  
  , Institute for Systems Biology
  • Corp : International Rice Genome Sequencing Project
• 2004 : Prof. Ehud Shapiro
  Ehud Shapiro
  Ehud Shapiro is an Israeli computer scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He received his Ph.D from Yale for his dissertation entitled "Algorithmic Program Debugging" which was an ACM distinguished dissertation for 1982. He has been an exponent of the Prolog computer language and logic...
  
  , Department of Computer Science, Weizmann Institute
  • Corp : Advanced Cell Technology
    Advanced Cell Technology
    Advanced Cell Technology, Incorporated , is a biotechnology company located in Marlborough, Massachusetts, USA. The company specializes in the development and commercialization of cell therapies for the treatment of a variety of diseases...
    
    
• 2005 : Nadrian Seeman
  Nadrian Seeman
  Nadrian C. "Ned" Seeman is an American nanotechnologist and crystallographer known for inventing the field of DNA nanotechnology.Seeman studied biochemistry at the University of Chicago and crystallography at the University of Pittsburgh...
  
  , New York University
  New York University
  New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
  
  
  • Corp : Amyris Biotechnologies
• 2006 : Paul Rothemund
  • Corp : Genentech
    Genentech
    Genentech Inc., or Genetic Engineering Technology, Inc., is a biotechnology corporation, founded in 1976 by venture capitalist Robert A. Swanson and biochemist Dr. Herbert Boyer. Trailing the founding of Cetus by five years, it was an important step in the evolution of the biotechnology industry...
    
    
• 2009 : Christina Smolke and Maung Nyan Win, Stanford University
  Stanford University
  The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
  
  
  • Corp : T2 Biosystems
• 2011 : James J. Collins
  James Collins (Boston University)
  James J. Collins is an American bioengineer, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator...
  
  , Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  Howard Hughes Medical Institute is a United States non-profit medical research organization based in Chevy Chase, Maryland. It was founded by the American businessman Howard Hughes in 1953. It is one of the largest private funding organizations for biological and medical research in the United...
  
   and Boston University
  Boston University
  Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...
  
  
  • Corp : Celgene Corporation
    Celgene
    Celgene Corporation is a manufacturer of drug therapies for cancer and inflammatory disorders. It is incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Summit, New Jersey...
    
    

Commerce

Commerce

While business refers to the value-creating activities of an organization for profit, commerce means the whole system of an economy that constitutes an environment for business. The system includes legal, economic, political, social, cultural, and technological systems that are in operation in any...

• 2000 : Steven Snyder
  Steven Snyder
  Steven Snyder is a notable figure in high technology management. He was an early employee of Microsoft where he was Microsoft's first business unit general manager, leading the Development Tool Business...
  
  , Brad Miller
  Brad Miller (congressman)
  Ralph Bradley "Brad" Miller is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2003. District 13 includes all of Caswell and Person counties, and parts of Alamance, Granville, Guilford, Rockingham and Wake counties...
  
   & John Riedl, Cofounders, Net Perceptions
• 2001 : Linus Torvalds
  Linus Torvalds
  Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer and hacker, best known for having initiated the development of the open source Linux kernel. He later became the chief architect of the Linux kernel, and now acts as the project's coordinator...
  
  , Programmer, Transmeta Corp.
  Transmeta
  Transmeta Corporation was a US-based corporation that licensed low power semiconductor intellectual property. Transmeta originally produced very long instruction word code morphing microprocessors, with a focus on reducing power consumption in electronic devices. It was founded in 1995 by Bob...
  
  
• 2002 : Discontinued

Communication Technology

Communication

Communication is the activity of conveying meaningful information. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast...

• 2000 : Tim Berners-Lee
  Tim Berners-Lee
  Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, , also known as "TimBL", is a British computer scientist, MIT professor and the inventor of the World Wide Web...
  
  , Director, World Wide Web Consortium
  World Wide Web Consortium
  The World Wide Web Consortium is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web .Founded and headed by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations which maintain full-time staff for the purpose of working together in the development of standards for the...
  
  
• 2001 : Robert Metcalfe
  Robert Metcalfe
  Robert Melancton Metcalfe is an electrical engineer from the United States who co-invented Ethernet, founded 3Com and formulated Metcalfe's Law., he is a general partner of Polaris Venture Partners...
  
  , Vice-President Technology, International Data Group, Inc.
  IDG
  International Data Group is a technology media, research, event management, and venture capital organization.IDG evolved from International Data Corporation which was formed in 1964 in Newtonville, Massachusetts, by Patrick Joseph McGovern and a friend, Fred Kirch...
  
  
• 2002 : Linus Torvalds
  Linus Torvalds
  Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer and hacker, best known for having initiated the development of the open source Linux kernel. He later became the chief architect of the Linux kernel, and now acts as the project's coordinator...
  
  , Creator, Linux
  Linux
  Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
  
  
  • Corp : NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    NTT DoCoMo
    is the predominant mobile phone operator in Japan. The name is officially an abbreviation of the phrase, "do communications over the mobile network", and is also from a compound word dokomo, meaning "everywhere" in Japanese. Docomo provides phone, video phone , i-mode , and mail services...
    
    
• 2003 : Prof. Kilnam Chon, KAIST
  KAIST
  KAIST , is located in Daedeok Innopolis, Daejeon, South Korea. KAIST was established by the Korean government in 1971 as the nation's first research oriented science and engineering institution. The QS-The Times World University Rankings in the year of 2009 placed KAIST 69th overall and 21st in...
  
  
  • Corp : Quallcomm, Inc.
    Qualcomm
    Qualcomm is an American global telecommunication corporation that designs, manufactures and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services based on its code division multiple access technology and other technologies. Headquartered in San Diego, CA, USA...
    
    
• 2004 : David P. Reed
  David P. Reed
  David P. Reed is an American computer scientist, educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, known for a number of significant contributions to computer networking....
  
  , Adjunct Professor, Media Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, & HP Fellow, HP Laboratories
  Hewlett-Packard
  Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...
  
  
  • Corp : Skype
    Skype
    Skype is a software application that allows users to make voice and video calls and chat over the Internet. Calls to other users within the Skype service are free, while calls to both traditional landline telephones and mobile phones can be made for a fee using a debit-based user account system...
    
    
• 2005 : Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE, Inc.
  • Corp : Wikimedia Foundation Inc.
• 2006 : Craig Newmark
  Craig Newmark
  Craig Alexander Newmark is an Internet entrepreneur best known for being the founder of the San Francisco-based international website Craigslist.-Biography:...
  
  
  • Corp : FON
    FON
    Fon is a company that operates a system of dual access wireless networks. Fon is the largest Wi-Fi network in the world, with over 4 million hotspots....
    
    
• 2009 : Jianping Wu and Xing Li, China Education and Research Network (CERNET)
  • Corp : YouTube
    YouTube
    YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
    
    
• 2011 : Gabriel Chalet, Researcher, Bell Labs
  Bell Labs
  Bell Laboratories is the research and development subsidiary of the French-owned Alcatel-Lucent and previously of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company , half-owned through its Western Electric manufacturing subsidiary.Bell Laboratories operates its...
  
  , Alcatel-Lucent
  Alcatel-Lucent
  Alcatel-Lucent is a global telecommunications corporation, headquartered in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France. It provides telecommunications solutions to service providers, enterprises, and governments around the world, enabling these customers to deliver voice, data, and video services...
  
  
  • Corp : Skype
    Skype
    Skype is a software application that allows users to make voice and video calls and chat over the Internet. Calls to other users within the Skype service are free, while calls to both traditional landline telephones and mobile phones can be made for a fee using a debit-based user account system...
    
    

Design

Design

Design as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...

• 2000 : Jonathan Ive
  Jonathan Ive
  Jonathan "Jony" Ive, CBE is an English designer and the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc. He is the leading designer and conceptual mind behind the iMac, titanium and aluminum PowerBook G4, G4 Cube, MacBook, unibody MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iPod, iPhone, and iPad.- Early...
  
  , Vice-President of Industrial Design
  Industrial design
  Industrial design is the use of a combination of applied art and applied science to improve the aesthetics, ergonomics, and usability of a product, but it may also be used to improve the product's marketability and production...
  
  , Apple Computer
  Apple Computer
  Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad...
  
  
• 2001 : Stefano Marzano, CEO, Philips Design
  Philips Design
  Philips Design is a global design agency. Headquartered in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, the agency also has offices in Amsterdam, Andover, Atlanta, Gurgaon , Hong Kong, and Singapore...
  
  
• 2002 : Jonathan Ive
  Jonathan Ive
  Jonathan "Jony" Ive, CBE is an English designer and the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc. He is the leading designer and conceptual mind behind the iMac, titanium and aluminum PowerBook G4, G4 Cube, MacBook, unibody MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iPod, iPhone, and iPad.- Early...
  
  , Vice-President of Industrial Design, Apple Computer
  Apple Computer
  Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad...
  
  
• 2003 : Issey Miyake
  Issey Miyake
  is a Japanese fashion designer. He is known for his technology-driven clothing designs, exhibitions and fragrances.-Life and career:Miyake was born 22 April 1938 in Hiroshima, Japan. As a seven year-old, he witnessed and survived the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. He studied...
  
   & Dai Fujiwara, Miyake Design Studio
• 2004 : Paola Antonelli, Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art
• 2006 : Bill Moggridge
  Bill Moggridge
  William Moggridge, an industrial and interaction designer, is co-founder of the Silicon Valley-based design firm IDEO and the current director of the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York. He designed what was the first laptop computer, the GRiD Compass...
  
  
• 2009 : Ron Nabarro, Senior-Touch ltd.
• 2011 : Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Designer/Artist/Writer

Education

Education

Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...

• 2001 : Dr. Venkataraman Balaji, Principal Scientist, ICRISAT
• 2002 : Dr. Pedro Hepp, Professor, Universidad de La Frontera
  Universidad de La Frontera
  University of the Frontier or UFRO is a university in Temuco Chile. It is a derivative university and part of the Chilean Traditional Universities. UFRO boasts a student body with a variety of abilities and from a variety of backgrounds, many of Mapuche descent....
  
  
• 2003 : Dr. Robert F. Tinker
  Robert F. Tinker
  Robert Frederick Tinker is an American physicist, science educator, and education technology innovator, who pioneers constructivist approaches to education, particularly novel uses of educational technology in science. He is best known for igniting the field of probeware for education...
  
  , The Concord Consortium
• 2004 : Cristian Cox, Minister of Education, Government of Chile
  Chile
  Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
  
  
• 2006 : James Slotta
• 2009 : Dr. Richard G. Baraniuk, Rice University
  Rice University
  William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...
  
  
• 2011 : Dr. Mitchel Resnick
  Mitchel Resnick
  Mitchel Resnick is LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research, Director of the Okawa Center, and Director of the at the MIT Media Lab. Resnick currently serves as the head of the Media Arts and Sciences academic program, the academic program that grants master's degrees and Ph.Ds at the MIT Media...
  
  , LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research and Head of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group, MIT Media Lab
  MIT Media Lab
  The MIT Media Lab is a laboratory of MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Devoted to research projects at the convergence of design, multimedia and technology, the Media Lab has been widely popularized since the 1990s by business and technology publications such as Wired and Red Herring for a...
  
  

Energy

Energy

In physics, energy is an indirectly observed quantity. It is often understood as the ability a physical system has to do work on other physical systems...

• 2000 : Dr. Geoffrey Ballard
  Geoffrey Ballard (businessman)
  Geoffrey Ballard, CM, OBC was a Canadian geophysicist and businessman. A long time advocate of replacing the internal combustion engine, in 1979 Ballard founded what would become Ballard Power Systems to develop commercial applications of the proton exchange membrane fuel cell...
  
  , Founder, Ballard Power Systems
  Ballard Power Systems
  Ballard Power Systems , located in Burnaby, British Columbia -- a suburb of Vancouver -- is a company that designs, develops, and manufactures zero emission proton-exchange-membrane fuel cells. This company has made a bus that uses only hydrogen fuel cells. These fuel cells combine hydrogen and...
  
  
• 2001 : Dr. Paul MacCready
  Paul MacCready
  Paul B. MacCready, Jr. was an American aeronautical engineer. He was the founder of AeroVironment and the designer of the human-powered aircraft that won the Kremer prize...
  
  , Chairperson, AeroVironment, Inc.
  AeroVironment
  AeroVironment Inc. is a technology company in Monrovia, California, and Simi Valley, California, that is primarily involved in energy systems, electric vehicle systems, and unmanned aerial vehicles . Paul B. MacCready, Jr., a famous designer of human powered aircraft, founded the company in 1971...
  
  
• 2002 : Dr. Ashok Gadgil
  Ashok Gadgil
  Ashok Gadgil is a physicist with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, and a professor in civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for "UV Waterworks" - a simple, effective and inexpensive water disinfection system.-Education:He...
  
  , Senior Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory conducting unclassified scientific research. It is located on the grounds of the University of California, Berkeley, in the Berkeley Hills above the central campus...
  
  
  • Corp : Toyota
• 2003 : Prof. Zhiqiang Yin, Tsinghua University
  Tsinghua University
  Tsinghua University , colloquially known in Chinese as Qinghua, is a university in Beijing, China. The school is one of the nine universities of the C9 League. It was established in 1911 under the name "Tsinghua Xuetang" or "Tsinghua College" and was renamed the "Tsinghua School" one year later...
  
  
  • Corp : Environ
    Environ
    Environ is a record label started in 1995 in Oberlin, Ohio by Morgan Geist.-Artists:Artists on the label include Metro Area, Daniel Wang, Morgan Geist, Kelley Polar Quartet, and Jersey Devil Social Club.-External links:*...
    
    , Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory conducting unclassified scientific research. It is located on the grounds of the University of California, Berkeley, in the Berkeley Hills above the central campus...
    
    
• 2004 : Martin Green, Research Director, Centre for Advanced Silicon Photovoltaics and Photonics, University of New South Wales
  • Corp : AeroVironment, Inc.
    AeroVironment
    AeroVironment Inc. is a technology company in Monrovia, California, and Simi Valley, California, that is primarily involved in energy systems, electric vehicle systems, and unmanned aerial vehicles . Paul B. MacCready, Jr., a famous designer of human powered aircraft, founded the company in 1971...
    
    
• 2005 : Subhendu Guha, United Solar Ovonic
  • Corp : XsunX, Inc.
• 2006 : Stuart Wenham
  Stuart Wenham
  Stuart Wenham is the current director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Silicon Photovoltaics and Photonics and Director of Academic Studies of the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering at the University of New South Wales. Dr...
  
  
  • Corp : CSG Solar
• 2009 : Zhengrong Shi, Suntech Power Holdings Co.,ltd.
  • Corp : Planar Energy Devices
• 2011 : Xin Zhao, Materials Scientist, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
  Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
  Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility , commonly called Jefferson Lab or JLab, is a U.S. national laboratory located in Newport News, Virginia. Since June 1, 2006, it has been operated by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC, a joint venture between Southeastern Universities Research...
  
   (Jefferson Laboratory) & Rod Ruoff/Meryl Stoller, Ruoff Research Group, University of Texas at Austin
  University of Texas at Austin
  The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...
  
  
  • Corp : Aquion Energy

Entertainment

Entertainment

Entertainment consists of any activity which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves in their leisure time. Entertainment is generally passive, such as watching opera or a movie. Active forms of amusement, such as sports, are more often considered to be recreation...

• 2001 : Shawn Fanning
  Shawn Fanning
  Shawn Fanning is an American computer programmer, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor. He developed Napster, one of the first popular peer-to-peer file sharing platforms, in 1998. The popularity of Napster was widespread and Fanning was featured on the cover of Time magazine...
  
  , Founder, Napster, Inc.
  Napster
  Napster is an online music store and a Best Buy company. It was originally founded as a pioneering peer-to-peer file sharing Internet service that emphasized sharing audio files that were typically digitally encoded music as MP3 format files...
  
  
• 2002 : Michael Robertson, CEO, Lindows.com
• 2003 : Derek Sivers
  Derek Sivers
  Derek Sivers is best known for being the founder and former president of CD Baby, an online CD store for independent musicians....
  
  , CD Baby
  CD Baby
  CD Baby is an online music store specializing in the sale of CDs and digital music downloads from independent musicians to consumers. The company is also a digital aggregator of independent music recordings, distributing content to several online digital music retailers.CD Baby has achieved recent...
  
  
• 2004 : Richard Marks
  Richard Marks
  Richard Marks is an American film editor with more than 30 editing credits for feature and television films dating from 1972. In an extended, notable collaboration , he has edited all of director James L...
  
  , Manager, Special Projects Group, US R&D, Sony Computer Entertainment
  Sony
  , commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....
  
  
• 2006 : Chad Hurley
  Chad Hurley
  Chad Meredith Hurley is an American co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer of the popular video sharing website YouTube. In June 2006, he was voted 28th on Business 2.0's "50 People Who Matter Now" list...
  
   and Steve Chen
  Steve Chen (YouTube)
  Steven Shih "Steve" Chen is a Chinese Taiwanese American and a co-founder and previous Chief Technology Officer of the popular video sharing website YouTube.- Early years and education :...
  
  
• 2009 : Eric Chan
  Eric Chan
  -Early life:Chan studied in CCC Heep Woh College from 1972 to 1976. In 1982, he graduated from Hong Kong Shue Yan University. During the year of his services, he completed a Bachelor degree in Law at Tsinghua University.-Career:...
  
  , ECCO Design Inc
• 2011 : Kati London, Director of Product, Zynga
  Zynga
  Zynga is a social network game developer located in San Francisco, United States. The company develops browser-based games that work both stand-alone and as application widgets on social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace....
  
  

Start-up Companies

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is the act of being an entrepreneur, which can be defined as "one who undertakes innovations, finance and business acumen in an effort to transform innovations into economic goods". This may result in new organizations or may be part of revitalizing mature organizations in response...

• 2000 : Christopher Evans (businessman)
  Christopher Evans (businessman)
  Professor Sir Christopher Thomas Evans, OBE, PhD, is a biotechnology entrepreneur in the United Kingdom.Originally from Port Talbot, Wales, he was educated in microbiology at Imperial College London then obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Hull, followed by a research fellowship at the...
  
  , Chairperson, Merlin Ventures
• 2001 : Shawn Fanning
  Shawn Fanning
  Shawn Fanning is an American computer programmer, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor. He developed Napster, one of the first popular peer-to-peer file sharing platforms, in 1998. The popularity of Napster was widespread and Fanning was featured on the cover of Time magazine...
  
  , Founder, Napster, Inc.
  Napster
  Napster is an online music store and a Best Buy company. It was originally founded as a pioneering peer-to-peer file sharing Internet service that emphasized sharing audio files that were typically digitally encoded music as MP3 format files...
  
  
• 2002 : Discontinued

Environment

Natural environment

The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally on Earth or some region thereof. It is an environment that encompasses the interaction of all living species....

• 2000 : Amory Lovins
  Amory Lovins
  Amory Bloch Lovins is an American environmental scientist and writer, Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute. He has worked in the field of energy policy and related areas for four decades...
  
  , Co-founder, Director of Research, Rocky Mountain Institute
  Rocky Mountain Institute
  Rocky Mountain Institute is an organization in the United States dedicated to research, publication, consulting, and lecturing in the general field of sustainability, with a special focus on profitable innovations for energy and resource efficiency. RMI was established in 1982 and has grown into a...
  
  
• 2001 : Dr. Geoffrey Ballard
  Geoffrey Ballard (businessman)
  Geoffrey Ballard, CM, OBC was a Canadian geophysicist and businessman. A long time advocate of replacing the internal combustion engine, in 1979 Ballard founded what would become Ballard Power Systems to develop commercial applications of the proton exchange membrane fuel cell...
  
  , Founder, Ballard Power Systems, Inc.
  Ballard Power Systems
  Ballard Power Systems , located in Burnaby, British Columbia -- a suburb of Vancouver -- is a company that designs, develops, and manufactures zero emission proton-exchange-membrane fuel cells. This company has made a bus that uses only hydrogen fuel cells. These fuel cells combine hydrogen and...
  
  
• 2002 : Francis E. K. Britton, M.D., EcoPlan International
  • Corp : All Species Foundation
    All Species Foundation
    The All Species Foundation aimed to catalog all species on Earth by 2025. It began in 2001 as a spinoff of the Long Now Foundation.The Foundation started with a large grant from the Schlinger Foundation but because of the stock market crash of 2000, at least in part, it was unable to attract...
    
    
• 2003 : Prof. R. Malcolm Brown, University of Texas at Austin
  University of Texas at Austin
  The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...
  
  
  • Corp : Hypercar, Inc.
    Hypercar
    The Hypercar is a design concept car developed by energy analyst Amory Lovins at the Rocky Mountain Institute. This vehicle would have ultra-light construction with an aerodynamic body using advanced composite materials, low-drag design, and hybrid drive...
    
    
• 2004 : Ken Livingstone
  Ken Livingstone
  Kenneth Robert "Ken" Livingstone is an English politician who is currently a member of the centrist to centre-left Labour Party...
  
  , Mayor, London
  London
  London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
  
  
  • Corp : AgraQuest
• 2005 : Priyadarshini Karve, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute
  • Corp : City of Seoul
    Seoul
    Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...
    
    , Republic of Korea (Office of the Mayor)
• 2006 : Inez Fung
  Inez Fung
  Inez Fung is a professor of atmospheric science at the University of California, Berkeley jointly appointed in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science and the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management...
  
  
  • Corp : Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
    Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
    The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is a private, nonprofit research and higher education facility dedicated to the study of all aspects of marine science and engineering and to the education of marine researchers. Established in 1930, it is the largest independent oceanographic research...
    
     and Scripps Institution of Oceanography
    Scripps Institution of Oceanography
    Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, is one of the oldest and largest centers for ocean and earth science research, graduate training, and public service in the world...
    
    
• 2009 : Greg Allgood, Procter & Gamble
  Procter & Gamble
  Procter & Gamble is a Fortune 500 American multinational corporation headquartered in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio and manufactures a wide range of consumer goods....
  
  
  • Corp : Honda Motor Company
• 2011 : Ann Hand, CEO, Project Frog
  • Corp : Airdye Solutions

Ethics

Ethics

Ethics, also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy that addresses questions about morality—that is, concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice and crime, etc.Major branches of ethics include:...

• 2000 : Daniel Callahan
  Daniel Callahan
  Daniel Callahan was born July 19, 1930. Callahan is a philosopher widely recognized for his innovative studies in biomedical ethics.·In high school Callahan was a swimmer and choose to attend Yale University because of its competitive swimming program. While at Yale, he was drawn to...
  
  , Cofounder, Hastings Center
  Hastings Center
  The Hastings Center, founded in 1969, is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit bioethics research institute based in the United States. It is dedicated to the examination of essential questions in health care, biotechnology, and the environment...
  
  
• 2001 : Dr. Sharon Beder
  Sharon Beder
  Sharon Beder is a professor in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia. Her research has focussed on how power relationships are maintained and challenged, particularly by corporations and professions...
  
  , Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Wollongong
  University of Wollongong
  The University of Wollongong is a public university located in the coastal city of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, approximately 80 kilometres south of Sydney...
  
  
• 2002 : Prof. Ren Zong Qiu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
  Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
  The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences , established in 1977, is the premier and highest academic research organization in the fields of philosophy and social sciences as well as a national center for comprehensive studies in the People's Republic of China. It was described by Foreign Policy...
  
  
• 2003 : Peter Singer
  Peter Singer
  Peter Albert David Singer is an Australian philosopher who is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne...
  
  , Princeton University
  Princeton University
  Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
  
  
• 2004 : Kristin Shrader-Frechette, O'Neill Family Professor of Philosophy/Concurrent Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame
  University of Notre Dame
  The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a Catholic research university located in Notre Dame, an unincorporated community north of the city of South Bend, in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States...
  
  
• 2006 : Carl Mitcham
  Carl Mitcham
  Carl Mitcham is a philosopher of technology. Born in 1941, Mitcham is currently Professor of Liberal Arts and International Studies at the Colorado School of Mines and a professor at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee....
  
  
• 2009 : Jeroen Van den Hoven, Delft University of Technology
  Delft University of Technology
  Delft University of Technology , also known as TU Delft, is the largest and oldest Dutch public technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands...
  
  
• 2011 : Paul Root Wolpe, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Bioethics, Director, Center for Ethics, Emory University
  Emory University
  Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of...
  
  

Finance

Finance

"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...

• 2000 : Masayoshi Son
  Masayoshi Son
  Masayoshi Son , born a Zainichi Korean and now a naturalized Japanese citizen, is a businessman and the founder and current chief executive officer of SoftBank Capital, and the chief executive officer of SoftBank Mobile...
  
  , Chairperson, Softbank
  SoftBank
  is a Japanese telecommunications and internet corporation, with operations in broadband, fixed-line telecommunications, e-Commerce, Internet, broadmedia, technology services, finance, media and marketing, and other businesses....
  
  
• 2001 : Thomas Weisel, Founder and Chairperson, Thomas Weisel Partners
  Thomas Weisel Partners
  Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc. , also known as TWP or Weisel, is a U.S. growth focused investment banking firm based in San Francisco, California....
  
  
• 2002 : William Hambrecht
  William Hambrecht
  Bill Hambrecht is an American investment banker and chairman of W.R. Hambrecht + Co. which he founded in 1998. He helped persuade Google to use an Internet-based auction for their initial public offering in 2004, instead of a more traditional method using banks and other financial companies to...
  
  , Founder, Chairperson & CEO, WR Hambrecht + Co
  WR Hambrecht + Co
  WR Hambrecht + Co. is a full service investment bank with headquarters in San Francisco and offices in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Tokyo. It specializes in using its unique auction process called OpenIPO to compete with the traditional methods of larger and more established banks. Recently,...
  
  
  • Corp : Battery Ventures
    Battery Ventures
    Battery Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests principally in technology markets including: Internet & Digital Media; Financial & Information Services; Cleantech; Software; Semiconductors & Components; Infrastructure Technologies; Communication Services; and Industrial Technologies.The...
    
    
• 2003 : Prof. Muhammad Yunus
  Muhammad Yunus
  Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi economist and founder of the Grameen Bank, an institution that provides microcredit to help its clients establish creditworthiness and financial self-sufficiency. In 2006 Yunus and Grameen received the Nobel Peace Prize...
  
  , Grameen Bank
  Grameen Bank
  The Grameen Bank is a microfinance organization and community development bank started in Bangladesh that makes small loans to the impoverished without requiring collateral...
  
  
  • Corp : Intel Capital
• 2004 : Steve Jurvetson
  Steve Jurvetson
  Steven T. "Steve" Jurvetson is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson . He was a Venture Capitalist investor in Hotmail, Interwoven, and Kana...
  
  , Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
  Draper Fisher Jurvetson
  Draper Fisher Jurvetson is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California with affiliate offices in more than 30 cities around the world and over $7 billion in capital commitments....
  
  
  • Corp : General Atlantic Partners
• 2005 : Richard Kramlich, New Enterprise Associates
  New Enterprise Associates
  New Enterprise Associates is a global investment firm focused on venture capital and growth equity investments. With approximately $11 billion in committed capital, NEA is among the largest venture firms. The firm invests in three broad industry sectors: information technology, healthcare, and...
  
  
  • Corp : Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
• 2006 : Erik Straser
  • Corp : Silicon Valley Bank
• 2009 : Ram Shriram
  Ram Shriram
  Kavitark Ram Shriram is the founding board member of Google and one of the first investors in Google. He earlier served as an officer of Amazon.com working for Jeff Bezos, founder & CEO. Shriram came to Amazon.com in August, 1998, when Amazon acquired Junglee, an online comparison shopping firm of...
  
  , Sherpalo
  • Corp : Intel Capital
• 2011 : Esther Dyson
  Esther Dyson
  Esther Dyson is a former journalist and Wall Street technology analyst who is a leading angel investor, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and commentator focused on breakthrough innovation in healthcare, government transparency, digital technology, biotechnology, and space...
  
  , CEO, EDventure Holdings
  • Corp : Band of Angels
    Band of Angels
    Band of Angels is a 1957 romantic drama film set in the American South before and during the American Civil War, based on the novel of the same name by Robert Penn Warren. It starred Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, and Sidney Poitier. The movie was directed by Raoul Walsh.-Plot:Amantha Starr is the...
    
    

Health

Health

Health is the level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living being. In humans, it is the general condition of a person's mind, body and spirit, usually meaning to be free from illness, injury or pain...

 & Medicine

Medicine

Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....

• 2000 : Roy Bakay, Professor, Emory School of Medicine & Philip Kennedy, CEO, Founder and Chief Scientist, Neural Signals, Inc.
• 2001 : Prof. Robert Johnston, Assoc. Prof. Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States...
  
  
• 2002 : Dr. James Thompson, Professor, University of Wisconsin–Madison
  University of Wisconsin–Madison
  The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became a land-grant institution in 1866...
  
  
  • Corp : Advanced Tissue Sciences
• 2003 : Prof. Jean-Laurent Casanova, Necker Medical School and INSERM U550
  • Corp : Weizmann Institute of Science
    Weizmann Institute of Science
    The Weizmann Institute of Science , known as Machon Weizmann, is a university and research institute in Rehovot, Israel. It differs from other Israeli universities in that it offers only graduate and post-graduate studies in the sciences....
    
    
• 2004 : Alan Chow & Vincent Chow, Cofounders, Optobionics Corporation
  • Corp : Intuitive Surgical
    Intuitive Surgical
    Intuitive Surgical Inc. is a corporation that manufactures robotic surgical systems, most notably the da Vinci Surgical System. The da Vinci Surgical System allows surgery to be performed remotely using robotic manipulators. The company is part of the Nasdaq-100 and S&P 500...
    
    
• 2005 : Andreas Lendlein and Robert Langer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Corp : National Institute for Biological Standards and Control
    National Institute for Biological Standards and Control
    The National Institute for Biological Standards and Control is a global leader in the field of biological standardisation. It is a centre of the UK Health Protection Agency . It is responsible for developing and producing over 90% of the biological international standards in use around the world...
    
    /UK Stem Cell Bank
• 2006 : Hunter Peckham
  • Corp : BodyMedia, Inc
• 2009 : Prof. Chris Toumazou
  Chris Toumazou
  Christofer Toumazou, FRS, FREng, FIEEE, FIEE CEng is the Director of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Circuit Design at Imperial College London...
  
  , Director & Chief Scientist of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London
  • Corp : Mayo Clinic
    Mayo Clinic
    Mayo Clinic is a not-for-profit medical practice and medical research group specializing in treating difficult patients . Patients are referred to Mayo Clinic from across the U.S. and the world, and it is known for innovative and effective treatments. Mayo Clinic is known for being at the top of...
    
    
• 2011 : Anthony Atala
  Anthony Atala
  Anthony Atala, M.D., is the W.H. Boyce Professor and Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and Chair of the Department of Urology at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina...
  
  , Director, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
  Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
  Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine is a research institute affiliated with the Wake Forest School of Medicine and located at Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States...
  
  , Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
  • Corp : Second Sight Medical Products

Information Technology

Information technology

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

 - Hardware

Computer hardware

Personal computer hardware are component devices which are typically installed into or peripheral to a computer case to create a personal computer upon which system software is installed including a firmware interface such as a BIOS and an operating system which supports application software that...

• 2000 : Jeff Hawkins
  Jeff Hawkins
  Jeffrey Hawkins is the founder of Palm Computing and Handspring...
  
   & Donna Dubinsky
  Donna Dubinsky
  Donna Dubinsky is a businesswoman who played an integral role in the development of personal digital assistants serving as CEO of Palm, Inc. and co-founding Handspring with Jeff Hawkins in 1995...
  
  , Co-creators, Palm Computer
  Palm, Inc.
  Palm, Inc., was a smartphone manufacturer headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, that was responsible for products such as the Pre and Pixi as well as the Treo and Centro smartphones. Previous product lines include the PalmPilot, Palm III, Palm V, Palm VII, Zire and Tungsten. While their older...
  
  
• 2001 : Gordon Moore
  Gordon Moore
  Gordon Earle Moore is the co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation and the author of Moore's Law .-Life and career:...
  
  , Chairman Emeritus, Intel Corp.
• 2002 : Prof. Shuji Nakamura
  Shuji Nakamura
  is a professor at the Materials Department of the College of Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara .- Career :Nakamura graduated from the University of Tokushima in 1977 with a degree in electronic engineering, and obtained a master's degree in the same subject two years later, after...
  
  , University of California, Santa Barbara
  University of California, Santa Barbara
  The University of California, Santa Barbara, commonly known as UCSB or UC Santa Barbara, is a public research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system. The main campus is located on a site in Goleta, California, from Santa Barbara and northwest of Los...
  
  
  • Corp : Research In Motion, Ltd.
    Research In Motion
    Research In Motion Limited or RIM is a Canadian multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada that designs, manufactures and markets wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market...
    
    
• 2003 : Ted Clark, Hewlett-Packard
  Hewlett-Packard
  Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...
  
  
  • Corp : Apple Computer
    Apple Computer
    Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad...
    
    
• 2004 : Charles Black & Kathryn Guarini, Physical Sciences Department/Silicon Technology Department, T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM
  IBM
  International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
  
  
  • Corp : Apple Computer
    Apple Computer
    Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad...
    
    
• 2005 : Holly Gates, E Ink Corporation
  E Ink Corporation
  E Ink Corporation is a privately held manufacturer of electrophoretic displays , a kind of electronic paper. E Ink is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was co-founded in 1997 by Joseph Jacobson, a professor in the MIT Media Lab. Two years later, E Ink partnered with Philips to develop and...
  
  
  • Corp : University of Tsukuba
    University of Tsukuba
    is located in the city of Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture in the Kantō region of Japan. The University has 28 college clusters and schools with a total of around 15,000 students...
    
     / Cyberdyne Inc.
• 2006 : Calvin Quate
  Calvin Quate
  Calvin F. Quate was born on 7 December 1923 in Baker, Nevada. He is one of the inventors of the atomic force microscope. He is a professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University....
  
  , Gerd Carl Binnig and Christoph Gerber
  Christoph Gerber
  Christoph Gerber is the director for Scientific Communication at the Institute of Physics, University of Basel.Christoph Gerber is the co-inventor of the atomic force microscope...
  
  
  • Corp : Palm
• 2009 : David Flynn
  David Flynn
  David Flynn is an Irish composer and musician with a number of major awards and commissions to his name. His recent music is noteworthy for merging the influence of traditional Irish music with contemporary classical music and jazz...
  
  , Fusion-io
  Fusion-io
  Fusion-io is a computer hardware and software systems company based in Cottonwood Heights, Utah, that designs and manufactures what it calls a new memory tier based on NAND Flash memory technology...
  
  
  • Corp : AMAZON
    Amazon
    The Amazons were a legendary nation of female warriors in Greek mythology.Amazon is an eponym, derived from the legend, for any woman warrior or athlete, including:* Amazon, nom de guerre of a Roman gladiatrix at Halicarnassus...
    
    
• 2011 : Steve Teig, President & CTO, Tabula, Inc.
  • Corp : Apple

Information Technology

Information technology

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

 - Software

Computer software

Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it....

• 2000 : Paul Gauthier, Chief Technology Officer, Inktomi
  Inktomi
  Inktomi Corporation was a California company that provided software for Internet service providers. It was founded in 1996 by UC Berkeley professor Eric Brewer and graduate student Paul Gauthier. The company was initially founded based on the real-world success of the search engine they developed...
  
  
• 2001 : Prof. Olivier Faugeras, Research Director, ROBOTVIS Group Sophia-Antipolis Research Unit, INRIA
• 2002 : Ray Ozzie
  Ray Ozzie
  Raymond "Ray" Ozzie is an American software industry entrepreneur who held the positions of Chief Technical Officer and Chief Software Architect at Microsoft between 2005 and 2010...
  
  , Chairman & CEO, Groove Networks
  • Corp : Apple Computer
    Apple Computer
    Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad...
    
    
• 2003 : Larry Page & Sergey Brin
  Sergey Brin
  Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin is a Russian-born American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur who, with Larry Page, co-founded Google, one of the largest internet companies. , his personal wealth is estimated to be $16.7 billion....
  
  , Google
  Google
  Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
  
  
  • Corp : Sony Corporation
    Sony
    , commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....
    
    
• 2004 : Daphne Koller
  Daphne Koller
  Daphne Koller is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University and a MacArthur Fellowship recipient. Her general research area is artificial intelligence and its applications in the biomedical sciences...
  
  , Associate Professor, Robotics Laboratory, Computer Science Department, Stanford University
  Stanford University
  The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
  
  
  • Corp : Apple Computer
    Apple Computer
    Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad...
    
    
• 2005 : David Haussler
  David Haussler
  David Haussler is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. He is also Professor of Biomolecular Engineering and Director of the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz; director of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences on...
  
  , Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  Howard Hughes Medical Institute is a United States non-profit medical research organization based in Chevy Chase, Maryland. It was founded by the American businessman Howard Hughes in 1953. It is one of the largest private funding organizations for biological and medical research in the United...
  
  /University of California, Santa Cruz
  University of California, Santa Cruz
  The University of California, Santa Cruz, also known as UC Santa Cruz or UCSC, is a public, collegiate university; one of ten campuses in the University of California...
  
  
  • Corp : Amazon.com
    Amazon.com
    Amazon.com, Inc. is a multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. Amazon has separate websites for the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and...
    
    
• 2006 : Sebastian Thrun
  Sebastian Thrun
  Sebastian Thrun is a Research Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and former director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory . He led the development of the robotic vehicle Stanley which won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, and which is exhibited in the Smithsonian...
  
  
  • Corp : Google
    Google
    Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
    
    
• 2009 : Dawn Jutla, Professor, Sobey School of Business, Halifax, Canada
  • Corp : Facebook
    Facebook
    Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
    
    
• 2011 : Otavio Good
  Otavio Good
  Otávio Good is an American computer programmer and inventor. He is the founder and chief executive officer of Quest Visual Inc. Good previously co-founded Secret Level Inc., which was acquired by Sega in 2006 and became Sega Studios San Francisco...
  
  , Founder & CEO, Quest Visual, Inc.
  Quest Visual
  Quest Visual Inc. is an American private company that develops an augmented reality translation software Word Lens.-Products:Quest Visual's first product Word Lens 1.0 was released on December 16, 2010, and is currently available as Word Lens 1.0.1 for iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad 2, and iPod touch...
  
  
  • Corp : Amazon.com, Inc.
    Amazon.com
    Amazon.com, Inc. is a multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. Amazon has separate websites for the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and...
    
    

Law

Law

Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...

• 2000 : Nobuhiro Nakayama, Professor of Law, University of Tokyo
  University of Tokyo
  , abbreviated as , is a major research university located in Tokyo, Japan. The University has 10 faculties with a total of around 30,000 students, 2,100 of whom are foreign. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano. It is considered to be the most prestigious university...
  
  
• 2001 : Prof. Lawrence Lessig
  Lawrence Lessig
  Lawrence "Larry" Lessig is an American academic and political activist. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications, and he has called for state-based activism to promote substantive...
  
  , Professor of Law, Stanford University
  Stanford University
  The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
  
  
• 2002 : Marc Rotenberg
  Marc Rotenberg
  Marc Rotenberg is President and Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, DC. He teaches Information Privacy Law at Georgetown University Law Center, and testifies frequently before Congress on emerging privacy and civil liberties issues, such as access to...
  
  , Executive Director, EPIC
  Electronic Privacy Information Center
  Electronic Privacy Information Center is a public interest research group in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values in the information age...
  
  
• 2003 : Prof. James Boyle, School of Law, Duke University
  Duke University
  Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
  
  
• 2004 : Pamela Samuelson
  Pamela Samuelson
  Pamela Samuelson is the Richard M. Sherman '74 Distinguished Professor of Law and Information Management at the University of California, Berkeley with a joint appointment in the UC Berkeley School of Information and Boalt Hall, the School of Law. She was appointed Visiting Professor of Law at...
  
  , Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
  University of California, Berkeley
  The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
  
  
• 2006 : Jerry Kang
  Jerry Kang
  Jerry Kang is Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. He is also Professor of Asian American Studies at UCLA, and the inaugural Korea Times — Hankook Ilbo Chair in Korean American Studies.Professor of Law...
  
  
• 2009 : Lawrence Lessig
  Lawrence Lessig
  Lawrence "Larry" Lessig is an American academic and political activist. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications, and he has called for state-based activism to promote substantive...
  
  , Stanford Law School
  Stanford Law School
  Stanford Law School is a graduate school at Stanford University located in the area known as the Silicon Valley, near Palo Alto, California in the United States. The Law School was established in 1893 when former President Benjamin Harrison joined the faculty as the first professor of law...
  
  
• 2011 : Arti K. Rai, Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law, Duke University
  Duke University
  Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
  
  

Marketing

Marketing

Marketing is the process used to determine what products or services may be of interest to customers, and the strategy to use in sales, communications and business development. It generates the strategy that underlies sales techniques, business communication, and business developments...

 Communications

Communication studies

Communication Studies is an academic field that deals with processes of communication, commonly defined as the sharing of symbols over distances in space and time. Hence, communication studies encompasses a wide range of topics and contexts ranging from face-to-face conversation to speeches to mass...

• 2000 : Steve Case
  Steve Case
  Stephen McConnell "Steve" Case is an American businessman best known as the co-founder and former chief executive officer and chairman of America Online . Since his retirement as chairman of AOL Time Warner in 2003, he has gone on to build a variety of new businesses through his investment...
  
  , Chairperson/CEO, America Online
• 2001 : Mark Viken Sr., Vice-President, Information Technology Products Division, Sony Electronics, Inc.
  Sony
  , commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....
  
  
• 2002 : Zhang Ruimin
  Zhang Ruimin
  Zhang Ruimin is a Chinese businessman and chief executive officer of Haier Group. He is considered as one of the most influential and respected business figures in Asia for his work in turning a little-known, bankrupt refrigerator manufacturer into the world's fourth-largest white appliances...
  
  , Founder & CEO, Haier
  Haier
  Haier Group is a multinational consumer electronics and home appliances company headquartered in Qingdao, Shandong, People's Republic of China. Its products include air conditioners, mobile phones, computers, microwave ovens, washing machines, refrigerators, and televisions...
  
  
• 2003 : Larry Page & Sergey Brin
  Sergey Brin
  Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin is a Russian-born American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur who, with Larry Page, co-founded Google, one of the largest internet companies. , his personal wealth is estimated to be $16.7 billion....
  
  , Google
  Google
  Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
  
  
• 2004 : Cindy McCaffrey, Vice-President, Corporate Marketing, Google
  Google
  Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
  
  
• 2006 : Saul Klein
  Saul Klein
  Saul Klein is a partner at Index Ventures. Since joining in 2007, Saul has invested in early-stage internet companies including AlertMe, Chartbeat, GlassesDirect, MyHeritage, and Songkick....
  
  
• 2009 : Mark Zuckerberg
  Mark Zuckerberg
  Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known for co-creating the social networking site Facebook, of which he is chief executive and president...
  
  , Facebook
  Facebook
  Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
  
  
• 2011 : Aedhmar Hynes
  Aedhmar Hynes
  Aedhmar Hynes , is the CEO of , an independent subsidiary of representing approximately 300 clients globally including IBM, Xerox, Cisco, Fujifilm, Skype, American Express and MTV. She joined the agency in February 1990 in its London headquarters and relocated to San Francisco in August 1997 to...
  
  , CEO, Text 100 Public Relations

Materials

• 2000 : Frederick Seitz
  Frederick Seitz
  Frederick Seitz was an American physicist and a pioneer of solid state physics. Seitz was president of Rockefeller University, and president of the United States National Academy of Sciences 1962–1969. He was the recipient of the National Medal of Science, NASA's Distinguished Public Service...
  
  , President Emeritus, Rockefeller University
  Rockefeller University
  The Rockefeller University is a private university offering postgraduate and postdoctoral education. It has a strong concentration in the biological sciences. It is also known for producing numerous Nobel laureates...
  
  
• 2001 : Prof. George M. Whitesides
  George M. Whitesides
  George M. Whitesides is an American chemist and professor of chemistry at Harvard University. He is best known for his work in the areas of NMR spectroscopy, organometallic chemistry, molecular self-assembly, soft lithography, microfabrication, microfluidics, and nanotechnology...
  
  , Professor of Bioorganic/Physical Organic Chemistry & Materials Science, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
  Harvard University
  Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
  
  
• 2002 : Dr. Angela Belcher
  Angela Belcher
  Angela M. Belcher is a materials scientist, biological engineer, and W.M. Keck Professor of Energy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. She is director of the Biomolecular Materials Group at MIT and a 2004 MacArthur Fellow.Belcher grew up in San...
  
  , University of Texas at Austin
  University of Texas at Austin
  The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...
  
   & Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Corp : IBM Corporation
    IBM
    International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
    
    
• 2003 : Prof. Charles Lieber
  Charles Lieber
  Charles M. Lieber is an American chemist and renowned pioneer in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology at Harvard University. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, as the Mark Hyman Professor of Chemistry, and the School of Engineering and Applied...
  
  , Harvard University
  Harvard University
  Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
  
  
  • Corp : Dow Chemical Company
• 2004 : Prof. Charles Lieber
  Charles Lieber
  Charles M. Lieber is an American chemist and renowned pioneer in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology at Harvard University. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, as the Mark Hyman Professor of Chemistry, and the School of Engineering and Applied...
  
  , Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
  Harvard University
  Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
  
  
  • Corp : Nanosys
    Nanosys
    Nanosys is a nanotechnology company located in Palo Alto, California founded in 2001.Nanosys, Inc designs products based on a technology platform that incorporates high performance inorganic nanostructures...
    
    
• 2005 : Daniel Rugar, John Mamin, Raffi Budakian and Benjamin Chui, IBM
  IBM
  International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
  
  
  • Corp : Molecular Imprints
• 2006 : Michael Graetzel
  • Corp : IBM
    IBM
    International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
    
    
• 2009 : Paul Chaikin
  Paul Chaikin
  Paul Chaikin is an American physicist. Professor Paul Chaikin earned his undergraduate degree from Caltech, where he studied under Richard Feynman, and his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. He co-wrote Principles of Condensed Matter Physics with T.C...
  
  , New York University
  New York University
  New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
  
  
  • Corp : Northwestern University
    Northwestern University
    Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
    
    
• 2011 : Andrew Barron
  Andrew Barron
  Andrew Barron is a retired New Zealand association football player. Barron, naturally a central midfielder last played for Team Wellington in the New Zealand Football Championship and was also an All White who played at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, making him one of very few amateur All Whites in...
  
  , Welch Chair of Chemistry, Professor of Materials Science, Rice University
  Rice University
  William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...
  
  
  • Corp : 3M
    3M
    3M Company , formerly known as the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, is an American multinational conglomerate corporation based in Maplewood, Minnesota, United States....
    
    

Media

Mass media

Mass media refers collectively to all media technologies which are intended to reach a large audience via mass communication. Broadcast media transmit their information electronically and comprise of television, film and radio, movies, CDs, DVDs and some other gadgets like cameras or video consoles...

 & Journalism

Journalism

Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...

• 2000 : Adam Clayton Powell III
  Adam Clayton Powell III
  Adam Clayton Powell III is an American journalist, media executive, and scholar who currently serves as Director of Washington Policy Initiatives for the University of Southern California and University Fellow at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy. He was USC's vice provost for globalization from...
  
  , Vice-President of Technology and Programs, The Freedom Forum
  Freedom Forum
  The Freedom Forum was created in 1991 under the direction of Al Neuharth, former publisher of USA Today newspaper. Funding was provided by a foundation started by publisher Frank E. Gannett in 1935, called the Gannett Foundation...
  
  
• 2001 : John Markoff
  John Markoff
  John Markoff is a journalist best known for his work at The New York Times, and a book and series of articles about the 1990s pursuit and capture of hacker Kevin Mitnick.- Biography :...
  
  , Technology Correspondent, The New York Times
  The New York Times
  The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
  
  
• 2002 : Walter Mossberg
  Walter Mossberg
  Walter S. Mossberg is an American journalist who is the principal technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal.-Early life:...
  
  , Personal Technology Columnist, The Wall Street Journal
  The Wall Street Journal
  The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
  
  
• 2003 : Dr. Krishna Bharat, Google, Inc.
  Google
  Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
  
  
• 2004 : Dan Gillmor
  Dan Gillmor
  Dan Gillmor is a noted American technology writer and columnist. He is director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard...
  
  , Business and Technology Columnist, San Jose Mercury News
  San Jose Mercury News
  The San Jose Mercury News is a daily newspaper in San Jose, California. On its web site, however, it calls itself Silicon Valley Mercury News. The paper is owned by MediaNews Group...
  
  
• 2006 : Chris Kyriakakis
• 2009 : Michael Rogers, The New York Times
  The New York Times
  The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
  
  
• 2011 : Athar Osama, Publisher/Editor/Columnist, Muslim-Science.com

Policy

Policy

A policy is typically described as a principle or rule to guide decisions and achieve rational outcome. The term is not normally used to denote what is actually done, this is normally referred to as either procedure or protocol...

• 2000 : M. S. Swaminathan
  M. S. Swaminathan
  Maankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan is an Indian agriculture scientist in Kuttanad, kerala. He was the second of four sons of a doctor.He is known as the "Father of the Green Revolution in India", for his leadership and success in introducing and further developing high-yielding varieties of wheat in...
  
  , Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operation, India
  India
  India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
  
  
• 2001 : Prof. Christopher Freeman
  Christopher Freeman
  Christopher Freeman was an English economist, the founder and first director of Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Sussex, and one of the most eminent modern Kondratiev wave and business cycle theorists...
  
  , Professor Emeritus, SPRU, University of Sussex
• 2002 : Dr. Karl Pister, Chancellor Emeritus, University of California
  University of California
  The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...
  
  
• 2003 : Prof. Clement Dzidonu, International Institute for Information Technology
• 2004 : Bruce Alberts
  Bruce Alberts
  Bruce Michael Alberts is an American biochemist known for his work in science public policy and as an original author of the Molecular Biology of the Cell...
  
  , President, National Academy of Sciences
  United States National Academy of Sciences
  The National Academy of Sciences is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine." As a national academy, new members of the organization are elected annually by current members, based on their distinguished and...
  
  
• 2006 : Al Gore
  Al Gore
  Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. served as the 45th Vice President of the United States , under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election....
  
  
• 2009 : Paul Kagame
  Paul Kagame
  Paul Kagame is the sixth and current President of the Republic of Rwanda. He rose to prominence as the leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front , whose victory over the incumbent government in July 1994 effectively ended the Rwandan genocide...
  
  , President, Republic of Rwanda
• 2011 : Alex Dehgan, Science and Technology Adviser to the Administrator, US Agency for International Development (US AID)

Social Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is the act of being an entrepreneur, which can be defined as "one who undertakes innovations, finance and business acumen in an effort to transform innovations into economic goods". This may result in new organizations or may be part of revitalizing mature organizations in response...

• 2001 : Agus Gunarto, Managing Program/NGO Worker, Yayasan Rona Alam
• 2002 : Bunker Roy
  Bunker Roy
  Sanjit 'Bunker' Roy is an Indian social activist and educator. In 1972 he founded the Barefoot college in Tilonia, Rajasthan. The Indian non-governmental organization was registered as the Social Work and Research Centre...
  
  , Director, The Barefoot College
• 2003 : Rodrigo Baggio, Committee for Democracy in Information Technology
• 2004 : Fabio Luis de Oliveira Rosa, Executive Director, Institute for the Development of Natural Energy and Sustainability
• 2006 : Victoria Hale
  Victoria Hale
  Dr. Victoria Hale founded the nonprofit pharmaceutical company The Institute for OneWorld Health in San Francisco, California in 2000 and was its chairman and CEO until 2008. She remains on the iOWH board as Chair Emeritus...
  
  
• 2009 : Tim Prestero, Design That Matters
• 2011 : Howard Weinstein, Social Entrepreneur, Solar Ear

Space

Space technology

Space technology is technology that is related to entering, and retrieving objects or life forms from space."Every day" technologies such as weather forecasting, remote sensing, GPS systems, satellite television, and some long distance communications systems critically rely on space infrastructure...

• 2000 : David Thompson, Founder, Orbital Sciences
• 2001 : Prof. Martin Sweeting, Director, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd
  Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd
  Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd, or SSTL, is a spin-off company of the University of Surrey, now fully owned by EADS Astrium, that builds and operates small satellites. Its satellites began as amateur radio satellites known by the UoSAT name or by an OSCAR designation...
  
  , Surrey Space Centre at the University of Surrey
  University of Surrey
  The University of Surrey is a university located within the county town of Guildford, Surrey in the South East of England. It received its charter on 9 September 1966, and was previously situated near Battersea Park in south-west London. The institution was known as Battersea College of Technology...
  
  
• 2002 : Prof. Roger-Maurice Bonnet, Directeur General Adjoint for Science, CNES
  CNES
  The is the French government space agency . Established under President Charles de Gaulle in 1961, its headquarters are located in central Paris and it is under the supervision of the French Ministries of Defence and Research...
  
  
  • Corp : XM Satellite Radio
    XM Satellite Radio
    XM Satellite Radio is one of two satellite radio services in the United States and Canada, operated by Sirius XM Radio. It provides pay-for-service radio, analogous to cable television. Its service includes 73 different music channels, 39 news, sports, talk and entertainment channels, 21 regional...
    
    
• 2003 : Dr. Peter Diamandis
  Peter Diamandis
  Dr. Peter H. Diamandis , of Greek immigrant parents, is considered a key figure in the development of the personal spaceflight industry, having created many space-related businesses or organizations...
  
  , X Prize Foundation
  Ansari X Prize
  The Ansari X Prize was a space competition in which the X Prize Foundation offered a US$10,000,000 prize for the first non-government organization to launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space twice within two weeks...
  
  
  • Corp : X Prize Foundation
    Ansari X Prize
    The Ansari X Prize was a space competition in which the X Prize Foundation offered a US$10,000,000 prize for the first non-government organization to launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space twice within two weeks...
    
    
• 2004 : Burt Rutan
  Burt Rutan
  Elbert Leander "Burt" Rutan is an American aerospace engineer noted for his originality in designing light, strong, unusual-looking, energy-efficient aircraft...
  
  , Founder, Scaled Composites
  Scaled Composites
  Scaled Composites is an aerospace company founded by Burt Rutan and currently owned by Northrop Grumman that is located at the Mojave Spaceport, Mojave, California, United States...
  
  
  • Corp : Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd
    Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd
    Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd, or SSTL, is a spin-off company of the University of Surrey, now fully owned by EADS Astrium, that builds and operates small satellites. Its satellites began as amateur radio satellites known by the UoSAT name or by an OSCAR designation...
    
    
• 2005 : Steven W. Squyres, Cornell University
  Cornell University
  Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
  
   & NASA
  NASA
  The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
  
  
  • Corp : "Cassini-Huygens Mission" (NASA
    NASA
    The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
    
     / ESA / ASI
    Italian Space Agency
    The Italian Space Agency is a government agency established in 1988 to fund, regulate and coordinate space exploration activities in Italy...
    
    )
• 2006 : Eric Anderson
  Eric Anderson
  Eric Anderson may refer to:* Eric Anderson , British educator* Eric Anderson , English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross* Eric Anderson , American basketball player...
  
  
  • Corp : SpaceX
    SpaceX
    Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or more popularly and informally known as SpaceX, is an American space transport company that operates out of Hawthorne, California...
    
    
• 2009 : Elon Musk
  Elon Musk
  Elon Musk is an American engineer and entrepreneur heritage best known for co-founding PayPal, SpaceX and Tesla Motors. He is currently the CEO and CTO of SpaceX, CEO and Product Architect of Tesla Motors and Chairman of SolarCity...
  
  , SpaceX
  SpaceX
  Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or more popularly and informally known as SpaceX, is an American space transport company that operates out of Hawthorne, California...
  
  
  • Corp : Phoenix Mars Lander Team
• 2011 : Gwynne Shotwell, President, SpaceX
  SpaceX
  Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or more popularly and informally known as SpaceX, is an American space transport company that operates out of Hawthorne, California...
  
  
  • Corp : SpaceX
    SpaceX
    Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or more popularly and informally known as SpaceX, is an American space transport company that operates out of Hawthorne, California...
    
    

Transport

Transport

Transport or transportation is the movement of people, cattle, animals and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, rail, road, water, cable, pipeline, and space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles, and operations...

ation

• 2000 : Elizabeth Ampt, Developer, Travel Blending
  Travel blending
  Travel Blending is a technique, developed in Australia, for encouraging people to make more efficient and environmentally sound transportation choices...
  
  
• 2001 : Gov. Jaime Lerner
  Jaime Lerner
  Jaime Lerner was governor of the state of Paraná, in southern Brazil. He is renowned as an architect and urban planner, having been mayor of Curitiba, capital of Paraná, three times...
  
  , Governor of Paraná
  Paraná (state)
  Paraná is one of the states of Brazil, located in the South of the country, bordered on the north by São Paulo state, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by Santa Catarina state and the Misiones Province of Argentina, and on the west by Mato Grosso do Sul and the republic of Paraguay,...
  
  , Brazil
  Brazil
  Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
  
  
• 2002 : Discontinued