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The World Technology Award is an annual recognition award given by the World Technology Network (WTN) to individuals and corporations achieving significant progress in about 20 different categories that effect the modern world.The first set of 20 awards was given in 2000. 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, they discontinued three categories: Commerce, Transportation, and Start-up Companies.
The following is a list of award recipients in their respective fields:
Individual and Corporate Awards
- 2000 : Paul Gauthier , Chief Technology Officer, Inktomi
- 2001 : Prof. Olivier Faugeras , Research Director, ROBOTVIS Group Sophia-Antipolis Research Unit, INRIA
- 2002 : Ray Ozzie, Chairman & CEO, Groove Networks
- Corp : Apple Computer
- 2003 : Larry Page & Sergey Brin, Google
- Corp : Sony CorporationUsage of these images is restricted. Trademarks on this page belong to their owner. See Image use policy Sony (in katakana: ) is a consumer electronics corporation based in Tokyo, Japan. It was founded on May 7, 1946 as the Tokyo Telecommunications Engine
- 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co : Daphne Koller , Associate Professor, Robotics Laboratory, Computer Science Department, Stanford UniversityFor other meanings of Stanford see Stanford (disambiguation). Stanford University is a privately funded university in Stanford, California. It is located approximately 35 miles southeast of San Francisco, in an unincorporated part of Santa Clara County ad
- Corp : Apple Computer
- Information Technology - HardwareHardware is a comprehensive term for all of the physical parts of a computer, as distinguished from the data it contains or operates on, and the software that provides instructions for the hardware to accomplish tasks. The boundary between hardware and so
- 2000 : Jeff HawkinsJeff Hawkins (born June 1, 1957 in Long Island, New York) is the founder of Palm Computing (where he invented the PalmPilot) and Handspring (where he invented the Treo). He has since turned to work on neuroscience full-time and has founded the Redwood Neu & Donna Dubinsky , Co-creators, Palm ComputerPalm, Inc. was founded in 1992. It was acquired by U. Robotics Corp. In June 1997, Palm became a subsidiary of 3Com when U. Robotics was acquired by 3Com. 3Com made the Palm subsidiary an independent, publicly traded company on March 2, 2000, and is trade
- 2001 : Gordon Moore, Chairman Emeritus, Intel Corp.
- 2002 : Prof. Shuji Nakamura, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Corp : Research In Motion, Ltd.
- 2003 : Ted Clark , Hewlett Packard
- Corp : Apple Computer
- 2004 : Charles Black & Kathryn Guarini , Physical Sciences Department/Silicon Technology Department, T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM
- Corp : Apple Computer
- 2000 : Tim Berners-Lee, Director, World Wide Web Consortium
- 2001 : Rovert Metcalfe , Vice-President Technology, International Data Group, Inc.
- 2002 : Linus Torvalds, Creator, Linux
- Corp : NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
- 2003 : Prof. Kilnam Chon , KAIST
- Corp : Quallcomm, Inc.
- 2004 : David P. Reed, Adjunct Professor, Media Arts and Sciences, MIT, & HP Fellow, HP Laboratories
- Corp : Skype
- 2000 : John Sulston, Director, Sanger Centre
- 2001 : Dr. Craig Venter, President & CEO, Celera Genomics, Inc.
- 2002 : Dr. Ruedi Aebersold , Professor, Institute for Systems Biology
- Corp : Genecor International
- 2003 : Dr. Leroy Hood, Institute for Systems Biology
- Corp : International Rice Genome Sequencing Project
- 2004 : Prof. Ehud Shapiro, Department of Computer Science, Weizmann Institute
- Corp : Advanced Cell Technology
- 2000 : David Thompson, Founder, Orbital Sciences
- 2001 : Prof. Martin Sweeting , Director, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd., Surrey Space Centre
- 2002 : Prof. Roger-Maurice Bonnet , Directeur General Adjoint for Science, CNES
- Corp : XM Sattelite Radio
- 2003 : Dr. Peter Diamandis, X Prize Foundation
- Corp : X Prize Foundation
- 2004 : Burt Rutan, Founder, Scaled Composites
- Corp : Surrey Sattelite Technology
- 2000 : Frederick Seitz, President Emeritus, Rockefeller University
- 2001 : Prof. George Whitesides , Professor of Bioorganic/Physical Organic Chemistry & Materials Science, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
- 2002 : Dr. Angela Belcher , University of Texas & Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Corp : IBM Corporation
- 2003 : Prof. Charles Liever , Harvard University
- Corp : Dow Chemical Company
- 2004 : Prof. Charles Lieber , Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
- Corp : Nanosys
- 2000 : Geoffrey Ballard , Founder, Ballard Power Systems
- 2001 : Dr. Paul MacCready , Chairman, AeroVironment, Inc.
- 2002 : Dr. Ashok Gadgil , Senior Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Corp : Toyota
- 2003 : Prof. Zhiqiang Yin , Tsinghua University
- Corp : Environ , Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- 2004 : Martin Green , Research Director, Centre for Advanced Silicon Photovoltaics and Photonics, University of New South Wales
- Corp : AeroVironment, Inc.
- 2000 : Amory Lovins, Co-founder, Director of Research, Rocky Mountain Institute
- 2001 : Dr. Geoffrey Ballard , Founder, Ballard Power Systems, Inc.
- 2002 : Francis E. K. Britton , M.D., EcoPlan International
- Corp : All Species Foundation
- 2003 : Prof. R. Malcolm Brown , University of Texas at Austin
- Corp : Hypercar, Inc.
- 2004 : Ken Livingstone, Mayor, London
- Corp : AgraQuest
- 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
- 2002 : Dr. James Thompson, Professor, University of Wisconsin
- Corp : Advanced Tissue Sciences
- 2003 : Prof. Jean-Laurent Casanova , Necker Medical School and INSERM U550
- Corp : Weizmann Institute of Science
- 2004 : Alan Chow & Vincent Chow , Co-founders, Optobionics Corporation
- Corp : Intuitive Surgical
- 2000 : Masayoshi Son , Chairman, Softbank
- 2001 : Thomas Weisel , Founder and Chairman, Thomas Weisel Partners
- 2002 : William Hambrecht , Founder, Chairman & CEO, WR Hambrecht & Co.
- Corp : Battery Ventures
- 2003 : Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank
- Corp : Intel Capital
- 2004 : Steve Jurvetson , Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
- Corp : General Atlantic Partners
Individual Awards
- 2000 : Nobuhiro Nakayama , Professor of Law, University of Tokyo
- 2001 : Prof. Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law, Stanford University
- 2002 : Marc Rotenberg , Executive Director, EPIC
- 2003 : Prof. James Boyle, Duke Law School
- 2004 : Pamela Samuelson , Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
- 2000 : M. S. Swaminathan , Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operation, India
- 2001 : Prof. Christopher Freeman, Professor Emeritus, SPRU, University of Sussex
- 2002 : Dr. Karl Pister , Chancellor Emeritus, University of California
- 2003 : Prof. Clement Dzidonu , International Institute for Information Technology
- 2004 : Bruce Alberts , President, National Academy of Sciences
- 2000 : Christopher Evans, Chairman, Merlin Ventures
- 2001 : Shawn Fanning, Founder, Napster, Inc.
- 2002 : Discontinued
- 2000 : None awarded
- 2001 : Agus Gunarto , Managing Program/NGO Worker, Yayasan Rona Alam
- 2002 : Bunker Roy , 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
- 2000 : Jonathan Ive, Vice President of Industrial Design, Apple Computer
- 2001 : Stefano Marzano , CEO, Philips Design
- 2002 : Jonathan Ive, Vice President of Industrial Design, Apple Computer
- 2003 : Issey Miyake & Dai Fujiwara , Miyake Design Studio
- 2004 : Paola Antonelli , Curator, Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art
- 2000 : Paul DeMarinis , Multimedia Electronic Artist; Creator, " The Edison Effect "
- 2001 : Steina & Woody Vasulka , Artists, Art and Science Laboratory
- 2002 : Michael Naimark , Artist and Researcher, Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences
- 2003 : Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Artist
- 2004 : David Rokeby , Independant
- 2000 : Adam Clayton Powell III , Vice President of Technology and Programs, The Freedom Forum
- 2001 : John Markoff, Technology Correspondent, New York Times
- 2002 : Walter Mossberg , Personal Technology Columnist, The Wall Street Journal
- 2003 : Dr. Krishna Bharat , Google, Inc.
- 2004 : Dan Gillmor, Business and Technology Columnist, San Jose Mercury News
- 2000 : Steve Case, Chairman/CEO, America Online
- 2001 : Mark Viken , Sr. Vice President, Information Technology Products Division, Sony Electronics, Inc.
- 2002 : Zhang Ruimin , Founder & CEO, Haier
- 2003 : Larry Page & Sergey Brin, Google
- 2004 : Cindy McCaffrey , Vice President, Corporate Marketing, Google
- 2000 : Daniel Callahan , Co-founder, Hastings Center
- 2001 : Dr. Sharon Beder , Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Wollongong
- 2002 : Prof. Ren Zong Qiu , Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
- 2003 : Peter Singer, Princeton University
- 2004 : Kristin Shrader-Frechette , O'Neill Family Professor of Philosophy/Concurrent Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame
- 2000 : Elizabeth Ampt , Developer, Travel Blending
- 2001 : Gov. Jaime Lerner, Governer of Paraná, Brazil
- 2002 : Discontinued
- 2000 : Steven Snyder , Brad Miller & John Riedl , Co-founders, Net Perceptions
- 2001 : Linus Torvalds, Programmer, Transmeta Corp.
- 2002 : Discontinued
- 2000 : None awarded
- 2001 : Shawn Fanning, Founder, Napster, Inc.
- 2002 : Michael Robertson, CEO, Lindows.com
- 2003 : Derek Sivers , CD Baby
- 2004 : Richard Marks , Manager, Special Projects Group, US R&D, Sony Computer Entertainment
- 2000 : None awarded
- 2001 : Dr. Venkataraman Balaji , Principal Scientist, ICRISAT
- 2002 : Dr. Pedro Hepp , Professor, Universidad de La Frontera
- 2003 : Dr. Robert Tinker , The Concord Consortium
- 2004 : Cristian Cox , Minister of Education, Government of Chile
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