Winners of the 2013 World Technology Awards Announced
New York, NY (PRWEB) November 18, 2013 -- The World Technology Network ("The WTN," http://www.wtn.net) announced today the names of the Winners in 10 corporate and 20 individual categories for the prestigious World Technology Awards. Presented by the WTN in association with TIME, Fortune, CNN, and others, the World Technology Awards have been called "the Oscars of the technology world" in part because of their peer-review selection process. The Winners join the WTN membership -- a roster of organizations (Corporate Members) and individuals (WTN Fellows) from over 40 countries around the world.
The World Technology Awards have been presented by the WTN since 2000, as a way to honor those in 20 different categories of science and technology and related fields doing "the innovative work of the greatest likely long-term significance." The annual World Technology Awards process is an intensive global one, lasting many months. The Award nominee pool this year of over 700 nominees came from three sources: names put forward by the WTN Fellows (winners and finalists from previous annual Award cycles in the individual Award categories); research by the WTN staff; and, to a lesser extent, from nominations from individuals and companies themselves.
Finalists for the Awards were selected by the WTN Fellows who are eligible to vote for their top five preferences in order from within their own category. The collective preferences of the WTN Fellows determine the Finalists. The new Finalists then became the latest group of WTN Fellows (for individuals) and WTN Corporate Members (for organizations). The Winners were selected by the WTN from among the Finalists with the input of advisors and were announced at a ceremony at the Time & Life Building on November 15, 2013.
The Awards gala occurred at the close of the World Technology Summit, a two-day "thought leadership" conference (November 14/15) in the TIME & LIFE Building in association with the WTN’s partner organizations. Most of the delegates to the Summit were 2013 Award nominees, current WTN members (winners and finalist from previous Awards cycles), as well as other leaders from business, technology, and industry.
At this year’s Summit, in addition to the keynotes, on-stage “demos”, other speakers, as well as exhibits, the WTN inaugurated it Global Challenges program by spending a half-day of facilitated idea-generation around a single global challenge selected for 2013: End Global Hunger in a Decade. A wide variety of fresh ideas were generated and will be presented to various agencies which are eagerly awaiting the results of this anti-hunger initiative.
"This year we are more eager than ever to pay tribute to the talent and innovation of our individual and corporate honorees," says James P. Clark, Founder and Chairman of the World Technology Network. "Each year, with the participation of our extraordinary membership and the help of our sponsors and partners, we strengthen this platform to honor the most visionary and impactful contributions in the science and technology arenas." Clark adds, "The World Technology Awards program is not only a very inspiring way to identify and celebrate the most innovative people and organizations in the technology world, but it also is a truly disciplined way for the WTN membership to identify those who will formally join them, as WTN Fellows and Corporate Members, as part of our global community. These are the people creating the 21st Century. By working to make connections among our members, we look forward to assist in a truly positive way in continuing to help determine our collective future and change our world."
About the WTN
The WTN is a curated membership community comprised of the world's most innovative individuals and organizations in science, technology, and related fields. The WTN and its members - those creating the 21st century -- are focused on exploring what is imminent, possible, and important in and around emerging technologies.
The WTN exists to "encourage serendipity" -- the happy accidents of colliding ideas and new relationships that cause the biggest breakthroughs for individuals and institutions. The WTN works to accomplish its mission through global and regional events for its members and extended audience, to help make connections among them, and to examine the likely implications and possible applications of emerging technologies.
For more information about the World Technology Network, and for contact information, please visit: http://www.wtn.net.
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James P. Clark
The World Technology Network
jpclark(at)wtn(dot)net
917 256 9903
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@The_WTN
The winners of the 2013 World Technology Awards
THE ARTS
Daan Roosegaarde, Artist & Innovator
Studio Roosegaarde
BIOTECHNOLOGY (CORPORATE)
23andMe, Inc.
BIOTECHNOLOGY (INDIVIDUAL)
Gustavo Stolovitzky, Manager, Functional Genomics and Systems Biology
IBM Research
COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (CORPORATE)
ViaSat
COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (INDIVIDUAL)
Louis von Ahn, CEO, Duolingo; Co-inventr, CAPTCHA; Inventor, reCAPTCHA
DESIGN
Doris Sung, Principal, DOSU Studio Architecture LLC
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, USC
EDUCATION
Jose Ferreira, Founder & CEO, Knewton, Inc.
ENERGY (CORPORATE)
Tesla Motors, Inc.
ENERGY (INDIVIDUAL)
Michael Adams, Distinguished Research Professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Georgia
ENTERTAINMENT
Cristina Sylla, Sergio Concalves Pedro Branco, Clara Coustinho, Researchers,
engageLab, University of Minho, Portugal
ENVIRONMENT (CORPORATE)
BIOFUNGITEK, S.L.
ENVIRONMENT (INDIVIDUAL)
Mark J. Post, Professor of Vascular Physiology,
Head, Department of Physiology, University Maastricht, Netherlands
ETHICS
Mariarosaria Taddeo, Fellow in Cyber Security and Ethics
Department of Politics and International Studios (PAIS)
University of Warwick
FINANCE (CORPORATE)
Betaworks
FINANCE (INDIVIDUAL)
Kai-Fu Lee, Founder, Chairman & CEO, Innovation Works
HEALTH & MEDICINE (INDIVIDUAL)
Lawrence Bonassar & Jason Spector, Associate Professor & Associate Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Cornell University
HEALTH & MEDICINE (CORPORATE)
IBM (Watson Technologies)
IT-HARDWARE (CORPORATE)
Kiva Systems, LLC
IT-HARDWARE (INDIVIDUAL)
David Hanson, Founder & CEO, Hanson Robotics Inc.
IT-SOFTWARE (CORPORATE)
Livefyre
IT-SOFTWARE (INDIVIDUAL),
Eldad Farkash, Co-Founder & CTO, SiSense Ltd.
LAW
Erica Palmerini, RoboLaw, Project Coordinator;
Professor, Scuola Superiore Sant’ Anna, Italy
MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS
Marco Gomes, Founder & CMO, boo-box, Brazil
MATERIALS (CORPORATE)
Arjowiggins Creative Papers
MATERIALS (INDIVIDUAL)
Alan J. Heeger, Professor of Physics and Materials
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
UC Santa Barbara
MEDIA & JOURNALISM
Eric Schmidt & Jared Cohen, Executive Chairman, Google, Inc; Director, Google Ideas
POLICY
Julian Paul Assange, Founder, Wikileaks
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Jessica Matthews & Julia Silverman, Co-Founder & CEO
Uncharted Play, Inc.
SPACE (CORPORATE)
NASA – Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
SPACE (INDIVIDUAL)
William Borucki, Principal Investigator
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
For a full list of the 2013 winners, finalists, and other nominees, please visit: http://www.wtn.net/summit2013/winners.php.
Beth-Ellen Keyes, The World Technology Network, http://www.wtn.net, +1 (646) 246-1081, [email protected]
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