World Technology Award

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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 affect the modern world.

2000, the first set of 20 awards was granted in 2000. 2002, the WTN added a Corporate (designated by "Corp", below) award to 10 of the categories. These categories are listed separately.

2001, the WTN added three categories: Education, Entertainment,and Social Entrepreneurship. 2002, they discontinued three categories: Commerce, Transportation and Start-up Companies.

Following is the list of award recipients in their respective fields:

[edit] Individual and Corporate Awards

[edit] Information Technology - Software

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 Corporation
2004 : Daphne Koller, Associate Professor, Robotics Laboratory, Computer Science Department, Stanford University
- Corp : Apple Computer
2005 : David Haussler, Howard Hughes Medical Institute/University of California, Santa Cruz
- Corp : Amazon.com

[edit] Information Technology - Hardware

2000 : Jeff Hawkins & Donna Dubinsky, Co-creators, Palm Computer
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
2005 : Holly Gates, E Ink Corporation
- Corp : University of Tsukuba / Cyberdyne Inc.

[edit] Communication Technology

2000 : Tim Berners-Lee, Director, World Wide Web Consortium
2001 : Robert 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, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, & HP Fellow, HP Laboratories
- Corp : Skype
2005 : Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE, Inc.
- Corp : Wikimedia Foundation Inc.

[edit] Biotechnology

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
2005 : Nadrian Seeman, New York University
- Corp : Amyris Biotechnologies

[edit] Space

2000 : David Thompson, Founder, Orbital Sciences
2001 : Prof. Martin Sweeting, Director, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd, Surrey Space Centre at the University of Surrey
2002 : Prof. Roger-Maurice Bonnet, Directeur General Adjoint for Science, CNES
- Corp : XM Satellite Radio
2003 : Dr. Peter Diamandis, X Prize Foundation
- Corp : X Prize Foundation
2004 : Burt Rutan, Founder, Scaled Composites
- Corp : Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd
2005 : Steven W. Squyres, Cornell University & NASA
- Corp : "Cassini-Huygens Mission" (NASA / ESA / ASI)

[edit] Materials

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 at Austin & 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
2005 : Daniel Rugar, John Mamin, Raffi Budakian and Benjamin Chui, IBM
- Corp : Molecular Imprints

[edit] Energy

2000 : Dr. Geoffrey Ballard, Founder, Ballard Power Systems
2001 : Dr. Paul MacCready, Chairperson, 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.
2005 : Subhendu Guha, United Solar Ovonic
- Corp : XsunX, Inc.

[edit] Environment

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
2005 : Priyadarshini Karve, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute
- Corp : City of Seoul, Republic of Korea (Office of the Mayor)

[edit] Health & Medicine

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
2002 : Dr. James Thompson, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- 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, Cofounders, Optobionics Corporation
- Corp : Intuitive Surgical
2005 : Andreas Lendlein and Robert Langer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Corp : National Institute For Biological Standards and Control/UK Stem Cell Bank

[edit] Finance

2000 : Masayoshi Son, Chairperson, Softbank
2001 : Thomas Weisel, Founder and Chairperson, Thomas Weisel Partners
2002 : William Hambrecht, Founder, Chairperson & 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
2005 : Richard Kramlich, New Enterprise Associates
- Corp : Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers

[edit] Individual Awards

[edit] Law

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, School of Law, Duke University
2004 : Pamela Samuelson, Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley

[edit] Policy

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

[edit] Start-up Companies

2000 : Christopher Evans (businessman), Chairperson, Merlin Ventures
2001 : Shawn Fanning, Founder, Napster, Inc.
2002 : Discontinued

[edit] Social Entrepreneurship

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

[edit] Design

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, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art

[edit] The Arts

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, Independent
2005 : Jim Campbell, Artist

[edit] Media & Journalism

2000 : Adam Clayton Powell III, Vice-President of Technology and Programs, The Freedom Forum
2001 : John Markoff, Technology Correspondent, The 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

[edit] Marketing Communications

2000 : Steve Case, Chairperson/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