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Michael Chasen - Young Innovator
Co-founders and Co-CEO's of Blackboard Inc., Michael Chasen, 29, and
Matthew Pittinsky, 28, have recognized and delivered on the demand
for a high-quality, easy-to-use, and cost-effective online educational
software platform. Formed with their combined vision of transforming
the Internet into a powerful environment for teaching and learning,
Blackboard is the leading provider of e-Learning infrastructure to
the academic market. |
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Matthew Pittinsky - Young Innovator
Co-founders and Co-CEO's of Blackboard Inc., Michael Chasen, 29, and
Matthew Pittinsky, 28, have recognized and delivered on the demand
for a high-quality, easy-to-use, and cost-effective online educational
software platform. Formed with their combined vision of transforming
the Internet into a powerful environment for teaching and learning,
Blackboard is the leading provider of e-Learning infrastructure to
the academic market. |
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Linus Benedict Torvalds - Young Innovator
Linus Torvalds is a Computer Scientist who in 1991 became a hero to
Internet users worldwide by writing the Linux kernel while a graduate
student at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His immensely popular
Unix-based "open-source" operating system is available without charge
on the Internet allowing users to make improvements and grow the system. |
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France Anne Cordova, Ph.D.
Physicist and former NASA Chief Scientist, France Anne Cordova led
a scientific team whose digital electronics module was a vital component
of a recent European Space Agency mission. She is establishing new
paradigms in cross-discipline research programs (RAD) as Vice Chancellor
of the University of California at Santa Barbara. |
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Bran Ferren
Bran Ferren is a visionary and futurist whose limitless imagination
is partnered with keen scientific and technical skills. As the former
President of Walt Disney Imagineering R&D and Creative Technology,
and current co-founder of Applied Minds, Inc., Mr. Ferren is uniquely
positioned at the epicenter of design, technology and creative conceptual
strategies. |
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Hendrik Mario Geysen, Ph.D.
Australian Chemist and Distinguished Scientist at the Glaxo Wellcome
Research Institute, Mario Geysen is the father of Combinatorial Chemistry,
a new science that allows multiple drug candidates to be screened simultaneously.
This extraordinary new process dramatically accelerates the pace of
pharmaceutical analysis, development and delivery ultimately providing
medicines to patients throughout the world. |
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Margaret Lowman, Ph.D.
American Botanist, Margaret Lowman is a pioneer in novel techniques
for accessing the rainforest canopy. Her persistence and courage while
conducting research in the challenging and sometimes dangerous conditions
of the rainforest led to a new appreciation of this vital and fragile
resource. Margaret Lowman serves as Executive Director at the Marie
Selby Botanical Gardens and is a tireless and effective advocate for
rainforest conservation. |
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Martin Schwab, Ph.D.
Swiss Neuroscientist at the University of Zurich ETH, Martin SchwabÕs
groundbreaking research led to the identification of growth-inhibiting
substances in the central nervous system. His work continues with the
development of antibodies that neutralize these substances, thereby
allowing new growth and regeneration - a stunning medical breakthrough
in spinal cord injury research. |
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Ada Yonath, Ph.D.
Ada Yonath is an Israeli Structural Biologist associated with both
the Max Planck Institute (Germany) and the Weizmann Institute (Israel)
who patiently laid the foundation for a recent spectacular breakthrough
in the crystallography of very large biological assemblies. Her elegant
research has led to three-dimensional models, at atomic detail, of
ribosomes, the molecular machines that use information in the genetic
code to synthesize all proteins in the biosphere. |
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Leonardo Chiariglione, Ph.D.
Italian visionary, technology entrepreneur, world telecommunications
leader who is known as the "Father of MPEG," Motion Pictures
Expert Group, which established standards for digitizing and compressing
audio and video thus creating the path for worldwide use of HDTV.
Website:
-www.cselt.it/leonardo |
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Jennifer Harris
YOUNG INNOVATOR AWARD
Aerospace Engineer at the Jet Propulsion Lab currently Lead System
Engineer for the Mars 2001 Mission's Rover and Robotic arm. She earlier
served as the flight director during the first day the Pathfinder landed
on Mars. |
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Florence P. Haseltine, Ph.D., M.D.
Research Scientist, M.D., Innovator, Author who quietly changed the
course of medical history through her dynamic influence on public policy
and the funding of medical research to include women in critical clinical
trials, saving countless lives in the process.
Website:
-www.haseltine.com |
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Karl M. Johnson, M.D., M.S.,
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
International virologist warrior who fights the world's most dreaded
diseases, including Ebola, and other Hemorrhagic Fevers worldwide and
who revolutionized lab and field techniques using space age technologies.
Johnson continues to contribute expertise as he participates in the
search for answers to the contagions threatening North American fabled
gamefish. |
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Zafra M. Lerman, Ph.D.
Israeli scientist whose legendary bravery and success defending dissident
scientists under persecution throughout the world is matched only by
her creative ability to empower teachers to integrate art, music and
theatre with scientific concepts, making science literacy available
to disadvantaged young people everywhere. |
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William E. Strickland, Jr. M.A.
An Educator for our times, who after achieving personal success as
a commercial aviation pilot, returned to his inner city roots to create
Pittsburgh's Manchester Craftsman's Guild, a replicable model for enhancing
the productivity of "at risk" youth using a unique experiential
blend of fine arts, technology and science. |
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Masashi Yanagisawa, Ph.D., M.D.
Japanese research scientist whose creativity and leadership has opened
a new field of biomedical research and whose continuing discoveries
startle the world of medicine with their profound implications for
treatment of congestive heart disease and strokes.
Websites:
-www.hhmi.org/news/yanagisawa.htm
-www.hhmi.org/news/orexin.htm
-www.hhmi.org/annual98/research/weight/html
-www.hhmi.org/science/cellbio/yanagisawa.htm
-irweb.swmed.edu/newspub/newsdetl.asp?story_id=155
-swnt240.swmed.edu/gradschool/webrib/yanagasa.htm |
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Dr. James H. Clark.
Honored for his remarkable vision in producing affordable 3-D graphical
computer systems capable of rendering images interactively and in real-time;
acutely impacting technology by enabling individuals and companies
to exchange information and conduct commerce over the browsers and
other global networks. Clark was the Founder and former Chairman of
Silicon Graphics Inc. and former Chairman of Netscape Communications
Corp. |
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Dr. Hector Floyd DeLuca
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Honored for his phenomenal discovery of the vitamin D-endocrine system
which has allowed the creation of a new class of drugs for the treatment
of osteoporosis, which affects over 15 million Americans and a variety
of human disorders of calcium metabolism. DeLuca is the Chairman of
the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. |
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Dr. Sylvia A. Earle
Honored for courageously pioneering the study of life below the surface
of the seas through the development and use of daring methods of unprecedented
dives. Dr. Earle has literally risked her life, as one of the first
underwater explorers to make use of modern SCUBA gear, to push back
the frontier to research underwater species. Earle is a world renowned
ocean conservationist, author, entrepreneur, who currently serves as
the resident explorer at National Geographic. |
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Dr. Barry Marshall
Honored for his revolutionary research into the causes and treatment
of peptic ulcer disease, altering the world's view of this chronic,
painful ailment. Marshall is the NHMRC Burnet Fellow, Department of
Medicine, at the University of Western Australia. |
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Dr. Francine Penny Patterson
Honored for extraordinary dedication to the longest ongoing interspecies
communication study ever undertaken, with Koko the Gorilla, to learn
about primate linguistic abilities, resulting in an astonishing breakthrough
in our understanding of the animal kingdom. Patterson is the Founder
of the Gorilla Foundation. |
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Dr. Susan Athey
YOUNG INNOVATOR AWARD
Honored for her ingenious development of tools and methods for mathematical
models which economists, and researchers in other sciences, can apply
to a wide range of problems, advancing economics to a dimension heretofore
unrealized. Athey is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. |
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Steve Wozniak
Honored for his contributions to society, Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer in 1976, which launched the personal computer age. He also designed the Apple II, the first ready-made computer. He now devotes considerable time to schools in his community, providing equipment and teaching computer skills to fifth through eighth grade students. |
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Helen Murray Free
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Honored for her revolutionary medical research, Free vastly improved medical diagnostics by inventing easy, accurate self test for blood sugar levels used worldwide. Helen Murray Free is a Professional Relations Consultant with Bayer Corporation and past president of the American Chemical Society. |
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Dr. Daniel Kaufman
Honored for his development of new pre-diagnostic tests and therapeutics for insulin-dependent diabetes (juvenile or type 1 diabetes). His work has advanced to clinical trials and points directly to the prospect of preventing the disease in humans. Kaufman is an Assistant Professor at the UCLA School of Medicine. |
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Dr. E. Clayton Teague
Honored for his pioneering research in the field of vacuum tunneling, he was the first to conduct experiments that demonstrated a quantitative and definitive observation of the phenomenon of vacuum tunneling, which ultimately led to the invention by others of a variety of atomic surface measurement devices. Teague is the Head of the Nano-Scale Metrology Group of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. |
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Kay Toliver
Honored for her innovative teaching methods, Toliver is nationally recognized at a school in one of the city's most rundown neighborhoods. A 1993 PBS TV documentary, "Good Morning, Miss Toliver," introduced her to viewers across the country. She hosts the new instructional television series, "The Eddie Files." Toliver is a Mathematics teacher in East Harlem, New York. |
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Mike McCue
YOUNG INNOVATOR AWARD
Honored for his technological breakthroughs, McCue is known as "The Prince of VRML" (virtual reality modeling language). McCue started Paper Software with a borrowed computer at age 22 and transformed Netscape's Web browsers from 2-D to 3-D with his software. Paper Software was later acquired by Netscape. McCue is currently the CEO of Tellme. |
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Vinton Cerf
Honored for his developments that caused the evolution of the browsers, Cerf is known throughout the industry as the "Father of the Internet." Now president of the Internet Society, he has been involved in the most important developments of the Internet's evolution. Dr. Cerf was a principal developer of ARPANET, the Internet predecessor, for the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Website:
-www.wcom.com/cerfsup |
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Dr. Huda Zoghbi
Honored for her collaborative work with Dr. Harry Orr, this neurobiologist identified the gene that causes spinocerebellar ataxia (CA). This incurable disease destroys brain cells governing muscle control and has the same flaw as those causing some cancers. The technology they developed and discoveries they made have accelerated the discovery of other genes that cause disease. Dr. Zoghbi is a neurologist at Baylor University College of Medicine. |
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Dr. Harry Orr
Honored for his collaborative work with Dr. Huda Zoghbi, this neurobiologist identified the gene that causes spinocerebellar ataxia. The gene has the same flaw as those causing some cancers. Their work provides clues to the mechanics of all inherited diseases. Dr. Orr is a neurobiologist at the University of Minnesota Medical School. |
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Dr. Hans Herren
Honored for his life saving work, Herren is an entomologist who achieved biological control in Africa of the cassava mealybug, a pest that ravaged the basic food staple of 200 million people. Dr. Herren eradicated the mealybug without pesticides by introducing tiny wasp that lay their eggs in mealybug larvae. Dr. Herren is Chief Executive and Director General, International Institute of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya. |
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Dr. Jewel Plummer Cobb
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN EDUCATION
Honored for her outstanding research practices, Cobb is a cell biologist best known for involvement in experiments concerning the effects of new drugs on human cancer cells. Cobb has made important contributions enhancing educational opportunities for minorities in science. Cobb is the President Emeritus of California State University. |
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Tim Berners-Lee
YOUNG INNOVATOR AWARD
Honored for his vast technical insight, Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web (W3), an Internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing, while working at CERN. Now at MIT, he directs the W3 Consortium that coordinates W3 development.
Website:
-www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee |
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Dr. Marc Hannah
YOUNG INNOVATOR AWARD
Honored for his innovative insight, Hannah is Co-founder of Silicon Graphics, international market leader in 3-D computer graphics. He was chief architect of the Personal IRIS, Indigo, Indigo2, and Indy graphics subsystems. The company's revolutionary workstations were used to create the special effects in movies seen by millions of people, including Jurassic Park and Terminator 2. |
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Dr. Robert D. Ballard
Honored for his discoveries and projects, Ballard is the underwater explorer who discovered the sunken wreckage of the ocean liner Titanic. In 1989, he created the JASON Project, enabling students and teachers to participate in underwater exploration via live, interactive television broadcasts from remote sites through advanced technologies in robotics, fiber optics, television production, computer science, mechanical and electrical engineering, simulation, computer graphics and satellite communications. Ballard is the President of the Institution for Exploration. |
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Dean Kamen
Honored for his innovative concepts, Kamen founded U.S. FIRST (Foundation for the Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), a non-profit organization dedicated to motivating the next generation by making science and technology appealing. The U.S. FIRST Competition joined high school students with intense, made- for-television sporting event, thus combining the excitement of competition with the challenge of creative design and engineering. Kamen is also the President and Owner of DEKA Research and Development, Corp. |
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Stephanie L. Kwolek
Honored for her revolutionary discoveries, Kwolek invented Kevlar. Heralded as the most important synthetic fiber since the creation of nylon, this aramid fiber has five times the strength of steel. The Kevlar discovery has made possible a whole host of new products that enhance the quality of life, including reinforced belts in radial tires and bullet-proof vests. Kwolek is an inspiration to young people and an exceptional role model for women in science and technology. |
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Dr. Michael A. Zasloff
Honored for his unprecedented work, Zasloff discovered an entirely new class of antibiotics. By accessing the defense systems of animals such as the African clawed frog, the pig, the cow and the spiny dogfish shark, he is unlocking heretofore unrecognized secrets of healing. Substances extracted from these animals are showing exceptional promise as drugs for treating infections, healing wounds and killing some tumors. Dr. Zasloff is Executive Vice President, Magainin Pharmaceuticals. |
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Dr. Mark A. Reed
YOUNG INNOVATOR AWARD
Honored for his noteworthy discoveries, Reed led the team which made the first lithographically defined quantum dot in 1987 while at Texas Instruments Central Research Lab. His research at Yale continues to push the frontiers of electronic theory with eight U.S. and foreign patents on novel quantum effect and heterojunction devices, and has patents pending on molecular electronics. Reed is the Harold Hodgkinson Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Chairman of Electrical Engineering at Yale University.
Website:
-surf.eng.yale.edu/~reed |
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Dr. Francis S. Collins
Honored for his exceptional genetic research, Collins is recognized for the research resulting in the identification of the genes which causes cystic fibrosis , neurofibromatosis and Huntington's disease. In 1993, he was named the first director of the International Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health, where he is spokesman for the nation's genetic research.
Website:
-www.nhgri.nih.gov |
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Dr. Candace B. Pert
Honored for her innovative research in the field of brain biochemistry, which has led to an understanding of the chemicals that travel between the mind and the body and for her discovery of Peptide T. Former chief of brain biochemistry at the National Institutes of Health. She is now a noted author and Research Professor at Georgetown University Medical Center. |
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Dr. George F. Smoot
Honored for his extraordinary and definitive research, Smoot is distinguished for his work on the instrumentation placed aboard the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite, launched in 1989. This led to significant astrophysical finding regarding the origin of the universe. Smoot is a Professor of Physics at the University of California at Berkeley.
Website:
-aether.lbl.gov |
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Dr. Mae C. Jemison
Honored for her noteworthy accomplishments, she became the first African-American woman astronaut. A chemical engineer as well as a physician, she was a science-mission specialist aboard the spacecraft Endeavor in September 1992, performing experiments and monitoring the reactions of living organisms in space. Jemison is a Professor of Environmental Studies and Director of the Jemison Institute at Dartmouth College. |
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Dr. K. Eric Drexler
YOUNG INNOVATOR AWARD
Honored for his advancement in molecular nanotechnology, Drexler is leading a new field to an expanding dimension of new engineering applications in the 21st century. Drexler coined the term nanotechnology to refer to technology whose dimensions are measured in billionths of a meter. His book Nanosystems won the 1992 Association of American Publishers award for Best Computer Science Book. Drexler is the Chairman of the Foresight Institute. |
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Dr. Drew Gaffney
Honored for his pioneering medical research conducted aboard the space shuttle Columbia on NASA's first flight dedicated to human medical inquiry. Dr. Gaffney expanded fields of knowledge relating to the circulatory system, blood pressure patterns and heart functions. Gaffney is a Professor of Medicine and Chief, Clinical Cardiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. |
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Dr. Richard Smalley:
Honored for his revolutionary discovery of the hollow carbon cage molecule, C-60 Buckminsterfullerene, also known as the "Buckyball." This third basic form of pure carbon (the first two are diamond and graphite) is a historic breakthrough in the field of chemistry. Smalley received the Nobel Prize in 1996 for his work. He is the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics at Rice University. |
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Dr. John Hagelin
Honored for his promising work in particle physics in the development of supersymmetric grand unified field theory. Hagelin has relentlessly pursued of the understanding of human consciousness, and implemented innovative applications of advanced principles from control systems theory and optimization theory to digital sound reproduction. Hagelin is the Director of the Institute of Science, Technology, and Public Policy at the Maharishi University. |
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Fortune Education Summit
Fortune Magazine - Jim Hayes, Publisher, was cited for major contributions to the development of solutions to the educational crisis in America through the Fortune Education Summit, bringing the country's largest corporations into the effort to improve access to a quality education for all Americans. |
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Wendy Kopp
YOUNG INNOVATOR AWARD
Honored for her creative and successful implementation of Teach for America, a program she funded (over $30 million raised to date). Teach for America recruits thousands of America's brightest college graduates (Yale, Princeton, Stanford) to commit two years of their lives on behalf of education in rural and disadvantaged schools in America. Kopp continues to serve as President of Teach for America. |
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Apple Computer
Apple Computer was honored for its innovations in the uses of computer technology to prepare today's students for tomorrow's challenges. |
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EDS
EDS was honored for the JASON Project which brought the spirit of exploration and discovery to the classroom through advanced communication technology. More than 1,500,000 students and teachers in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, and Ecuador and the United Kingdom have participated in the JASON project since 1989. |
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Rockwell International
Rockwell International was honored for national leadership in support of higher education. The company sponsored cooperative programs encouraging women and minorities to choose engineering careers. Further, they provided university scholarships and grants. Hundreds of volunteers, including engineers, served as mentors and tutors on a weekly basis in grades K-12. |
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Tandy Corporation
Tandy Corporation was honored for its Tandy Technology Scholars Program which recognizes outstanding math, science and computer science students and teachers as champions of the classroom, with awards totaling $350,000 annually. |
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Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments was honored for its innovative efforts to develop, support and measure the effectiveness of Head Start Programs offering enhanced services to at-risk pre-school children to prepare them for success in the public education system.
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Raytheon Corporation
Raytheon Corporation received a Special Technology Award for the development of advanced guided missile systems and particularly the development of the Patriot Missile Program. |
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Truman Cook
COMMUNITY CATALYST AWARD
Honored for his providing counsel and early leadership in community organizations involved in technology awareness, including the North Texas Commission, North Dallas Chamber of Commerce High Technology Committee and the Advanced Electronic Imaging Task Force. |
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Mark Fulbright
STUDENT INNOVATOR AWARD
Honored for his winning the third place in the 1988 International Science Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee, for his scale model of an F-5 Freedom Fighter military jet wing at age 15. Mark's teachers, principal, parents and corporate supporters were also recognized for their vital contribution. |
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Dr. Michael Hawley
Honored for his innovative technological advancements, Hawley personally implemented the digital books bundled with the computer. He is an outstanding integrator of technology and keyboard artistry through the Bosendorfer laboratory experiments at MIT, using a piano adapted for computer experimentation. Hawley is Professor of Media Technology in the Media Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
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Bell Helicopter Textron
Bell Helicopter Textron was cited for its development of the V22 Osprey Aircraft using Bell's own tiltrotor technology, which could revolutionize military and civil aviation. |
