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Drs. Ying Xu and Dong Xu received R&D 100 award in 2001 for the development
of PROSPECT. The R&D 100 awards program is designed to honor significant commercial promise
in products, materials or processes developed by the international research and
development community. Technologies are nominated in open competition and judged
by technical experts selected by the Illinois-based R&D Magazine. The magazine
uses technical criteria to select the 100 most significant, unique or promising
entries from the nominations received. The Chicago Tribune has called the awards
"The Oscars of Invention." Others have referred to the R&D 100 Awards as the
"Nobel Prizes of Applied Research." Past winners have included breakthroughs like
Polacolor film, the flashcube, the digital wristwatch,
antilock brakes, the automated teller machine, the
liquid crystal display, the halogen lamp, the fax
machine, and Fruitrim fat replacer.
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