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ATP
participants garner industry recognition through a variety
of prestigious awards . . . |
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InPhase Technologies, Inc., Holographic Storage Leader, Named a Red Herring 100 Winner
InPhase Technologies, the world's leader in holographic data storage has been selected as a winner of the annual "Red Herring 100 North America" award by Red Herring magazine. For more more information, see ATP Project Brief (May 2006).
- Award recognizes the 100 private technology firms in North America driving the future of technology. This list of 100 privately held companies in North America recognizes those that play a leading role in innovating the technology business. InPhase plans to ship the industry's first holograhic drives, based on the company's patented Tapestry and Trade technology, to OEM customers in the fourth quarter of 2006. The InPhase HDS-300R drive records 300 gigabytes (GB) on a single disk with a transfer rate of 20 megabytes per second (MB), or 160 megabits per second (MB).
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Metabolix Garners Environmental Award from Society of Plastics Engineers
Metabolix, Inc. has received the prestigious "New Technologies in Renewable Materials and Processes Award" from the Society of Plastics Engineers for its development of an environmentally friendly family of PHA Natural Plastics produced by fermentation. For more more information, see ATP Project Brief (April 2006).
- The award, given at a ceremony as part of the Society's Global Plastics Environmental Conference in March, recognizes strong technical innovation and demonstrated leadership in the areas of plastics and the environment. Metabolix was cited for its "unique and patented methods" to make and commercialize its family of polymers "from renewable resources such as sugars and vegetable oils."
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Microcell Corporation Receives 2005 Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation Award for Advanced Energy Sources Market
Microcell Corporation has been presented with Frost & Sullivan's 2005 Technology Innovation Award in the field of advanced energy sources for its outstanding efforts in developing the Microcell™, an advanced extrusion-based proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell technology. For more information, see ATP
Project Brief. (January 2006)
- Microcell Corporation has significantly aided the clean conversion of chemical energy to electrical energy, making fuel cells available to all types of end users. The 2005 Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation Award recognizes the quality and depth of the company's research and development program, as well as the vision and risk-taking that enabled it to undertake such an endeavor.
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Evergreen Solar among the ten best-performing small-cap stocks of last year
(Telephony Online, Chicago, IL). Evergreen Solar develops and manufactures photovoltaic modules and solar cells.
For more information, see ATP Project Brief. (January 2006) |
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DuPont Central Research & Development Wins Scientific American 50 Award for thermal printing. The SA50 recognition is specifically on carbon nanotube doped conductive polymers and integration of these materials into printed components. For more information, see ATP
Project Brief. (November 2005)
- DuPont Central R&D in the summer of 2004 reported the first printing of conductive polymers in large sheets using an existing technology. Called thermal printing, it uses a laser to fuse the polymer to a substrate, like an iron-on transfer. This year their researchers reported printing polymer conductors, semiconductors and dielectrics all onto the same surface.
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Former ATP Recipient NP Photonics Garners Prestigious 2005 Award.
The Association of University Parks (AURP) has named the Tucson-based NP Photomics the "Outstanding Research/Science Park Company of the Year" at the organization's annual conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. AURP represents leaders of more than 130 of the nation's university-affiliated research facilities.
- AURP selects the "2005 Outstanding Research/Science Park Company of the Year" from among those research park-based companies that best demonstrate the development of products that show significant potential for successful commercialization or have already met with marketplace success. For more information, see ATP Project Brief. (November 2005)
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Raindrop Geomagic Wins the North Carolina Technology Association's Mid-size Company of the Year Award.
The annual NCTA awards recognizes outstanding contributions made by information technology companies and individuals in the state of North Carolina.
- Raindrop Geomagic was the North Carolina Technology Association (NCTA) mid-size company of the year. Geomagic products enable designers and engineers to transform scan data from physical objects into highly accurate digital models for applications ranging from ensuring the NASA space shuttle Discovery’s safe return, to reconstruction of historic treasures, to new processes that speed quality inspection. For more information, see ATP Project Brief. (November 2005)
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RNT (Reactive NanoTechnologies) Named Recipient of 2005 NASA Nanotech Briefs “Nano 50™” Awards
RNT's patented NanoFoil® technology, which was developed and manufactured to precisely control the instantaneous release of heat energy for joining and reaction initiation applications, receives an award at the first annual “Nano 50™” Awards.
For more information, see ATP
Project Brief. (November 2005)
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Nanotech Briefs announced the winners of the first annual "Nano 50™ Awards" Dinner in Boston, MA (November 10-11, 2005). The “Nano 50™” Award recognizes the top 50 technologies, products, and innovators that have significantly impacted—or are expected to impact—the state of the art in nanotechnology. The winners of the “Nano 50™” Award are the “best of the best”—the innovative people and designs that will move nanotechnology to key mainstream markets.
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R&D Magazine Selects RNT (Reactive NanoTechnologies) as 2005 R&D 100 Award Recipient .
RNT's patented NanoFoil® technology, which was developed and manufactured to precisely control the instantaneous release of heat energy for joining and reaction initiation applications, has been named in the 2005 R&D Magazine, R&D 100 recognizing the best in innovation.
For more information, see ATP
Project Brief. (October 2005)
- "R&D Magazine selects recipients through a one-year process, utilizing the wisdom of 50 independent technical experts to identify leading technologies which can improve quality of life," noted Tim Studt, R&D Magazine editor-in-chief. "Among the most innovative ideas from today's technology elite, this year's winners are clearly products, processes and software that will enhance your lives in the upcoming years." RNT has devoted efforts over the past year towards expanding commercial delivery of NanoFoil® for reaction initiation and joining applications that current technology cannot effectively or economically address.
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TechGuard
Security® Named Maryland Best IT Incubator
Company of the Year.
Artificial
Intelligence to Protect the US Critical
Infrastructure: A Heuristic Firewall
Research Project.
For more information, see ATP
Project Brief. (June 2005)
- TechGuard
Security® was
awarded the 2005
IT Incubator Company of the Year award
in the fifth annual Maryland Incubator Company
of the Year Awards. The awards recognize the
achievements of current and graduate companies
within Maryland’s technology
incubators. TechGuard
Security® was
selected from among companies located at 16 Maryland
incubator sites statewide, based on a number
of factors including:
• Success in achieving its objectives; in its
technology or product development
• Growth in revenue or earnings
• Number of customers and significant customers
• Technology transfer
• Attraction of outside investors
• Impact on the region.
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Procter
and Gamble
(and its partner CombineNet) selected as
a finalist for the 2005 Franz Edelman award.
Next Generation Procurement Optimization.
For more information, see ATP
Project Brief. (June 2005)
- The
Institute for Operations Research and Management
Sciences recognized the technical achievements
of the Next Generation Procurement Optimization
project by selecting Procter and Gamble (and
its partner CombineNet) as a finalist in 2005
for the Franz Edelman award, which uses CombineNet's
supply chain optimization technology. The
Franz Edelman Award recognizes
outstanding examples of innovative operations
research that improve organizations—and
often change people's lives. The annual Franz
Edelman Award competition brings together
top examples of innovation from large and small,
profit and non-profit, corporate and governmental,
American and international organizations. The
common theme characterizing all the final competing
teams is use of the most sophisticated analytical
tools employed in operations research to make
a major impact on an organization and the people
that it serves.
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Neah Power Systems Named as a 2005 Venture All Stars™ Emerging
Growth Company.
Micro
Fuel Cell
Innovation
Recognized
by Venture
Community.
For more
information,
see ATP
Project Brief.
(June 2005)
- The 2005
Top 25 Venture All Star companies,
which come from all sectors and stages, were
selected over a six-week period by a nominated
group representing more than 35 venture capital
organizations including Motorola Ventures,
Madrona Venture Group, Arch Venture Partners,
Voyager Capital, OVP Venture Partners, Greenstone
VC, Yaletown Ventue Partners, and the Puget
Sound Venture Club. They were evaluated
from multiple business and funding criteria
including strong management, financial backing
and high-growth potential.
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Brewer
Science, Inc. Receives SEMI 2005 Technology Innovation
Showcase Award.
Contact
Planarization
for Microlithographic
Processes. For
more information,
see ATP
Project Brief.
(June 2005)
nLine
Corporation Receives SEMI's 2005 Technology
Innovation Showcase Award.
Digital
Holographic
Inspection
of Semiconductor
Devices. For
more information,
see ATP
Project Brief.
(June 2005)
- Winners
of the 2005 Technology Innovation Showcase
Award are selected for their disruptive
effect they will have on industry. SEMI
developed the Technology Innovation Showcase
in 2003 to help innovative companies bring their
ideas and new products to the attention of key
decision makers.
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Dafca,
Inc. Selected as One of EE Times' Silicon Strategies
60 Emerging Startups.
Reconfigurable
Infrastructure
Platform for
Systems-on-Chips.
For more information,
see ATP
Project Brief.
(June 2005)
Luxtera,
Inc. Selected as One of EE Times'
Silicon Strategies 60 Emerging Startups.
Nanophotonic
Integrated
Circuits for
Telecommunications
and Computing.
For more information,
see ATP
Project Brief.
(June 2005)
- Winners
of the EE Times 60
Emerging Startups are selected based
on a mix of criteria including technology, intended
market, maturity, financial position and investment
profile. Startups on the Silicon 60 list
include companies involved in semiconductors,
fab equipment, packaging, foundry, materials,
MEMS and EDA software that made an impression. They
are companies to watch for a wide variety of
reasons.
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Raindrop Geomagic's co-founder, Dr. Hermber Edelsbrunner Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Herbert Edelsbrunner, co-founder and board member of Raindrop Geomagic and a professor of computer science and mathematics at Duke University, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences’ 2005 class of Fellows. (May 2005)
- Fellows are nominated and elected to the Academy by current members. An accomplished mathematician and scientist, Dr. Edelsbrunner gained international acclaim for his research in algorithms, geometry and topology. He is the only computer scientist to be awarded the National Science Foundation’s Alan T. Waterman Award, and has received numerous government and industrial grants to further his work. Dr. Edelsbrunner is the author of more than 150 research papers and has two books to his credit.
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MTI
MICROFUEL CELLS, INC. Receives
Frost & Sullivan Entrepreneurial
Company of the Year Award.
Fuel
Cell
Award
Based
on
Company's
Demonstrated
Excellence
in
Energy
Storage
Market. For
more
information,
see ATP
Project
Brief. (May
2005)
- The Entrepreneurial
Company of the Year Award is
presented to the company that has demonstrated
excellence in the alternative energy
storage market by successfully offering
a focused product line within its market
segment, has demonstrated technical superiority,
and has employed sound business and marketing
strategies. This Frost & Sullivan
Award signifies the identification of
a unique product solution with significant
market potential. Candidate companies
were evaluated on products, services,
business and marketing plans.
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Metabolix,
Inc. Wins the 2005 Presidential Green Chemistry
Challenge Small Business Award.
Industrial
Genome Engineering. For
more information,
see ATP
Project Brief. (May
2005)
- The
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Presidential
Green Chemistry Challenge Program recognizes
Metabolix's achievement in being the first
to commercialize a broad family of biobased
natural plastics. Derived from renewable
feedstocks, these products will provide a
sustainable and environmentally friendly
alternatives to petrochemical derived plastics.
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Molecular Imprints, Inc. Wins EE Times' ACE Award for "Most
Promising New Technology" .
Step
and Flash
Imprint Lithography
(S-FIL™). For
more information,
see ATP Project
Brief. (March
2005)
Molecular
Imprints, Inc., a global manufacturer of nanolighography
equipment, won the EE Times' Annual
Creativity in Electronics Award for "Most
Promising New Technology," beating out
IBM, Intel, and two others for this award. MII's
Step and Flash Imprint Lithography (S-FIL™)
technology was chosen for this award, which goes
to a compelling electronic component or enabling
technology that is outstanding in its technical design,
potential for market impact, and demonstrated leadership
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Red
Herring Selects Neah Power Systems
for Prestigious Red Herring Top 100 Innovators
Award
Award
Recognizes
100 Companies
That
Embody
Innovation. For
more
information,
see ATP
Project
Brief. (December
2004)
- Selection
of Neah Power Systsems by Red Herring for
its Top 100 Innovators Award puts
it in an elite group. The Red Herring editors
selectively identified the top 100 companies
who will benefit from the important technology
trends in the comping year. The editorial
staff evaluated over 1,200 submissions from 900
companies using a careful analysis of financial
data as well as subjective criteria, including
quality of management, executive of strategy,
and dedication to research and development.
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MTI
Micro Receives Popular Science 2004 "Best
of What's New" Award in the General Innovations
Category.
Mobion™ Micro
Fuel Cell
Technology. For
more information,
see ATP
Project Brief. (November
2004)
- The "Best
of What's New" award is the
ultimate Popular Science accolade,
representing a year's worth of work evaluating
thousands of products and honoring innovations
that not only impact the way we live today,
but change the way we think about the future. Each
year one winner in each of the twelve categories
is awarded the highest honor, Grand Award,
in recognition of products representing a
leap over existing technologies. MTI
Micro's breakthrough Mobion™ micro
fuel cell technology was selected as the
Grand Award Winner in the General
Innovations category.
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MTI MICROFUEL CELLS,
INC. Receives Frost & Sullivan Technology
Innovation Award.
Fuel
Cell
Award
Based
on
Company's
Demonstrated
Excellence
in
Energy
Storage
Market. For
more
information,
see ATP
Project
Brief. (October
2004)
- The Technology
Innovation Award is presented to
the company that has demonstrated technological
superiority within its industry. Frost & Sullivan
evaluates candidate companies based on their
ability to successfully develop and introduce
new technology, formulate a well-designed
product family, and made significant product
performance contributions to the industry.
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MTI
Micro Named as a Business Leader in the 2004 Scientific
American 50 Energy Category.
The first
commercial
micro fuel-cell
power units,
a new class
of miniaturized
power supply
for portable
electronic
devices. For
more information,
see ATP
Project Brief. (November
2004)
- The Scientific
American magazine's prestigious annual
list recognizes outstanding acts of leadership
in science and technology from the previous
year. Selected by the magazine's Board
of Editors with the help of distinguished
outside advisors, the Scientific
American 50 recognizes
research, business and policy leaders in
various technological categories including
Agriculture, Chemicals & Materials, Communications,
Computing, Energy, Environment and Medical
Treatments.
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MIT's
Magazine of Innovation, Technology Review,
Names Leroy Ohlsen One of the World's Top Young
Innovators.
Micro Fuel
Cell Innovation
Recognized by
Venture Community.
For more information,
see ATP
Project Brief.
(October 2004)
- Leroy
Ohlsen, Neah Power Systems co-founder and CTO,
has been named to the 2004 list of the world's 100
Top Young Innovators by Technology
Review, MIT's Magazine of Innovation. Chosen
by the editors of Technology Review and
an elite panel of judges, the TR100 consists
of 100 individuals under the age of 35 whose
innovative work in technology has a profound
impact on today's world.
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SAGE Electrochomics, Inc. "Smart Windows" Wins 2004 R&D 100 Award.
Developed electrochromic switchable glass panes for use in the windows and skylight industry. For more information, see ATP Project Brief (September
2004)
- SAGE Electrochomics, Inc. was the 2004 recipient of the prestigious R&D Award for the development of a "switchable," absorbing electrochromic window. The SageGlass Smart Window Glazing is an all solid-state, ceraminc materials technology in which the electrochromic films are adhered to the glass surface through high-temperature annealing.
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An
Advanced Technology Program Publication by Rosalie
Ruegg and Irwin Feller Wins the American Evaluation
Association (AEA) 2004 Publication of the Year
Award
A
Toolkit for Evaluating Public R&D Investment: Models,
Methods, and Findings from ATP's First Decade (September
2004)
- AEA's
Publication of the Year Award is presented
for a publication (completed in the past
five years and published in English) that
has been instrumental to the development
of theory or practice in the field of evaluation. This
publication draws from a body of 45 studies
commissioned by ATP between 1990 and 2000
and analyzes the methods and techniques used
and examines the findings of those studies.
These studies have increased understanding
not only of ATP, but also of the dynamics
of innovation systems and the relationships
between public and private sector funding
of R&D.
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TeleContinuity
Wins the 2004 State of Maryland Incubator Company
of the Year Award
Disaster-Proof
Telecommunications Technology. For information,
see ATP
Project Brief. (June
2004)
- American
Express Tax and Business Services, the Maryland Business
Incubation Association (MBIA), the
Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development
(DBED), the Maryland Technology Development
Corporation (TEDCO) and Saul Ewing LLP announced the
winners of the fourth annual Maryland Incubator
Companies of the Year Awards during a reception
in Baltimore on June 16, 2004. The
awards,
whose winners were chosen by a selection committee comprised
of venture capitalists and government and business
leaders, recognized the achievements of six current and
graduate companies of Maryland’s incubators. TeleContinuity
was was awarded the Maryland Incubator Company
of the Year award in the technology service
category.
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Neah Power Systems Named 2004 "Start Up Company of the Year".
Micro Fuel Cell Developer Selected From Among
200 Candidates. For more information,
see ATP
Project Brief. (May 2004)
- Neah
Power Systems, an emerging leader in micro fuel
cell technology, has been named "Start
Up Company of the Year" by the
Alliance of Angels (AoA), a non-profit organization
that connects promising early-stage technology
companies with seed capital in the Pacific Northwest. Neah
Power was selected from a group of 200 companies
that have presented to AoA members since the
organization's inception in 1998 and was the
first recepient of this prestigious award. The
award honors achievement and the entrepreneurial
spirit of new businesses.
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Cargill
Dow Technology Wins Presidential Green Chemistry Award
Cargil Dow Technology (now Nature Works™ LLC) wins U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency's 2002
Presidential Green Chemistry Award Alternative
Solvents/Reaction Conditions Category. For more
information, see ATP
Project Brief. (June 2002)
- Nature
Works™ polylactic
acid (PLA) is the first family of polymers derived
entirely from annually renewable resources that can
compete head-to-head with traditional fibers and
plastic packaging materials on a cost and performance
basis. For fiber consumers, this will mean a new
option for apparel and carpeting applications: a
material that bridges the gap in performance between
conventional synthetic fibers and natural fibers
such as silk, wool, and cotton.
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ATP
Recipient Dow Chemical Wins The Prestigious U.S. National
Medal of Technology
Dow Chemical was awarded the National Medal of
Technology "for
the vision to create great science and innovative technology
in the chemical industry and the positive impact that
commercialization of this technology has had on society." For
more information, see ATP
Project Brief. (June
2002)
- The
National Medal of Technology is
the highest honor awarded by the President of the
United States to America’s leading innovators. Dow
received the award for developing new advanced materials,
including SiLK* dielectric resin, which was invented,
developed, and commercialized by Dow for the fabrication
of high performance integrated circuits.
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And
the Emmy Goes to ... a NIST ATP Partner!
Sarnoff Corporation received an Emmy Award from
the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
for “outstanding achievement in technological
advancement.” For more information, see
ATP
Project Brief. (October 2000)
- Sarnoff Corporation
received an Emmy Award from the
National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
for “outstanding
achievement in technological advancement” for
a unique technology to predict how viewers will perceive
the quality of digitally processed TV images or still
pictures. Sarnoff organized a NIST Advanced Technology
Program project to
develop a commercially practical version of the technology,
which models the human visual system.
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Hybrid Plastics Receives R&D 100 Award
Hybrid Plastics, LLC has announced receipt of an R&D 100 Award from R&D 100 Magazine for its proprietary POSS™ Nanostructured™ Chemical Technology. For more information, see ATP Project Brief. (August 2000)
- As one of an internationally selected number of new products receiving this prestigious award, POSS™ Nanostructured™ Chemical Technology—a nanoscopic silica- and carbon-based additive for plastics which offers more strength, heat resistance, and decreased flammability than traditional plastics—was recognized as one of the years most technologically significant products in the world. Entries from many of the worlds top companies, universities, and research organizations were judged by an independent panel of 70 experts from a variety of industries. Winners of the award were selected for their technological excellence and strength along with the value that they bring to the marketplace.
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Date created: August
22, 2005
Last updated:
November 15, 2006
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