The World Technology Network Honors the Most Innovative Individuals in Science and Technology; The World's Best and Brightest in 20 Categories Are Named Fellows of Prestigious Organization

Business Wire,  Nov 16, 2005  

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Here is a complete list of this year's WTN Fellows:

    Arts

    --  Jim Campbell, Artist
    --  Toshio Iwai, Iwai Lab/MRSystems Corporation
    --  Golan Levin, Carnegie Mellon University
    --  Ben Rubin, Artist
    --  Gerfried Stocker, Ars Electronica Center

    Biotechnology

    --  George Church, Harvard University
    --  Woo Suk Hwang, Seoul National University
    --  Ulrich Kettling, DIREVO Biotech AG
    --  Steen Rasmussen, Los Almos National Laboratory
    --  Nadrian Seeman, New York University

    Communications Technology

    --  Vanu Bose, Vanu, Inc.
    --  Thomas DeFanti, University of Illinois at Chicago
    --  Masayoshi Son, Softbank Corporation
    --  Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE, Inc.
    --  Linus Torvalds, Open Source Development Labs

    Design

    --  Mario Bellini, Bellini Studios
    --  Ross Lovegrove, Lovegrove Studio
    --  Mike and Kathy McCoy, McCoy & McCoy Associates
    --  Bill Moggridge, IDEO
    --  Richard Sapper, Industrial Designer

    Education

    --  Mizuko Ito, University of Southern California
    --  Sherif Kamal, American University in Cairo
    --  Mahesh Ratna Shakya, Communication for Development Palpa
        (Nepal)
    --  Shiv Sivakumar, ITC Ltd.
    --  Elliot Soloway, University of Michigan
    --  Elizabeth Stock, Computers for Youth

    Energy

    --  Subhendu Guha, United Solar Ovonic
    --  James Dumesic and Randy Cortright, University of
        Wisconsin/Madison
    --  Nathan Lewis, California Institute of Technology
    --  Daniel Nocera, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    --  Robert Williams, Princeton University

    Entertainment

    --  Christian Castle, Snocap
    --  Bram Cohen, BitTorrent
    --  Jon Lech Johansen, Nanocrew
    --  Lawrence Lessig, Stanford University
    --  Keita Takahashi, Namco
    --  Michael Weiss, StreamCast Networks, Inc

    Environment

    --  Satish Agnihotri, Government of Orissa, India
    --  Jose Ivo Baldani, Embrapa Agrobiologia (Brazil)
    --  Shu-Ting Chang, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
    --  Priyadarshini Karve, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute
    --  Hans Monderman, Voorwerk/ Voorwerk Foundation
    --  Rajendra Singh, Tarun Bharat Sangh

    Ethics

    --  Manuel Castells, University of California Berkeley
    --  Ruth Chadwick, Lancaster University
    --  Michael S. Gazzaniga, Dartmouth College
    --  Tony Hope, Oxford University
    --  Lawrence Lessig, Stanford University
    --  John Weckert, Charles Stuart University

    Finance

    --  David Chao, Doll Capital Management (DCM)
    --  Richard Duval, ZOPA
    --  Nancy Floyd, Nth Power
    --  Promod Haque, Norwest Venture Partners (NVP)
    --  Richard Kramlich, New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
    --  Mike Milken, FasterCures

    Health and Medicine

    --  Alim-Louis Benabid, University of Grenoble, France
    --  John P. Donoghue, Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems
    --  Carlos Lima, Egaz Moniz Hospital
    --  Andreas Lendlein and Robert Langer, Massachusetts Institute of
        Technology (MIT)
    --  Erez Golan and Eyal Kolka, TopSpin Medical

    IT Hardware

    --  Holly Gates, E Ink Corporation
    --  Sumio Iijima, NEC
    --  Kunle Olukontun, Standford University
    --  Geordie Rose, D-Wave Systems, Inc.
    --  Huiling Shang, IBM

    IT Software

    --  Nancy Amato, Texas A&M University
    --  Mark Billinghurst, HIT Lab New Zealand
    --  Stuart Card, PARC
    --  Olivier Guinnard and Gregoire Ribordy, id Quantique
    --  David Haussler, Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ UC Santa Cruz
    --  Larry Peterson, Princeton University

    Law

    --  Yochai Benkler, Yale University
    --  Dan Burk, University of Minnesota
    --  James Love, Consumer Project on Technology
    --  Arti Rai, Duke University
    --  R. Anthony Reese, University of Texas at Austin

    Marketing Communications

    --  Scott Faber and Sean Van der Linden, Ingenio
    --  Jeffrey Immelt, General Electric
    --  Gregory Lee, Samsung Electronics, Co.
    --  Mike McCue, Angus Davis and Marci Gottlieb, Tellme Networks,
        Inc.
    --  Stan Ng, Apple Computer
    --  Steve Sturm, Toyota

    Materials/Nanotech

    --  Youngseon Choi and Dr. James R. Baker Jr., University of
        Michigan
    --  Michael Graetzel, EPFL-Lausanne
    --  Wolfgang Ketterle. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    --  David R. Liu, Harvard University
    --  Daniel Rugar, John Mamin, Raffi Budakian and Benjamin Chui,
        IBM

    Media and Journalism

    --  Phillip Campbell, Nature
    --  Craig Forman, Yahoo! Inc.
    --  Sreenath Sreenivasan, Columbia University
    --  Harold Varmus, Patrick O. Brown and Michael Eisen, Public
        Library of Science (PLoS)
    --  Jimmy Wales, Wikimedia Foundation

    Policy

    --  Tony Blair, Prime Minister, United Kingdom
    --  Bob Epstein and Nicole Lederer, E2 (Environmental
        Entrepreneurs)
    --  Bjorn Lomborg, Copenhagen Consensus
    --  Silvio Meira, CESAR (Brazil)
    --  John McCain and Joseph Lieberman, Senators, U.S. Congress

    Social Entrepreneurship

    --  Tralance Addy, Water Health International
    --  Ricardo Eugenio Bertolino, Ecoclubes
    --  Vicky Colbert, Escuela Nueva Back to the People Foundation
    --  Dr. Madhukar Deshpande,Vigyan Vahini
    --  Walter Fust, Swiss Agency for Development and cooperation
        (SDC)
    --  Lekha Singh, AidMatrix

    Space

    --  Yuri Koptev, Russian Space Agency (RKA)
    --  Walter Kroll, Helmholtz Association
    --  Elon Musk, SpaceX
    --  Burt Rutan, Scaled Composites, LLC
    --  Steven W. Squyres, Cornell University & NASA
    --  Dennis Ray Wingo, Orbital Recovery