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Computerworld Honors Program Recognizes Recipients of 21st Century Achievement Awards; Finalist and 21st Century Achievement Award Recipients Announced During Gala Ceremony Last Night in Washington, D.C.WASHINGTON, D.C. --(Business Wire)-- June 6, 2006 -- The Computerworld Honors Program announced the finalists and recipients of its 2006 21st Century Achievement Awards last night at the Andrew W. Mellon Center in Washington, D.C. The Computerworld Honors Program recognizes individuals and organizations that have used information technology to benefit society. The award recipients represent ten industry and government sectors in the U.S. and Switzerland. The following ten organizations are the 2006 21st Century Achievement award recipients: Business Related Services: BellSouth Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) For protecting children from harm through its "BellSouth AMBER Alert Field Notification" Education & Academia: Columbia University School of Nursing (New York, New York) For improving health care for underserved populations with its "Nurse Practitioner PDAs" Environment, Energy & Agriculture: U.S. Green Building Council (Washington, D.C.) For working to protect our environment through "USGBC Boosts Green Building with LEED Online Certification Process" Finance & Insurance: Chicago Stock Exchange (Chicago, Illinois) For the "Grid Project," a cluster solution minimizing down-time and costs while maximizing opportunities for customer trading Government & Non Profit Organizations: New York City Police Department (New York, New York) For better serving and protecting their public with the "Crime Data Warehouse" Manufacturing: Ethicon Endo-Surgery (Cincinnati, Ohio) For getting innovative surgical products to market faster through the creation of its "Enterprise Data Warehouse" Media, Arts & Entertainment: NZZ Neue Zurcher Zeitung AG (Zurich, Switzerland) For giving online users first-ever access to 225 years of history through its "Archiv 1780 Initiative" Medicine: University Health System (Durham, North Carolina) For "ORView," a real-time Web portal that reduces surgery risks for patients Science: National Cancer Institute (Rockville, Maryland) For advancing progress in the search for a cure with the Web-based, "Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid" Transportation: Zipcar (Cambridge, Massachusetts) For changing urban trends in transportation with its "Car Sharing Project" "For the 18th consecutive year, the Computerworld Honors Program has identified the most innovative organizations and people who use technology to promote positive social, economic and educational change," said Bob Carrigan, chairman of the Computerworld Honors Program Chairmen's Committee and president, IDG Communications. "IDG is proud to recognize both the 21st Century Achievement Award recipients and the Laureates from 23 countries." Since 1988, members of the Chairmen's Committee have identified the organizations whose use of information technology has been especially noteworthy for the originality of its conception, the breadth of its vision and the significance of its benefit to society. These identified organizations are asked to contribute a case study to the program's collection, and the donation of these case studies is celebrated with a formal medal ceremony where an accepted case study Laureate from each organization is publicly recognized. From the Laureates in each of ten categories, a distinguished panel of judges, which included representatives from ING Insurance Americas and TD Ameritrade, selected 50 finalists, five in each category. (More information about the judges can be accessed at http://www.cwhonors.org/acknowledgements/judges.htm.) These finalists, as well as the ten organizations selected by the judges as first among their peers, are announced at the Gala Awards Evening. The ten organizations receive the 21st Century Achievement Awards. The Finalists of the 2006 21st Century Achievement Awards are:
Business Related Services
-- Globe Telecom, Mandaluyong City, -- Savi, Sunnyvale, California
Philippians
-- VMware, Palo Alto, California -- Upek, Emeryville, California
Education & Academia
-- Florida State University, -- Clovis Unified School
Tallahassee, Florida District, Clovis, California
-- New York City Department of -- Duke University Health
Education, New York, New York System, Durham, North
Carolina
Environment, Energy & Agriculture
-- Valero Energy Corporation, San -- Bureau Veritas/Berryman &
Antonio, Texas Henigar, West Sacramento,
California
-- Electrical Safety Authority of -- Surrey Satellite Technology
Ontario, Mississauga, Canada Ltd, Guildford, Great
Britain
Finance & Insurance
-- The Bank of New York, New York, -- Fidelity Investments,
New York Boston, Massachusetts
-- The Hanover Insurance Group, -- JP Morgan Chase, New York,
Worcester, Massachusetts New York
Government & Non Profit Organizations
-- Network for Good, Bethesda, -- AMBER Alert, Scottsdale,
Maryland Arizona
-- United States Air Force, Hanscom -- Province of British
AFB Columbia, Victoria, British
Columbia
Manufacturing
-- Sun Microsystems, Los Angeles, -- Gates Corporation, Denver,
California Colorado
-- Hologic, Bedford, Massachusetts -- Belkin, Compton, California
Media, Arts & Entertainment
-- Sirius Satellite Radio, New York, -- AOL, Dulles, Virginia
New York
-- Discovery Communications, Inc., -- The Weather Channel
Silver Springs, Maryland Interactive, Atlanta,
Georgia
Medicine
-- UNC Healthcare, Chapel Hill, -- Molecular Profiling
North Carolina Institute, Phoenix, Arizona
-- Gold Standard and Informed -- Oklahoma Heart Hospital,
Decisions, Tampa, Florida Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Science
-- Lawrence Livermore National Labs, -- National Geographic Society,
Livermore, California Washington, DC
-- Institute of Training Science and -- Foundation ASTRON,
Sport Informatics, Cologne, Dwingeloo, Netherlands
Germany
Transportation
-- Metro St. Louis, St. Louis, -- SISCOG, Lisboa, Portugal
Missouri
-- Orient Oversees Container Line -- Volvo Cars Belgium,
Ltd., Hong Kong, China Brussels, Belgium
About the Computerworld Honors Program Founded by International Data Group (IDG) in 1988, the Computerworld Honors Program is governed by the not-for-profit Computerworld Information Technology Awards Foundation. In its 18th year, Computerworld Honors is the longest running global program to honor individuals and organizations that use information technology to benefit society. Each year, the program's Chairmen's Committee, a group of 100 Chairmen/CEOs of global technology companies, nominates individuals and organizations around the world whose visionary application of information technology promotes positive social and economic progress. Nominations are evaluated by an independent board of CIO-level judges who select laureates, finalists and award winners, in ten industry-related categories, to be honored at a Laureate Medal Ceremony. This year's ceremony and accompanying Gala Awards Evening took place on June 5, 2006, at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C. The technology achievements honored by this program are preserved and protected in national archives, and in over 250 universities, museums and research institutions throughout the world. Additional information about the program and a Global Archive of past laureate case studies and oral histories can be found at the Computerworld Honors website: www.cwhonors.org. |
