2009 EE Times ACE Awards Finalists Recognized for Innovation in Electronics and Tomorrow's Green Technologies
Winners to be Announced at March 31 Event along with SI's Insight Award Winners; Free to ESC Attendees
SAN FRANCISCO, March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- TechInsights' EE Times has announced the finalists for the fifth Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards that honor technology innovators who demonstrate global electronics industry leadership. In its 5th year, the ACE Awards now include two new categories that recognize green technology innovation. Winners will be announced at a ceremony on March 31, 2009, at the Civic Auditorium in San Jose, California, which, for the first time, is free to registered Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) attendees. The event also for the first time features the Insight Awards from Semiconductor Insights that recognizes companies for their technical achievements and innovations in the semiconductor industry.
The finalists by category are:
Company of the Year
EMC Corporation
Microchip Technology Inc.
Qualcomm
SiGe Semiconductor
Silicon Laboratories
Startup of the Year
Achronix Semiconductor Corp.
BLADE Network Technologies
Cypress Envirosystems
Nextivity Inc.
Open Kernel Labs
Executive of the Year
Michael Klayko, CEO, Brocade
Prith Banerjee, Senior Vice President, Research, HP
Necip Sayiner, President and CEO, Silicon Laboratories
David Aldrich, President and CEO, Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
Keith Barnes, Chairman, CEO and President, Verigy
Innovator of the Year
Loren Betts, Research Scientist, Agilent Technologies
Stanley Williams, Senior Fellow and Director, Information and Quantum Systems Lab, HP Labs
Al Wegener, Founder and CTO, Samplify Systems
Michael Scheidell, President and CTO, SECNAP Network Security Corporation
Arun Chhabra, Business Development Manager, Texas Instruments
Leah Jamieson, Dean of Engineering, Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
Student of the Year
David Yanoshak, Senior EE Student and Intern, University of Texas, Austin
The 2009 EE Times ACE Awards are judged by the following prestigious panel of academic and business and leaders:
Gordon Bell, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research
Jeff Bier, President and Co-Founder, Berkeley Design Technology, Inc. (BDTI)
Larry Boucher, President and CEO, Alacritech
William Dally, Chairman, Computer Science Dept., Stanford University
Erach Desai, Consultant, DESAIsive Research
John East, President and CEO, Actel Corporation
Gene A. Frantz, Principal Fellow, Texas Instruments, Inc.
Lucio Lanza, Managing Director, Lanzatech Ventures
John Mashey, Board of Directors, Computer History Museum
Dennis Monticelli, Chief Technologist and Fellow, National Semiconductor
Martin Reynolds, Vice President, Gartner
George M. Scalise, President, Semiconductor Industry Association
Naveed Sherwani, President and CEO, Open Silicon
William P. Tai, General Partner, Charles River Ventures
Nick Tredennick, Editor, Gilder Technology Report
2008 Insight Award Finalists
TechInsights analyst firm Semiconductor Insights (SI) will also recognize technology innovation at the EE Times ACE awards with the presentation of the Insight Awards. Winners will be announced in five categories:
All ESC attendees, including free expo pass holders, are invited to attend the EE Times ACE Awards at no charge. For more information please visit https://www.cmpevents.com/ESCw09/a.asp?option=B&SC=EACE1 and enter priority code "EACE1".
The EE Times ACE Awards are made possible in part by Silver Sponsor Xilinx and association media sponsor, IEEE Spectrum.
About ESC Silicon Valley
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ESC 2009 Contact:
Felicia Hamerman
Group Marketing Director, TechInsights
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