Computerworld Honors Recipients 2001

Computerworld - Media, Arts & Entertainment
The Jim Henson Co., Creature Shop Division: Puppeteers control 3-D computer-generated characters that perform in real time, even conversing live with people, reducing costs while fully preserving the spontaneity of a traditional puppet performance.

Science
CERN: A dynamically reconfigurable computing system architecture allows the world-renowned physics center to simultaneously upgrade and match its resources to the constantly changing needs of its experimenters.

Transportation
OnStar: Drivers access personalized Web-based information, including e-mail, stock quotes, news, weather and traffic data using a hands-free, voice-activated interface to control output through the vehicle's sound system.

Business & Related Services
Sendmail Inc.: The de facto implementation standard for e-mail on the Internet continues to power more than 60% of all domains, 20 years after its invention stimulated the dramatic growth of e-mail itself.

Medicine
Medtronic Inc.: Implantable cardiac devices communicate with physicians over the Internet, providing critical information that results in better patient care and peace of mind.

Environment, Agriculture & Energy
Walker County Schools (Georgia): Promoting social responsibility is the goal of this Web-based environmental science teaching module, which enables students and teachers around the world to participate in environmental studies, to collaboratively conduct research and to implement action plans to address local and global environmental problems.

Finance, Insurance & Real Estate
Oatfield Estates: Biosensors wired into assisted living units in Milwaukie, Ore., gather the information needed to ensure the safety of residents and limit corporate liability while allowing residents to maintain autonomy and personal control over their daily lives.

Education & Academia
The Bridge School: Individuals with severe speech and physical disabilities receive intensive training in the use of assistive technologies that will allow them to return to their home school districts as full participants.

Manufacturing
NTT DoCoMo Inc.: The iMode mobile phone service allows customers access to the Internet through a mobile phone device, enabling continuous access to e-mail, business transactions, news and information and database and directory information.

Government & Nonprofit
America's Second Harvest: Businesses with excess goods or transport capacity are matched online with charities that can get those goods to needy people, expediting the process for items with short shelf lives like food.