Wall Street Journal's Technology Innovation Awards

Carl Bialik writes "Gene-sequencing company 454 Life Sciences was selected as the Gold Winner in the Wall Street Journal's 2005 Technology Innovation Awards. 'Around 750 applications were screened by a Wall Street Journal editor, who narrowed the field to 104 semifinalists. Then a panel of expert judges from industry, research organizations and academia scored each entry and picked the winners.' (Listen to an MP3 clip on how the judges chose.) Other winners include a company that has developed a low-cost method for manufacturing RFID tags; Riverbed Technology's network appliances; Fujitsu's ID system that uses the veins in a person's palm instead of fingerprints; and the Agitator tool to debug code."

Comments

Half-Life 2 is hardly innovative.

[CyricZ]

Games like Half-Life 2 are hardly innovative. Yeah, the graphics are a bit spiffier, but they're still basically the same as they were over a decade ago.

If you want to talk about real innovation, you have to look towards the fields of medical visualization. Even some of the geophysical visualization technology is far more advanced and innovative than some PC game. The physics simulations are far superior, and the graphics themselves are beginning to hit a whole new level. This is software that is performing algorithms so complex, and pushing so much data, that they need to use the best possible hardware from SGI.