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2007 History & Innovation Awards
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Co-chairs: Robert L. Beal, President, The Beal Companies
Michele Whitham, Co-Managing Partner, Foley Hoag
Al Kapoor, President, Millennium Ventures Group
Technology: "Desh" Deshpande, for his unparalleled serial innovations from Cascade (network switch--backbone of the internet) to Sycamore (intelligent optical networking), Airvana (enabling mobile broadband everywhere), A123 (rechargeable batteries for transportation), and a score of others. With the Deshpande Center at MIT, he has helped to change the innovation culture, while embodying the power of immigrants to help propel Greater Boston's innovation economy.
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Information Technology: Akamai Technologies/Paul Sagan/ Tom Leighton/ Jonathan Seelig/ George Conrades, for developing on-line streaming for the Web
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Social Innovation: New Profit, Inc./Vanessa Kirsch & Board, for venture philanthropy to pursue large-scale social change
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Healthcare: Dr. William Hinton, a son of slaves and the first African American to hold the rank of Professor at Harvard Medical School, for developing the "Hinton Test" for accurately diagnosing syphilis in 1927 – at what is now Tufts-New England Medical Center
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2007 History & Innovation Awards Committee:
Steve Grossman, President, Grossman Marketing
Sheriff Andrea Cabral, Suffolk County Sheriff
Paul Gray, President Emeritus, MIT
Janice Bourque, Senior VP of Life Sciences, Comerica Bank
For more information, please send requests to:
Meaghan Smith, 2007 Awards Manager
Boston History & Innovation Collaborative
650 Beacon Street, Suite 403
Boston, MA 02215
Tel: (617) 350-0358
Fax: (617)350-0357
smith@bostonhistorycollaborative.org
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