The Millennium Technology Prize is one of the world's largest technology prizes. It is awarded once every two years by Technology Academy Finland,an independent foundation established by Finnish industries,academic institutions,and the state of Finland. The patron of the prize is the President of Finland. The Millennium Technology Prize is Finland's tribute to innovations for a better life. The aims of the prize are to promote technological research and Finland as a high-tech Nordic welfare state. The prize was inaugurated in 2004.
The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) is the United Kingdom's national academy of engineering.
Robert Samuel Langer Jr. FREng is an American biotechnologist,businessman,chemical engineer,chemist,and inventor. He is one of the nine Institute Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Bradford Parkinson is an American engineer and inventor,retired United States Air Force Colonel and Emeritus Professor at Stanford University. He is best known as the lead architect,advocate and developer,with early contributions from Ivan Getting and Roger Easton,of the Air Force NAVSTAR program,better known as Global Positioning System.
Sir Martin Francis Wood was a British engineer and entrepreneur. He co-founded Oxford Instruments,one of the first spin-out companies from the University of Oxford and still one of the most successful. He created this business out of his research into magnets,and went on to build the first commercial MRI scanner,an invention that has saved millions of lives throughout the world.
The Marconi Prize is an annual award recognizing achievements and advancements made in field of communications. The prize is awarded by the Marconi Society and it includes a work of sculpture. Recipients of the prize are awarded at the Marconi Society's annual symposium and gala.
George Elwood Smith is an American scientist,applied physicist,and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device (CCD). He was awarded a one-quarter share in the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit—the CCD sensor,which has become an electronic eye in almost all areas of photography".
Dame Lynn Faith Gladden is the Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cambridge. She served as Pro-vice-chancellor for research from 2010 to 2016.
Michael Tompsett is a British-born physicist,engineer,and inventor,and the founder director of the US software company TheraManager. He is a former researcher at the English Electric Valve Company,who later moved to Bell Labs in the United States. Tompsett invented CCD imagers and designed and built the first ever video camera with a solid-state (CCD) sensor. Tompsett received the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering in 2017,with Eric Fossum,George Smith,and Nobukazu Teranishi. Tompsett has also received two other lifetime awards;the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame 2010 Pioneer Award,and the 2012 IEEE Edison Medal. The thermal-imaging camera tube developed from his invention also earned a Queen's Award in 1987.
Kristi S. Anseth is the Tisone Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering,an Associate Professor of Surgery,and a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her main research interests are the design of synthetic biomaterials using hydrogels,tissue engineering,and regenerative medicine.
Nicholas Robert Jennings is a British computer scientist who was appointed Vice-Chancellor and President of Loughborough University in 2021. He was previously the Vice-Provost for Research and Enterprise at Imperial College London,the UK's first Regius Professor of Computer Science,and the inaugural Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government on National Security. His research covers the areas of AI,autonomous systems,agent-based computing and cybersecurity.
Joanna Kennedy,is a British civil engineer and project manager who was Global Leader for Programme and Project Management at Arup until 2013. She is a patron of Women into Science and Engineering (WISE),which she helped launch in 1984. From 2015 until 2023 she was a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery,latterly as deputy chair of the Trustee Board,and she chaired the project board for the Inspiring People redevelopment which was completed on time for the gallery's reopening,after three years closure,in June 2023. In 2024 the project was short-listed for the RIBA Stirling prize.
Masato Sagawa is a Japanese scientist and entrepreneur,and the inventor of the sintered permanent neodymium magnet (NdFeB). Sagawa was awarded the Japan Prize and IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies for his efforts.
Roma Agrawal is an Indian-British chartered structural engineer based in London. She has worked on several major engineering projects,including the Shard. Agrawal is also an author and a diversity campaigner,championing women in engineering.
James Julius Spilker Jr. was an American engineer and a consulting professor in the aeronautics and astronautics department at Stanford University. He was one of the principal architects of the Global Positioning System (GPS). He was the co-founder of the space communications company Stanford Telecommunications,and later was the executive chairman of AOSense Inc.,Sunnyvale,CA.
Yewande Akinola is a Chartered Engineer who specialises in sustainable water supplies. She works as Principal Engineer for Laing O'Rourke and hosts television shows about engineering for Channel 4 and National Geographic.
Larissa Suzuki,also known as Lara Suzuki,is a Brazilian-Italian-British University Professor,computer scientist,former CEO,angel investor,Government Advisor,chartered engineer,inventor,scientist,author and entrepreneur. She is also a pianist and violinist.
Richard Schwartz is an American aerospace engineer known for his work in satellite technologies which made possible the development of modern global positioning systems (GPS). He was a recipient of the 2019 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.
