The editors of R&D Magazine are grateful for the numerous hours this year’s
R&D 100 Judging Panel spent in evaluating the 2005 R&D 100 entries.
Entries in the R&D 100 Awards competition are separated into functional
categories and distributed among these technology experts according to their
specific areas of expertise.
The panelists then evaluate the entries based on their relative technological
significance to other existing technologies and submit their reviews back to
R&D for tabulation and consideration.We thank the following individuals
and friends of R&D (arranged alphabetically) for their objectivity, perseverance,
and unbiased evaluations:
Hakan Altan (Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers, City College
of New York)
Michael Apte (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Ed Baker (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Robert Bruce (GE Aircraft Engines)
James Burkstrand (Hysitron Corp.)
Thomas Cellucci (Zyvex Corp.)
Robert Classon (Shimadzu Instruments)
Victor Comello (Argonne National Laboratory)
Stuart Cram (Agilent Technologies)
Alex D’Anci (ISI Industry Software)
Phil Danielson (The Vacuum Lab)
Charles “Skip” Derra (Arizona State Univ.)
Michael Duhr (Columbia College Chicago)
Bennett Goldberg (Boston University)
Matthew Goodman (Telcordia Technologies)
John Gustafson (Sun Microsystems)
Tony Hansen (Magee Scientific Co.)
Brian Hooker (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Rich Hooper (Symtx, Inc.)
Stephen Howard (U.S. Army Research Laboratory)
James Jett (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Samuel Mao (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Charles Masi,
Gerhard Meyer (ProAnalytics LLC)
Sid Marshall,
Ronald Musket ( Musket Consulting)
Betty Newboe (Applied Materials)
William Pelster (Keithley Instruments, Inc.)
Samuel Phillips (Industry Consultant)
Gautam Pillay (Inland Northwest Research Alliance, Inc.)
Anil Shukla (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Oliver Siebert (Washington Univ. in St. Louis)
Bruce Smackey (Lehigh Univ.)
Alexander Star (Nanomix Inc.)
Joseph Stroscio (NIST)
Donald Tijunelis (DKT Engineering)
Randy Tremper (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
John Tyrell (Univ. of North Carolina at Wilmington).
If you would like to be considered as a member of this esteemed group of technologists
for the 2006 R&D 100 Awards competition, please contact R&D Magazine’s
Editor in Chief Tim Studt at tstudt@reedbusiness.com for more information.