MIT
AgeLab Director Joe
Coughlin
Named
Finalist in New England Business and
Technology Association Awards Program
July
2003
On
June 18, Dr. Joseph Coughlin, Director
of MIT AgeLab,
was been named one of 20 finalists
in the New England Business &
Technology Association’s "New
England Business and Technology Awards"
program at its 2003 Technology-Enabled
Business Summit. He was one of 900
nominees for the award.
The
"New England Business and Technology
Awards" program recognizes New
England business and technology leaders
who have made significant strides
in the development, deployment or
utilization of information and Internet
technology in business, academia or
the public sector. "Chosen from
large and small businesses across
all industries, these twenty finalists
are all innovators who are successfully
advancing the reality – and the
benefits – of the ‘technology-enabled
business,’" said New England
Business and Technology Association
president Tom Hopcroft.
Other
finalists for this year’s "New
England Business and Technology Awards"
include:
- Paul
A. Bleicher, Chairman and Founder
of Phase Forward
- Dick
Cantwell, Vice President, The Gillette
Company
- Francis
deSouza, CEO and Founder, IMlogic
- Michael
DiFranza, President, CEO and co-founder,
Captivate Network, Inc.
- Jonathan
S. Bush, Chairman, Chief Executive
Officer and Co-founder, athenahealth
- Thomas
R. Gleason, Executive Director,
MassHousing
- Dr.
Burt Kaliski, Chief Scientist and
Director, RSA Laboratories
- Joseph
C. Kvedar, MD, Corporate Director,
Partners Telemedicine
- Kevin
Laracey, President and CEO, edocs,
Inc.
- David
Litwack, Senior Vice President of
Web Application Development Products,
Novell, Inc.
- Jim
Melvin, President and Chief Executive
Officer, Mazu Neworks
- Leon
Navickas, Chairman and CEO, Centra
Software
- Dean
Polnerow, President and Founder,
Switchboard Inc.
- Richard
Reese, Chief Executive Officer,
Iron Mountain Incorporated
- Professor
Sanjay Sarma, Chairman of Research,
Auto-ID Center
- Shirley
Singleton, President & CEO,
Edgewater Technology
- Mary
Skipper, Founder and Director, TechBoston
- Mark
VanderWerf, President - AMD Telemedicine
- Massood
Zarrabian, President and CEO of
OutStart, Inc.
"The
New England Business and Technology
Awards provide significant value by
celebrating our New England heritage
in the application of technology to
solving critical business issues,"
said Hopcroft "The community
defined by our finalists, past winners,
and all past and future entrants represents
the commercial and technological leadership
driving the New England economy to
be the best in the nation."
The
ten 2003 New England Business and
Technology Award winners will be announced
at a special awards banquet on October
8.
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