Computerworld Horizon Awards were established at 2005 to alert readers of Computerworld to "especially cutting-edge technologies" from research labs and companies that are "on the horizon." Published annually in the fall.
The 2005 winners (in alphabetical order):
Sun Microsystems Laboratories
The 2006 winners (in alphabetical order):
Altiris Inc.
BioPassword Inc.
Duet (SAP AG, Microsoft Corp.)
Hewlett-Packard Co.
HyperOffice
Institute of Advanced Computer Studies of University of Maryland, College Park
Splunk Inc.
Stanford University Department of Computer Science
VMware Inc.
The 2007 winners (in alphabetical order):
Cleversafe Inc. for Cleversafe Dispersed Storage
Eleksen Group PLC - for Sideshow Wearable Display Module
Ghost Inc. - for Global Hosted Operating System
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories for Memory Spot
Linguistic Agents Ltd. - for Streaming Logic
Northwestern University and NEC Laboratories America Inc. for Compressed RAM for Embedded Systems
Stanford University - for EyePoint
Symantec Corp. for Norton Identity Client
University of Southern California for Globus Medics
Zink Imaging LLC - for Zink Imaging