National Medals Of Science And Technology Winners
They include IBM (the entire company) for its development of the Blue Gene supercomputer; Dr. Francis Collins, who led the Human Genome Project; Dr. Craig Venter for his contribution to genomics and for his ability to clearly communicate his work; and Adobe co-founders John Warnock and Charles Geschke, for, according to President Obama, "spurring the desktop publishing revolution and their role in changing the way people create and engage with information across...print, video and the Web." Other winners made advances in neuroscience, human stem cells, batteries and astronomy -- Dr. James Gunn's work on telescopes, for instance, enabled the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which is the basis of Microsoft's Worldwide Telescope. Also, four of the 14 winners this year
