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Winners Of The 2021 Breakthrough Prizes In Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics And Mathematics Announced

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A Total of $18.75 Million Awarded For Advances on the Deepest Questions

Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Awarded to David Baker, Catherine Dulac, Dennis Lo, Richard Youle

Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics Awarded to Martin Hairer

Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Awarded to Eric Adelberger, Jens Gundlach, Blayne Heckel

Six New Horizons Prizes Awarded for Early-Career Achievements in Physics and Math

Three Inaugural Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prizes Awarded to Women Mathematicians for Early-Career Achievements – Number of Prizes Increased Due to Popular Interest

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 10, 2020 — The Breakthrough Prize Foundation today announced the esteemed recipients of the 2021 Breakthrough Prize, recognizing a spectacular array of groundbreaking achievements in the Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics and Mathematics. Each year, the Prize is celebrated at a gala award ceremony, where the awards are presented by superstars of movies, music, sports and tech entrepreneurship. Due to the global pandemic, however, this year’s ceremony has been postponed until March 2021.

At a time when the importance of scientific achievement resounds around the world with more urgency than ever, the Breakthrough Prize continues its nine-year tradition of honoring the most profound and transformative discoveries, celebrating both established researchers (Breakthrough Prize) as well as early-career scientists (New Horizons Prize and – for the first time this year – Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize).

In total for this year, the Breakthrough Prize is awarding a collective $18.75 million in support of scientists working on the biggest and most fundamental questions. Science’s largest prize, the Breakthrough Prize has honored more researchers with monetary awards than any other science prize, with more than $250 million being awarded to almost 3000 leading scientists since 2012. The Prize is intended to help scientific leaders gain freedom from financial constraints to focus fully on the world of ideas; to raise the profile and prestige of basic science and mathematics, fomenting a culture in which intellectual pursuits are validated; and to inspire the next generation of researchers to follow the lead of these extraordinary scientific role models.

This year’s Breakthrough Prize winners form a diverse group. They’ve invented tools to unravel the protein folding problem and design entirely novel proteins (including some that could neutralize Covid-19); built exquisitely sensitive table-top instruments to probe the mysteries of dark energy and put Einstein’s theory to the test; developed noninvasive genetic fetal screening tests used by millions of prospective parents worldwide; mapped the neural pathways governing parenting behavior to the level of specific brain cells; revealed and elaborated a cellular pathway heavily implicated in hereditary Parkinson’s disease; and cracked equations describing random processes, from fluctuating stock prices to the motion of sugar in a cup of tea. Each Breakthrough Prize is worth $3 million.

Six New Horizons Prizes of $100,000 each were shared among twelve early-career scientists and mathematicians who have already made a substantial impact on their fields. And three inaugural Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prizes were awarded to early-career women mathematicians – the number of awards increased from one to three due to the intense interest generated by the Prize and the extremely high quality of nominations. The Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize was established in 2019 and named for the famed Iranian mathematician, Fields Medalist and Stanford professor who passed away in 2017. During her exceptionally prolific career, Mirzakhani made groundbreaking contributions to the theory of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces. Each year, the $50,000 New Frontiers Prize award is presented to women mathematicians who have completed their PhDs within the past two years.

Full citations can be found below.

2021 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (4)

David Baker
University of Washington and Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Citation: For developing technology that allowed the design of proteins never seen before in nature, including novel proteins that have the potential for therapeutic intervention in human diseases.

Catherine Dulac 
Harvard University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Citation: For deconstructing the complex behavior of parenting to the level of cell-types and their wiring, and demonstrating that the neural circuits governing both male and female-specific parenting behaviors are present in both sexes.

Yuk Ming Dennis Lo
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Citation: For discovering that fetal DNA is present in maternal blood and can be used for the prenatal testing of trisomy 21 and other genetic disorders.  

Richard J. Youle 
National Institutes of Health

Citation: For elucidating a quality control pathway that clears damaged mitochondria and thereby protects against Parkinson’s Disease.

2021 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (1)

Martin Hairer 
Imperial College London

Citation: For transformative contributions to the theory of stochastic analysis, particularly the theory of regularity structures in stochastic partial differential equations.

2021 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (1)

Eric Adelberger, Jens H. Gundlach and Blayne Heckel
University of Washington

Citation: For precision fundamental measurements that test our understanding of gravity, probe the nature of dark energy, and establish limits on couplings to dark matter.

2021 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize (3)

Bhargav Bhatt 
University of Michigan

Citation: For outstanding work in commutative algebra and arithmetic algebraic geometry, particularly on the development of p-adic cohomology theories.

Aleksandr Logunov
Princeton University

Citation: For novel techniques to study solutions to elliptic equations, and their application to long-standing problems in nodal geometry.

Song Sun 
University of California, Berkeley

Citation: For many groundbreaking contributions to complex differential geometry, including existence results for Kahler-Einstein metrics and connections with moduli questions and singularities.

2021 New Horizons in Physics Prize (3)

Tracy Slatyer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Citation: For major contributions to particle astrophysics, from models of dark matter to the discovery of the "Fermi Bubbles."

Rouven Essig 
Stony Brook University

Javier Tiffenberg 
Fermilab

Tomer Volansky 
Tel Aviv University

Tien-Tien Yu 
University of Oregon

Citation: For advances in the detection of sub-GeV dark matter especially in regards to the SENSEI experiment.

Ahmed Almheiri
Institute for Advanced Study

Netta Engelhardt 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Henry Maxfield 
University of California, Santa Barbara

Geoff Penington 
University of California, Berkeley

Citation: For calculating the quantum information content of a black hole and its radiation.

2021 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize (3)

Nina Holden 
ETH Zurich (PhD MIT 2018)

Citation: For work in random geometry, particularly on Liouville Quantum Gravity as a scaling limit of random triangulations.

Urmila Mahadev
Caltech (PhD University of California, Berkeley 2018)

Citation: For work that addresses the fundamental question of verifying the output of a quantum computation.

Lisa Piccirillo 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD University of Texas at Austin 2019)

Citation: For resolving the classic problem that the Conway knot is not smoothly slice.

About the Breakthrough Prize
For the ninth year the Breakthrough Prize, renowned as the "Oscars of Science," will recognize the world’s top scientists. Each prize is $3 million and presented in the fields of Life Sciences (up to four per year), Fundamental Physics (one per year) and Mathematics (one per year). In addition, up to three New Horizons in Physics Prizes, up to three New Horizons in Mathematics Prizes and up to three Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prizes are given out to early-career researchers each year. Laureates attend a gala award ceremony designed to celebrate their achievements and inspire the next generation of scientists. As part of the ceremony schedule, they also engage in a program of lectures and discussions.

The Breakthrough Prizes were founded by Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, Yuri and Julia Milner, and Anne Wojcicki. The Prizes have been sponsored by the personal foundations established by Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, Ma Huateng, Jack Ma, Yuri and Julia Milner and Anne Wojcicki. Selection Committees composed of previous Breakthrough Prize laureates in each field choose the winners. Information on Breakthrough Prize is available at breakthroughprize.org.

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QTS Lauded by Frost & Sullivan for its Best-of-Breed Data Center Facilities Offering Unparalleled Reliability, Resilience, and Operational Visibility

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QTS leverages cutting-edge technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, and predictive analytics to make its data centers smarter

LONDON, Sept. 10, 2020 — Based on its recent analysis of the global data center infrastructure and operations market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes QTS Realty Trust, Inc. with the 2020 Global Visionary Innovation Leadership Award. It leverages a combination of cutting-edge technologies and industry-leading engineering best practices to offer customers both operational excellence and future-proofing. By incorporating long-range, macro-level scenarios into its innovation strategy, it enables first-to-market growth opportunity solutions. QTS expertly addresses the connectivity issues in the market with its network access points (NAPs), which bring unprecedented levels of flexibility, sophistication, enhanced economics, risk mitigation, and a healthy competitive environment.

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QTS has created multiple NAPs; which are essentially data centers serving as ubiquitous global interconnection hubs that allow services utilizing subsea cables and terrestrial networks to peer and exchange traffic in an ideal manner. It established its first NAP in Richmond, which opened up access to global markets at extremely low latencies and high capacity levels. It has set up three additional NAPs, including one in Eemshaven, Netherlands, which also serves northern Europe, the Eastern blocks, and the Nordics. The other two NAPs are strategically located in Piscataway, New Jersey and Hillsboro, Oregon. All of QTS’ NAPs are structured uniquely to offer a range of connectivity options such as software-defined networking (SDN) networks, transport networks, Internet exchanges, cloud providers, and subsea cables.

"To move closer to its vision of creating the ultimate data center user experience that would change the landscape of data center infrastructure and operations, QTS started to build a software-defined company internally, with the sole purpose of delivering operational savings and creating newer business innovations," said Gautham Gnanajothi Global Research Director. "It built a fully digitized service delivery platform (SDP) to empower customers to optimally manage their real-time data center environments. The SDP encompasses a suite of 3D visualization tools and digital apps, through which it offers unparalleled visibility and control over critical infrastructure data."

One of the key differentiators of SDP is its ability to provide its customers with easy data access, improved connectivity, and sustainability. One of its exciting functionalities is its ability to accurately forecast power consumption for seven days with less than 1 percent variation. It is also able to use the same neural network to forecast power consumption for 30 days and 60 days with less than 5 percent variation. By deploying VR technologies, it creates innovative virtual collaboration tools and a 3D visualization application that provides an exact replication of a customer’s IT environment in real-time.

"QTS stands out for its commitment to enriching customer value and experience. Its growth strategy involves the cloudification of its initiatives of the past two years and its action plan for the next five years," noted Gnanajothi. "This vision is underpinned by its value differentiators, namely SDP, sustainability, NPS, and connectivity. These value propositions and strong customer focus will ensure QTS’ continued growth in the global data center infrastructure and operations market."

Each year, Frost & Sullivan bestows this award upon the company that demonstrates excellence in growth and customer value. It recognizes the superiority of the product/service as well as the overall customer, purchase, ownership and service experience offered, which has resulted in the recipient company seeing above-market growth and greater share of wallet. The award lauds the growth, diversification and sustainability strategies of the company.

Frost & Sullivan Best Practices awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research to identify best practices in the industry.

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About QTS Realty Trust, Inc.

QTS Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: QTS) is a leading provider of data center solutions across a diverse footprint spanning more than 7 million square feet of owned mega scale data center space within North America and Europe. Through its software-defined technology platform, QTS is able to deliver secure, compliant infrastructure solutions, robust connectivity and premium customer service to leading hyperscale technology companies, enterprises, and government entities. Visit QTS at www.qtsdatacenters.com, call toll-free 877.QTS.DATA or follow on Twitter @DataCenters_QTS.

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Hyland Healthcare Commended by Frost & Sullivan for Creating a New Standard in PACS Technology by Expediting Fully Informed Care Decisions

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Leveraging previously unstructured content via integration with EMRs, Hyland delivers a complete patient view for improved clinical decision-making and higher quality care

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 9, 2020 — Based on its recent analysis of the North American enterprise imaging solutions market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Hyland Healthcare with the 2020 North America Product Leadership Award. By overcoming traditional information silos between departments and information formats, the company has set a new standard for managing, viewing, and exchanging both digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) and non-DICOM records as well as data across an enterprise. Its full suite of content services and enterprise imaging solutions brings together structured and unstructured content into a single, comprehensive, and customizable view.

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Hyland Healthcare

Hyland optimizes and streamlines data collection, transfer, and visualization, empowering healthcare enterprises to improve workflows and maximize reimbursements. Its extensive platform enables electronic medical record (EMR) integration of previously siloed information regardless of format, which is an unmatched offering within the industry. The solutions support all modalities for data and image viewing, including two-dimensional and three-dimensional visualization and tools, multi-linear reconstruction, PET-CT fusion, PET-MR fusion, computed tomography, MammoCAD, and structured reports. Furthermore, its products are vendor-neutral, which frees healthcare organizations to choose specific solutions and integrate them with existing systems.

"Hyland’s solutions leverage advanced custom application programming interfaces and context switching, incorporating them as part of an enterprise’s full solution to integrate with other vendor offerings, elegantly bridging the gap between imaging and content," said Dr. Suresh Kuppuswamy, Industry Principal at Frost & Sullivan. "Clinicians can make more informed care decisions as they have access to the patient’s complete medical record. The viewer integrates and displays both content and enterprise imaging information regardless of DICOM and non-DICOM formats within the healthcare organization’s EMR."

The company’s spectrum of solutions includes Acuo, a best-in-class universal archive to meet clinical and diagnostic viewing needs. Acuo creates a new viewing standard due to its unique interoperability, functionality, scalability, technical frameworks, and integration profiles. Meanwhile, the company’s web-based, zero-footprint, FDA-cleared enterprise and diagnostic viewer, NilRead, is built with differentiated and modern architecture for display on any device or browser platform. Other prominent solutions include ImageNext, an enterprise-wide workflow optimization tool, and PACSgear, a suite of enterprise-class connectivity solutions that allow users to capture vital encounter-based images and videos easily as well as documents and integrate them with a PACS or EMR.

"Hyland is currently investing in and working with international partners to develop a digital pathology solution that incorporates its zero-footprint NilRead enterprise and diagnostic viewer and Acuo VNA. Anticipating the future, it also designed its products to be cloud-based," noted Dr. Kuppuswamy. "As a result of its unmatched ability to enable enterprise-wide content viewing, more than 50% of the United States hospital market employs its solutions. The company is all set to expand further in the European Union, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Africa to entrench itself as a global market player."

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company that develops a product with innovative features and functionality that is gaining rapid market acceptance. The award recognizes the quality of the solution and the customer value enhancements it enables.

Frost & Sullivan Best Practices awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research to identify best practices in the industry.

About Frost & Sullivan

For over five decades, Frost & Sullivan has become world-renowned for its role in helping investors, corporate leaders, and governments navigate economic changes and identify disruptive technologies, Mega Trends, new business models, and companies to action, resulting in a continuous flow of growth opportunities to drive future success. Contact us: Start the discussion.

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TECNO CAMON 16 Premier Wins “Camera Technology Innovation Smartphone Gold Award”at IFA

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HONG KONG, Sept. 4, 2020 — TECNO CAMON 16 Premier won the "Camera Technology Innovation Smartphone Gold Award" for its outstanding camera functions at IFA – the world’s largest and most influential home appliance and consumer electronics event. The event was held in Germany from 3rd to 5th September. This achievement reaffirms TECNO’s camera capabilities as a leader in the mobile phone industry.


The IFA Product Technology Innovation Award is a grand selection of international consumer electronics brands, jointly created by the International Data Group (IDG) and the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry. This prestigious award, jointly presented by IDG and the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, is recognized as within the industry as one of the most prominant awards industry insiders can recieve. Since its establishment in 2005, it has been recognized as a centralized sorting and authoritative evaluation of global consumer electronics products.


The selection was based on the principles of "openness, fairness, and transparency" and the products underwent a strict set of collection, preliminary selection, and review processes. Huawei, Siemens, TCL, Google, Sony, JD.com and other world-renowned companies also participated in this selection. TECNO CAMON 16 Premier won the Award at the title of Camera Technology Innovation Smartphone Gold Awards. This showcases TECNO’s advanced technical level and unique competitiveness in the international mobile industry.

TECNO CAMON 16 Premier at IFA International
TECNO CAMON 16 Premier at IFA International

"TECNO has been constantly striving for excellence in product functions, image, user experience and other aspects as it aims to promote innovation and the latest technologies of the electronics industry. TECNO won the unanimous favour of the judges as the product concept was aligned with the theme of ‘Innovating the Technology, Inspiring the Life’ of IFA" , said Zhu Dong Fang, Vice President of  IDG Asia, "TECNO CAMON 16 Premier’s ability to automatically recognize the faces of more than three people allows for high definition stable videography. It satisfies the needs of the youth for recording both still and dynamic life as it is easy and smooth to operate. This will create a lasting impression."  


After the launch, consumers and industry experts experienced its amazing camera functions and commented that TECNO CAMON 16 Premier not only has distinctive appearance features, its industry-best 64MP rear camera and 48MP front cameras enable it easily take photos with magazine-level qualities with the intelligent switching of the wide-angle mode. The picture quality has outperformed current smartphones in the market. At the same time, many also said that TECNO CAMON 16 Premier’s professional video shooting functions demonstrates the potential of what technology can do for us – be it the 960-frame slow-motion shooting, AI scene recognition, 1080P extreme night video shooting, or 4K ultimate picture quality. The innovative power of the product proves yet again why TECNO is such a respected phone brand to win the "Camera Technology Innovation Smartphone Gold Award" at IFA.

In the future, TECNO will hasten its pace of innovation and launch trendy digital products that are more durable. TECNO will always design for the future so that users can enjoy the comfort and convenience that technology brings to life.

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Organizer of “Global Innovation Challenge 2021” — Living Assistance Robot Award — Begins Accepting Entries on Sept. 1

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Determined to Help People with Leg Disabilities Realize Their Desire to Stand and Walk on Their Own

TOKYO, Sept. 2, 2020 — The Global Innovation Challenge Executive Committee has launched "Global Innovation Challenge 2021 — Living Assistance Robot Award" under the theme of ensuring living assistance for disabled people with the aim of achieving a society where people will not have to be conscious about disabilities.

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Global Innovation Challenge’s initiative

– Helping people with leg disabilities realize their desire to stand and walk on their own

There are growing numbers of people in the world who need living assistance because of advanced age, illnesses and injuries they suffered in accidents, among other factors. While both assistance providers and recipients are required to shoulder certain mental, physical and financial burdens, investors are not necessarily enthusiastic about investing in the development of robots for health and welfare because the market for this field is relatively small.

– Social structure that makes it difficult to achieve demand-supply balance for new options to help disabled people broaden the scope of their living

The improvement of public infrastructure and the promotion of barrier-free access now allow people with leg disabilities to lead their daily lives on their own to a greater extent if they have wheelchairs. Still, their activities are restricted in areas where such an environment has not been sufficiently developed. For example, if people with leg disabilities visit their friends’ homes that have not been made barrier-free like their own homes, their activities will be restrained. They can travel by using wheelchairs, receiving assistance from others and using support equipment to walk, but many of them desire to stand and walk on their own. Regardless of whether sufficient public infrastructure is in place and barrier-free access is available, the organizer of the initiative believes that robots that help people walk on their own will allow those with leg disabilities to enjoy freer daily lives in their own ways to a greater extent.

– Establishment of Living Assistance Robot Award

The Living Assistance Robot Award has been established to ensure that innovative robots which help people in wheelchair fully use their residual functions to walk on their own will be broadly in use all over the world. The award will support those engaged in research and development of such robots worldwide.

– Message from Tatsufumi Kamimura, chairman of the Global Innovation Challenge Executive Committee

"Science and technology have been advancing constantly. Smartphones have realized many things that were previously regarded just as dreams. Our daily lives and business activities are moving at an increasingly rapid pace and we live in a world where we can try new things. However, once people become physically disabled because of accidents or illnesses, they find it difficult to lead ordinary lives.

"We have established this award because we believe that we can create a world where people won’t have to be conscious about disabilities by applying evolving science and technology to the field of health and welfare and supporting engineers in this field.

"We would be glad if this award helps those engaged in research and development all over the world."

– Overview of Global Innovation Challenge – Living Assistance Robot Award

This award is given to organizations developing robots that help people with leg disabilities walk on their own. Specifically, the committee will commend organizations that have developed robots allowing people with leg disabilities to walk on their own and support their motions in various aspects of daily lives. Moreover, prize money will be awarded to such organizations to support their research and development.

Qualifications:
Organizations developing robots that help people whose lower limbs are paralyzed to walk on their own.

Criteria for selection:
The organizer will set up seven assumed scenes of daily life and judge whether robots entered in the contest can allow physically disabled people to walk on their own in each scene.

Sum of the prize money:
Achieving one of the given tasks / achieving some of the given tasks / achieving all the given tasks 1 million U.S. dollars (approximately 100 million yen) in total sum

Schedule:
Period of entries: from September 1, 2020, to February 28, 2021
Announcement of screening results: July 1, 2021
Award ceremony & demonstrations of prize-winning robots: September 5, 2021 (not fixed yet) at GIC Tsukuba Innovation Center
*All schedules in this press release are based on Japan Standard Time (JST, UTC+9).

Organizer: Global Innovation Challenge Executive Committee

Special sponsor: TKF Inc.
Sponsor: JTB Corp.
Collaborators: Tsukuba Municipal Government/Mizuho Bank, Ltd.
Supporter: Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Co., Ltd.

Official website: https://global-innovation-challenge.com/en

Detailed application guidelines can be downloaded from the following website:

https://global-innovation-challenge.com/en/2021/#guidelines

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Jvion Lauded by Frost & Sullivan for Improving Patient Outcomes Using Its Clinical-AI CORE™ Intelligence Platform

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Jvion’s prescriptive analytics approach identifies undetected risk and modifiable risk trajectories followed by recommendations for remedial actions

SANTA CLARA, California, Sept. 1, 2020 — Based on its recent analysis of the North American prescriptive analytics market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Jvion, Inc. with the 2020 North American Technology Innovation Leadership Award for its clinical-AI Care Optimization and Recommendation Enhancement (CORE™) technology. It is a scalable, secure intelligence repository that aggregates structured as well as unstructured data and augments that information with clinical, socioeconomic, and experiential data on 30 million individuals to draw meaningful correlations and inferences. To date, Jvion’s clinical AI has helped more than 300 hospitals, payers, and pharmacy managers achieve 30 percent reductions in preventable adverse incidents, which translate to annual savings of more than $6.3 million.

2020 North American Prescriptive Analytics Technology Innovation Leadership Award
2020 North American Prescriptive Analytics Technology Innovation Leadership Award

"The CORE™ identifies health and financial risk trajectories that can be modified, delivers prioritized insights to the care teams and coordinators engaging patients, and makes recommendations to improve outcomes. As a prescriptive analytics solution, it can proactively mitigate preventable harm that could otherwise lead to hospital readmissions, serious conditions, or accelerated health deterioration," said Cecilia Van Cauwenberghe, Industry Principal. "With this first-in-class AI platform, Jvion evolved from a provider of simple predictive analytics and machine learning solutions to a technology leader that can help identify potentially high-risk patients and suggest specific remedial action."

The solution leverages a combination of Eigen-based mathematics, datasets from over 30 million patients, and a software platform to promptly act upon 50+ preventable clinical events, covering behavioral health, hospital acquired conditions, chronic conditions, hospice/palliative care, and medication adherence. Additionally, it can identify avoidable cost events including uncompensated care and help customers work with their patient population to identify the right financial assistance. Importantly, the CORE™ does not require the creation of new models or perfect datasets. The underlying AI capability assesses 4,500 clinical and non-clinical risk factors for every patient and a quadrillion risk calculations through 170,000 self-learning Eigen Spheres clusters in real-time.

Frequently used enterprise data warehouse or data lake models demand considerable resources just to deliver a retrospective view of the patient’s health risk. Similarly, scoring methods such as LACE and BRADEN do not provide enough granularity or patient specificity to determine all the factors impacting the patient’s health. Jvion’s CORE™, on the other hand, boasts patient specificity, high effectiveness (seven times more effective than popular scoring methods), patient rendering (up to 365 days view into the future), successful use of even incomplete and unstructured datasets, and the fastest speed to value. Each of these benefits helps deliver effective, personalized patient care.

"As a result of its patient-centric approach to understanding vulnerability and risk, Jvion was able to pivot quickly during a pandemic to launch its COVID Response Suite, which delivers lists of individuals most vulnerable to severe illness. These insights enable proactive and targeted outreach to individuals that need to take more aggressive precautions," noted Cauwenberghe. "The relevance of its solutions, along with its patient-focused technology development efforts, has positioned Jvion for accelerated growth."

"Jvion is honored to be recognized for executing on its mission of preventing avoidable harm whether categorized as a health or financial event for our customers," said Jay Deady, CEO of Jvion. "Our team is constantly innovating to ensure our prescriptive AI approach is relevant to the changing dynamics of the healthcare industry."

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company that has demonstrated uniqueness in developing and leveraging new technologies that deliver significant customer value.

Frost & Sullivan Best Practices awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research to identify best practices in the industry.

About Frost & Sullivan

For over five decades, Frost & Sullivan has become world-renowned for its role in helping investors, corporate leaders and governments navigate economic changes and identify disruptive technologies, Mega Trends, new business models and companies to action, resulting in a continuous flow of growth opportunities to drive future success. Contact us: Start the discussion.

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About Jvion, Inc.

Jvion, a leader in clinical artificial intelligence, enables providers, payers and other healthcare entities to identify and prevent avoidable patient harm, utilization and costs. An industry first, the Jvion CORE™ goes beyond predictive analytics and machine learning to identify patients on a trajectory to becoming high-risk. Jvion then determines the interventions that will more effectively reduce risk and enable clinical and operational action. The CORE accelerates time to value by leveraging established patient-level intelligence to drive engagement across healthcare organizations, populations, and individuals. To date, the Jvion CORE has been deployed across hundreds of clients and resulted in millions saved. For more information, visit http://www.jvion.com.

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Commerce.AI Named TiE50 Award Winner at TiEcon

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SUNNYVALE, California, Sept. 1, 2020 — Commerce.AI is excited to announce that it has been selected as a 2020 TiE50 Winner in the prestigious TiE50 Awards Program. This 10-year-old awards competition is a program of TiEcon, the world’s largest conference for tech entrepreneurs. Commerce.AI was recognized for its leadership in AI solutions for commerce. 

"We  are excited to be recognized as a TiE50 winner. I would like to congratulate our team for their hard work and dedication. I would also like to thank our customers for their trust in us. With online commerce accelerating at an unprecedented rate, it creates a unique opportunity for businesses to use AI to tap into the data generated online. We are at the forefront of the AI revolution in commerce," said Andy Pandharikar, CEO of Commerce.AI.

"TiE50 again attracted high-potential startups bringing innovation from different parts of the world. Besides the recognition associated with the TiE50 award, this year, TiE50 also partnered with Meet the Draper’s, a ground-breaking reality show to give an opportunity to some companies to pitch to the show," said Kamal Anand, TiE50 Program Chair.

"For over 28 years as a not-for-profit organization dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship and with a global footprint of a half-million entrepreneurs, enterprise executives, and investment professionals, at TiE Silicon Valley, we take pride in the fact that we have created TiE50, a strong 10-year-old brand for recognizing high-potential startups," said B.J. Arun, President, TiE Silicon Valley.

About Commerce.AI

Commerce.AI was founded with the mission to harness the power of artificial intelligence to change the way commerce is done. Ninety-five percent of today’s data is unstructured, in the form of text, voice, images and video. When the AI starts to truly understand this data, it can empower the humans to do what we are best at – to build great products and services and sell with confidence.

About TiE50

Now celebrating its tenth year, TiE50 Awards provides a one-of-a-kind showcase for the world’s top technology and technology-enabled startups. TiE Silicon Valley’s premier annual awards program is keenly contested by thousands of early- to mid-stage startups of all sizes representing a wide range of verticals. Applications are rigorously reviewed by a panel of judges including venture capitalists, angels, successful entrepreneurs, and corporate executives. Since its inception, 84 percent of TiE50 winners and top startups have been funded at a total of over $1 billion. Many of these companies went on to acquisition or IPO, with 29 of the exits at over $100 million. The TiE50 Awards will be presented virtually to the winners during a ceremony on Sept. 3. More information here.

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#1 on the Green500 – Supermicro and Preferred Networks (PFN) Collaborate to Develop the World’s Most Efficient Supercomputer

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Deep Learning Supercomputer MN-Core™ Achieves Record 21.11 Gigaflops Performance-Per-Watt Based on Real-World Scientific Application Benchmarks  

SAN JOSE, California, Aug. 31, 2020 — Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), a global leader in enterprise computing, storage, networking solutions and green computing technology, today announced that its collaboration with Preferred Networks achieved the ranking for the Green500 semi-annual industry assessment. The MN-3 reached a record 21.11Gigaflops of performance-per-watt on a benchmark run that delivered a total performance of 1.62 Petaflops. This efficiency achievement is 15% higher than the previous Green500 record of 18.404 Gflops/W, which was recorded in June 2018.


"Supermicro was excited to work with PFN on this exceptional system supporting machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) applications and energy efficiency," said Charles Liang, CEO and president of Supermicro. "The Green500 international recognition confirms that Supermicro delivers exceptional products – resource-saving, superior design, and high-reliability to the market."

PFN partnered with Supermicro to develop this customized server, which addresses a wide range of applications that require ultra-fast communications. Based in Japan, PFN strives to solve complex problems that utilize deep learning, robotics, and other advanced technologies.

"We are very pleased to have partnered with Supermicro, who worked with us very closely to build MN-3, which was recognized as the world’s most energy-efficiency supercomputer," stated Yusuke Doi, VP of Computing Infrastructure at Preferred Networks. "We can deliver outstanding performance while using a fraction of the power that was previously required for such a large supercomputer."

The PFN solution is based on the Supermicro GPU server that utilizes Intel® Xeon® CPUs, and MN-Core boards developed by Preferred Networks. This advanced system offers up to 6TB of DDR4 memory, and multiple GPUs or accelerators, as well as the interconnects that enable ultra-fast communications between GPUs.

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The PFN supercomputer can serve many users simultaneously. The initial cluster consisted of 48 servers- four interconnect nodes, and five 100GbE switches. There was a total of 2,080 CPU cores, housed in a 7U high rack-mounted unit.

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Supermicro (Nasdaq: SMCI), the leading innovator in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology, is a premier provider of advanced Server Building Block Solutions® for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/Big Data, HPC and Embedded Systems worldwide. Supermicro is committed to protecting the environment through its "We Keep IT Green®" initiative and provides customers with the most energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly solutions available on the market.

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Palo Alto Networks Recognized by Frost & Sullivan as the 2020 Indian Network Security Vendor Company of the Year Award

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Palo Alto Networks Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) can securely enable users, content, and applications, including SaaS applications, by classifying all traffic irrespective of the port

MUMBAI, India, Aug. 28, 2020 — Based on its recent analysis of the Indian network security vendor market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Palo Alto Networks as the recipient of the 2020 Indian Company of the Year Award.


Palo Alto Networks is one of the prominent leaders in the Indian cybersecurity space. Its portfolio of offerings ranges from network security, web security, cloud security, threat intelligence, endpoint security, application security, secure SD-WAN, and more. Not only does Palo Alto Networks help secure on-premise infrastructure but also virtual, datacenter and cloud environments. Its solutions provide visibility into the entire IT landscape and help enterprises build an improved security posture. Through Palo Alto Networks advanced security solutions, customers can identify threats faster and initiate a response mechanism based on accurate investigation and a team of proven threat hunters. The security vendor leverages emerging security technologies to act against unknown threats. Palo Alto Networks Next Generation Firewalls (NGFWs), which remains as the foundational element for its customers’ network security strategy, provides user-identity awareness and protection, application usage, visibility and control, secured encrypted traffic, ability to detect and prevent advanced threats, deployment flexibility, and shared threat intelligence.

Palo Alto Networks has long exhibited healthy double-digit growth, much higher than the market average. Over the last few years, India has consistently been one of the fastest growing regions for the company with a strong value proposition for customers. Although large enterprises have been the primary focus for the company, it successfully taps brownfield opportunities as well. In terms of vertical-centric adoption, most of the company’s revenue stems from advanced requirements driven by the government, BFSI, technology, education, professional services, healthcare, and telecommunications sectors.

"Palo Alto Networks adopts the platform approach towards enterprise security. It believes in delivering highly effective security in enterprises’ on-premises infrastructure while eliminating unnecessary complexity and breaking down existing silos. When it comes to securing the cloud, Palo Alto Networks offers unprecedented visibility into risks and consistently governs access, protects data, and secures cloud applications," said Rajarshi Dhar, senior industry analyst, ICT Practice, Frost & Sullivan. "Being a next-generation security company, it strongly believes in harnessing advanced techniques like AI and ML to secure the future."

Palo Alto Networks NGFWs deliver prevention-focused architecture that is easy to deploy and operate and uses automation to reduce the manual effort of security teams. It has the ability to inspect all traffic (applications, threats, and content) and tie that traffic to the user, irrespective of the type of device or location. Using the company’s NGFWs, enterprises protect data centers (physical and virtual) by segmenting data and applications using zero trust principles. Consistent security policies are enforced across on-premise, cloud environments, and branch locations.

"Focused on empowering enterprises with best-in-class security products that fit today’s modern IT landscape, Palo Alto Networks constantly enhances its product capabilities through innovation. It has rebranded its entire security portfolio through the introduction of Strata, Prisma, and Cortex product lines," noted Dhar. "Its integrated security theme that connects the network, endpoint, cloud, branch, data center, IoT, 5G, and SD-WAN with advanced threat hunting, intelligence, and zero trust security is uncommon among security vendors. This approach is proving particularly popular among several large enterprises that are looking to build a strong security posture."

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents a Company of the Year award to the organization that demonstrates excellence in terms of growth strategy and implementation in its field. The award recognizes a high degree of innovation with products and technologies, and the resulting leadership in terms of customer value and market penetration.

Frost & Sullivan Best Practices awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research to identify best practices in the industry.

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Delta Controls, a Delta Group Company, Wins the 2020 Global Building Automation Systems Company of the Year Award by Frost & Sullivan

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FREMONT, Calif., Aug. 26, 2020 — Delta, a global leader in power and thermal management solutions, today announced Delta Controls, Inc., a Delta Group company and provider of cutting-edge building automation systems, has won Frost & Sullivan’s 2020 Global Building Automation Systems Company of the Year Award. The honor by the prestigious market research firm recognizes Delta Controls’ ability to provide superior value to worldwide customers with its industry-leading technologies that offer a full suite of smart features and functionality, as well as with its best-in-class technical support. Delta Controls’ signature O3 Sensor Hub 2.0, an innovative system integrating multiple sensors and IoT interfaces to enable next-generation smart and energy-efficient buildings, served as a key factor in receiving the Frost & Sullivan award.

"Delta Controls exemplifies superior best practices in best-of-breed technology offerings and innovative solutions because it incorporates a convergence of technologies with a dedicated customer service partnership experience," said Neha Tatikota, an industry analyst for energy and environment at Frost & Sullivan.

Mr. Bill Lo, general manager of Delta’s Building Automation Business Group, said, "We are extremely proud of Delta Controls’ passion in always pushing the envelope. They are a tremendously valued part of Delta – enabling us to collectively create a more energy-efficient built environment for a smarter and greener future."

Frost & Sullivan called the IoT-enabled O3 Sensor Hub 2.0  "revolutionary," before concluding "it is beneficial not just for building owners, managers, and occupants, but also accepted by architects, installers, and consultant community as a highly cost-effective installation." The hub utilizes sensor fusion technology for superior room control and to optimize occupant comfort. The ceiling-mounted device observes its environment and reports interior temperature, occupancy, humidity, lighting, heating and cooling – while serving as a connectivity platform for sensing air quality, ventilation, window contact and shade positions. It also supports multiple protocols that allow for integration with nearly any system, including native BACnet, MQTT and REST API for third-party integration and BLE API for custom app development.

"Winning this award is a testament to the hard work, spirit and dedication that shines across our organization every day," said John Nicholls, president of Delta Controls. "Our guiding philosophy is to ‘do it right,’ which fuels our ambition to develop only the most innovative solutions."

Surrey, Canada-based Delta Controls was acquired by Delta Electronics in 2016 to strengthen the company’s building automation capabilities and expand its portfolio of critical smart infrastructure solutions.

To learn about Delta Controls and the O3 Sensor Hub 2.0, visit www.deltacontrols.com

About Delta Controls

Delta Controls is at the forefront of building automation systems. Through our network of partners in over 80 countries, our solutions span the globe. Our focus on innovation and sustainability has made us industry leaders for over 30 years. Delta Controls offers dependable and user-friendly control solutions for buildings in the commercial, healthcare, hospitality, education and leisure markets. As part of Delta Electronics, we are committed to leading building automation into a sustainable future.

For more information, please visit: https://deltacontrols.com/

About Delta Electronics (Americas)

Delta Electronics (Americas) was established 38 years ago and has grown to over one thousand employees in the entire Americas region. Delta has offices, R&D centers, manufacturing, distribution and repair centers in multiple locations in the United States, Mexico and South America. In the U.S., operations are located in Fremont, Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Raleigh, Boston and Detroit to better serve its diverse customer base. Outside the U.S., Delta continues to expand its Americas operations in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Canada.

Delta Electronics (Americas) serves the IT, communications, industrial automation, renewable energy, lighting, power tool, automotive electric vehicle and other major industries. Products include power electronics, DC brushless fans, visual displays, industrial automation, networking products, electronic components, consumer products and energy efficient and renewable energy products. The company is always striving to define new ways to improve the energy efficiency of its products through advanced research and product development.

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About Delta

Delta, founded in 1971, is a global leader in switching power supplies and thermal management products with a thriving portfolio of smart energy-saving systems and solutions in the fields of industrial automation, building automation, telecom power, data center infrastructure, EV charging, renewable energy, energy storage and display, to nurture the development of smart manufacturing and sustainable cities. As a world-class corporate citizen guided by its mission statement, "To provide innovative, clean and energy-efficient solutions for a better tomorrow," Delta leverages its core competence in high-efficiency power electronics and its CSR-embedded business model to address key environmental issues, such as climate change. Delta serves customers through its sales offices, R&D centers and manufacturing facilities spread over close to 200 locations across 5 continents.

Throughout its history, Delta has received various global awards and recognition for its business achievements, innovative technologies and dedication to CSR. Since 2011, Delta has been listed on the DJSI World Index of Dow Jones Sustainability™ Indices for 9 consecutive years. Delta also ranked a Climate Change Leadership Level by CDP for the 3rd year in 2019.

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