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From: Diane Goldenberg-Hart <diane@cni.org>
Subject: Recipients of Second Annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration Announced

(WASHINGTON, DC) The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation today awarded $650,000=20=

in prizes to ten not-for-profit institutions in the second annual=20
Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration (MATC).The Mellon Awards=20
honor not-for-profit organizations for leadership in the collaborative=20=

development of open source software tools with application to=20
scholarship in the arts and humanities, as well as cultural-heritage=20
not-for-profit activities. The awards were presented at the Fall Task=20
Force meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information by Sir Timothy=20=

Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium and the inventor=20=

of the World Wide Web. More information on the awards ceremony,=20
including podcast interviews with some of the recipients, will be=20
available at www.cni.org beginning 11 December 2007.

After a worldwide, public nomination process, the ten recipients were=20
selected by the MATC Award Committee, which included Berners-Lee,=20
Mitchell Baker (CEO, Mozilla Corporation), John Seely Brown (former=20
Chief Scientist, Xerox Corp.), Vinton G. Cerf (Vice President and Chief=20=

Internet Evangelist, Google, Inc.), John Gage (Chief Researcher and=20
Director of the Science Office, Sun Microsystems, Inc.), and Tim=20
O=A1=A6Reilly (Founder and CEO, O=A1=A6Reilly Media). The awardees, =
prizes, and=20
projects for which they were recognized are as follows:
=A1E	$100,000 to the American Museum of the Moving Image (Astoria, =
NY:=20
www.movingimage.us) for the development and release of the=20
OpenCollection museum collection management system=20
(www.opencollection.org).
=A1E	$100,000 to Duke University (Durham, NC: www.duke.edu) for =
leadership=20
and development work on the OpenCroquet open source 3-D virtual worlds=20=

environment (www.opencroquet.org).
=A1E	$100,000 to Open Polytechnic of New Zealand (Wellington, NZ:=20
www.openpolytechnic.ac.nz) for leadership and development work on=20
several open source projects including the New Zealand Open Source=20
Virtual Learning Environment (http://eduforge.org/projects/nzvle/).
=A1E	$50,000 to the Georgia Public Library Service of the University=20=

System of Georgia (Atlanta, GA: www.georgialibraries.org) for the=20
development and release of the Evergreen open-source library automation=20=

system (www.open-ils.org).
=A1E	$50,000 to Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT: =
www.middlebury.edu)=20
for the development and release of the Segue interactive learning=20
management system.
=A1E	$50,000 to the Participatory Culture Foundation (Worcester, MA:=20=

www.participatoryculture.org) for the development and release of the=20
open source Miro media player (www.getmiro.com).
=A1E	$50,000 to Talboks- och Punkstkriftsbiblioteket (The Swedish =
Library=20
of Talking Books and Braille: Enskede, Sweden: www.tpb.se) for the=20
development and release of open source tools supporting the Daisy=20
Project for talking books for the visually impaired.
  =A1E	Two awards of $50,000 each to University of Illinois=20
(Champaign-Urbana, IL: www.illinois.edu): one award for the development=20=

and release of the Firefox Accessibility Extension=20
(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1891); and one award=20
for the development and release of the OpenEAI enterprise application=20
integration project (www.openEAI.org).
=A1E	$50,000 to University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario: =
www.utoronto.ca)=20
for the development and release of the ATutor learning management=20
system (www.atutor.ca).
Additional information on the awards will be available at=20
http://matc.mellon.org beginning 10 December.  Nominations for the 2008=20=

MATC awards will also be accepted at that site, beginning 12 December.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is a philanthropic organization with=20
offices in New York City and
Princeton, NJ. The MATC awards are a project of the Foundation=A1=A6s=20
Program in Research in Information Technology (RIT). More information=20
about the MATC awards is available at http://matc.mellon.org.

For more information, please contact:

Christopher J. Mackie
Associate Program Officer, Program in Research in Information Technology
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
282 Alexander Rd.
Princeton, NJ 08540
609-924-9424
cjm@mellon.org
http://rit.mellon.org