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Subject: Recipients of Third Annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration Announced

For more information, contact: Christopher J. Mackie 609=E2=80=90924=E2=80=
=909424 or cjm@mellon=20
.org


Recipients of Third Annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration =20=

Announced

(WASHINGTON, DC) The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation today awarded =20
$650,000 in prizes to ten not-for=E2=80=90profit institutions in the =
third =20
annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration (MATC).  The Mellon =20=

Awards honor not=E2=80=90for=E2=80=90profit organizations for leadership =
in the =20
collaborative development of open source software tools with =20
application to scholarship in the arts and humanities, as well as =20
cultural-heritage not=E2=80=90for=E2=80=90profit activities. The awards =
were =20
presented at the Fall Task Force meeting of the Coalition for =20
Networked Information by Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet =20=

Evangelist of Google, a man often called the =E2=80=9CFather of the =20
Internet.=E2=80=9D   Podcast interviews with Vint Cerf and some award =20=

recipients are forthcoming at http://www.cni.org.

After a worldwide, public nomination process, the ten recipients were =20=

selected by the MATC Award Committee, which included Cerf, Sir Timothy =20=

Berners=E2=80=90Lee (Director of the World Wide Web Consortium and =
inventor =20
of the World Wide Web), Mitchell Baker (CEO, Mozilla Corporation), =20
John Seely Brown (former Chief Scientist, Xerox Corp.), John Gage (at =20=

the time, Chief Researcher and Director of the Science Office, Sun =20
Microsystems, Inc.; now, Partner at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, and =20
Byers), and Tim O=E2=80=99Reilly (Founder and CEO, O=E2=80=99Reilly =
Media). The =20
awardees, prizes, and projects for which they were recognized are as =20
follows:
=E2=80=A2	$100,000 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology =
(Cambridge, =20
MA: www.mit.edu) for the development and release of the Kerberos =20
network authentication protocol (www.mit.edu/Kerberos/).
=E2=80=A2	$100,000 to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign =
=20
(Champaign, IL: www.illinois.edu) for leadership and development work =20=

on Project Archon, a set of archiving tools (www.archon.org).
=E2=80=A2	$50,000 to the Appalachian College Association (Berea, =
KY: www.acaweb.o=20
rg) for leadership of the LAMP consortium =
(http://www.acaweb.org/content.aspx?sid=3D2&pid=3D197=20
).
=E2=80=A2	$50,000 to Carnegie-Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA: =
www.cmu.edu) =20
for the development and release of the Panda 3D and Alice three-=20
dimensional authoring tools (www.open-ils.org).
=E2=80=A2	$50,000 to Ecotrust (Portland, OR: www.ecotrust.org) for =
the =20
development and release of Open OceanMap, a tool permitting scientists =20=

and others to collaborate on marine conservation activities =
(http://www.ohloh.net/projects/10111=20
).
=E2=80=A2	$50,000 to the Foothill College (Los Altos Hills, CA: =20=

www.foothill.edu) for the development and release of the Mneme testing =20=

engine for the Sakai learning management system =
(http://etudesproject.org/mneme/=20
; www.sakaiproject.org).
=E2=80=A2	$50,000 to George Mason University (Fairfax, VA: =
www.gmu.edu) for =20
the development and release of the Omeka cultural heritage collections =20=

Web presentation system (http://omeka.org/).
=E2=80=A2	$50,000 to King=E2=80=99s College London (London, UK: =
www.kcl.ac.uk) for =20
the development and release of the Pliny scholarly annotation tool =
(http://pliny.cch.kcl.ac.uk/=20
).
=E2=80=A2	$50,000 to the University of Waikato (Waikato, NZ: =20
www.waikato.ac.nz) for the development and release of Project =20
Greenstone, a set of tools for the creation of digital libraries =
(www.greenstone.org=20
).
=E2=80=A2	$50,000 to the University of Washington (Seattle, WA: =
www.washington.e=20
du) for the development and release of WebAnywhere, a project to =20
increase access and mobility for persons with visual impairments =
(www.webanywhere.cs.washington.edu/)=20
.
=E2=80=A2	$50,000 to Villanova University (Villanova, PA: =
www.villanova.edu) =20
for the development and release of Project VUFind, resource portal =20
software for academic libraries (www.vufind.org).
Additional information on the awards will be available at =
http://matc.mellon.org=20
  beginning 8 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 =20
project of the Foundation=E2=80=99s Program in Research in Information =20=

Technology (RIT). More information about the MATC awards is available =20=

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=E2=80=90924=E2=80=909424
cjm@mellon.org
http://rit.mellon.org