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Innovations From Xerox Earn 6 Industry Awards
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Television professionals have "The Emmy®". Musicians have "The Grammy®".
Film actors have "The Oscar®". There may not be an "innovation Oscar" but
in the world of research and technology you know you've done something significant
when five industry organizations (made up of your industry peers) recognize your
work with their highest honors.
Xerox researchers will receive R&D Magazine's "Top 100" innovation award - one of six recent technology industry awards recognizing the company's research and innovation in color science and advanced document systems and services.
Xerox research teams also received awards from the Product Development & Management Association, AMA Association for Sensor Technology, the American Chemical Society, the Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership, and the annual World Investment Conference at La Baule, France.
"Innovation is at the heart of what Xerox does, and it's fantastic news that our R&D teams have won these awards. It is particularly gratifying to be acknowledged with high honors from our industry peers," said Sophie Vandebroek, Xerox chief technology officer and president, Xerox Innovation Group.
Xerox will be formally named Outstanding Corporate Innovator for 2006 by the Product Development & Management Association, the premier global advocate for product development and management professionals.
This award is PDMA's highest honor, designed to "recognize organizations demonstrating sustained excellence in the development and profitable commercialization of new products and services." Xerox was cited by PDMA for employing "a very broad range of highly disciplined exploratory and planning processes while still maintaining a creative and risk-taking environment and culture." Sophie Vandebroek accepted the award on Xerox's behalf October 23rd during the association's annual conference.
In June of this year at the La Baule World Investment Conference in France, Xerox was presented an award for the innovative research being conducted at the Xerox Research Centre Europe. Xerox was one of three corporations honored for its investment in technology in Europe. Researchers at XRCE were cited for shaping the document of the future, helping people move freely from paper to digital worlds, and making documents smarter using advanced content analysis and data mining.
In addition, a team of researchers from Xerox's Wilson Research Center in Webster, N.Y., won two prestigious awards for their innovation inside a light-emitting diode (LED) spectrophotometer that enables Xerox production color printers to calibrate themselves to ensure every color print comes out exactly the same, every time.
Available for Xerox iGen3® Digital Production Press customers, the innovation is included in a specifically tailored solution called Automated Color Calibration, a feature in the Xerox iGen3 FreeFlow® DocuSP® color server. This innovative software and spectrophotometer automate labor-intensive pre-press activity, providing color adjustments on-demand. The two awards are:
- R&D Magazine Top 100: For 44 years, the R&D Magazine Top 100 Awards have recognized the most influential innovations that have reached the marketplace. Today Xerox will accept an R&D Magazine Top 100 award for the LED-based embedded spectrophotometer, marking it as one of the most innovative ideas of the year, according to the magazine.
- AMA 2006 Sensor Innovation Award finalist: The AMA Association for Sensor Technology, an industry organization in Germany, also recognized Xerox's LED-based spectrophotometer technology earlier this year. As a finalist for the award, Xerox was singled out as one of "six submissions that clearly stood out against the rest" from entries submitted by research teams across the globe.
Finally, a team of researchers from Xerox Research Centre of Canada and the Xerox Supplies Delivery Unit won two awards for Xerox's patented EA (emulsion aggregation) toner, microparticles of "dry ink" that are fused on paper to form the words and images in a xerographic copy or print. The innovative Xerox process involves a new chemical method for growing the particles instead of physically grinding them, resulting in more uniform particle size and shape for sharper image quality with less toner. EA toner uses an environmentally friendly manufacturing process that consumes an estimated 25 percent less energy than traditional toner. As a result, Xerox is well on the way to saving more than 30 million kilowatt hours of electricity by 2008 - enough power to light more than 24,000 U.S. households for a year - and making strides toward its goal to cut global greenhouse gas emissions. The two awards are:
- American Chemical Society Industrial Innovation Award: Presented to Xerox on Oct. 6, this award is given to teams whose creative innovations have contributed to the commercial success of their company and community. EA toner is already being used in more than 20 Xerox products, many of which have won industry awards.
- Connecticut Quality Innovation Award: The Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership will award Xerox a gold prize for its EA toner process at the organization's 19th annual conference on Oct. 20. Using the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award criteria for performance excellence, the prize is awarded by the CQIAP to organizations that exemplify quality while fostering innovation.
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| 2008
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| Xerox Makes Environmental Remediation Patents Available to All Through Eco-Patent Commons
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| Scientists Develop 3-D Document Visualization for "No Surprises" Printing
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| DARPA program builds on PARC foundation in printing large-area, flexible electronics
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| Xerox Joins IORG
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| Xerox Research Centre Europe coordinates EU CACAO project to provide cross-language access to online catalogues and libraries
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| Incubating Inside Xerox Labs: Innovation that Benifits the Workplace, Healthcare, and the Environment
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| Robert Loce Elected SPIE Fellow
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| Rochester Engineering Society Celebrates Technical Excellence
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| Xerox is Among the World's Best Analyst Competing to Win the Edelman Prize for Achievemnt in Operations Research & Analytics
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| Patent Powerhouse: Xerox Boasts 101 Inventors with 50 or More Patents
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| 2007
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| Xerox Reveals Breakthrough Software that Categorizes Text and Images at the Same Time
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| Xerox funds new services laboratory at NC State University
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| The Science Consultant Program: Bringing Science to Life for 40 Years
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| Xerox Technology Tricks Counterfeiters
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| Xerox Opens Its Labs to Journalists on TechDay
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| R&D Magazine Lauds Xerox FreeFlow VI Software Suite
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| Getting to 100 before 50; Xerox scientist Bob Loce Reaches Patent Milestone
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| Xerox to Fund Green, Nano, Imaging Fellowships at MIT School of Engineering
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| Know-How Results in breakthrough paper: saves trees and money
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| Xerox Funds 11 New University Research Projects
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| Surpassing Search: New Xerox text mining software goes beyond "keywords" to deliver more relevant information
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| Xerox receives the National Medal of Technology
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| Now You See It, Now You Don't: Xerox Scientists Develop Fluorescent Writing To Deter Counterfeiting
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| Xerox Scientist Creates 'Color Language' Making Color Matching as Easy as Describing a Color
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| PARC Scientist Stu Card Wins Franklin Institute Bower Award for Achievement in Science
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| Inside Innovation at Xerox: Scientists Create a Rainbow of Custom Blended Colors for DocuTech Highlight Color Systems
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| Xerox's Santokh Badesha Reaches Rare Milestone; Inventor Awarded 150th Patent
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| Content Centric Networking
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| Groundbreaking Canadian Nanotechnology Partnership Lays Foundation For Big Success From Tiny Tech
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| Xerox Awarded 27 Percent More Patents In 2006
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