The European Information Technology Prize

The European Commission and the European Council of Applied Sciences and Engineering (Euro-CASE) recently announced the winners and runners-up of the prestigious European IT Prize. The awards are given to European and Israeli companies that have developed innovative technologies and products. The jury chose three grand prize winners and 22 runners-up. Many of the companies chosen have been featured in BYTE during the past year.

European IT Prize Winners

Grand Prize

Applied Spectral Imaging

SpectraCube spectral-imaging system
Internet: 
http://www.spectral-imaging.com



Hyperwave

Hyperwave Information Management System for the Web
Internet: 
http://www.hyperwave.com



LCI-SmartPen

SmartPen digital ballpoint
Internet: 
http://www.lcigroup.com

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Runners-Up

Animation Science

Kinema/Way 3-D simulation environment
Internet: 
http://www.anisci.com



Beilstein Informationssysteme

CrossFire plus Reactions chemical database system
Internet: 
http://www.beilstein.com



Bull CP8

CC Cash Card smartcards
Internet: 
http://www.cp8.bull.net



Calluna Technology

CT520RM series of PC Card hard drives
Internet: 
http://www.calluna1.demon.co.uk



CoWare

CoWare
 development environment for ASICs
 (see the feature story "European ASIC Designs")
Internet: 
http://www.coware.com



Cygron Research and Development

DataScope decision-support system
Internet: 
http://www.tiszanet.hu/cygron



Digital Vision

BitPack MPEG-2 workstation
Internet: 
http://www.digitalvision.se



Elan Informatique

Dial & Play voice system
Internet: 
http://www.elan.fr



GemPlus

ImagineCard Web smartcards
Internet: 
http://www.gemplus.com/it_prize.htm



Graphisoft

ArchiCAD for TeamWork architectural CAD system
Internet: 
http://www.graphisoft.hu



Institute of Electronics and Computer Science

Dasp-Lab software radio-frequency analyzer
E-mail:   
bilinsk@edzi.lza.lv



Intellart

Archibald voice-recognition system
Interne
t: 
http://homepage.iprolink.ch/~bioscan



Intracom

IoS Internet-via-satellite system
Internet: 
http://www.intranet.gr



Ivee

Spotfire Wizard visual data-mining system
Internet: 
http://www.cs.chalmers.se



Metaphor System

Metacast Ultra Weather Graphics Presentation System
Internet: 
http://www.metaphor.no



Philips Magnetic Heads and Modules

DigaMax digital tape recorder
Internet: 
http://www.km.philips.com/mhm/about/index_en.htm



PixTech

FE 532 flat-panel display for car navigation
E-mail:   
csalvan@pixtech.mnet.fr



Plustech

PlusJack-Walking Forest Machine
Internet: 
http://www.plustech.fi



Recognita

Recognita Reader 3.0 multilingual OCR software
Internet: 
http://www.recognita.hu



Simone Research Group

Simone Control process-control system
E-mail:   
simone@login.cz



Steinbeis Transferzentrum

Teleradiology System Chili teleconferencing system
Internet: 
http://MBI.DKFZ-Heidelberg.de/mbi/chili/



Target Compiler Technologies

Chess/Checkers DSP layout system
E-mail:   
goossens@retarget.com