Ember™ Corporation (www.ember.com), provider of embedded wireless networking solutions, today announced that Andy Wheeler, the Company’s founder and vice president of engineering, has been named to the 2003 list of the world’s 100 Top Young Innovators by Technology Review, MIT’s Magazine of Innovation.
As founder and vice president of engineering, Wheeler drives the concrete development of Ember’s technology. With years of experience already behind him in rapid prototyping and embedded design experience, he has helped take the wireless sensor technology industry all the way from concept to reality.
The TR100, chosen by the editors of Technology Review and an elite panel of judges, consists of 100 individuals under age 35 whose innovative work in technology has a profound impact on today’s world. Nominees are recognized for their contributions in transforming the nature of technology in industries such as biotechnology, computing, energy, medicine, manufacturing, nanotechnology, telecommunications and transportation.
“The TR100 contains some of the best and brightest minds in emerging technology, and I am honored to be recognized alongside them,” said Wheeler. “I am proud of the work we have done at Ember to create the standard for low-cost, low-power wireless networking, and I’ve been inspired by the people I work with.”
As a student at MIT, Wheeler implemented several vanguard embedded wireless networks. Among his multiple research projects was the second implementation of what has become Ember’s vanguard technology, a telemetric biology study undertaken in conjunction with the University of Hawaii at Volcanoes National Park. Prior to founding Ember, Wheeler developed the first viable RFID car access system for Zipcar, a national car-sharing company. He has also designed embedded systems at Walt Disney Imagineering and Woodward MCCoach.
“Innovation and technological change are essential to worldwide economic growth,” said Robert Buderi, editor-in-chief of Technology Review. “Now, more than ever, it’s important to recognize that there is no one technology driving the next wave of success, but rather several that, when fused together, will create another era of significant change for our society. The members of this year’s TR100 hail from fields such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, wireless, energy, computing and medicine. Each is actively developing the emerging technologies that we feel will profoundly impact our world in the century ahead.”
Wheeler and the rest of the TR100 will be honored Sept. 24 – 25 at the Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT. More information on ETC2003 can be found at www.etc2003.com.
About Technology Review Inc.
Technology Review Inc., an MIT Enterprise, delivers essential information about emerging technologies on the verge of commercialization. Since 1998, paid circulation for the company’s magazine, Technology Review, has more than tripled, climbing from 92,000 to 315,000. Combined with its signature events, newsletters, and online businesses, Technology Review reaches over a million senior technology thinkers and influencers – including venture capitalists, chief scientists, MIT alumni and students, researchers, senior corporate executives, investors, and innovators – throughout the world each month.
About Ember Corporation
Ember removes the barriers to embedded networking. Ember’s self-organizing, self-healing, wireless mesh technology is uncompromisingly robust, easy to use, and flexible. The EmberNet networking platform gives forward-thinking companies the means to create products that do more by communicating better.
Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Ember Corporation is a privately held company with investments from Polaris Venture Partners, GrandBanks Capital, Dr. Robert Metcalfe, DFJ New England, Stata Venture Partners, RRE Ventures and DFJ ePlanet and is focused on enhancing sensing and control products through wireless connectivity. More information is available at www.ember.com.
