EDN’s 2007 Innovator and Innovations of the Year: Yet another vintage year for engineering genius

EDN’s 18th Annual Innovation Awards ceremony has once again recognized outstanding individuals, team efforts, and great ideas from the year past. We would like to take a moment to present to you the winners, with a brief summary of their achievements.

And the winners are...

This year, the judges—a team effort that involved editorial staff, our editorial advisory board, and you, the readers of EDN and edn.com—had a serious challenge to decide among closely matched and highly qualified entrants. Categories included special awards we recognize every year: the Innovator of the Year and the best contributed article of 2007. In addition, we examined nominations for awards in no fewer than 19 product and technology categories, searching for the best of the best.

Now, we’ve counted the votes, feted the winners at our annual awards dinner in San Jose, CA, made the toasts, cleared the glasses from the tables, and swept the confetti from the floor. But our commitment to finding and recognizing the best in electronics engineering is far from over. We will continue to report on the progress of these innovations throughout the year. In addition, we will seek out key opinion leaders at the edge of technology, preparing a midyear report on the big ideas and vital debates in electronics. And we will be back next year with a new crop of award-winners, representing the best of the best of 2008. Business may have cycles, markets may come and go, but the stream of intellectual progress that drives our engineering profession moves inexorably forward.

Please join us in celebrating the winners, and good fortune on your endeavors in the coming months.