Robert W. Conn

Part of The National Academies of Science, the National Academy of Engineering operates as a professional membership organization. The company is based in Washington.

Hammerhead Systems, Inc. manufactures data communications equipment. It provides layer 2.5 aggregation, interworking and migration solutions for telecommunications service providers, which include wire-line and wireless carriers. The company's solutions include the HSX 6000 layer 2.5 aggregation switch, and its pegador SOA element management system. Hammerhead Systems was founded in January 2002 by Robert Keil & John Yu and is located in Mountain View, CA

Novera Optics, Inc. manufactures fiber optics and optical access solutions. Its PON optical solutions enable equipment vendors and service providers to address fiber-to-the-building, multi-dwelling, remote terminals, multi-tenant units, and central office markets. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Tarari, Inc. operates as a fabless semiconductor company. Its products include silicon chips, boards, and software acceleration components. The company was founded by Randy Smerik, David Finlay, Rick Johnson, and Jeff Carmichael in 2002 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Quartics designs, develops and markets proprietary integrated circuits based on its patented Qvu™ architecture, which has established a new category of video processors, the system on a chip (SoC) video processing unit (VPU), designed specifically to deliver advanced digital video solutions, including superior video playback quality and advanced functionality enabling installation of custom software applications such as 2d to 3D video conversion, HD video chat, gesture recognition and video search. Qvu™-enabled video processing solutions are available to OEM and ODM companies worldwide and have been adopted by some of the world's largest consumer electronics companies. Quartics' revolutionary Qvu™ architecture allows consumer electronics manufacturers to deliver an unsurpassed HD quality video experience previously not possible with existing video solutions. Quartics' Qvu™ technology is poised to become the industry standard for next-generation video processing for personal computers, HDTVs, set-top boxes and other video-enabled consumer electronic devices. Quartics is a fabless semiconductor company located in Irvine, CA, with offices in India, China and Taiwan. Quartics was formed in 2003 to focus on a programmable semiconductor architecture for high-performance video processing, with the aim of overcoming the significant challenges of modern digital video processing.

Nuelight Corp. develops and commercializes OLED display technology. Its technology and products enable the active matrix OLED display manufacturers to develop video centric displays for consumer products such as phones, portable DVD players, laptops, monitors and TV sets. The company has partnered with a flat panel display manufacturer to develop and commercialize active matrix OLED displays for consumer markets. Nuelight Corp. was founded in June, 2003 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA

The Kavli Foundation engages in the provision of support for the advancement of science, increase of public understanding, and support for scientists. The company was founded by Fred Kavli in December 2000 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.