Best Research


This award pays tribute to the research that holds the most extraordinary promise or has demonstrated the most incredible results towards the creation of new abilities for people with disabilities.

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Presented by: Steve Budorick of Trizec Properties and Robert David Hall from the television show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

Nominees:
Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation
Enkidu Research
IBM Worldwide Accessibility Center
The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
Kirtley Thornton, PhD

Winner: IBM Worldwide Accessibility Center

Accepted by: Simon Cooper, Program Director of Infrastructure and Accessibility, IBM Accessibility Center

About IBM Worldwide Accessibility Center
In 2000, IBM established the IBM Worldwide Accessibility Center as a part of the IBM Research community.  The Center’s mission is to apply research technologies to solve problems experienced by people who have disabilities.  Web Adaptation Technology enables thousands of current pilot users to change content on Web pages, allowing them to specify anything from larger fonts to more space between words.  The technology can also read Web content aloud.  IBM, in partnership with eight universities, is testing a technology that uses speech recognition software to provide “captioning” of classroom lectures.   IBM ViaScribe provides the benefit of “dual modality” – both seeing and hearing the lecture.