WIRED Magazine Announces Nominees for Sixth Annual Wired Rave Awards

WIRED Magazine Announces Nominees for Sixth Annual Wired Rave Awards Top 'Bloggers' a New Entrant among Today's Leading Innovators SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Google's founders, Rem Koolhaas, Howard Stern and Jon Stewart are among the list of dynamic people selected as nominees for the WIRED Rave Awards. Now in its sixth year, the WIRED Rave Awards celebrate "The People Changing Your Mind," leading innovators in 14 categories including Business Leader, Film Director, Architect, Game Designer, Scientist and Tech Innovator. "Blogger" was introduced as a new category this year, reflecting the growing popularity and influence of the medium on pop culture and business. A complete list of nominees is available below and at www.raveawards.com. WIRED editors nominate the top five mavericks, visionaries and leaders in each category. "These nominees are an eclectic mix of people who are changing the world by doing something truly new," said Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of WIRED Magazine. "They're the innovators who have thrilled and inspired us and shown us what is possible." Top Rave Nominees for the Top Rave, "Renegade of the Year," include: Howard Stern, "The Howard Stern Radio Show;" Burt Rutan, president and CEO of Scaled Composites; Blake Ross and Ben Goodger, architects of Firefox; Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt, Google; and Jon Stewart, "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." Winners of the WIRED Rave Awards will be honored on February 22nd at the legendary Fillmore theater in San Francisco. The celebration will feature a live musical performance by The Polyphonic Spree, which performed at the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards. Winners will also be featured in the March 2005 issue of WIRED Magazine. Presenting sponsors of the WIRED Rave Awards are Land Rover, Adobe Systems and Corazon Tequila. Raves Cap a Year of Growth for WIRED This year's Rave Awards build on continued success and growth for WIRED. In 2004, WIRED hosted its inaugural WIRED NextFest in San Francisco, where over 25,000 attendees experienced more than 100 inventions from around the world that gave a sneak peek into the future. Plans for WIRED NextFest 2005 are underway with the 2005 exhibition to be held June 24-26 in Chicago. Last year also marked the third consecutive year of growth for WIRED with increased readership as well as strong newsstand sales. In addition, the magazine published its first annual "bookazine," WIRED TEST, the ultimate consumer- product resource guide. Sixth Annual Rave Award Nominees ARCHITECT -- Santiago Calatrava, World Trade Center PATH Terminal, New York City (Santiago Calatrava SA) -- James Corner and Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, Charles Renfro, The High Line, New York City (Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro) -- Frank Gehry, Stata Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA; Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Chicago (Gehry Partners) -- Rem Koolhaas, Seattle Central Library, Seattle; Netherlands Embassy, Berlin; Casa da Musica, Porto, Portugal (OMA) -- Yoshio Taniguchi, Museum of Modern Art, New York City (Yoshio Taniguchi and Associates) ARTIST -- Edward Burtynsky, Manufactured Landscapes -- Michael Lau and Eric So, vinyl action-figure art -- Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman, messa di voce -- Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Soft Rains -- Gerfried Stocker, Andreas Exner, Hannes Leopoldseder, Christine Schoepf, Digital Avant-Garde: Celebrating 25 Years of Ars Electronica AUTHOR -- Thomas Barnett, The Pentagon's New Map -- Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell -- Rael Dornfest, Dale Dougherty, Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Hacks series -- Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence -- James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds BLOGGER -- Ana Marie Cox, Wonkette.com -- Mark Cuban, Blogmaverick.com -- Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit.com -- Kevin Sites, Kevinsites.net -- Rex Sorgatz, Fimoculous.com BUSINESS LEADER -- Alex Bogusky, Executive Creative Director, Crispin Porter + Bogusky -- Shigeyuki Hori, Executive Chief Engineer for Prius, Toyota -- Steve Jobs, CEO, Apple Computer -- Yuanqing Yang, President, Vice Chairman and CEO, Lenovo -- Jong-Yong Yun, Vice Chairman and CEO, Samsung Electronics FILM DIRECTOR -- Brad Bird, The Incredibles -- Jonathan Caouette, Tarnation -- Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind -- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Team America: World Police -- Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill Vol. 2 GAME DESIGNER -- Jack Emmert, City of Heroes (Cryptic Studios) -- Gabe Newell, Half-Life 2 (Valve Software) -- Pete Parsons, Halo 2 (Bungie Studios) -- Keita Takahashi, Katamari Damacy (Namco) -- Alex Ward, Burnout 3 (Criterion Games) INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER -- Apple Industrial Design Team, iMac G5 and iPod shuffle (Apple Computer) -- Yves Behar, Jawbone Headset (Fuseproject) -- Naoto Fukasawa, Plus Minus Zero Collection (Plus Minus Zero) -- Paul Pierce and Motorola CXD team, Razr V3 Cell Phone -- Burt Rutan, SpaceShipOne (Scaled Composites) MEDICAL SCIENTIST -- Chester Buckenmaier, Anesthesiology, Walter Reed Army Medical Center -- John Donoghue, Neuroscience, Cyberkinetics -- Bette Korber, HIV Bioinformatics, Los Alamos National Laboratory -- Robert Lanza, Cell Biology, Advanced Cell Technology -- Jonathan Tilly, Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School MUSICIAN -- Bjork, Medulla -- Danger Mouse, The Grey Album -- Prince, Musicology -- The Streets, A Grand Don't Come for Free -- TV on the Radio, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes SCIENTIST -- Peter Brown and Team, Paleoanthropology, University of New England, Australia -- Drew Endy, Synthetic Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- James Hansen, Climatology/Science Policy, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies -- Richard Jefferson, Biotechnology and Intellectual Property, Biological Innovation for Open Society -- Steven Squyres, Mars Exploration, Cornell University TECH INNOVATOR -- Adam Curry, iPodder -- Mark Fletcher, Bloglines -- Bill Healy, Hitachi Mikey microdrive -- Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia -- Zhang Zuoyi, INET TV CREATOR -- Blair Harrison, iFilm.com -- Mitchell Hurwitz, Arrested Development (Fox) -- Jon Stewart, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central) -- Xzibit, Pimp My Ride (MTV) -- David Willis and Matt Maiellaro, Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Cartoon Network) RENEGADE -- Sergey Brin, Co-Founder and President, Technology; Larry Page, Co- Founder and President, Products; Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Executive Committee and CEO, Google -- Blake Ross and Ben Goodger, Architects, Firefox -- Burt Rutan, President and CEO, Scaled Composites -- Howard Stern, The Howard Stern Radio Show -- Jon Stewart, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart About WIRED Magazine WIRED is a monthly magazine that chronicles the people, companies, technologies, and ideas that are transforming the world around us. 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