Company Selected by Global Program For Leadership in Biometrics Security Solutions to Benefit Society

Established in 1988, The Computerworld Honors Program brings together the principals of the world's foremost information technology companies to recognize and document the achievements of the men, women, organizations and institutions around the world, whose visionary applications of information technology promote positive social, economic and educational change.

Each year, members of the Computerworld Honors Chairmen's Committee, a group of 100 Chairmen/CEOs from leading global IT companies, submit nominations for organizations they feel demonstrated extraordinary use of information technology in 10 distinct categories of industry-related endeavor. The categories are: Business & Related Services; Education & Academia; Environment; Energy & Agriculture; Finance; Insurance & Real Estate; Government & Non-Profit Organizations; Manufacturing; Media, Arts & Entertainment; Medicine; Science and Transportation.

"We’re proud and delighted to receive this acknowledgement," stated Alan Kramer, UPEK President and CEO. "It is an honor for all UPEK employees to have our leadership recognized in this manner, and to be included with other innovative market leaders in such a diverse variety of industries."

"The Computerworld Honors Program seeks to recognize organizations from a variety of sectors each year for their efforts to utilize technology to benefit society," said Bob Carrigan, Chairman of the Computerworld Honors Program Chairmen’s Committee and President of IDG Communications. "We are proud to provide this platform to publicly acknowledge these contributions."

UPEK’s legacy of technology innovation and leadership spans ten years and includes development of one of the first commercially viable silicon-based biometric sensors; the first end-to-end biometric subsystem, performing all biometric processes in a secure hardware architecture; and, the only complete solution for the PC market, which has been adopted by four of the top five notebook PC manufacturers.

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