Dr. Soljacic, who received a $500,000 MacArthur award in 2008, serves on the board of WiTricity as it commercializes the system.
The company is now working on commercializing the system but hasn't said when we'll see it in action.
The application saved millions of dollars for NASA — and made millions for Zweben, who commercialized the system at a startup called Red Pepper Software, which he sold to PeopleSoft Inc. in 1996 for $250 million.
Indeed, Pilash says, Direct Action organized large protests of between 10 and 20,000 people against Viktor Yanukovych, who sought to increase student and library fees so as to "commercialize the educational system".
It will take IBM two to three years to commercialize the millipede storage system, Binnig expects.
Maybe "end-game" is too strong phrase to use, but IBM has announced a deal with Nuance Communications to "explore, develop, and commercialize the Watson computing system's advanced analytics capabilities in the healthcare industry".
This system was developed in the 1990s by a German company, Pulsion, who commercialized the PiCCO system (Pulsion, Munchen, Germany) [ 44].
But in 1982, A.T. & T. was broken up and its agreement with the department ended; before long, the company was selling copies of Unix without including the source code from which it was derived, effectively commercializing the operating system and hiding its building blocks within a proprietary program.
The companies involved in the joint development said they aim at commercializing the key system in fiscal 2009.
