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LONG ISLAND TECHNOLOGY

HALL OF FAME

Recognizing, Honoring and Preserving

the Contributions, Accomplishments,

and Dedication of those Leaders in

Science and Technology Who Have Made

a Significant Impact on Long Island.


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DR. NICHOLAS P. SAMIOS

Dr. Samios graduated from Columbia Collegein 1953 with a B.A. in Physics and in 1956 joinedthe Faculty of the Physics Department at Colum-bia. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Colum-bia University in 1957. He was on the Faculty ofColumbia for three years,1956-59.

In 1959, Dr. Samios joinedthe Physics Department atBrookhaven National Labora-tory. He was Physics GroupLeader from 1965 to 1975, andwas named Chairman ofBrookhavens Physics Depart-ment, serving in that capacity

from 1975 to 1981. In Febru-ary 1981, he was namedDeputy Director for High Ener-gy and Nuclear Physics. Hewas appointed Acting Directorof the Laboratory on January1, 1982 and Director on May 3,1982. He served in that posi-tion for 15 years, steppingdown on April 30, 1997. He is presently Distin-guished Senior Scientist at BNL and Director ofthe RIKEN BNL Research Center.

Dr. Samios distinguished career has been de-voted to high energy particle physics, and he hasmade many vital contributions to that field. In

the early part of his career he was involved in thediscovery of the hyperon, demonstration of pari-ty violation in hyperon decays, determination ofthe parity and the first measurements of thedecay properties of several of the unstable parti-cles, namely , - and . He subsequently was themajor participant in the discovery of the meson,the (1530) hyperon, the spin of the (1385), allcrucial components in the study of particle spec-troscopy; and the discovery of the f(1515) and(958), the properties of the latter in retrospect

being one of the early evidences of the existence ofgluons. He is particularly well known for his dis-covery of the Omega Minus ( -) particle and thefirst Charmed Baryons ( c+, c++). In fact the no-

tation for baryon charmed particles was devisedand introduced by Dr. Samios. These major dis-coveries have played a crucial role in determiningthe symmetries and dynamics of the strong inter-actions, SU(3), asymptotic freedom and ultimatelyto the formulation of Quantum Chromodynamics(QCD), and the Standard Model. In more recenttimes, Dr. Samios has devoted his energy to thestudy of nuclei under extreme conditions of hightemperature and high energy density. As such, he

was responsible for the realization of the Rela-tivistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), an accelerator

facility, which was designed for and indeedachieved such extreme conditions for nuclei. Thediscovery of such a new form of matter whichturns out to have unexpected properties, beingcomposed of strongly interacting (in contrast to

weakly interacting) quarks andgluons, has opened up a com-pletely new and exciting areaof physics investigation. Theaddition of spin capability tothis RHIC facility, through thecollaboration with RIKEN, alsohas opened up an additionalavenue of investigation, name-ly that of the origin of the spin

of the proton.During his tenure as Direc-

tor of BNL, Dr. Samios oversawthe conceptualization, construc-tion and operation of manyforefront scientific and non-sci-entific facilities. Foremostamong these has involved thesignificant enhancement of the

nuclear heavy ion capability at BNL. This was ac-complished by building on the existing AGS struc-tures, with the addition of a transfer line, booster,and the RHIC collider. Research with this facilityhas already led to the major discoveries, and thecapability and versatility of this facility portends

the advent of many more exciting and fundamen-tal scientific discoveries. Phase II of the NationalSynchrotron Light Source, NSLS, was implement-ed under Dr. Samios guidance and for many yearshas produced extraordinary findings in materialand life science. It has already produced oneNobel Prize and accommodated the research activ-ities of over 2,000 yearly users. A full-scale imag-ing center with both a PET and NMR capabilitywas also established under Dr. Samios director-ship, where fundamental research on brain func-tion and addiction is being actively pursued. Alarge complex for waste handling, as well as achild development center for 100 youngsters werealso constructed during Dr. Samios tenure. Two

other important centers were also established.One was for exploring novel accelerator designs,the Center for Accelerator Physics, with its accom-panying accelerator test facility. The second in-

volved an international collaboration with RIKEN,Japan, in forming the RIKEN BNL Research Cen-ter to explore the origin of the spin of the proton,non-perturbative QCD, and advanced latticegauge computations.

For his work, Dr. Samios was named a winner

of the 1980 E.O. Lawrence Memorial Award forleadership in the study of elementary particle

physics, and that same year also received the NewYork Academy of Sciences Award in Physical andMathematical Sciences. In April 1982, he waselected to the National Academy of Sciences inrecognition of his significant contributions to sci-entific research. In 1993, he received the W.K.H.Panofsky Prize in recognition of his discovery ofthe Omega Minus. In 1994, he was elected into

Akademia Athenon as Corresponding Member,and in 2001 Dr. Samios was the recipient of the B.Pontecorvo Prize in recognition of his contributionto particle physics especially involving neutrinos.In August of 2009, Dr. Samios was awarded theGian Carlo Wick Gold Medal Award by the WorldFederation of Scientists. The citation read as fol-

lows: In his visionary role in the successful con-struction of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider(RHIC), and his intellectual Leadership in a se-ries of remarkable experimental discoveries whichestablished the existence of Quark Gluon Plasma(QGP), a new phase of strongly interacting nu-clear matter.

Dr. Samios has served on many national andinternational committees. For many years he wasa member of the U.S. Japan Committee on HighEnergy Physics, the US/PRC Joint Committee onHigh Energy Physics, the US/USSR Joint Coordi-nating Committee for Research on FundamentalProgress of Matter. For a shorter period he was amember of both the International Committee for

Future Accelerators and the HERA ManagementBoard. On the national scene Dr. Samios was anadvisor to many acceleration facilities: Fermilab,SLAC, CEBAF, Penn-Princeton Accelerator andthe National Ignition Facility at Livermore, aswell as other universities and laboratories: MIT,Stanford, and Los Alamos. He has advised DOE(and its predecessor AEC) as both a member ofHEPAP and for the site selection of what becameFermilab and the SSC Laboratory. Dr. Samioshas been active in both the APS as a member andChairman of the Physics Planning Committee,Chair of the Division of Particles and Fields, andfor the National Research Council as a member ofthe Commission on Physical Sciences Mathemat-

ics and Applications and other committees. Dr.Samios is a fellow of the American Academy ofArts and Sciences, the American Physical Society,and the American Association for the Advance-ment of Sciences. On a more local level he hasbeen a member of the Board of Directors of theStony Brook Foundation, Adelphi University, andthe Long Island Association. Dr. Samios was an

Adjunct Professor of Physics at Columbia Univer-sity for many years.

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NIKOLA TESLA

Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 7 January1943) was an inventor and a mechanical andelectrical engineer. He was one of the mostimportant contributors to the birth of com-mercial electricity and is best known for hismany revolutionary developments in thefield of electromagnetism in the late 19thand early 20th centuries. Teslas patents andtheoretical work formed the basis of modernalternating current (AC) electric power sys-

tems, including the polyphase system of elec-trical distribution and the AC motor, withwhich he helped usher in the Second Indus-trial Revolution.

Tesla was born an ethnic Serb in the vil-lage of Smiljan, Croatian Military Frontier,

Austrian Empire (todays Croatia). He was asubject of the Austrian Empire by birth andlater became an American citizen. After hisdemonstration of wireless communicationthrough radio in 1894 and after being the

victor in the War of the Currents, he was

widely respected as one of the greatest elec-trical engineers who worked in America.Much of his early work pioneered modernelectrical engineering and many of his dis-coveries were of groundbreaking importance.During this period, in the United States,Teslas fame rivaled that of any other inven-tor or scientist in history or popular culture,but because of his unusual personality andhis seemingly unbelievable and sometimesunconventional claims aboutpossible scientific and tech-

nological developments,Tesla was ultimately ostra-cized. Tesla never put muchfocus on his finances. It issaid he died impoverished,at the age of 86.

The International Systemof Units unit measuringmagnetic field B (also re-ferred to as the magneticflux density and magneticinduction), the tesla, was

named in his honor at the ConfrenceGnrale des Poids et Mesures, Paris, in1960). The Tesla effect of wireless energytransfer to wirelessly power electronic de-

vices, which Tesla demonstrated on a lowscale with incandescent light bulbs as earlyas 1893 and aspired to use for the interconti-nental transmission of industrial power lev-els in his unfinished Wardenclyffe Towerproject, was also named after him. Aside

from his work on electro-magnetism and electro-

mechanical engineering,Tesla contributed in varyingdegrees to the establishmentof robotics, remote control,radar, and computer science,and to the expansion of bal-listics, nuclear physics, andtheoretical physics. In 1943,the Supreme Court of theUnited States credited himas being the inventor of theradio.

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ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR:

ReiJane Huai

Chairman & CEO

FalconStor Software, Inc.

As a visionary in the data protection in-dustry and an esteemed Long Island busi-ness and technology leader, ReiJane Huai,Chairman and CEO of FalconStor Software,has enjoyed a prolific, distinguished career

in software development and managementthat spans 25 years.A native of Taiwan, Huai came to the

United States in 1984 and received a mas-ters degree in computer science from theState University of New York at StonyBrook in 1985. After a brief tenure at

AT&Ts Bell Laboratories, Huai joinedCheyenne Software, where he quickly roseto prominence in the company, heading re-search and development (R&D) and subse-quently becoming president and CEO.

At Cheyenne, he served as chief architectof ARCserve, the industry's first storagemanagement solution for the client/serverenvironment. Huai successfully spearhead-ed Cheyennes drive to become the industryleader in backup/restore and disaster recov-ery (DR). During that time, Huai saw Com-pany revenues soar, and in 1995, Cheyennewas named one of Forbes Magazines 200Best Small Companies to Work for In Amer-ica. Huai was largely responsible forCheyennes success and sale to CA in 1996for $1.2 billion USD.

While at CA, he oversaw sales, market-ing, and the development of strategic joint

ventures in the Asia-Pacific region. With avision fueled by Internet-driven data explo-sion and the need to manage ever-increas-ing enterprise data volumes, he and a sea-soned team of experts joined forces in 2000to bring a new storage virtualization plat-form to market.

As CEO of FalconStorSoftware in Melville, NY,Huai has built the com-panys offerings from this

open storage virtualiza-t ion platform, forgingstrong OEM relationshipsand amassing a vast net-work of channel partnersto bring the companysdata protection productportfol io to the widestcustomer base possible.

Today, a decade later,FalconStor is the leaderin disk-based data protec-tion and continues to bean innovator in the storage virtualizationspace. FalconStor solutions help customers

virtualize, consolidate, deduplicate, andprotect critical data stores over heteroge-neous storage networks, providing simpli-fied storage management and DR servicesto ensure high data availability and busi-ness continuity. FalconStor solutions elimi-nate vendor lock-in and give organizationsthe freedom to choose the applications andhardware components they want, helpingthem reduce dependencies on proprietarysystems and future-proof them against

costly technology changes down the road.Despite economic fluctuations, Huai and

his team at FalconStor have enjoyed steadygrowth and ongoing profitability. Armedwith a strong balance sheet, FalconStor iscontinuing to build a business infrastruc-

ture that facilitates theestablishment of strate-gic partnerships and de-livery of first-class servic-es and support. Falcon-

Stor was included inForbes 2008 list of Amer-icas 25 Fastest GrowingTechnology Companies,and Huai was namedErnst & Young Entrepre-neur of the Year in 2009.In 2009 and 2010, insteadof laying off employees tocut expenses, Huai in-

vested in further develop-ing and marketing Fal-conStor solutions, creat-

ing jobs and stimulating commerce on LongIsland and beyond.

Huais entrepreneurial spirit of innova-tion is pervasive throughout FalconStor. Itis this spirit that drives the entire companyto develop flexible and efficient technologysolutions that address real-world customerneeds. The end result of his leadershiptranslates into a first-class business thatcreates award-winning products that con-sistently garner industry accolades andhave won the loyalty of thousands of cus-tomers worldwide.

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