Engelbart is currently senior technical adviser emeritus at SRI
and founder of the Bootstrap Institute (www .

About SRI International

Silicon Valley-based SRI International (http://www.sri. However , with the
rise of anti-Semitism in 1941 and the imminent Nazi occupation of Switzerland,
Roche sent all of its Jewish scientists, including Sternbach and his wife
Herta, to the United States.

In 1941, Sternbach began working at the eventual U. "Being a chemist, I spent most of my life
working in a laboratory, hoping that I could make a difference. During his illustrious career, Sternbach
earned numerous awards. In 1987, he was named Inventor of the Year by the New
York Patent, Trademark , and Copyright Law Association and was declared one of
the "25 Most Influential Americans of the 20th Century" by U.

About Roche - More Than a Century in the U.S.

Awards and Honors; national , international: Inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame, September 2002.

Engineer of the Year , Design News.

Inventor of the Year, MIT.

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Inventor of the Computer Mouse Joins Other Industry Pioneers
at Tonight's Induction Ceremony

SRI International, an independent nonprofit research and
development organization, today announced that Douglas Engelbart ,
Ph.D. Kenneth Levy, chairman of KLA-Tencor Corp.; Dr.com/about/timeline/mouse.J.D.thegersonmiracle .

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sri. SRI, an event
sponsor, will make a contribution that will fund a student scholarship
for academic excellence. Sternbach and his colleagues was a turning point for Roche,
which later led to other innovative drugs such as Rocephin(R) (oseltamivir
phosphate), Invirase(R) (saquinavir mesylate ) and Pegasys(R) (peginterferon
alfa-2a). He spent his early years in
Austria and Poland and gained his initial scientific skills from working with
his pharmacist father.S.S.

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"His life's work is an
inspiration to engineers of the future. In addition to conducting contract R+D, SRI
licenses its technologies, forms strategic partnerships and creates
spin-off companies. For further information ,
please visit our worldwide and U.
Dr. Albert Schweitzer,
himself a healed patient, called Gerson "the most eminent medical genius
ever.

Contact: Anita Wilson, Executive Director , (619) 685-5353,
awilson@gerson.

Film awards, 7 national and international.

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Dan Maydan,
president emeritus of Applied Materials, Inc. Past inductees include technology luminaries
William R.S."
"We are very pleased that Dr.

About the National Inventors Hall of Fame
The not -for-profit National Inventors Hall of Fame is the premier
organization in America dedicated to honoring and fostering creativity and
invention.invent. Roche employs
roughly 65,000 people in 150 countries , including approximately 15,000 in the
United States.
The Gerson Institute was founded in San Diego, CA in 1977 by Dr.

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"Dr. Engelbart's extraordinary commitment to advanced computing
revolutionized the way we communicate and collaborate, and paved the
way for the digital age," said Dr.


Sternbach, now 96, will be honored at the
Annual Induction Ceremony held in Akron, Ohio in May .

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Sternbach."
Sternbach was born in Abbazia, Austria (now Croatia) on May 7, 1908, into
a European world that would soon cease to exist. patents and has contributed to over 122
publications and six monographs. For more information, access
http://www. Roche is one of the world's leaders in
diagnostics , the leading supplier of pharmaceuticals for cancer, as well as a
leader in virology and transplantation .: http://www.
In 2004, Prince Charles of England, in a speech to the Royal College of
Obstetricians and Gynecologists, called for more research into this
extraordinarily effective means of treating and healing so-called "incurable"
diseases, causing a firestorm of controversy around the world.

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Rodgers, the founder, president and CEO of Cypress Semiconductor
Corp. We are deeply honored to
induct him into the Hall of Fame."
While at SRI, Engelbart and his team created many of the concepts
and tools that set the global computer revolution in motion.html
In 2000, President Bill Clinton honored Engelbart with the
National Medal of Technology for the work he led in advancing computer
science during his tenure at SRI. The
Selection Committee includes representatives from the leading national
scientific and technical organizations.S. Nobel Laureate Dr.

Raymond C.

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Technology Luminary and Pioneer Doug Engelbart Joins Silicon Valley Engineering Council Hall of Fame

; and Dr . His
vision and work in the 1960s resulted in the computer mouse, hypertext
linking, real-time text editing, online journals, shared-screen
teleconferencing, and remote collaboration technology . "We're honored to welcome him
into the Hall of Fame in recognition of his high caliber work. The first drugs in this new class
of tranquilizers were Librium(R) (chlordiazepoxide) and Valium. A long -time resident of Montclair, NJ, he and his
wife, Herta, now reside in Chapel Hill, NC.S.org. websites (Global: http://www." Gerson authored books and dozens of articles in the world's medical
literature , including his landmark book, "A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50
Cases.org.org
to view a free 90 minute documentary on the Gerson Therapy that was awarded
the top prize at the Beverly Hills Film Festival in May 2004.

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Hewlett and David Packard, the founders of Hewlett-Packard,
and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.com) is one
of the world's leading independent research and technology development
organizations. He later went on to receive a degree in Pharmacy from
Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.


Orthomolecular medicine concentrates on
getting the "correct" (ortho -) chemical molecules into the body, while
eliminating toxic, harmful or otherwise unhelpful chemicals .

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Engelbart and four other industry pioneers will be formally
inducted at a ceremony tonight hosted by the Silicon Valley
Engineering Council (SVEC), an umbrella organization of more than 40
professional societies representing 60,000 engineers, scientists and
technologists in the region.org), which is
dedicated to furthering Engelbart's vision of boosting mankind's
collective capability for coping with complex and urgent problems. Sternbach began working at Roche's
international headquarters in Basel, Switzerland in 1940. Throughout 1978, 2. Valium celebrated its 40th anniversary
in 2003.S .

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, Mr. Sternbach has been selected for this
prestigious honor.3 billion doses of Valium
were taken , making the little drug with the stamped "V" the first to be
considered an undeniable blockbuster .
Sternbach holds over 241 U. As a supplier of products and services
for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, the Group contributes
on many fronts to improve people's health and quality of life. Gerson's
daughter, Charlotte Gerson.orthomed.

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The 15th annual Hall of Fame ceremony and banquet will be held
tonight at the Westin Santa Clara in Santa Clara, Calif. It was here that Sternbach , along with colleagues Lowell
Randall and Earl Reeder, began experimenting with what was to become a
revolutionary class of safe and effective tranquilizers, the benzodiazepines,
used to treat sleep and anxiety disorders. Valium, Librium, Quarzan(R) (clidinium bromide), Mogadon(R)
(nitrazepam ) and Klonopin(R) (clonazepam) are examples of products that have
emerged from his laboratory for various uses: tranquilizers, anticonvulsants,
hypnotics, anticholinergics. Roche's
Pharmaceuticals Division offers a portfolio of leading medicines in
therapeutic areas including cancer, HIV/AIDS , hepatitis C, transplantation,
dermatology and influenza.

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The other distinguished Hall of Fame inductees include Dr. More
information can be found at
http://www.bootstrap.S. headquarters of
Roche in Nutley, N.J. Knowing that
Valium has positively impacted the lives of millions of Americans , and that my
research has paved the way for other such discoveries, is one of the most
rewarding experiences of my life. Founded in 1973 by the U.roche. Max Gerson (1881-1959) originally developed the holistic Gerson
Therapy to cure his own debilitating migraine headaches, later discovering
that it also was effective against skin tuberculosis, diabetes and a host of
other chronic, degenerative diseases.


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The
nonprofit research institute performs contract research and
development for government agencies, commercial businesses and
nonprofit foundations. - Roche Scientist Leo Sternbach Honored for Contributions to Society and
Promoting Scientific Progress -

NUTLEY, N. and the World
Founded in 1896 and headquartered in Basel, Switzerland , Roche is one of
the world's leading innovation-driven healthcare groups. One of an increasingly rare
breed of major healthcare companies that still bear their original name, Roche
today has more than a dozen U. He was one
of eight inductees, one of whom was the Nobel Prize winner who discovered
Vitamin C, all pioneers in their respective fields whose seminal work has been
influential in the medical and scientific worlds.

Dickson Prize 1994 (Carnegie Mellon University, top science prize ).

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Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

MENLO PARK, Calif.
Most of Sternbach's breakthroughs involved the central nervous system
(CNS) -- a result of his pioneering experimentation in the new class of
tranquilizers. Max Gerson, the developer of the world-famous Gerson
Therapy for cancer and degenerative disease, was honored by induction into the
Orthomolecular Medicine Hall of Fame on May 14, 2005.

Honorary Doctorates and honors (12) from 3 U.

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Sam David Haddad, consulting
professor of engineering at Stanford University and chairman of the
SVEC Hall of Fame and Awards Committee ., Roche is very proud to announce that
Leo H. He is a unique individual with a demonstrated passion for
science -- he is an inventor's inventor," said George Abercrombie, president
and CEO, Hoffmann -La Roche Inc. Patent and Trademark
Office and the National Council of Intellectual Property Law Association , the
Hall's permanent home is Akron, Ohio.S.

Grace Murray Hopper Award, Association for Computing Machinery.

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, one of the inventors of Valium(R) (diazepam), has
been selected as a 2005 Inductee to the National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF)
for his contributions to medicine. Roche's Diagnostics Division supplies a wide array
of innovative testing products and services to researchers, physicians ,
patients, hospitals and laboratories world-wide.us)

All trademarks used or mentioned in this release are legally protected.

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His work is
the very foundation of personal computing and the Internet. For
Roche, that is Dr.
Sternbach retired from Roche in 1973 after completing a career that
spanned over six decades.D.org.

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The Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of
Fame recognizes local engineers for their outstanding engineering and
technology achievements and significant contributions to the
community. To be inducted into the National
Inventors Hall of Fame, nominees must hold at least one U.
"Leo Sternbach's pharmaceutical breakthroughs perfectly illustrate the
enormous impact that National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees have on our
society and our economy," said Fred Allen, head of the Selection Committee for
the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation. Its core businesses
are pharmaceuticals and diagnostics.roche. The Institute provides information and referral,
Gerson-oriented literature and media, and training classes for both health
care practitioners and interested laymen.

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J. Engelbart was
also a key contributor to the early formation of the ARPANET community
and the founding of the Network Information Center (NIC). Founded as Stanford Research Institute in 1946, SRI has
been meeting the strategic needs of clients for almost 60 years. His first accomplishment, in the 1940s, was the
synthesis of biotin, a vitamin of the B class. operations celebrate their American Centennial in 2005. SAN DIEGO, The San Diego-based Gerson Institute
today announced that Dr." This book has sold over half a million copies in five languages
around the world.
Orthomolecular Medicine is the branch of medicine founded by two-time
Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling , Ph.

He founded and developed nine successful businesses in: OCR, speech recognition, reading technology , virtual reality, financial investment, cybernetic art, music synthesis, and other areas of AI.

Lemelson -MIT Prize, $500,000, US largest award in invention and innovation, 2001.

National Medal of Technology , 1999, USs highest honor in technology, from President Clinton in White House ceremony.

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David
Patterson , professor of computer science at the University of
California, Berkeley. The invention of the first blockbuster drug,
Valium, by Dr.
"It has brought me great comfort to know that I could, in some way, help
people feel better," Sternbach said."
Approved by the FDA in 1963, Valium was the most prescribed drug in the
United States from 1969 to 1982.S. News + World
Report. In 2003 , Sternbach published his autobiography, titled: Good
Chemistry: The Life and Times of Valium Inventor Leo Sternbach. Each year a new class of inventors is inducted into the Hall of
Fame in recognition of their patented inventions that make human, social and
economic progress possible.
Roche 's U. The ceremony was held
in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada at a special banquet at The International Society
of Orthomolecular Medicine's 34th annual international conference.

He has written books on health, AI, transhumanism, and the technological singularity.

He is a recognized leader in future studies .

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The selection committee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation
chose Sternbach , as one of 14 2005 Inductees to the Hall of Fame.

He was the main developer of many firsts: omni-font optical character recognition (OCR) software, text-to-speech synthesizer and print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, charge coupled device (CCD) flat-bed scanner, commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition software, electronic keyboard music synthesizer able to emulate the sounds of orchestra instruments such as grand pianos.

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, inventor of the computer mouse while at SRI, has been named to
the Silicon Valley Engineering Council Hall of Fame. The Medal is the nation's highest
technology honor , recognizing innovators who have made lasting
contributions to enhancing America's competitiveness and standard of
living, and whose solid science has resulted in commercially
successful products and services. Sternbach, Ph. patent. He also developed Arfonad(R)
(trimetaphan camsilate) for minimizing bleeding during CNS-related surgery. In
another milestone this year, Roche was named in January to Fortune magazine's
list of Best Companies to Work for in America.

Dr. Max Gerson Inducted Into the Orthomolecular Medicine Hall of Fame

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Valium Inventor Inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame

"Within every company, there are one or two
people whose legacy becomes the hallmark of what the company is all about. sites located in California, Colorado,
Indiana, New Jersey and South Carolina, as well as in Puerto Rico. Roche has
alliances and research and development agreements with numerous partners,
including majority ownership interests in Genentech and Chugai.com and
U . The Gerson Therapy is a state of
the art, natural treatment which utilizes the body's own healing mechanism in
the treatment and cure of chronic debilitating illness. For more
information, visit http://www.
For more information about the Institute please visit
http://www.

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