With
$114 million in investment from Corning Inc.

* MediPhotonics Development Co.S. TRUSTe's mission extends
standards, certification and oversight into email with Bonded Sender and
wireless with the Wireless Advisory Committee.

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Rochester's Infotonics Technology Center is one such success story.

Infotonics expects to create up to 5,000 jobs in the Rochester, New York
area by 2012 and continues to add university and private-sector partners on a
consistent basis.

TRUSTe Board Members Named to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Privacy Advisory Committee

Members of the Advisory Committee have diverse expertise in privacy,
security and emerging technology, and come from large and small companies, the
academic community, and the non-profit sector. Today, TRUSTe maintains the largest privacy seal program with more
than 1,300 Web sites certified throughout the world including AOL, Microsoft,
IBM , Intuit, Nationwide and The New York Times.

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, The U. Smith, CEO of the Infotonics Technology Center ."
To read the entire NII report from the Council on Competitiveness, please
go to http://www .S."
Richard Purcell was appointed TRUSTe Chairman of the Board in January.

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U.S. Council on Competitiveness Cites Rochester New York as 'Model Innovation Hot Spot'; Region's Infotonics Center Announces Plan to Become National Center f

If you are an optics researcher or company and have a
concept or product that needs fine-tuning, Infotonics is ready, willing, able
-- and eager -- to work with you. "We are thrilled leaders in Rochester recognize
that and look forward to working with leaders across the U. He
is the CEO of Corporate Privacy Group, an independent privacy-consulting
group, which focuses on privacy education. The first Privacy
Advisory Committee meeting will be held on April 6, 2005 in Washington, D.

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Optimax is a supplier to many, including the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center and Raytheon. The members also reflect a
geographic diversity as well as a seasoned depth of knowledge on issues of
data protection, openness , technology, and national security.

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Y. The conference and trade show is the largest optics industry
event in North America, attracting some 800 exhibitors and 13,000 attendees. 344. Infotonics and MediPhotonics signed
an agreement last September to jointly develop the Compact Photonic
Explorer (CPE), or "pill camera," for medical applications."
The Council on Competitiveness has already begun reaching out to
Congressional and White House leaders to ensure that the NII report's
recommendations are aggressively pursued and implemented.

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and the University of Rochester Institute
of Optics. Wayne Clough,
President of the Georgia Institute of Technology, and signed by some 20 top
CEOs, the Council on Competitiveness warned the U. The 68-page report called on the federal government to make
innovation a priority and invest in the creation of 10 national innovation hot
spots over the next five years. The center was recently highlighted by BusinessWeek as a
"mini-Silicon Valley" in a piece on the Council on Competitiveness report. Industry Leaders Will Advise Secretary of Homeland Security and Its Chief
Privacy Officer on Privacy Policies and Operations

SAN FRANCISCO, TRUSTe, the leading online privacy
non-profit organization, today announced that its chairman and two members of
its board have been selected to sit on the U.
"TRUSTe strongly supports the Department of Homeland Security's creation
of an advisory committee on data privacy and integrity," said Fran Maier,
executive director and president of TRUSTe.

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Council on
Competitiveness , a nonprofit organization representing the nation's top
corporate chief executives, university presidents and labor leaders, today
joined the Infotonics Technology Center Inc. "Since the early days of the
Internet, TRUSTe has worked with organizations and individuals to establish a
framework of trust for online commerce. Members for the
first term will serve for two years, three years, or four years and all
subsequent members will serve for a period of four years.

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, QED Technologies Inc.
"Rochester has an outstanding record of innovation that we intend to carry
on for a long time to come ," GRE's Finney said. Joseph Alhadeff, vice president
for global public policy and chief privacy officer of Oracle Corporation, has
served on the TRUSTe board since January 2004. David Hoffman , group counsel
and director of privacy at the Intel Corporation, has experience in privacy
issues with business compliance and product development.

'Science and Technology Policy' deals with topics ranging from role of governments in the scientific enterprise and the promotion of technology to the development of indicators of research performance, the protection of intellectual property rights and the impact of science and technology on society.

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"In addition, Rochester's Infotonics Technology
Center is an outstanding example of what industry, academia and the public
sector can accomplish when they work together to energize their regional
economy, and in so doing, help secure America's place in the 21st century
global economy.

Its seal programs are considered Safe Harbors for the
Children 's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the EU Safe Harbor
Framework.

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and Greater Rochester Enterprise
Inc.org.

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Among those planning to attend are JML Optical Industries Inc.
In its recent National Innovation Initiative report, "Innovate America,"
co-chaired by Samuel Palmisano, CEO of IBM Corporation , and Dr.

ABOUT TRUSTe
TRUSTe, the online privacy leader, is an independent, nonprofit
organization dedicated to enabling individuals and organizations to establish
trusting relationships based on respect for personal identity and information
in the evolving networked world.

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The University and Greater Rochester Enterprise exhibits will be
co-located in Booth No. "What
SeMaTech did for semiconductors, Infotonics seeks to do for optics, photonics
and microsystems.

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must "innovate or
abdicate" if it is to lead and succeed in an increasingly competitive global
marketplace. San Jose/Silicon Valley, Greater Austin and
Route 128/Boston are extraordinarily successful in stimulating
entrepreneurship and commercializing innovations, the report states, but the
federal government needs to do more and should join forces with states,
regions, universities and private companies to create similar success stories
elsewhere in the country.
"The Rochester Region is not just a part of the future of optics, it's at
the forefront, and Infotonics is working to ensure it remains in the
vanguard," said David R. to ensure that
America continues to innovate -- not abdicate -- in the 21st century.truste.

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S. The
partnership seeks to create an ingestible photonic pill that would
enable physicians to detect early stage cancer of the complete auto-
digestive tract.

* Rochester-based Integrated Nano-Technologies, which
worked with Infotonics to jointly develop microchips for its DNA
detection system, BioDetect, for use in the biosecurity and clinical
diagnostics markets. Hoffman has
served on the TRUSTe Board of Directors for three years. For more information on TRUSTe
please visit http://www.

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S., Xerox Corp.

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Previously, Purcell was the Chief
Privacy Officer for Microsoft Corporation.

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Council on Competitiveness., Eastman Kodak Co.,
New York State, the federal government and 20 universities -- including
Cornell University and the University of Rochester -- Infotonics is a New York
State Center of Excellence that is determined to become a National Center for
Photonics and Microsystems. This
committee has been established to advise the DHS Secretary and the agency's
Chief Privacy Officer on programmatic , policy, and technological issues that
affect privacy.

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Recognition comes as GRE, Infotonics and area optics firms prepare to attend
Photonics West in San Jose

ROCHESTER , N.
"With more than 50 leading optics companies, 55 percent of all optics
degrees conferred in the U.

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22-27, in San
Jose, California. Among them are:

* Optimax Systems, a precision optics and rapid prototyping firm based in
the Rochester area. Clearly, we must
be doing something right and we're proud that the Council on Competitiveness
recognizes that. Department of Homeland
Security's (DHS) Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. Mr.C.

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in naming the Rochester , New York Region as a "model innovation hot spot"
for optics and announcing that Infotonics has what it takes to become a
National Center for Photonics and Microsystems., Optimax
Systems Inc. LLC , a New York subsidiary of New Jersey-
based Mediscience Technology Corp.
"This report is too important to sit on a shelf and collect dust," the
Council's Wince-Smith said.
Founded in 1997, TRUSTe runs an award-winning global privacy certification
and seal program.

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"The Council on Competitiveness has reaffirmed what those of us in the
Rochester, New York Region have long known -- that Rochester is a leader in
optics, imaging and photonics," said Michael A.

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The announcement comes as more than 25 organizations and companies from
the Rochester area prepare to attend Photonics West 2005, Jan. We are pleased DHS selected three of
our board members to join this influential group, further demonstrating
TRUSTe's leadership.org.

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Finney, President and CEO of
Greater Rochester Enterprise, an economic development organization dedicated
to job creation in the Rochester area. "We're honored the Council has chosen
to call attention to our region 's efforts."
Infotonics works with numerous regional, national and international
companies .compete.

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, and more than 150 years of experience in the
optics industry, the Rochester Region is a clear leader in the field and a
'model innovation hot spot' for regions across the country looking to support
their own core industries," said Deborah Wince-Smith, President of the U. The company created the lenses used by the Mars
Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, to beam back images to Earth. "We're first in the nation in
patents per capita; we're fifth for overall innovation capacity; and we rank
among the top 10 in the world for knowledge competitiveness.

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