Here are the Silicon Valley winners of the World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneers 2008 Award:
23andMe, Mountain View: Creates technology that lets people search for their genetic makeup.
Accuray, Sunnyvale: Makes a doctor-directed robot called CyberKnife, which treats tumors with radiation. More than 40,000 patients have been treated by more than 100 CyberKnife robots in use worldwide, the company says.
Admob, San Mateo: A mobile advertising marketplace provider.
Arteris, San Jose (with dual headquarters in Paris): Start-up focusing on the challenge of creating networking capabilities for chips that have many different functions incorporated into them.
Innovative Silicon, Santa Clara: Develops and licenses Z-RAM - dense, low-cost memory technology seen as a successor to dynamic random access memory (DRAM).
LS9, San Carlos: A "renewable petroleum" company whose re-engineered microbes produces hydrocarbons that act like those in petroleum. The company says it is pursuing industrial applications of synthetic biology to produce proprietary biofuels.
Lumio, Menlo Park: Creates low-cost, high-resolution sensing technologies and miniature, efficient projection technologies that can convert an inert surface into an interactive touch sensitive area.
Meraki, Mountain View: Offers affordable Internet access through a new approach to wireless networking.
Nanostellar, Redwood City: A start-up that applies nanotechnology to catalytic converters to help clean diesel engine exhaust.
Silver Spring Networks, Redwood City: Makes intelligent, Internet protocol-based networking products.
Unidym, Menlo Park: Creates products for the electronics industry using carbon nanotubes.
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