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Friday May 13
Insurance Auto Auctions Named as Finalist for Computerworld Honors Program 21st Century Achievement Award
Insurance Auto Auctions, Inc. has been named as a finalist for the coveted 21st Century Achievement Award from the Computerworld Honors Program for its visionary use of information technology in the Finance, Insurance and Real Estate category. Michael D. Capellas, Chief Executive Officer at MCI and member of the Chairmen's Committee, nominated IAA in recognition of its contributions to the global information technology revolution and its positive impact on society. The award honorees will be announced at a gala at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. on June 6, 2005.Insurance Auto Auctions was one of 162 laureates selected by the program's Chairmen's Committee study from over 250 nominations to submit a case study that officially became part of the prestigious Computerworld Honors Collection this past April when the 2005 Collection was formally presented to the Global Archives. Of these 162 laureates, IAA is one of 48 finalists, in 10 categories, chosen by an academy of 30 distinguished judges to attend the June 6 event.
The award recognizes IAA's ingenuity in deploying an integrated wireless data and audio network throughout the Company's salvage centers. That same network made it possible for IAA to introduce I-bid LIVE(sm), the company's live auction Internet bidding platform.
"The Computerworld Honors 21st Century Achievement Awards are presented to organizations around the world who have made outstanding progress and whose visionary use of information technology produces and promotes positive social, economic and educational change," said Bob Carrigan, president and CEO of IDG's Computerworld, the Voice of IT Management, and chairman of the Chairmen's Committee of the Computerworld Honors Program. "The finalists for these awards along with the laureate innovators represented in the Honors Collection have been recognized by the leading IT industry chairmen as true revolutionaries in their fields."
Tom O'Brien, President and CEO of IAA commented, "IAA has made consistent, measurable progress in recent years in the development and application of new technology to benefit our clients. Our hybrid model of combining live auction Internet bidding with the live physical auction has proven to be extremely successful. It is truly an honor for us to now be recognized by industry experts as an innovative technological leader. Going forward, IAA will continue to leverage both existing and developing technologies to further enhance the overall value that makes IAA the preferred vendor for so many insurance companies and salvage buyers today."
The 2005 Collection, which will be archived in libraries, museums and academic and research institutions around the world, will serve as primary source material for scholars and as a resource for individuals who hope to use information technology to create solutions to address their own challenges. The collection is comprised of case studies from 54 countries.
Case studies from the 2005 Computerworld Honors Collection will be available at the official site of the Computerworld Honors Program, where the entire Collection is available to scholars, researchers and the general public worldwide. In addition, the Collection is distributed annually to the Honors Program's Archival Partners around the world. These partners include some of the world's finest research and scholarly institutions, each of which has generously agreed to include the Collection in its archives.
According to Dan Morrow, a founding director and chief historian for the Honors Program, "This year's finalists truly demonstrate how technology can significantly impact industries throughout the country. The accomplishments they have achieved through the use of technology are outstanding historical contributions to the information technology revolution in every sense of the word."
Insurance Auto Auctions, Inc., founded in 1982, currently has 79 auto auction sites across the United States.
Governed by the Computerworld Information Technology Awards Foundation, a Massachusetts not-for-profit corporation founded by International Data Group (IDG) in 1988, the Computerworld Honors Program searches for and recognizes individuals and organizations who have demonstrated vision and leadership as they strive to use information technology in innovative ways across 10 categories: Business and Related Services; Education and Academia; Environment, Energy and Agriculture; Finance, Insurance and Real Estate; Government and Non-Profit Organizations; Manufacturing; Media, Arts and Entertainment; Medicine; Science; and Transportation. Each year, the Computerworld Honors Chairmen's Committee nominates organizations that are using information technology to improve society for inclusion in the Computerworld Honors Online Archive and the Collections of the Global Archives. The Global Archives represents the 100-plus institutions from more than 30 countries that include the Computerworld Honors Collection in their archives and libraries.
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