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Cloudmark's Vipul Ved Prakash Named One of the World's Top Young Innovators by Technology Review, MIT's Magazine of Innovation

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Prakash to be Honored September 24 - 25 at The Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT

SAN FRANCISCO — Sept. 15, 2003 — Cloudmark™, the company that has grown the world's largest and fastest growing SpamFighting community to more than 600,000 users and delivered solutions to thousands of businesses around the world, today announced that Vipul Ved Prakash, founder and chief scientist, has been named to the 2003 list of the world's 100 Top Young Innovators by Technology Review, MIT's Magazine of Innovation. The TR100, chosen by the editors of Technology Review and an elite panel of judges, consists of 100 individuals under age 35 whose innovative work in technology has a profound impact on today's world. Nominees are recognized for their contributions in transforming the nature of technology in industries such as biotechnology, computing, energy, medicine, manufacturing, nanotechnology, telecommunications and transportation.

Vipul Ved Prakash is a well-known Open Source developer who has been on the forefront of anti-spam research for five years and is the creator of the world's first and largest collaborative spam filtering system - a groundbreaking peer-to-peer (P2P) solution first named Vipul's Razor and very popular with the UNIX community. His creation is now called Cloudmark SpamNet, and represents the largest and fastest growing SpamFighting community in the world with more than 600,000 users. SpamNet is successful because of Prakash's vision to be the first to connect a community of people in real-time through its proprietary Trust Evaluation System (TeS), the only way a community approach can make the votes of each SpamFighter count immediately. Prior to founding Cloudmark, Prakash was at Napster, Inc., where he worked on cryptography software for the company's pay-for music sharing service. Prakash is a prolific contributor to the Open Source community and has authored several extensions to the Perl programming language.

"A platform that enables millions of people around the globe to collaborate at the click of a button is the most effective way to solve the unsolicited email problem - simply because people like you and me are the best judges of undesirable content," said Prakash. "Being selected for this year's TR100 list further highlights the power of this real-time SpamFighting community found only in SpamNet."

TR100's unparalleled panel of judges includes:

• Vinton Cerf, WorldCom Corporation
• David Tennenhouse, Intel
• Dr. Gordon Bell, Microsoft
• Christina Lampe-Onnerud, TIAX
• Stephen Quake, California Institute of Technology
• Rodney Brooks, MIT CSAIL
• George Whitesides, Harvard University

"Innovation and technological change are essential to worldwide economic growth. Now, more than ever, it's important to recognize that there is no one technology driving the next wave of success, but rather several that, when fused together, will create another era of significant change for our society. The members of this year's TR100 hail from fields such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, wireless, energy, computing and medicine. Each is actively developing the emerging technologies that we feel will profoundly impact our world in the century ahead," said Robert Buderi, editor-in-chief of Technology Review.

Prakash will be honored September 24 - 25 at The Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT. The event features keynotes, panels and breakout discussions on the transformative technological innovations that have the potential to fuel new economic growth and dramatically change the future. Speakers include Michael Dell, Founder and CEO of Dell Computer Corporation; Jeffrey R. Immelt, Chairman of the Board and CEO of General Electric; Bob Metcalfe, Founder of 3Com Corporation and General Partner at Polaris Venture Partners; and Nathan Myhrvold, Ph.D., Managing Director of Intellectual Ventures and former CTO of Microsoft Corporation. More information on ETC2003 can be found at www.etc2003.com.

About Technology Review Inc.

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