The Googol Best New Application Paper Award (Sponsored by Googol Technology (HK) Ltd)

About the award
Description:	To recognize the Best New Application Paper of the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE) published in the previous calendar year.
Established:	2004
Prize:	$1,000 to be shared by all authors and certificates for individual authors.
Funding:	Funded by the Googol Technology (HK) Ltd. with a five-year commitment (2004-2008).
Eligibility:	All papers published in the T-ASE during the previous calendar year.
Basis for judging:	Factors to be considered: The significance of new applications, technical merit, originality, potential impact on the field, and clarity of presentation.
Presentation:	At the annual IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation or the IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (no award will be given if no qualified candidate is nominated).

Winners of this award

Year	Winner and reason
2006	Jae Wan Kwon, Sanat Kamal-Bahl,Eun Sok Kim In-situ DNA Synthesis on Glass Substrate for Microarray Fabrication Using Self-Focusing Acoustic Transducer, Vol. 3, No. 2, April 2006, pp. 152-158
2006	L. Dong, B. Nelson, T. Fukuda, F. Arai Toward Nanotube Linear Servomotors, Vol. 3, No. 3, July 2006, pp. 228-235
2005	Award not given
2004	D. Garg, Y. Narahari and N. Viswanadham "Design of Six Sigma Supply Chains" T-ASE Vol. 1, No. 1, July 2004, pp. 38-57