2010

LONG ISLAND TECHNOLOGY

HALL OF FAME

Recognizing, Honoring and Preserving

the Contributions, Accomplishments,

and Dedication of those Leaders in

Science and Technology Who Have Made

a Significant Impact on Long Island.

Inductees
LEO A. GUTHART
Leo A. Guthart currently manages Topspin Part-
ners, a venture capital fund and Topspin Partners
LBO, a buyout fund, both based on Long Island.
Prior to that he served as Chairman of the Security
and Fire Solutions Group of Honeywell Interna-
tional. Until its sale to Honeywell in 2000, he
served as Vice Chairman of Pittway Corporation
and Chief Executive Officer of its Security Group of
Companies. Among these are ADEMCO, the
largest manufacturer in the world of alarm equip-
ment; ADI, the largest distributor of security equip-
ment in the United States and AlarmNet, a cellu-
lar radio service which transmits alarm and securi-
ty signals in major US cities. He was also Chair-
man of publicly held Cylink Corporation, a leading
U.S. supplier of encryption equipment that was
DR. BORIS METLITSKY
Dr. Boris Metlitsky recently retired from Mo-
torola Inc. where he was Senior Vice-President
in charge of the Worldwide Enterprise Solutions
organization within Motorola’s
Enterprise Mobility Solutions
(EMS) business. In this role, he
was responsible for product
strategy, product development,
financial management and in-
novation. The organization he
led develops and markets mo-
bile computing, advanced data
capture and RFID (radio fre-
quency identification) products
and solutions. Today, Motorola
is a market leader in all of
these areas and you can find
sold to Safenet Corporation.
He is a graduate of Harvard College where he
received a BA degree in Physics and of Harvard
Business School where he was a George F. Baker
Scholar and received both an MBA and a Doctor-
ate in Business Administration with a specialty
in Corporate Finance. Mr.
Guthart served on the faculty
of Harvard Business School
and was a Ford Foundation Fel-
low performing research on cor-
porate share repurchases. His
articles on share repurchases
have been published in the
Harvard Business Review, the
Financial Analysts Journal and
the Journal of Finance.
He was Chairman of the
these innovative solutions in almost every in-
dustry including retail, manufacturing, trans-
portation, field service, logistics, hospitality,
healthcare, government and public safety.
Dr. Metlitsky is a graduate of Moscow Insti-
tute of Electronic Machine
Building (Russia) where he
received both an MS and PhD
in Electrical Engineering. In
1980 he immigrated to Unit-
ed States. In 1983 he accept-
ed an engineering position
with Symbol Technologies, a
fledgling start-up with only
30 employees and some great
ideas. Boris grew with the
company, rising through the
ranks to eventually lead all
product development. With 94
Board of Trustees of Hofstra University from
1993-1996, and is currently a member of the
Hofstra Board of Trustees. He is also a Trustee
of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, an Overseer
of the Hofstra-NSLIJ Medical School and a
Trustee of the Stony Brook Foundation. He was
a Founding Director of the
Long Island Research Insti-
tute and was a Trustee of the
Acorn Funds, a leading
growth-oriented family of
mutual funds. He is a Direc-
tor of AptarGroup, Inc.
(NYSE), an international
producer of dispensing
valves, pumps and closures
for pharmaceuticals and per-
fumes.
patents in his name, he contributed signifi-
cantly to Symbol’s leadership in barcode scan-
ning. He was also instrumental in helping
Symbol grow its business into new areas of
technology and succeed in mobile computing,
enterprise wireless local area networks
(eWLAN) and RFID. Boris led Engineering and
Product Development when Symbol won the
National Medal of Technology in 2000.
Dr. Metlitsky is not only an accomplished
businessman and talented engineering leader,
but he is also an exceptional motivator who
has inspired those he works for and with. He
has fostered and helped shape the careers of
many individuals along the way, mentoring
them and helping them develop as leaders in
their own rights. Many of these individuals
now occupy senior executive positions within
Motorola and other companies.
Inductee
DR. NICHOLAS P. SAMIOS
Dr. Samios graduated from Columbia College
in 1953 with a B.A. in Physics and in 1956 joined
the Faculty of the Physics Department at Colum-
bia. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Colum-
bia University in 1957. He was on the Faculty of
Columbia for three years,
1956-59.
In 1959, Dr. Samios joined
the Physics Department at
Brookhaven National Labora-
tory. He was Physics Group
Leader from 1965 to 1975, and
was named Chairman of
Brookhaven’s Physics Depart-
ment, serving in that capacity
from 1975 to 1981. In Febru-
ary 1981, he was named
Deputy Director for High Ener-
gy and Nuclear Physics. He
was appointed Acting Director
of the Laboratory on January
1, 1982 and Director on May 3,
1982. He served in that posi-
tion for 15 years, stepping
down on April 30, 1997. He is presently Distin-
guished Senior Scientist at BNL and Director of
the RIKEN BNL Research Center.
Dr. Samios’ distinguished career has been de-
voted to high energy particle physics, and he has
made many vital contributions to that field. In
the early part of his career he was involved in the
discovery of the ˚ hyperon, demonstration of pari-
ty violation in hyperon decays, determination of
the ˚ parity and the first measurements of the
decay properties of several of the unstable parti-
cles, namely ˚, - and ˚. He subsequently was the
major participant in the discovery of the meson,
the (1530) hyperon, the spin of the (1385), all
crucial components in the study of particle spec-
troscopy; and the discovery of the f’’(1515) and
’(958), the properties of the latter in retrospect
being one of the early evidences of the existence of
gluons. He is particularly well known for his dis-
covery of the Omega Minus ( -) particle and the
first Charmed Baryons ( c+, c++). In fact the no-
tation for baryon charmed particles was devised
and introduced by Dr. Samios. These major dis-
coveries have played a crucial role in determining
the symmetries and dynamics of the strong inter-
actions, SU(3), asymptotic freedom and ultimately
to the formulation of Quantum Chromodynamics
(QCD), and the Standard Model. In more recent
times, Dr. Samios has devoted his energy to the
study of nuclei under extreme conditions of high
temperature and high energy density. As such, he
was responsible for the realization of the Rela-
tivistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), an accelerator
facility, which was designed for and indeed
achieved such extreme conditions for nuclei. The
discovery of such a new form of matter which
turns out to have unexpected properties, being
composed of strongly interacting (in contrast to
weakly interacting) quarks and
gluons, has opened up a com-
pletely new and exciting area
of physics investigation. The
addition of spin capability to
this RHIC facility, through the
collaboration with RIKEN, also
has opened up an additional
avenue of investigation, name-
ly that of the origin of the spin
of the proton.
During his tenure as Direc-
tor of BNL, Dr. Samios oversaw
the conceptualization, construc-
tion and operation of many
forefront scientific and non-sci-
entific facilities. Foremost
among these has involved the
significant enhancement of the
nuclear heavy ion capability at BNL. This was ac-
complished by building on the existing AGS struc-
tures, with the addition of a transfer line, booster,
and the RHIC collider. Research with this facility
has already led to the major discoveries, and the
capability and versatility of this facility portends
the advent of many more exciting and fundamen-
tal scientific discoveries. Phase II of the National
Synchrotron Light Source, NSLS, was implement-
ed under Dr. Samios’ guidance and for many years
has produced extraordinary findings in material
and life science. It has already produced one
Nobel Prize and accommodated the research activ-
ities of over 2,000 yearly users. A full-scale imag-
ing center with both a PET and NMR capability
was also established under Dr. Samios’ director-
ship, where fundamental research on brain func-
tion and addiction is being actively pursued. A
large complex for waste handling, as well as a
child development center for 100 youngsters were
also constructed during Dr. Samios’ tenure. Two
other important centers were also established.
One was for exploring novel accelerator designs,
the Center for Accelerator Physics, with its accom-
panying accelerator test facility. The second in-
volved an international collaboration with RIKEN,
Japan, in forming the RIKEN BNL Research Cen-
ter to explore the origin of the spin of the proton,
non-perturbative QCD, and advanced lattice
gauge computations.
For his work, Dr. Samios was named a winner
of the 1980 E.O. Lawrence Memorial Award for
leadership in the study of elementary particle
physics, and that same year also received the New
York Academy of Sciences Award in Physical and
Mathematical Sciences. In April 1982, he was
elected to the National Academy of Sciences in
recognition of his significant contributions to sci-
entific research. In 1993, he received the W.K.H.
Panofsky Prize in recognition of his discovery of
the Omega Minus. In 1994, he was elected into
Akademia Athenon as Corresponding Member,
and in 2001 Dr. Samios was the recipient of the B.
Pontecorvo Prize in recognition of his contribution
to particle physics especially involving neutrinos.
In August of 2009, Dr. Samios was awarded the
Gian Carlo Wick Gold Medal Award by the World
Federation of Scientists. The citation read as fol-
lows: “In his visionary role in the successful con-
struction of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
(RHIC), and his intellectual Leadership in a se-
ries of remarkable experimental discoveries which
established the existence of Quark Gluon Plasma
(QGP), a new phase of strongly interacting nu-
clear matter.”
Dr. Samios has served on many national and
international committees. For many years he was
a member of the U.S. Japan Committee on High
Energy Physics, the US/PRC Joint Committee on
High Energy Physics, the US/USSR Joint Coordi-
nating Committee for Research on Fundamental
Progress of Matter. For a shorter period he was a
member of both the International Committee for
Future Accelerators and the HERA Management
Board. On the national scene Dr. Samios was an
advisor to many acceleration facilities: Fermilab,
SLAC, CEBAF, Penn-Princeton Accelerator and
the National Ignition Facility at Livermore, as
well as other universities and laboratories: MIT,
Stanford, and Los Alamos. He has advised DOE
(and its predecessor AEC) as both a member of
HEPAP and for the site selection of what became
Fermilab and the SSC Laboratory. Dr. Samios
has been active in both the APS as a member and
Chairman of the Physics Planning Committee,
Chair of the Division of Particles and Fields, and
for the National Research Council as a member of
the Commission on Physical Sciences Mathemat-
ics and Applications and other committees. Dr.
Samios is a fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society,
and the American Association for the Advance-
ment of Sciences. On a more local level he has
been a member of the Board of Directors of the
Stony Brook Foundation, Adelphi University, and
the Long Island Association. Dr. Samios was an
Adjunct Professor of Physics at Columbia Univer-
sity for many years.
Inductee
NIKOLA TESLA
Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January
1943) was an inventor and a mechanical and
electrical engineer. He was one of the most
important contributors to the birth of com-
mercial electricity and is best known for his
many revolutionary developments in the
field of electromagnetism in the late 19th
and early 20th centuries. Tesla’s patents and
theoretical work formed the basis of modern
alternating current (AC) electric power sys-
tems, including the polyphase system of elec-
trical distribution and the AC motor, with
which he helped usher in the Second Indus-
trial Revolution.
Tesla was born an ethnic Serb in the vil-
lage of Smiljan, Croatian Military Frontier,
Austrian Empire (today’s Croatia). He was a
subject of the Austrian Empire by birth and
later became an American citizen. After his
demonstration of wireless communication
through radio in 1894 and after being the
victor in the “War of the Currents,” he was
widely respected as one of the greatest elec-
trical engineers who worked in America.
Much of his early work pioneered modern
electrical engineering and many of his dis-
coveries were of groundbreaking importance.
During this period, in the United States,
Tesla’s fame rivaled that of any other inven-
tor or scientist in history or popular culture,
but because of his unusual personality and
his seemingly unbelievable and sometimes
unconventional claims about
possible scientific and tech-
nological developments,
Tesla was ultimately ostra-
cized. Tesla never put much
focus on his finances. It is
said he died impoverished,
at the age of 86.
The International System
of Units unit measuring
magnetic field B (also re-
ferred to as the magnetic
flux density and magnetic
induction), the tesla, was
named in his honor at the Conférence
Générale des Poids et Mesures, Paris, in
1960). The Tesla effect of wireless energy
transfer to wirelessly power electronic de-
vices, which Tesla demonstrated on a low
scale with incandescent light bulbs as early
as 1893 and aspired to use for the interconti-
nental transmission of industrial power lev-
els in his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower
project, was also named after him. Aside
from his work on electro-
magnetism and electro-
mechanical engineering,
Tesla contributed in varying
degrees to the establishment
of robotics, remote control,
radar, and computer science,
and to the expansion of bal-
listics, nuclear physics, and
theoretical physics. In 1943,
the Supreme Court of the
United States credited him
as being the inventor of the
radio.
Entrepreneurship
Award
ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR:
ReiJane Huai
Chairman & CEO
FalconStor Software, Inc.
As a visionary in the data protection in-
dustry and an esteemed Long Island busi-
ness and technology leader, ReiJane Huai,
Chairman and CEO of FalconStor Software,
has enjoyed a prolific, distinguished career
in software development and management
that spans 25 years.
A native of Taiwan, Huai came to the
United States in 1984 and received a mas-
ter’s degree in computer science from the
State University of New York at Stony
Brook in 1985. After a brief tenure at
AT&T’s Bell Laboratories, Huai joined
Cheyenne Software, where he quickly rose
to prominence in the company, heading re-
search and development (R&D) and subse-
quently becoming president and CEO.
At Cheyenne, he served as chief architect
of ARCserve, the industry's first storage
management solution for the client/server
environment. Huai successfully spearhead-
ed Cheyenne’s drive to become the industry
leader in backup/restore and disaster recov-
ery (DR). During that time, Huai saw Com-
pany revenues soar, and in 1995, Cheyenne
was named one of Forbes Magazine’s “200
Best Small Companies to Work for In Amer-
ica”. Huai was largely responsible for
Cheyenne’s success and sale to CA in 1996
for $1.2 billion USD.
While at CA, he oversaw sales, market-
ing, and the development of strategic joint
ventures in the Asia-Pacific region. With a
vision fueled by Internet-driven data explo-
sion and the need to manage ever-increas-
ing enterprise data volumes, he and a sea-
soned team of experts joined forces in 2000
to bring a new storage virtualization plat-
form to market.
As CEO of FalconStor
Software in Melville, NY,
Huai has built the com-
pany’s offerings from this
open storage virtualiza-
tion platform, forging
strong OEM relationships
and amassing a vast net-
work of channel partners
to bring the company’s
data protection product
portfolio to the widest
customer base possible.
Today, a decade later,
FalconStor is the leader
in disk-based data protec-
tion and continues to be
an innovator in the storage virtualization
space. FalconStor solutions help customers
virtualize, consolidate, deduplicate, and
protect critical data stores over heteroge-
neous storage networks, providing simpli-
fied storage management and DR services
to ensure high data availability and busi-
ness continuity. FalconStor solutions elimi-
nate vendor lock-in and give organizations
the freedom to choose the applications and
hardware components they want, helping
them reduce dependencies on proprietary
systems and future-proof them against
costly technology changes down the road.
Despite economic fluctuations, Huai and
his team at FalconStor have enjoyed steady
growth and ongoing profitability. Armed
with a strong balance sheet, FalconStor is
continuing to build a business infrastruc-
ture that facilitates the
establishment of strate-
gic partnerships and de-
livery of first-class servic-
es and support. Falcon-
Stor was included in
Forbes’ 2008 list of Amer-
ica’s 25 Fastest Growing
Technology Companies,
and Huai was named
Ernst & Young Entrepre-
neur of the Year in 2009.
In 2009 and 2010, instead
of laying off employees to
cut expenses, Huai in-
vested in further develop-
ing and marketing Fal-
conStor solutions, creat-
ing jobs and stimulating commerce on Long
Island and beyond.
Huai’s entrepreneurial spirit of innova-
tion is pervasive throughout FalconStor. It
is this spirit that drives the entire company
to develop flexible and efficient technology
solutions that address real-world customer
needs. The end result of his leadership
translates into a first-class business that
creates award-winning products that con-
sistently garner industry accolades and
have won the loyalty of thousands of cus-
tomers worldwide.