Robert C. Michelson for his work on the Entomopter, a biologically inspired insect-like aerial robot. Past Award Winners Winners of the Pirelli Award (First Prize for best from any institution, and Top Pirelli Prize): 1996 First Prize: Elisa Manacorda (Italy) for GalileoNet.it 1997 First Prize: Marco Ziegler (Switzerland) for sgich1.unifr.ch/visu.html 1998 First Prize: Jurgen Renn (Germany) for the Institute and Museum of the History of Science 1999 First Prize: Ericsson Medialab (Sweden) for Warriors of the Net 2000 First Prize: Roberto Fieschi (INFM, Italy) for maccw.sns.it/technet 2001 First Prize and Top Pirelli Prize: Robert C. Michelson (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) for the Entomopter Project 2002 First Prize and Top Pirelli Prize: Howard Hughes Medical Institute (USA) for GVirtual Labs 2003 First Prize and Top Pirelli Prize: David Grubin Productions, Thirteen/WNET and Docstar (USA) for Secret Life of the Brain 2004 First Prize and Top Pirelli Prize: Patrick J. Lynch (Yale University, USA) for the Yale-New Haven Medical Center 2005 First Prize and Top Pirelli Prize: Roeland van der Marel and Gijs Verdoes Kleijn (Space Telescope Science Institute, Netherlands/USA) and Educational Web Adventures (Netherlands/USA) for Black Holes: Gravity's Relentless Pull 2006 First Prize and Top Pirelli Prize: New Index (Norway) for the Interactive Mobile Whiteboard 2007 First Prize and Top Pirelli Prize: Space Telescope Institute/Google (USA) for Google Sky Future In a July 2, 2008 communique, author and manager of the Pirelli Internetional Award, Massimo Armeni, announced that Pirelli would no longer be conducting the award on an annual basis, however no indication was given as to when the next competition for the award would be announced. See also List of engineering awards List of computer science awards References External links Official Pirelli Award web site Describes the purpose, categories, history, and rules for winning the Pirelli Award. (Retrieved 25 June 2014) The Video Of Pirelli Award on YouTube Computer science awards Science and technology awards Pirelli