ACM and Infosys Foundation Honor Innovator of Scalable Web Technology That Underpins All Major Internet Services

UC Berkeley's Brewer to Receive US$150,000 Prize for Contemporary Contributions to Data-Intensive Computing and Bringing the Information Technology Revolution to the Developing World

NEW YORK and BANGALORE, India, March 15, 2010 - ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) www.acm.org
announced today that Eric Brewer, a professor at the University of California
Berkeley, has been named the recipient of the 2009 ACM-Infosys Foundation
Award in the Computing Sciences for his contributions to the design and
development of highly scalable Internet services. Brewer laid the foundation
for the giant data centers that make possible search, email, social networks,
mapping, and other Internet services, and also enable cloud computing.
Brewer, 43, also proposed the CAP Theorem (the inherent incompatibility of
Consistency, Availability, and Partition tolerance, the core requirements for
applications in distributed environments), an indispensable concept for
practitioners who build and operate systems that serve hundreds of millions
of customers cost-effectively and efficiently. He has directed his recent
efforts to deliver information systems that benefit tens of thousands of
people in developing countries with sustainable local resources.

The ACM-Infosys Foundation Award
awards.acm.org/homepage.cfm?awd=165, established in August 2007,
recognizes personal contributions by young scientists and system developers
to a contemporary innovation that exemplifies the greatest recent
achievements in the computing field. Financial support for the US$150,000
award is provided by an endowment from the Infosys Foundation.

Dame Wendy Hall, ACM's president, said Brewer has delivered
groundbreaking design and analytical work that forms the basis for how the
world builds scalable service. "Professor Brewer's influential work on
scalable web services has defined the basic architecture that is used by
almost all systems, and marks him as a visionary with the potential to
advance society on numerous social and economic levels."

In 1994, as part of the Berkeley Network of Workstations (NoW) project,
Brewer recognized that clusters would be a perfect match for search and other
Internet services. He built a highly scalable, cost-effective Web search
service using clusters of computers, and went on to deploy this prototype at
scale at Inktomi Corp., which he co-founded in 1995 with Berkeley graduate
student Paul Gauthier. The company was purchased by Yahoo! in 2003.

Brewer's notion of clusters of Internet services has evolved into cloud
computing, which relies on the Internet to share computer resources rather
than on software or storage embedded on a local device. Brewer also
introduced a model for database management systems that delivers high-scale
Internet services known as the BASE (Basically Available, Soft-state,
Eventual consistency) approach. This model has influenced how the massively
scalable services that power e-commerce as well as cloud computing have been
developed.

S. Gopalakrishnan (Kris), CEO and Managing Director, Infosys Technologies
said, "We are especially proud to honor Eric Brewer for contributions to
computer science research and his demonstration of the use of IT for the
benefit of disadvantaged populations in many regions, especially in
developing nations."

TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT

Brewer is also known for Brewer's "Wireless Hypothesis", a radical notion
that the best path for improving the quality of life in the rural areas of
developing regions is to develop their information and communication
infrastructure before the traditional infrastructure components are built, as
the former are now significantly cheaper to deploy. This concept has been
instrumental in the Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions (TIER)
research group, which Brewer heads.

TIER is aimed at bringing the information technology revolution to
developing nations around the world. It has initiated several key projects
that address the challenges of development in these regions using novel
technologies to build educational tools, increase access to healthcare,
extend wireless communications, and establish distributed storage facilities.
For example, Brewer and his students deployed their WiLDNet technology, which
repurposes standard low-cost WiFi chips with new software protocols and
drivers to cover very long distances, thus enabling rural telemedicine in
India. Over 25,000 patients have had their vision restored after diagnosis
via TIER links used by India's Aravind Eye Hospital.

In 2000, Brewer founded the Federal Search Foundation, a 501(c) (3)
organization to improve consumer access to government information. Through
this foundation, he helped create USA.gov, the official portal of the U.S.
government, which was launched in September 2000.

Brewer was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2007, and
selected as an ACM Fellow in 2008. He was named one of the Top Ten Innovators
by InfoWorld in 2001 for his leadership of Internet search engines. In 2000,
the Industry Standard named him Most Influential Internet Architect for
leadership in large-scale web caching and early overlay networks. A graduate
of UC Berkeley with a BS in electrical engineering and computer science, he
was awarded MS and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.

ACM will present the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award at its annual Awards
Banquet June 26, in San Francisco, CA. For more information, click on
awards.acm.org/2010/acm-infosys-award.cfm .

About ACM

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery www.acm.org, is the
world's largest educational and scientific computing society, uniting
computing educators, researchers and professionals to inspire dialogue, share
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profession's collective voice through strong leadership, promotion of the
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About The Infosys Foundation

Established in 1996, the Infosys Foundation is the philanthropic arm of
Infosys Technologies Ltd. and has the sole objective of fulfilling the social
responsibility of the company by creating opportunities and working toward a
more equitable society. The Infosys Foundation has made effective strides in
the areas of healthcare, education, social rehabilitation, and the arts. The
company contributes up to one percent of its profit to the foundation each
year.

About Infosys Technologies

Infosys (Nasdaq: INFY) defines, designs and delivers IT-enabled business
solutions that help Global 2000 companies win in a Flat World. These
solutions focus on providing strategic differentiation and operational
superiority to clients. With Infosys, clients are assured of a transparent
business partner, world-class processes, speed of execution and the power to
stretch their IT budget by leveraging the Global Delivery Model that Infosys
pioneered. Infosys has over 109,000 employees in over 50 offices worldwide.
Infosys is part of the NASDAQ-100 Index and The Global Dow. For more
information, visit www.infosys.com

Virginia Gold of ACM, +1-212-626-0505, vgold at acm.org; or Peter McLaughlin of Infosys Technologies, Ltd., +1-213-268-9363, peter_mclaughlin at infosys.com