Dr. Rajeev Surati wins prestigious MIT GITA Award

April 13, 2009
Cambridge, MA

Scalable Display Technologies, an industry leader in auto-alignment for multi-projector displays, is pleased to announce that Rajeev Surati, President and Co-Founder, has been selected as a winner of the highly acclaimed Global Indus Technovator Award (GITA) 2008 for Techinfo.

Founder and inventor, Rajeev has built several successful companies and been granted five patents to date including the core patent for Scalable Display Technologies. Among Rajeev’s many inventions are Enterprise Instant Messaging (for Flash Communications) and the distributed “Application push over HTTP” system (for Nexaweb). At Photo.net Corporation, which Rajeev cofounded, he was responsible for running the first photo-sharing site on the Web. He also cofounded Flash Communications, subsequently sold to Microsoft. Rajeev serves on the Boards of Tao Group and Photo.net. and the advisory board of Prematics and Nexaweb Corporations. Rajeev’s Ph.D. from MIT focused on projector/camera feedback systems.

The Global Indus Technovator Awards (GITA) have been instituted recognize and felicitate young South Asians who have made outstanding technological or entrepreneurial contributions leading to far-reaching benefits; facilitate networking between professionals in industry, research and business to accelerate the development and application of emerging technologies; provide a base for aspiring innovators and entrepreneurs to draw motivation from the entrepreneurial work of the successful professionals.
Under Surati’s leadership Scalable Display is expanding rapidly around the globe. Recently Scalable has won contracts for simulation display solutions with the Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard and several Fortune 500 customers. Military simulation is the primary market for Scalable’s EasyBlend software.

“I am deeply honored by this award and wish to express my appreciation to GITA for their hard work in advancing emerging technologies. ” said Rajeev Surati, President, Scalable Display Technologies.

Additional Details on GITA can be found at: http://web.mit.edu/technovators/gita/2008_winners_infotech.html
www.scalabledisplay.com.

About Scalable Display
Scalable Display Technologies, Inc., located Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a leading provider of auto-alignment software used to create stacked and edge-blended displays. Our EasyBlend software simplifies the creation of super-resolution, multi-projector displays of highest quality and scalable size. EasyBlend opens the door to wide-spread use of multi-projector displays for a new class of simulators based on off the shelf components, as well as supporting new forms of digital signage, digital cinema and data visualization tools.

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http://www.scalabledisplay.com