Bernard Daines and James LeVoy Sorenson have been selected for induction into the Utah Technology Council's Hall of Fame.
The ninth annual Hall of Fame awards dinner will take place Nov. 30 at the Grand America Hotel. The Hall of Fame honors individuals with Utah ties who have made key contributions to the information technology and life science industries through new technology, innovation and leadership.
Daines is recognized as an expert in Ethernet technology. He cofounded Grand Junction Networks and founded Packet Engines, where he led the industry's adoption of gigabit Ethernet technology. He also was involved in optical broadband by founding World Wide Packets. As chairman and chief executive officer of Linux Networx, Daines delivered clustered supercomputer systems.
Daines also has helped develop a computer science department at his alma mater, Brigham Young University, and has participated in course instruction and curriculum formation.
Sorenson began as a pharmaceuticals salesman and became an inventor, researcher and philanthropist. His inventions include the disposable surgical mask, the first catheter tip, the first blood recycling system for trauma and surgical procedures and the computerized heart monitor — the first device to accurately monitor conditions inside a living human.
Sorenson has more than 40 medical patents and Sorenson Research, launched in 1962, had produced about 500 individual products and employed 1,700 people 10 years after its start. Abbott Laboratories purchased the company in 1980.
Sorenson owns Sorenson Cos., the parent company to 32 corporations in numerous industries including medical, bioscience, investment/development and manufacturing. He also is involved in collecting DNA samples from around the world in order to map inheritance patterns.
Previous inductees include Stephen Aldous, Alan Ashton, David Bailey, Bruce Bastian, Nolan Bushnell, Edwin E. Catmull, Dr. James Clark, David Evans, Philo Taylor Farnsworth, Jim Kajiya, Alan Kay, Spencer Kirk, Drew Major, Raymond Noorda, Dinesh Patel, Shane V. Robinson, Kevin Rollins, David Spafford, Thomas Stockham Jr., Ivan Sutherland, Homer Warner and John E. Warnock.