15 minutes of fame

I apologise for this piece of self indulgent self aggrandising narcissism. As if the rest of my site isn't, but I collected digital medals ("digimedals", cf. Special Agent Oso) when it was less uncool to collect them. See also: my CV and my research group's vanity section.

• September 27, 2011: My purchase of a Colbert Super PAC T-shirt was revealed juxtaposed to the Stephen and Melinda Gates Foundation.
• July 20, 2010: Ram Saudrala won the 2010 NIH Director's Pioneer Award.
• May 21, 2010: Ram Samudrala won the 2010 Undergraduate Research Mentor Award (snaphot of web page with mentee comment).
• November 24, 2009: IBM/World Community Grid won the 2009 Asian Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Award for the Nutritious Rice in the World project in the area of poverty alleviation that I lead.
• October 7, 2008: An automated approach for analysing protein function developed by my group is highlighted by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR). See PLoS Computational Biology 4(9): e1000181 to read the paper.
• July 14, 2008: More than 200 media articles have been written about the Nutritious Rice for the World project that I lead, including in the New York Times Business Week, Fortune, CNN Money, The Times of India, and also a variety of other international media outlets.
• January 30, 2007: The Washington Research Foundation's 25th annual report showcases our research on therapeutic discovery.
• November 3, 2006: My play review of All in the Timing was plagiarised by the Minnesota Monticello Times.
• October 10, 2006: The paper entitled "Identifying inhibitors of the SARS coronavirus proteinase" by Ekachai Jenwitheesuk and Ram Samudrala published in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters 13: 3989-3992, 2003 resulted in a Most Cited Paper 2003 - 2006 Award.
• June 27, 2006: StudySphere seleted my primer on the ethics of intellectual property as one of the best educational resources on the Web.
• June 25, 2005: The Seattle Times published a letter I wrote in response to John McKay defending the Patriot Act.
• February 10, 2005: An Article about my New Investigator Science in Medicine Lecture was published in University Week.
• December 25, 2004: The Seattle Times published a letter I wrote about biological evolution being a fact and not a theory (i.e., the process of evolution is different from theories explaining how evolution occurs).
• November 1, 2004: An article on systems biology in Northwest Science and Technology Autumn 2004 issue featured our research.
• October 9, 2003: The University of Washington's The Daily and a variety of other media outlets have written something about my TR100 (world's top young innovators) selection by MIT Technology Review.
• July 7, 2003: The New York Times published a letter I wrote about genetic engineering, stating my belief that directed genetic engineering (the ability to self-evolve) is a natural consequence of evolution (i.e., if the ability to self-evolve arises, it will be selectively advantageous).
• April 5, 2002: The Seattle Times published a letter I wrote about the Israeli-Palestianian conflict, arguing why suicide bombing is a logical strategic decision made during a war.
• January 11, 2001: The Infinite Nietzsche: The Three Metamorphoses was published in The Cosmic Powers Unlimited Fanzine (issue #55).
• October 27, 2001: An interview about Free Music was published in Tinfoil.
• October 4, 2001: The Seattle Times published a letter I wrote in response to Michael Kelly's article attacking pacifists.
• March 1, 2001: An article about the Advanced Technology Initiative under which I was recruited in University Week.
• February 26, 2001: The Bangkok Post published my letter about the presence of the Falungong group in Thailand.
• January 31, 2001: The The Free Music Philosophy was cited at Allsound.org.
• May 18, 2000: The The RIAA vs. Free Music article was duplicated at MusicDish.
• March 1, 2000: Creativity and Ownership: Where is the Balance?, The Future of Music, and The Free Music Philosophy were published in the book Libres Enfants Du Savoir Numérique.
• February 1, 2000: Forked a process representing my life at the University of Washington. (That is, this is the official fork start date for my career as a professor.)
• February 1, 2000: The TWISTED HELICES logo was used by MusicDish in a novel way! Also, the Beam me up, Hilary and the DiY Guide to Making Music articles were duplicated at MusicDish.
• January 29, 2000: The Beam me up, Hilary article was duplicated at mp3.com.
• October 5, 1999: The Webmaster Certification Program at Pennsylvania State University is studying my musings on good and bad design on the web.
• September 1, 1999: An article in The Pitt News mentions my ULC/CARB "religion".
• July 11, 1999: Music Ram-blings was given a Top100 Distinctive Music Sites award.
• July 6, 1999: Free Music: Progress and Prospects was published in MusicDish.
• July 5, 1999: The Free Music Philosophy was referenced in Upside Magazine in an article titled Can't Stop the Music.
• June 30, 1999: The Free Music Philosophy was published in MusicDish.
• June 21, 1999: The Future of Music was published in Auricle.
• June 4, 1999: The The Future of Music was published in MusicDish.
• February 10, 1999: The Free Music Philosophy and the The Future of Music articles were referenced in Brett Watson's article Philosophies of Free Software and Intellectual Property.
• January, 1999: The story about a serious car crash I was involved in a long time ago was featured in In Motion magazine.
• December, 1999: The Free Music Philosophy was referenced in Feyo Kolff's law school thesis titled The Harmonic Highway.
• December 18, 1998: The Free Music Philosophy was referenced in the New York Times.
• December 8, 1998: The future of music article was published on mp3.com.
• December 2, 1998: The future of music article was published in the Shareware Music Machine News.
• August 6, 1998: MPEG3.com sitelist ranking (three stars out of five) for the Free Music Philosophy.
• July 23, 1998: Links2Go Key Resource award in the Pink Floyd topic.
• July 18, 1998: The Free Music Philosophy was referenced in the print version of Billboard Magazine.
• June 12, 1998: The Free Music Philosophy was referenced in Wired News and Fox News with regards to the OnLine Guitar Archive (OLGA) being shut down.
• April 20, 1998: Extra Crispy Award.
• April 10, 1998: A reference to the Free Music Philosophy on mp3.com.
• March 8, 1998: The Teddy Bair Award.
• March 8, 1998: The Critical Mass Award.
• March 8, 1998: The Stines Award.
• March 8, 1998: A + Web Design Approved Award.
• October 7, 1997: The Bunny Award for the best web page.
• September 25, 1997: The Free Music Philosophy was a Surfer's Pick in Yahoo!.
• July 11, 1997: The Free Music Philosophy was featured in an article in Forbes online.
• June 30, 1997: A Touch of Magick award.
• June 23, 1997: JAUP award.
• June 20, 1997: Lycos Top 5% listing for the The Cheesy Primus Page.
• June 10, 1997: The Free Music Philosophy was featured in an article in Wired News.
• June 5, 1997: The First Annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence.
• May 27, 1997: Webmeister award.
• May 20, 1997: Gee! award.
• April 15, 1997: First Internet Knight in The Internet Honours!
• March 26, 1997: MusicSearch Site of the Day.
• March 18, 1997: The Net's Best Bets award.
• January 1, 1997: A short excerpt about the Free Music Philosophy was featured in the January 1997 GNU's Bulletin.
• November 10, 1996: The Cheesy Primus page was referenced in an article titled Chattering Class in The Washington Post.
• October 13, 1996: The newsgroup alt.fan.ram-samudrala with the topic "The War Against Intellectual Property" was created by a Matthew H. Fields (note that this was created as a response against my views on intellectual property (in a humourous way to get rid of me)).
• Sometime, 1996: Internet Success Top 100 award (in the entertainment category) for my home page.
• Sometime, 1996: GameSpot HotSpot award for my essay on Time Travel.
• June 30, 1996: Personal Home Page Award for the week of June 30, 1996.
• Sometime, 1996: My home page and the Cheesy Primus page are rated among the top 5% of all sites on the Internet by Point Survey. You can read the reviews by clicking here and here. The page also appears in their book containing the top 1000 sites on the www.
• November 7, 1995: The Cheesy Primus page was Rock Site of the Day.
• October, 1995: May 14, 1995: The Free Music Philosophy was referenced in an article titled Pirates on the Internet in the October 1995 issue of Musicians' Magazine.
• May 14, 1995: The Free Music Philosophy was referenced in an article titled Music wants to be free on the cyberspace frontier in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
• April 28, 1995: My Eagles Hell Freezes Over concert review was referenced in an article titled The Eagles are landing at Sandstone in the Music section of the Kansas City Star.
• November 4, 1994: The Cheesy Primus page was voted Best WWW Band Page in a poll that was initially part of the Ultimate Band List when it was first created.
• November 4, 1994: Science did a cool feature on the Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology (CARB) where I did my graduate work which tells people about the research I'm doing (p863).