The Millennium Technology Prize is Finland's tribute to life-enhancing technological innovations. The prize has been established, since 2004, to steer the course of technological development to a more humane direction.
The Prize is the world's biggest technology prize and it is awarded by the Millennium Prize Foundation. The aim of the prize is to promote technological research. In particular, the prize seeks to highlight innovations that assist and enrich our everyday lives today as well as in the future. The Prize is awarded every second year.
The 2008 recipient was a Tau Beta Pi member, and there has also been one Tau Beta Pi Laureate Winner.
See http://www.millenniumprize.fi/.