Sony Computer Entertainment Receives This Year’s “Good Design Gold Award” for Its Support of the Folding@home™ Project on the PlayStation®3 System

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) announced today that the company's support for Stanford University's Folding@home™ project on the PlayStation®3 (PS3™) system, including the Folding@home™ application developed and designed by SCEI specifically for the PS3™ system, received the "Good Design Gold Award 2008" from the Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization.

SCEI would like to thank to all the PS3™ system users from all over the world who have participated in the Folding@home™ project.

Comments from the Developers

	It is a great honor to receive the ‘Good Design Gold Award’ for our support for the Folding@home™ project on PS3™,Over 1.5 million PS3™ users have participated in the Folding@home™ project and I truly appreciate their contributions for making this project a success. We will continue our efforts in delivering compelling and original services only possible on the PS3 platform. Masayuki Chatani Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Technology Platform, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
	We have received the "Good Design Gold Award 2008" for our participation in the Folding@home™ project. We recognize that this is an award not only for us but also for Folding@home™ participants around the world.We had an opportunity to express the participants' feelings of goodwill towards making a contribution to society through the "design" of the feature. I believe that this experience holds great meaning for the future of the PlayStation® platform.We would like to thank all the participants in the project, and we hope for your continuous support and participation in the project. Ryuji Nakayama Manager, Coporate Design Center, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
	To those who have participated in the Folding@home™ project on the PS3™ platform: The main feature of the Folding@home™ application is to help analyze protein folding. To help motivate participants' to use the application, we have been making continuous effort to develop the application to be more attractive, such as by lighting areas on the map that represent participants or playing music in the background. This application could not have been established without the participants' commitment to the project. We, as the developers, are very proud of winning the “Good Design Gold Award”. We hope to obtain acceptance from even more users by continuing to develop the application with more attractive features and improved performance. Hideaki Nishino Manager, CA Development Department, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
	Dear contributors of Folding@home™ project, From the first release of Folding@home™ for PlayStation®3 (PS3™), in March 2007, we have seen over 1.5 Million downloads of Folding@home™ software, we know some of the users were long-time users of the software even before it came out on the PS3™ platform, but many were drawn to the software due to its unique presentation on a new platform such as PS3™. With your help we managed to double the computation capacity of Folding@home™ project within 1 week of its release and then for over a year PS3™ Folding@home™ community comprised the majority of calculation for the network. The success of PS3™ technology encouraged other CPU manufacturers to also join the Folding@home™ effort and with them the total Folding@home™ network now produces eight times more than it produced in March of 2007! We are continuing to optimize the Folding@home™ client especially for calculation speed, we are also adding exciting features on a regular basis in continuous effort to give back to the community and advance the science. We are very honored to have received the good design award for as unique project such as Folding@home™. Noam Rimon Sr. Development Manager, Sony Computer Entertainment America R&D