Marjan Sarshar of Iranian descent, came to Britain in 1976. As the director of Construct IT, she was recently nominated and short-listed for the business 'Asian Woman Of The Year Awards'. Her profession, broadly speaking, comprises of research and innovation in the use of IT within the construction industry.

She is undoubtedly a highly-achieved British Iranian having been a part of the award winning team at the 'Queens Anniversary Awards For 2000' for higher education. Her combined experience of ten years within the academic field and five in the industry itself fascilitated her rapid success in wirting over seventy papers and more importantly gaining professorship.

"I was very flattered to be nominated and short listed for the business 'Asian Woman Of The Year Awards' ceremony, which was very entertaining and well organised" she said.

However, Marjan believes that the criteria for the award need to be better communicated and should also contain more elements of contribution to society on top of personal achievement.

Imagination Technologies Group plc an international company founded in 1985 develops, licenses and supplies market-leading 2D/3D graphics, digital video, audio and speech technologies and products for consumer entertainment and PC Markets. It Unveil a new generation of video slot machine and graphic cards. VedioLogic Systems (a division of Imagination Technologies) and Imagine Graphics Ltd join forces on new PC card Pixel Perfect for portrait and landscape windscreen displays. VideoLogics key products include graphics accelerators based on PowerVR technology and the Sirocco range of hi-fi quality PC speakers. Thanks to the close collaboration of these two technology companies they have created a graphics card that is capable of rotating windscreen displays from landscape to portrait modes. Pionner, Fujitsu General, Panasonic, JVD and Hantarex are just some of the companies who have shown great interest in Pixel Perfect.

This latest Pixel Perfect model available now from Imagine Graphics, has 32MB of SDRAM and is available in PCI and AGP formats for Windows 95/98/2000. Using a graphics processor originally developed by NEC and PowerVR Technologies for high intensity gaming, it is 10 times more powerful than the original Pixel Perfect cards. The 'end user' price is £225.009(ex. VAT.)

Aristocrat Technologies a world leading Australian owned and managed company employing more than 1850 people world-wide and draws annual revenues in excess of $500 million. The company pioneered the industry move to video technology and has mastered the art of producing slot machine games with player appeal second to non. Aristocrat, the dominant supplier of gaming machines to Australia and New Zealand launched the new XCEED video gaming machines incorporating PowerVR technology to its New South Wales's customers during October 2000. It has unveiled a generation of video slot machines based on PowerVR Series2 technology, developed by PowerVR Technologies (a division of Imagination Technologies) and manufactured by NEC.

The PowerVR approach to 3D graphics starts from the premise that taking a different algorithmic approach to 3D processing can eliminate all redundant processing and memory bottlenecks. This revolutionary approach keeps as much processing as possible on clip minimising costly accesses to off chip memory and improving performance. This unique technological of title-based deferred texturing has been successfully patented worldwide.