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(PRLog) Bedford, MA, October 24, 2011 – Valora Technologies, Inc. (“Valora”) is pleased to announce the selection of Aaron Goodisman to the prestigious MIT-Lemelson Student Prize Award Panel. The esteemed panel is responsible for evaluating more than two dozen applications from world-class inventors to award just one $30,000 Lemelson prize to the student inventor(s) who most embodies a spirit of ingenuity, creativity and innovation. The Lemelson-MIT Program is dedicated to honoring the acclaimed and unsung heroes who have helped improve lives through invention.

Preparing for his third term on the eminent panel, Mr. Goodisman remarked, “it is an honor to have this exposure to leading-edge technologies and to assess the impacts they will have on society. It is always a very difficult decision to make.”

Mr. Goodisman also serves as Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Valora Technologies, Inc., an automated document processing and analytics firm in Bedford, MA. He is a multi-degree graduate of MIT (BSEE ’91, MSEE ’91) and an active participant in alumni activities.

About the MIT-Lemelson Program

The Lemelson-MIT Program celebrates those inventors who have turned their ideas into accomplishments. We foster an enthusiasm for asking—and answering—the questions that change lives. The Program was established in 1994 at the nation's premier technological university, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, by one of the world's most prolific inventors, Jerome Lemelson (1923-1997), and his wife, Dorothy. It is funded by the Lemelson Foundation and administered by MIT's School of Engineering. The Lemelson-MIT Program recognizes outstanding inventors, encourages sustainable new solutions to real-world problems, and enables and inspires young people to pursue creative lives and careers through invention.

About Aaron Goodisman

Aaron Goodisman is a software industry veteran with over 20 years experience in engineering management, software architecture, and product development. His technical expertise covers scaleable, enterprise-class software design, text analytics, Internet protocols, group-oriented development and deployment tools and corporate systems integration. Mr. Goodisman is considered a world expert in Java industry standards and UI design and he is a frequent industry speaker and author. Mr. Goodisman's career includes positions with Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), the MIT Media Lab, and a variety of other high-tech firms. He is named as the inventor on several U.S. patents and currently pending patent applications.