Rui Pinho, SeismoSoft’s Technical Director, was the recipient of the 2007 Shah Family Innovation Prize awarded by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI, www.eeri.org). In justifying its decision, the awarding committee explicitly acknowledged SeismoSoft and its contribution to the reduction of earthquake risk. Further details are available from the March 2008 edition of EERI’s newsletter, which may be downloaded from here