One of the pioneers of software development for laser-scan data processing, Mark Klusza, won an ENR Newsmaker award for that work in 2003 (ENR 1/12/04 p. 26). He knows enough about the science behind scanning to see the future—through the point clouds—and then start inventing.

Klusza is being honored with another Newsmaker award, this time for dreaming up and leading development of software to capture, process and compress point