It was a typical October day in Orlando, Fla., sunny, warm, and crowded with tourists from all over the world (at least it seemed so during my time at the Orlando airport October 26). I flew in to attend the Laser Institute of America's annual awards luncheon, at which Dr. Berthold Leibinger received the 2011 Arthur L. Schawlow Award "in recognition of his achievements in building TRUMPF into a premier worldwide manufacturing company, a leader in the field of industrial lasers and systems, and his creation of the Berthold Leibinger Stiftung, which awards the Innovation Prize and the Research Prize for applied laser technology." (more...)