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James F. Garrett, president and CEO of SENTEL Corp., an Alexandria systems engineering company, was selected as an inductee into the National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame. Garrett is an alumnus of North Carolina A&T State University. (Press release)

The Jefferson Hotel in Richmond and The Inn at Little Washington, were the only Virginia hotels to earn a five-diamond rating from the American Automobile Association in its annual travel industry review. Nationwide, 81 other hotels earned AAA’s five-diamond rating. (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

MicroStrategy, a software firm based in McLean, won two readership awards from DM Review, a specialty publication serving the business intelligence market, in a study of DM Review’s readers to determine the top technology companies in the business intelligence field. MircroStrategy was the only firm to win multiple awards. (PR Newswire)

Virginia Tech’s Apple-based supercomputer, X, ranked No. 3 among the world’s supercomputers in survey results released at the SuperComputing 2003 conference held in Phoenix. X, built as a cluster of 1,100 Power Mac G5 units, can potentially handle 17 trillion operations per second. (Press release)