Since 1999, the editors of Technology Review (magazine of Massachussets institute of technology) have honored the young innovators whose inventions and research we find most exciting; today that collection is the TR35, a list of technologists and scientists, all under the age of 35. Their work--spanning medicine, computing, communications, electronics, nanotechnology, and more--is changing our world.
2007 Innovator of the Year: David Berry
2007 Humanitarian of the Year: Tapan Parikh
Here's the complete list:
J. Christopher Anderson (31 - University of California, Berkeley)
Creating tumor-killing bacteria
Erik Bakkers (34 - Philips Research Laboratories)
Combining semiconductors
David Berry (29 - Flagship Ventures)
Renewable petroleum from microbes
Sanjit Biswas (25 - Meraki Networks)
Cheap, easy Internet access
Josh Bongard (33 - University of Vermont)
Adaptive robots
Garrett Camp (28 - StumbleUpon)
Discovering more of the Web
Mung Chiang (30 - Princeton University)
Optimizing networks
Adam Cohen (28 - Harvard University)
Making molecules motionless
Javier García-Martínez (34 - University of Alicante - Spain)
New zeolites for cracking petroleum
Ali Khademhosseini (31 - Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology)
Living Legos
Tadayoshi Kohno (29 - University of Washington)
Securing systems cryptographically
Tariq Krim (34 - Netvibes)
Building a personal, dynamic Web page
Ivan Krstic´ (21 - One Laptop per Child)
Making antivirus software obsolete
Jeff LaPorte (30 - Eqo Communications)
Internet-based calling from mobile phones
Ju Li (32 - Ohio State University)
Modeling designer materials
Karen Liu (30 - Georgia Tech)
Bringing body language to computer-animated characters
Christopher Loose (27 - SteriCoat)
Beating up bacteria
Anna Lysyanskaya (31 - Brown University)
Securing online privacy
Tapan Parikh (33 - University of Washington)
Simple, powerful mobile tools for developing economies
Babak Parviz (34 - University of Washington)
Self-assembling micromachines
Kristala Jones Prather (34 - MIT)
Reverse-engineering biology
Partha Ranganathan (34 - Hewlett-Packard Labs)
Power-aware computing systems
Neil Renninger (33 - Amyris Biotechnologies)
Hacking microbes for energy
Kevin Rose (30 - Digg)
Online social bookmarking
Marc Sciamanna (29 - École Supérieure d’Électricité and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-France)
Controlling chaos in telecom lasers
Rachel Segalman (31 - University of California, Berkeley)
Cheap electricity from heat
Shetal Shah (32 - State University of New York, Stony Brook)
Cushioning preemies
Abraham Stroock (34 - Cornell University)
Microfluidic biomaterials
Desney Tan (31 - Microsoft Research)
Teaching computers to read minds
Doris Tsao (31 - University of Bremen - Germany)
Shedding light on how our brains recognize faces
Luis von Ahn (29 - Carnegie Mellon University)
Using “captchas” to digitize books
Xudong Wang (31 - Georgia Tech)
Powering the nanoworld
Lili Yang (32 - Caltech)
Engineering immunity
Mehmet Yanik (29 - MIT)
Stopping light on microchips
Mark Zuckerberg (23 - Facebook)
Circle of friends
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