2006 Young Innovators Under 35

Since 1999, the editors of MIT’s Technology Review magazine have honored the young innovators whose inventions and research it finds most exciting. This collection is the TR35, a list of technologists and scientists, all under the age of 35.

According to the magazine their work–spanning medicine, communications, computing, electronics, nanotechnology, and more–is changing our world.

2006 Innovator of the Year: Joshua Schachter
2006 Humanitarian of the Year: Christina Galitsky

The innovators are divided into four categories:

Biotech

• Liam Paninski – Decoding brain signals
• Jeffrey Bode – Peptide “Legos” to make new drugs
• Utkan Demirci – Disposable AIDS diagnosis
• Edward Boyden – Artificially firing neurons
• Jay Shendure – The $1,000 genome
• Christopher Voigt – A vision in bacteria
• Manolis Kellis – Understanding genomes

Infotech

• Ben Zhao – Perfecting peer-to-peer networks
• Joshua Schachter – How tags exploit the self-interest of individuals to organize the Web for everyone.
• Nikos Paragios – Clearer computer vision
• Paul Rademacher – The man who opened up the map
• Roger Dingledine – When e-mail absolutely, positively has to get there anonymously
• Jason Fried – Keeping online collaboration simple
• Eddie Kohler – A better operating system
• Joshua Napoli – Higher-resolution 3-D displays
• Matthew Herren – Beaming textbooks across Africa

Nanotech

• Song Jin – Making nanowires get in line
• Ling Liao – Lighting up computers
• Michael Wong – Cleaning up with nanoparticles
• William King – The world’s smallest soldering iron
• Ashok Maliakal – The floppy screen
• Stephanie Lacour – Stretchable electronic skin
• Marin Soljacic – Modeling the flows of light

Biztech

• Sumeet Singh – Faster defenses against computer viruses
• Paris Smaragdis – Teaching machines to listen
• Anand Raghunathan – Making mobile secure
• Michael Raab – Making fuel ethanol more cheaply
• Jane McGonigal – Designing games with new realities
• Apostolos Argyris – Disguising data as noise
• Prithwish Basu – Networking Unplugged
• Seth Coe-Sullivan – Making screens crystal clear
• Ram K. Krishnamurthy – Cooler computers
• Christina Galitsky – Simple technologies save energy and lives
• Stefan Duma – Better virtual crash dummies
• Alice Ting – Lighting cellular movies

Source

TR35 – 2006 Young Innovators Under 35