Since 1999, the editors of Technology Review 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.
2005 Innovator of the Year: Kevin Eggan
2005 Humanitarian of the Year: Saul Griffith
Parham Aarabi
Sharpening a computers listening skills
Vladimir Aksyuk
Making tiny mirrors for laser beams
Regina Barzilay
Teaching computers to read and write
Helen Blackwell
"Talking" bacteria out of causing infections
Thijn Brummelkamp
Silencing the genes that cause cancer
Martha Bulyk
Discovering how genes are regulated
Stewart Butterfield
Building communities through photos
George Candea
Protecting software from crashes
Bryan Cantrill
Tracing software in real time
Andy Carvin
Bringing Internet power to the have-nots
Narashima Chari
Setting the mesh networking standard
Jia Chen
Looking past silicon to carbon nanotubes
Bram Cohen
Upending the file-sharing world, bit by bit
Dennis Crowley
Moving online socializing into the streets
Matthew DeLisa
Delivering more medicine from microbes
Kevin Eggan
Using cloning to study degenerative diseases
Anita Goel
Building novel pathogen detectors
Saul Griffith
Following inspiration for inventing
Paul Hergenrother
Discovering drugs that defy convention
Katrine Hilmen
Getting the most out of oil rigs
Tracey Ho
Scrambling bits for a more efficient Internet
Trey Ideker
Defining and advancing systems biology
Hang Lu
Designing microfluidic chips to study cells
Samuel Madden
Simplifying wireless sensor nets
Yael Maguire
Inventing across disciplines
Melissa Mahoney
Making materials to treat brain damage
Rajit Manohar
Taking the clocks out of computer chips
David Pennock
Predicting the future of markets
Matthew Rabinowitz
Giving GPS a sharper image
Adam Rasheed
Pulsing the way to efficient aircraft engines
Daniel Riskin
Developing devices for wound closure and early heart-attack intervention.
Shiladitya Sengupta
Delivering drugs to cancer cells
Francesco Stellacci
Fabricating microarrays faster
Adam Stubblefield
Unlocking digital doors
Haitao Zheng
Tuning in "cognitive radios"
