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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
Regina Barzilay
Teaching computers to read and write
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
Bram Cohen
Upending the file-sharing world, bit by bit
Dennis Crowley
Moving online socializing into the streets
Tracey Ho
Scrambling bits for a more efficient Internet
Samuel Madden
Simplifying wireless sensor nets
David Pennock
Predicting the future of markets