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.
2006 Innovator of the Year: Joshua Schachter
2006 Humanitarian of the Year: Christina Galitsky
Apostolos Argyris
Disguising data as noise
Prithwish Basu
His passion is finding ways to connect mobile devices, sensors, and robots directly--without the need for a base station. It's called "ad hoc" networking.
Jeffrey Bode
Peptide "Legos" to make new drugs
Edward Boyden
Artificially firing neurons
Seth Coe-Sullivan
Making screens crystal clear
Utkan Demirci
Disposable AIDS diagnosis
Roger Dingledine
When your Internet communications absolutely, positively need to be anonymous
Stefan Duma
Better virtual crash dummies
Jason Fried
Keeping online collaboration simple
Christina Galitsky
Simple technologies save energy and lives
Matthew Herren
Beaming textbooks across Africa
Song Jin
Making nanowires get in line
Manolis Kellis
Understanding genomes
William King
The world's smallest soldering iron
Eddie Kohler
A better operating system
Ram K. Krishnamurthy
Cooler computers
Stéphanie Lacour
Stretchable electronic skin
Ling Liao
Lighting up computers
Ashok Maliakal
The floppy screen
Jane McGonigal
Designing games with new realities
Joshua Napoli
Super-high-resolution 3-D displays could change the way people look at everything from tumors to drug targets and natural gas deposits.
Liam Paninski
Decoding brain signals
Nikos Paragios
Clearer computer vision
Michael Raab
Making fuel ethanol more cheaply
Paul Rademacher
The man who opened up the map
Anand Raghunathan
Making mobile secure
Joshua Schachter
How tags exploit the self-interest of individuals to organize the Web for everyone.
Jay Shendure
The $1,000 genome
Sumeet Singh
Faster defenses against computer viruses
Paris Smaragdis
Teaching machines to listen
Marin Soljacic
Modeling the flows of light
Alice Ting
Lighting cellular movies
Christopher Voigt
A vision in bacteria
Michael Wong
Cleaning up with nanoparticles
Ben Zhao
Perfecting peer-to-peer networks
