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.
2007 Innovator of the Year: David Berry
2007 Humanitarian of the Year: Tapan Parikh
Sanjit Biswas
Cheap, easy Internet access
Josh Bongard
Adaptive robots
Garrett Camp
Discovering more of the Web
Mung Chiang
Optimizing networks
Tadayoshi Kohno
Securing systems cryptographically
Tariq Krim
Building a personal, dynamic Web page
Ivan Krstic´
Making antivirus software obsolete
Jeff LaPorte
Internet-based calling from mobile phones
Karen Liu
Bringing body language to computer-animated characters
Anna Lysyanskaya
Securing online privacy
Tapan Parikh
Simple, powerful mobile tools for developing economies
Babak Parviz
Self-assembling micromachines
Partha Ranganathan
Power-aware computing systems
Kevin Rose
Online social bookmarking
Marc Sciamanna
Controlling chaos in telecom lasers
Desney Tan
Teaching computers to read minds
Luis von Ahn
Using “captchas” to digitize books
