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.
2008 Innovator of the Year: JB Straubel
2008 Humanitarian of the Year: Aimée Rose
Blaise Agüera y Arcas
Building immersive 3-D environments
Dries Buytaert
Simple, flexible Web publishing
Jenova Chen
Gaming with the flow
Tanzeem Choudhury
Inferring social networks automatically
Jack Dorsey
Personal updates made simple
Stefanus Du Toit
Programming for parallel processors
Seth Hallem
Deconstructing software to find bugs
Xian-Sheng Hua
Enhancing video search
Sundar Iyer
Making memory at Internet speed
Farinaz Koushanfar
Locking microchips to prevent piracy
Johnny Lee
Streamlining human-computer interactions
Meredith Ringel Morris
Searching websites jointly
Andrew Ng
Building household robots
Adam Smith
Making sense of e-mail madness
JB Straubel
Engineering electric sports cars
Eric Wilhelm
Putting DIY projects online
Robert Wood
Building robotic flies
