Each year Technology Review honors 35 innovators under 35 who are tackling important problems in transformative ways. Candidates come from around the globe, some from regional TR35 competitions run by TR’s international editions. Read how we chose the 2011 winners.
2010 TR35 Winners
Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Simulating chemistry with quantum computers
Danah Boyd
Shaping the rules for social networks
David Bradwell
Cheap, reliable batteries to store renewable energy
Wesley Chan
Building new technology businesses
Ranveer Chandra
Delivering high-speed wireless Internet connections over longer distances
Gabriel Charlet
Record-breaking optical fibers for global communications
Aaron Dollar
Creating flexible robotic hands
Hany Eitouni
Making safer batteries with solid polymers
Nick Feamster
Watching the suspicious behavior of spam
Rikin Gandhi
Educating farmers through locally produced video
Jacob Hanna
Reprogramming cells to cure diseases
Amir Alexander Hasson
Using cell phones to supply rural shop owners
Kim Hazelwood
Reëngineering software on the fly
David Karp
A platform that keeps bloggers blogging
David Kobia
Software that helps populations cope with crises
Christopher Kruegel
Developing software that shuts down botnets
Kati London
Teaching real-world skills through games
Philip Low
Portable devices for monitoring brain activity
Timothy Lu
Engineering viruses to destroy biofilms
Conor Madigan
Bringing down the price of OLED displays
Michael McAlpine
Powering electronics with human motion
Indrani Medhi
Building interfaces for the illiterate
Peter Meinhold
Engineering a better bug for biofuels
Avi Muchnick
Cloud-based multimedia editing software
Jochen Mundinger
Reducing the carbon footprint of travel
Celeste Nelson
Reconstructing tissue architectures from scratch
Michelle Povinelli
Predicting better photonic devices
Lyndon Rive
Leasing solar power
Chris Rivest
Printing cheaper solar cells
Andrey Rybalchenko
Stopping software from getting stuck in loops
T. Scott Saponas
Detecting complex gestures with an armband interface
Mikhail Shapiro
Commercializing neurotechnology
Samuel Sia
Inexpensive microfluidic chips for diagnostics
Jian Sun
Better image searches
Richard Tibbetts
Reacting to large amounts of data in real time
