Pierre Sillard, 34
Devised a software modeling tool that enabled him to design complex optical fibers now being manufactured for use in very-high-capacity communications systems.
R&D project manager, Alcatel
2004 TR35 Winners
Jonathan Abrams
Created the Nets top social-networking site, where eight million people communicate with friends and friends of friends.
Guido Appenzeller
Started a Palo Alto, CA, firm to commercialize an encryption technology that uses a simple ID, such as an e-mail address, to ensure secure communications.
Alyssa Apsel
Adapts optical-communications technology to build receivers, transmitters, and interconnects that speed chip-to-chip communications within computers.
Anuj Batra
Leads one of the industrys top teams advancing ultrawideband wireless technology, which provides the high transmission speeds needed for streaming-media applications while consuming little power.
Serge Belongie
Created video software to analyze lab mice for adverse reactions to trial drugs.
Vance Bjorn
Partnered with fellow TR100 honoree Serge Belongie (see above) to found a Redwood City, CA, biometrics company that specializes in fingerprint recog-nition for computer access.
David Brussin
Built a router that examines the content and source of messages passing through it.
J. J. Cadiz
Invented a better approach to alleviating information overload.
Tianqaio Chen
Specializes in multiplayer fantasy and role-playing games.
Aref Chowdhury
Invented techniques at Bell Labs that enable higher-speed transmission of data over very long distances (up to 6,400 kilometers) within fiber-optic networks.
Raffaele Colombelli
Develops new types of quantum cascade microlasers with a variety of sensing and imaging applications.
Adrian Colyer
Leads the effort to improve software quality and cut development costs.
Robert Drost
Pioneered a wireless technology to eliminate the wired connections between closely spaced chips in computer systems.
Robert Frederick
Helping to lead Amazons transformation, with its own virtual vending machines.
Dan Gruhl
Serves as chief architect for IBMs WebFountain system.
Ali Hajimiri
Developed an entire radar system, squeezed into a single chip
Scott Heiferman
Built a database and developed software that would help people organize themselves.
Michael Helmbrecht
Fabricates microscopic, deformable mirrors on computer chips that perform image correction for medical imaging, surveillance, and other applications.
Aaron Hertzmann
Combines machine learning and graphics to capture the motion of actors, dancers, and athletes -- and to generate realistic animations for films and video games.
Kurt Huang
Launched a startup developing micropayments technology that allows artists, small businesses, and others to charge fees of as little as one cent for access to online content.
Ari Juels
Improved the security and privacy of radio frequency identification tags, as well as cryptographic tools for authentication systems.
Richard Kent
Produces biomechanical data vital to the design of air bags and auto safety systems.
Andre Kulzer
Created a thermodynamic simulation that showed the feasibility of gasoline direct injection, which lowers auto fuel consumption and emissions and eliminates the electric starter.
Golan Levin
Explores the artistic implications of information technology.
Massimo Marchiori
Develops more efficient ways of identifying, finding, and retrieving information on the Web.
Wojciech Matusik
Creates 3-D television and related 3-D photo and video systems that weave together images from multiple cameras.
James OBrien
Invented algorithms for simulating natural phenomena such as splashing water and explosions, for use in movies, video games, and advanced training simulations.
Nuria Oliver
Constructs more-intuitive human-computer interfaces.
Maria Petrucci-Samija
Created materials that might soon make such integrated photonic circuits possible.
Ramesh Raskar
Built large computer display systems that seamlessly combine images from multiple projectors.
Jennifer Rexford
Created tools for monitoring and automatically managing Internet traffic on large networks.
Sokwoo Rhee
Designed extremely-low-power wireless-sensor networks.
Shad Roundy
Built tiny generators for wireless sensor networks that convert low-level background vibrations into electricity, eliminating the need for batteries.
Jesse Schell
Invents new forms of digital visualization.
Kees Schep
Helped develop blue-laser optical-disc storage systems with much greater capacity than todays DVDs. The discs are now being introduced commercially.
Chaitail Sengupta
Oversees the architecture of the communications chips used in advanced cellular systems now coming to market.
Pierre Sillard
Devised a software modeling tool that enabled him to design complex optical fibers now being manufactured for use in very-high-capacity communications systems.
Simeon Simeonov
Left software engineering to engineer startups.
Charlotte Skourup
Employed "augmented reality" technologies
Ben Trott
Developed Movable Type.
Mena Trott
Mena developed a simpler user interface which allows bloggers to create links to other pages by clicking and dragging items on-screen.
Srinidhi Varadarajan
Conceived and built the worlds third-fastest supercomputer
Min Wu
Devised ways to hide digital watermarks in financial statements and other electronic documents to authenticate records, prevent fraud, and deter unauthorized distribution.
Qian Zhang
Improved roaming between cellular networks
