2006 Young Innovators Under 35

The editors of Technology Review have once again selected the TR35, 35 outstanding young innovators under the age of 35. Their work–spanning medicine, computing, nanotechnology, and a lot more–is changing our world.

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August 8, 2006

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.

2006 Innovator of the Year: Joshua Schachter
2006 Humanitarian of the Year: Christina Galitsky

Song JinMaking nanowires get in line	Sumeet SinghFaster defenses against computer viruses	Ling LiaoLighting up computers
Paris SmaragdisTeaching machines to listen	Liam PaninskiDecoding brain signals	Benjamin ZhaoPerfecting peer-to-peer networks
Michael WongCleaning up with nanoparticles	Joshua SchachterHow tags exploit the self-interest of individuals to organize the Web for everyone.	Anand RaghunathanMaking mobile secure
Nikos ParagiosClearer computer vision	Michael RaabMaking fuel ethanol more cheaply	Paul RademacherThe man who opened up the map
Roger DingledineWhen e-mail absolutely, positively has to get there anonymously	Jeffrey BodePeptide “Legos” to make new drugs	Utkan DemirciDisposable AIDS diagnosis
William KingThe worlds smallest soldering iron	Jason FriedKeeping online collaboration simple	Jane McGonigalDesigning games with new realities
Edward BoydenArtificially firing neurons	Apostolos ArgyrisDisguising data as noise	Jay ShendureThe $1,000 genome
Alice TingLighting cellular movies	Ashok MaliakalThe floppy screen	Christopher VoigtA vision in bacteria
Prithwish BasuNetworking Unplugged	Eddie KohlerA better operating system	Seth Coe-SullivanMaking screens crystal clear
Ram K. KrishnamurthyCooler computers	Manolis KellisUnderstanding genomes	Joshua NapoliHigher-resolution 3-D displays
Christina GalitskySimple technologies save energy and lives	Stefan DumaBetter virtual crash dummies	Stephanie LacourStretchable electronic skin
Marin SoljacicModeling the flows of light	Matthew HerrenBeaming textbooks across Africa

> Meet the 2006 Judges

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