Technology Review: TR35 2009

2009 Young Innovators Under 35

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.

2009 Innovator of the Year: Kevin Fu
2009 Humanitarian of the Year: José Gómez-Márquez

Adam Dunkels: Minimal wireless-networking protocols allow almost any device to communicate over the Internet

Kevin Fu: Defeating would-be hackers of radio frequency chips in objects from credit cards to pacemakers

Andrew Houck: Preserving information for practical quantum computing

Shahram Izadi: An intuitive 3-D interface helps people manage layers of data

Anat Levin: New cameras and algorithms capture the potential of digital images

Pranav Mistry: A simple, wearable device enhances the real world with digital information

Aydogan Ozcan: Inexpensive chips and sophisticated software could make microscope lenses obsolete

Vera Sazonova: World’s smallest resonator could lead to tiny mechanical devices

Dawn Song: Defeating malware through automated software analysis

Andrea Thomaz: Robots that learn new skills the way people do

Adrien Treuille: Complex physics simulations that can run on everyday PCs

James Carey: Using “black silicon” to build inexpensive, super-sensitive light detectors

Ali Javey: “Painting” nanowires into electronic circuits

Elena Shevchenko: Assembling nanocrystals to create made-to-order materials

Andrea Armani: Sensitive optical sensors detect single molecules

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology