MIT's Technology Review today announced the 2010 TR35, its annual list of 35 outstanding men and women under the age of 35 who exemplify the spirit of innovation in business and technology. This year's winners have created innovations over a wide variety of fields, including energy, biomedicine, communications, IT, transportation, and the Web. Their groundbreaking work is liberating patients from sleep clinics, shaping the rules for social networks, bringing down the price of OLED displays, and helping populations cope with crisis. In short, the 2010 TR35 are transforming technology and tackling problems in a way that is likely to benefit society and business.
“They inspire and expand our sense of what is possible. We honor them for their current work and look forward to their future accomplishments.”
Technology Review also named Ushahidi's David Kobia the 2010 Humanitarian of the Year. Kobia's Web programming helps communities around the world facing catastrophe, and shows us how new crowdsourcing techniques can bring aid to people in their times of greatest need. The complete 2010 TR35 list includes individuals from such well-known organizations and institutions as Alcatel-Lucent, Columbia University, Google, Harvard University, Microsoft Research, MIT, Princeton University, and the Whitehead Institute.
"Discovering the amazing young men and women who make up the TR35 is one of the highlights of the year for us," said Jason Pontin, editor in chief and publisher of Technology Review. "They inspire and expand our sense of what is possible. We honor them for their current work and look forward to their future accomplishments."
The 2010 TR35 were selected from more than 300 submissions by the editors of Technology Review in collaboration with a prestigious panel of judges from leading organizations such as Carnegie Mellon University, Hewlett-Packard, MIT, Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Yahoo Labs. TR35 winners will be profiled in the September/October issue of Technology Review and online at www.technologyreview.com/tr35/. In addition, the EmTech@MIT 2010 Conference, to be held September 21-23 at MIT, will honor the winners in a series of "Meet the TR35" presentations and a dedicated awards ceremony and reception.
NOTE: A complete list of the 2010 TR35 follows.
Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Harvard
Danah Boyd, Microsoft Research
David Bradwell, MIT
Wesley Chan, Google
Ranveer Chandra, Microsoft Research
Gabriel Charlet, Alcatel-Lucent
Aaron Dollar, Yale University
Hany Eitouni, Seeo
Nick Feamster, Georgia Tech
Rikin Gandhi, Digital Green
Jacob Hanna, Whitehead Institute
Amir Alexander Hasson, United Villages
Kim Hazelwood, University of Virginia
David Karp, Tumblr
David Kobia, Ushahidi
Christopher Kruegel, University of California, Santa Barbara
Kati London, Area/Code
Philip Low, NeuroVigil
Timothy Lu, Ascendia Biotechnology, MIT
Conor Madigan, Kateeva
Michael McAlpine, Princeton University
Indrani Medhi, Microsoft Research India
Peter Meinhold, Gevo
Avi Muchnick, Aviary
Jochen Mundinger, RouteRank
Celeste Nelson, Princeton University
Michelle Povinelli, University of Southern California
Lyndon Rive, SolarCity
Chris Rivest, SunPrint
Andrey Rybalchenko, University of Technology, Munich
T. Scott Saponas, Microsoft Research
Mikhail Shapiro, Third Rock Ventures
Samuel Sia, Columbia University
Jian Sun, Microsoft Research Asia
Richard Tibbetts, StreamBase Systems
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