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August 16, 2007, 11:05 AM ET
Top Tech Innovators Come From Academe
Twenty-two of the 35 “young innovators” cited in the new issue of Technology Review are at universities. In its September/October issue, the magazine honors 35 young people whose work “is changing our world” with inventions and research that the editors found “most exciting” in fields including communications, computing, electronics, medicine, and nanotechnology.
The innovators are students, fellows, postdocs, and junior professors. The institution with the most representatives on the list, three, is the University of Washington. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which publishes the magazine, has two, as do Harvard University and the University of California at Berkeley. Three European universities, in France, Germany, and Spain, are also represented.
One of Washington’s young innovators also was named “Humanitarian of the Year.” Tapan Parikh, a 33-year-old doctoral student in computer science, was recognized for creating information systems tailored to the needs of small-business people in the developing world — systems with cellphones, not PC’s, at their core. —Andrew Mytelka
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