MIT Announces Top 35 Innovators Under 35

nursegirl writes "MIT's Technology Review has posted their top 35 innovators under the age of 35 for 2006. The 2006 Young Innovator is Joshua Schachter, of del.icio.us fame. The 2006 Young Humanitarian is Christina Galitsky from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Galitsky has done various projects related to energy efficiency, from introducing energy efficient practices to wineries, to helping bring stoves that use less wood to Sudanese refugees, to working on cheap ways to filter arsenic from wells in Bangladesh. Technology Review has also published a related article, titled 10 Ways To Think about Innovation."

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Interesting Indeed

[Iron (III) Chloride]

I was particularly interested in the E. coli pictoral representation as well as the cheap way to sequence bacterial genomes. I think awards like these are obviously good to encourage interesting new developments among what seems to be mainly grad students ... they don't have to wait until they adopt a "career" to do something useful and important.

news flash:

[macadamia_harold]

Technology Review has also published a related article, titled 10 Ways To Think about Innovation.

Yeah, well here's a news flash: Corporate America views innovation only as that which can be converted into profit.