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MIT Announces Top 35 Innovators Under 35

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the any-users-on-the-list dept.

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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  1. Re:now you now where ageism comes from by nv5 · · Score: 2, Interesting
    It lays the idea in peoples' minds that innovators can only be young.
    unfortunately, there seems to be some evidence for a high correlation of exactly that. If you google ..., I mean, if you use the search engine Google to look for "Why productivity fades with age" http://www.google.com/search?q=Why%20Productivity% 20Fades%20with%20Age