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Recently, Technology Review published its annual list of Young Innovators Under 35. There are definitely some exteremly brilliant individuals and we decided to highlight some of the ones who had close relations to our industry:
Vik Singh, – Yahoo: Vik’s efforts led to the creation of BOSS (for “Build your Own Search Service”), an application programming interface that lets developers take Yahoo search results and manipulate them to provide services tailored to users’ needs, in some cases by considering personal data that a website has collected.
Jeffrey Heer, Stanford University: Lists of numbers often don’t mean as much as charts, graphs, and interactive graphics that can reveal unexpected trends. To help people make them, Jeff Heer, an assistant professor of computer science, led a project that created easy-to-use open-source visualization software called Protovis
Ashoke Ravi, Intel: With Ashoke Ravi’s help, future cell phones and netbooks won’t need separate circuits to transmit multiple radio signals (over a cellular network, Wi-Fi, and WiMax, for example); a single transmitter will handle them all.
Jaime Teevan, Microsoft Research: Jaime is a leader in using data about people’s knowledge, preferences, and habits to help them manage information. She studies the ways people navigate the flood of information available in the digital age and builds tools to help them handle it.
