MIT: Innovators under 35

MIT selecionou uma lista com os jovens mais inovadores e sonhadores do ano. Não importa se são da área da saúde, tecnologia, engenharia, se trabalham em grandes empresas ou start-ups, nessa lista o que conta é a inspiração.

Inventors

These innovators are building the stuff of the future, from a smart sweatband to tomorrow’s memory technology.

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  Muyinatu Bell

  Creating clearer imaging to spot cancer earlier and more accurately.

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  Dinesh Bharadia

  A seemingly impossible radio design will double wireless data capabilities.

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  Adam Bry

  Building drones that can navigate the world and serve as airborne assistants.

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  Wei Gao

  The engineer has built sweatbands that monitor your health.

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  Jiawei Gu

  The AI expert designs interfaces that let technology assist rather than annoy.

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  Alex Hegyi

  A new type of camera could let smartphones find counterfeit drugs or spot the ripest peach.

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  Kendra Kuhl

  She developed a simple reactor to turn carbon dioxide into useful chemicals.

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  Desmond Loke

  Throw away your RAM and flash drive. Here’s a better type of memory.

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  Evan Macosko

  A breakthrough in probing how cells create complex tissues and organs.

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  Heather Bowerman

  Cheap hormone tests could begin to address gender disparities in health care.

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  Kelly Gardner

  This bioengineer figured out how to handle a key challenge facing biotech startups.

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  Meron Gribetz

  An augmented-reality dreamer tries to turn his vision into a business.

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  Christine Ho

  Her startup is commercializing thin, flexible, printable batteries that she developed at UC Berkeley.

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  Samay Kohli

  After greasing the wheels of India’s e-commerce boom, this executive eyes overseas expansion.

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  Stephanie Lampkin

  She sees a way to make Silicon Valley’s workforce look more like the rest of society.

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  Ari Roisman

  Why the future of communication could be on your wrist.

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  Nora Ayanian

  To build better machines, a roboticist goes far outside her field for guidance.

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  Jonathan Downey

  The creator of control software for drones has foreseen the advantages of autonomous aircraft for years.

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  Kevin Esvelt

  A scientist who is developing new gene-editing techniques also warns of their potential.

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  Maithilee Kunda

  People on the autism spectrum are inspiring her novel approach to creating artificial intelligence.

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  Evan Spiegel

  The cofounder of Snapchat figured out that people wanted something different from social media.

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  Jean Yang

  Why don’t computers keep our personal data secure by default?

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  Jagdish Chaturvedi

  This doctor can laugh about the complex path he took to becoming an innovator.

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  Ehsan Hoque

  If you want to be the life of the party, practice by talking to a machine first.

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  Kelly Sanders

  A researcher in drought-ridden California tries to better account for the ways we use water.

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  Ronaldo Tenório

  A mobile app gives deaf people a sign-language interpreter they can take anywhere.

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  Sonia Vallabh

  A devastating personal diagnosis led her to become a scientist on the trail of a cure.

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  Qing Cao

  His inventions are helping IBM in its decade-plus quest to replace silicon transistors with more efficient carbon nanotubes.

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  Ying Diao

  She knows how to print perfect plastic solar cells.

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  Vivian Ferry

  She uses nanocrystals to trap light and increase the efficiency of solar cells.

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  Sergey Levine

  He teaches robots to watch and learn from their own successes.

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  Oriol Vinyals

  Showing computers how to learn might seem like a game, but it’s also serious business.

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  Aleksandra Vojvodic

  A computation whiz speeds up the search for catalysts that will make green chemistry possible.

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  Yihui Zhang

  Pop-up nanostructures make it far easier to fabricate very tiny shapes.