2008′s top 10 emerging technologies
MIT’s Technology review‘s March/April issue features their yearly top 10 of emerging technologies. This year’s ‘winners’ are:
- modeling surprise: datamining, human psychology and machine learning is about to help us to deal with surprise (Microsoft’s Eric Horvitz)
- probabilistic chips: uncertainty in computer chips may increase efficiency (GeorgiaTech’s Krishna Palem)
- nanoradio: nanotube-based radio elements for appliances (Berkeley’s Alex Zettl)
- wireless power: beaming electricity from one place to another (MIT’s Marin Soljacic)
- atomic magnetometers: tiny new magnetic-field sensors for next-generation MRI scans (NIST’s John Kitching)
- offline web applications: (Adobe’s Kevin Lynch)
- graphene transistors: new carbon for faster, smaller processors (GeorgiaTech’s Walter de Heer)
- connectomics: mapping our brain (Harvard’s Jeff Lichtman)
- reality mining: learning about human and social behaviour using cellphone data (MIT’s Sandy Pentland)
- cellulolytic enzymes: biofuels from cellulose (Caltech’s Frances Arnold)
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