MIT's Technology Review taps
five Berkeley engineers in its Top 100 list

Four Berkeley alumni and one EECS professor were named to the TR 100 last spring, a prestigious list of the world’s top young innovators in technology and business. The results were published in the June issue of MIT’s Technology Review.

Nominees, who had to be less than 35 years old, were chosen for their contribution to transforming the nature of technology in industries such as biotechnology, computing, energy, medicine, manufacturing, nanotechnology, telecommunications, and transportation. Berkeley engineering honorees were:

Biotechnology
Paul Debevec, Ph.D.’86 (Computer Science)
Director, USC Institute for Creative Technologies

Internet and Web
Steve McCanne, B.S.’90 (EECS), Ph.D.’96 (Computer Science)
CTO, Inktomi Corp.

Materials
Derek Hansford, M.S.’96 (Materials Science), Ph.D.’99 (Materials Science)
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Ohio State University

Vivek Subramanian, Ph.D. (’98 EE, Stanford University)
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, College of Engineering, UC Berkeley

Transportation
Kara Kockelman, B.S.’91 M.S.’96, Ph.D.’98 (Civil Engineering)
Clare Boothe Luce, Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Texas

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