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Ten entries. No availability field in this edition. Forward timing phrases from body text are in entry notes. Read through a summarising fetch; quotes medium confidence. Person names dropped from key players.
Low-power wireless sensor networks are spearheading what the future of computing is going to look like.
rank 1mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2003-001
We're really trying to change it completely
rank 2mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2003-002
A cheap and flexible material that could provide the same kind of efficiency achieved with silicon solar cells.
rank 3mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2003-003
Integration of familiar mechanical systems with new electronic components and intelligent-software control.
rank 4mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2003-004
Seamless and ubiquitous access to unfathomable computer power.
rank 5mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2003-005
Techniques that let researchers watch genes, proteins, and other molecules at work in the body.
rank 6mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2003-006
Simply by stamping a hard mold into a soft material, he can faithfully imprint features smaller than 10 nanometers across.
rank 7mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2003-007
Make software engineering more like an engineering discipline.
rank 8mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2003-008
If you don't have any glycosylation, you don't have life.
rank 9mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2003-009
Can transmit information in such a way that any effort to eavesdrop will be detectable.
rank 10mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2003-010