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Ten entries, each framed around one researcher. No availability field. Only two entries give a dated timing in body text (in notes). Read through a summarising fetch; medium confidence.
John Kitching's tiny magnetic-field sensors will take MRI where it's never gone before.
rank 1mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2008-001
Frances Arnold is designing better enzymes for making biofuels from cellulose.
rank 2mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2008-002
Jeff Lichtman hopes to elucidate brain development and disease with new tech that illuminates neural circuits.
rank 3mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2008-003
A new form of carbon being pioneered by Walter de Heer could lead to speedy, compact processors.
rank 4mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2008-004
Combining massive quantities of data, insights into human psychology, and machine learning can manage surprising events.
rank 5mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2008-005
Alex Zettl's tiny radios, built from nanotubes, could improve everything from cell phones to medical diagnostics.
rank 6mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2008-006
Adobe's Kevin Lynch believes computing applications will become more powerful when they take advantage of the browser and desktop.
rank 7mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2008-007
Krishna Palem thinks a little uncertainty in chips could extend battery life in mobile devices–and maybe Moore's Law duration, too.
rank 8mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2008-008
Sandy Pentland is using data gathered by cell phones to learn about human behavior.
rank 9mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2008-009
Physicist Marin Soljacic is working toward a world of wireless electricity.
rank 10mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2008-010