Since 1999, the editors of Technology Review have honored the young innovators whose inventions and research we find most exciting; today that collection is the TR35, a list of technologists and scientists, all under the age of 35. Their work--spanning medicine, computing, communications, electronics, nanotechnology, and more--is changing our world.

2006 Innovator of the Year: Joshua Schachter

Apparently del.icio.us is one of the most innovative things to happen this year.

Other candidates in infotech: Tor, Tapestry, Asbestos, Google Maps mashups like housingmaps.com, and Ruby on Rails.

The biotechies might be more interested in the story of Alice Ting, an assistant professor in chemistry at MIT who pioneered a successor to GFP.