TR35 Award

JANE MCGONIGAL, LEAD DESIGNER FROM 42 ENTERTAINMENT, CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE “TR35” TOP INNOVATORS UNDER THE AGE OF 35 BY MIT’S TECHNOLOGY REVIEW MAGAZINE

Winners to be featured at 2006 Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT

September 8, 2006—Jane McGonigal, an innovator in the field of game design and game studies is included in the annual 2006 TR35 list, published in new issue of MIT’s Technology Review magazine. The list features 35 of the top innovators in science and technology under the age of 35

Jane McGonigal is a pioneer in the emerging field of Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) and recently completed a PhD in the field of performance studies at UC Berkeley. Her professional design practice and academic research bring together the fields of ubiquitous computing, computer-supported collaborative work, and game design in order to understand how play can create communities capable of extraordinary collective intelligence. (Read the complete TR35 summary of Jane's work here.)

According the Jason Pontin, Editor-in-Chief of Technology Review: “The TR35 is an amazing group of people. Their accomplishments are likely to shape their fields for decades to come. It’s evident when you scroll back and see names like Sergey Brin, Jonathan Ive, and Steve Jurvetson among the past winners.”

The honorees are selected by the editors of the magazine in collaboration with a prestigious panel of judges from major institutions and corporations such as Boston University, Hewlett-Packard Labs, the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Caltech, and Applied Materials.

Information about past and present TR35 winners and judges is available at www.technologyreview.com/TR35/.

About MIT’s Technology Review

Technology Review, the oldest technology magazine in the world, is published by Technology Review, Inc., an independent media company owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Founded in 1899, Technology Review describes emerging technologies and analyzes their commercial, economic, social, and political impact for an audience of senior executives, researchers, financiers, and policymakers, as well as for the MIT alumni.  In addition, Technology Review, Inc. produces technologyreview.com, a website that offers daily news and opinion on emerging technologies.  It also produces live events such as the Emerging Technologies Conference. 

Download Jane's CV here.

Here's the complete list of the 2006 winners:

Apostolos	Argyris	Telecom	University of Athens
Prithwish	Basu	Telecom	BBN Technologies
Jeffery	Bode	Nanotechnology	University of California, Santa Barbara
Edward	Boyden	Biotechnology	Stanford University
Seth	Coe-Sullivan	Hardware	QD Vision
Utkan	Demirci	Biotechnology	Harvard Medical School
Roger	Dingledine	Internet	Moria Research Labs
Stefan	Duma	Transportation	Virginia Tech
Jason	Fried	Internet	37signals
Christina	Galitsky	Energy	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Matthew	Herren	Software	EduVision
Song	Jin	Nanotechnology	University of Wisconsin-Madison
Manolis	Kellis	Biotechnology	MIT
William	King	Nanotechnology	Georgia Institute of Technology
Eddie	Kohler	Software	University of California, Los Angeles
Ram	Krishnamurthy	Hardware	Intel
Stéphanie	Lacour	Nanotechnology	University of Cambridge
Ling	Liao	Hardware	Intel
Ashok	Maliakal	Nanotechnology	Lucent Technologies’ Bell Laboratories
Jane	McGonigal	Software	42 Entertainment
Joshua	Napoli	Software	Actuality Systems
Liam	Paninski	Biotechnology	Columbia University
Nikos	Paragios	Biotechnology	École Centrale Paris
Michael	Raab	Energy	Agrivida
Paul	Rademacher	Internet	Google
Anand	Raghunathan	Hardware	NEC Laboratories America
Joshua	Schachter	Internet	del.icio.us (Yahoo)
Jay	Shendure	Biotechnology	Harvard Medical School
Sumeet	Singh	Internet	Cisco
Paris	Smaragdis	Software	Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs
Marin	Soljačić	Nanotechnology	MIT
Alice	Ting	Biotechnology	MIT
Christopher	Voigt	Biotechnology	University of California, San Francisco
Michael	Wong	Nanotechnology	Rice University
Ben	Zhao	Internet	University of California, Santa Barbara