20 emerging technologies of 2009

Subhransu Das
8TH Sem ECE

1.Intelligent Software Assistant
Adam Cheyer is leading the design of powerful software that acts as a personal aide.
2.$100 Genome
Han Cao's nanofluidic chip could cut DNA sequencing costs dramatically.
3.Racetrack Memory
Stuart Parkin is using nanowires to create an ultradense memory chip.
4.Biological Machines
Michel Maharbiz's novel interfaces between machines and living systems could give rise to a new generation of cyborg devices.
5.Paper Diagnostics
George Whitesides has created a cheap, easy-to-use diagnostic test out of paper.
6.Liquid Battery
Donald Sadoway conceived of a novel battery that could allow cities to run on solar power at night.
7.Traveling-Wave Reactor
A new reactor design could make nuclear power safer and cheaper, says John Gilleland.
8.Nanopiezoelectronics
Zhong Lin Wang thinks piezoelectric nanowires could power implantable medical devices and serve as tiny sensors.
9.HashCache
Vivek Pai's new method for storing Web content could make Internet access more affordable around the world.
10.Software-Defined Networking
Nick McKeown believes that remotely controlling network hardware with software can bring the Internet up to speed.
11.Modeling Surprise
Much of modern life depends on forecasts: where the next hurricane will make landfall, how the stock market will react to falling home prices, who will win the next primary. While existing computer models predict many things fairly accurately, surprises still crop up, and we probably can't eliminate them.
12.Probabilistic Chips
Krishna Palem thinks a little uncertainty in chips could extend battery life in mobile devices--and maybe the duration of Moore's Law, too.
13.NanoRadio
Alex Zettl's tiny radios, built from nanotubes, could improve everything from cell phones to medical diagnostics.
14.Wireless Power
Physicist Marin Soljacic is working toward a world of wireless electricity.
15.Atomic Magnetometers
John Kitching's tiny magnetic-field sensors will take MRI where it's never gone before.
16.Offline Web Applications
Adobe's Kevin Lynch believes that computing applications will become more powerful when they take advantage of the browser and the desktop.
17. Graphene Transistors
A new form of carbon being pioneered by Walter de Heer of Georgia Tech could lead to speedy, compact computer processors.
18. Connectomics
Jeff Lichtman hopes to elucidate brain development and disease with new technologies that illuminate the web of neural circuits.
19.Reality Mining
Sandy Pentland is using data gathered by cell phones to learn about human behavior.
20.Cellulolytic Enzymes
Frances Arnold is designing better enzymes for making biofuels from cellulose.