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Annual 10 Breakthrough Technologies List from MIT Technology Review Explores the Most Remarkable Innovations of 2017
[February 22, 2017]

Annual 10 Breakthrough Technologies List from MIT Technology Review Explores the Most Remarkable Innovations of 2017


CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 22, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, MIT Technology Review released its annual 10 Breakthrough Technologies List (www.technologyreview.com/10Breakthroughs2017). For the 16th consecutive year, the global media organization has a published its list of innovations that are a clear advance in their field. With guidance and input from companies, investment firms, and research labs around the world, MIT Technology Review identifies the technologies that will have the biggest impact on businesses and society.

The 2017 List:






Breakthrough

Key Players

1.

Reinforcement Learning
An approach to artificial intelligence that gets computers to learn like people, through trial and reward.

  • DeepMind
  • Mobileye
  • OpenAI
  • Google
  • Uber

2.

The 360-Degree Selfie
Consumer cameras that produce 360° images, providing a realistic sense of events or places.

  • Ricoh
  • Samsung
  • 360fly
  • JK Imaging
  • IC Real Tech
  • Humaneyes Technologies

3.

Gene Therapy 2.0
The first gene therapies are on track for approval in the U.S. More are on the way.

  • Spark Therapeutics
  • BioMarin
  • BlueBird Bio
  • GenSight Biologics
  • UniQure

4.

Hot Solar Cells
A solar power device that could theoretically double the efficiency of conventional solar cells.

  • David Bierman, Marin Soljacic, and Evelyn Wang, MIT
  • Vladimir Shalaev, Purdue University

5.

The Cell Atlas
A master catalogue of every cell type in the human body.

  • Broad Institute
  • Sanger Institute
  • Chan Zuckerberg Biohub

6.

Self-Driving Trucks
Long-haul trucks that drive themselves for extended stretches on highways.

  • Otto
  • Volvo
  • Daimler
  • Peterbilt

7.

Paying with Your Face
Face recognition technology that is finally accurate enough to be widely used in financial transactions and other everyday applications.

  • Face++
  • Baidu
  • Alibaba

8.

Practical Quantum Computers
The fabrication of stable qubits, the basic unit of quantum computers.

  • QuTech
  • Intel
  • Microsoft
  • Google
  • IBM

9.

 Reversing Paralysis
Wireless brain-body electronic interfaces to bypass damage to the nervous system.

  • École Polytechnique Fédérale
    de Lausanne
  • Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Case Western Reserve University

10.

Botnets of Things
Malware that takes control of webcams, video recorders, and other consumer devices to cause widespread Internet outages.

  • Whoever created the
    Mirai botnet software
  • Anyone who runs a poorly secured device online—including you?

About MIT Technology Review
Founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a digitally oriented independent media company whose analysis, features, reviews, interviews, and live events explain the commercial, social, and political impact of new technologies. MIT Technology Review readers are curious technology enthusiasts—a global audience of business and thought leaders, innovators and early adopters, entrepreneurs and investors. Every day, we provide an authoritative filter for the flood of information about technology. We are the first to report on a broad range of new technologies, informing our audiences about how important breakthroughs will impact their careers and their lives. Subscribe. Follow us: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+.

Media Contact:
David W.M. Sweeney
Director of Marketing and Communications
MIT Technology Review
617 475-8018
[email protected]

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SOURCE MIT Technology Review


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