<p>Each year, Technology Review Magazine recognizes the top 35 young technology innovators from across the world. Princeton's Andrew Houck (Class of 2000) was one of the awardees this year.</p>
<p>"Andrew Houck, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and a past Princeton valedictorian, was named to Technology Review magazine's list of the top 35 young innovators for 2009.</p>
<p>Since 1999, the editors of Technology Review have honored the young innovators whose inventions and research they find most exciting. Today that collection is the TR35, a list of technologists and scientists, all under the age of 35. According to the editors, "Their work -- spanning medicine, computing, communications, electronics, nanotechnology and more -- is changing our world."</p>
<p>The magazine lauded Houck's work on quantum computing, a field in which physicists and engineers hope to develop computers fundamentally different from those that currently exist. In conventional computing, information is broken into a string of 1s and 0s, each of which is called a "bit." Quantum computing uses "qubits," which can also store information as a combination of 0 and 1, known as a "superposition." . . . (continued)</p>
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<p>Houck, a Princeton undergraduate who returned and became a professor at his alma mater is profiled in the following Technology Review article:</p>
<p>Technology</a> Review: TR35</p>
<p>The list of 35 young innovators is full of stories of fascinating achievements. MIT was the most heavily represented of universities with three professors receiving the recognition. USC and Berkeley each had two faculty members represented. Princeton and Harvard were the only two Ivies represented. Stanford, Northwestern, UCLA, UW, UC Irvine, ASU, U. of Rochester and others were also represented.</p>