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UCLA Engineering’s
Eddie Kohler Chosen as One of the Top Innovators Under the Age
of 35 by MIT’s Technology Review
Winners to be featured
at 2006 Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT
Eddie Kohler, assistant professor of computer
science at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied
Science and an innovator in the field of computer software, has
been selected as one of the prestigious annual “TR35.”
The list, which appears in the current issue of MIT’s Technology
Review magazine, features 35 of the top innovators in science
and technology under the age of 35.
Kohler’s research spans computer systems,
networks and sensor networks.
“I’m thrilled and humbled to have
been chosen for the TR35. It’s an honor to be among such
great company,” said Kohler.
One recent focus for Kohler has been on operating
systems and security issues. To keep information more secure,
the professor collaborated with a research team comprised of members
from UCLA, MIT and Stanford University to design Asbestos, a computer
operating system that keeps sensitive information from leaking
out to unauthorized users even in the presence of software failure.
Asbestos tags private information and tracks those
tags through the lowest levels of the operating system. Only authorized
users can access tagged data, which remains isolated even if vulnerable
parts of the system are attacked. Asbestos significantly reduces
the amount of code that must be trusted for a system to be secure.
Important applications include keeping highly sensitive customer
information, such as credit card and bank account numbers, under
lock and key and inaccessible to hackers.
Kohler has been a faculty member at UCLA Engineering
since January 2004, and is a Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellow
for 2006-07. He also is part of the Center for Embedded Networked
Sensing (CENS), located at UCLA Engineering, which is developing
embedded networked sensing systems and applying this revolutionary
technology to critical scientific and social applications.
Says 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 Jürvetson among the past
winners.”
Brin is a co-founder and president of technology
for Google, while Ive is senior vice president of industrial design
at Apple Computer and is credited with designing the iMac. Jürvetson
is a managing director of Draper Fisher Jürvetson, and was
the founding venture capital investor in online email giant Hotmail.
TR35 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.
A number of the 35 winners also will be featured
on Technology Review’s new video blog at www.technologyreview.com/blog/video.aspx.
Information about past and present TR35 winners and judges is
available at www.technologyreview.com/TR35/.
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.
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