[March 17, 2006]

Technology Review Nominated for National Magazine Award

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. --(Business Wire)-- March 17, 2006 -- The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) has honored Technology Review as a finalist in its 40th anniversary National Magazine Awards competition.

MIT's magazine of innovation was nominated in the General Excellence category for magazines with circulations between 250,000 and 500,000. The category recognizes the effectiveness with which writing, reporting, editing, and design all come together to command readers' attention and fulfill a given magazine's unique editorial mission.

Technology Review Editor-in-Chief Jason Pontin, who joined the magazine in the fall of 2004, expressed gratitude for the ASME honor: "We believe our readers need to understand technology and its various effects in order to better understand the world. They are impatient for clear, accurate explanations of emerging technologies and their impact."

Pontin added that the variety and stature of the writers published in the three 2005 issues submitted for judging plus the adventurousness of their subject matter illustrate the breadth of Technology Review's interests and the extraordinary quality of journalists and essayists who write for the magazine.

The January 2005 issue feature "The Problematical Dr. Huang Hongyun," by Horace Freeland Judson, author of The Eighth Day of Creation, profiled a Chinese physician who claims to use fetal cells to help paralyzed patients. Judson focused on Dr. Hongyun's particularly dubious methods and spotty data. The issue also included a meditative essay by New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki about the question of technology's ability to make us happy.

July's feature by David Ewing Duncan, "Wired to Eat," reported that researchers are hoping to learn much about obesity by studying the Pacific island of Kosrae, where more than half of the adults are obese and 88 percent are overweight, and where high percentages of the people suffer from diabetes and hypertension. The issue also gave readers an inside look at a new semiconductor made by Intel--one that could help sustain the growth of the digital economy.

In the August cover story "Social Machines," Technology Review Senior Editor Wade Roush explained that the current explosion of computing tools and applications is enabling new kinds of interaction among people. The feature itself was an experiment in social computing: Roush posted a draft of the article on a blog in May, and several visitors' comments made their way into the margins of the printed issue. The issue was rounded out by a piece on nutritional genomics by renowned Atlantic food writer Corby Kummer--and an essay on psychedelic drugs by Dr. Alexander Shulgin, known as "the grandfather of ecstasy."

The winners of this year's ASME Awards (which are known as "Ellies") will be announced at an evening ceremony on Tuesday, May 9, at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Frederick P. Rose Hall, New York City.

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.

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