April 2007 Feature Articles

Becoming Your Own Boss

From dream to reality

Social-isms

Learn Like A Human

Why Can't A Computer Be More Like A Brain?

IEEE Spectrum Online: A Blogging Sampler

Quiet on Demand

These speakers take the edge off noisy travel

Lord of the Geeks

Although Joss Whedon lost his sci-fi television show "Firefly," the fans he won have since made him a success in movies, games, and other media

Forum: Our Readers Write

Podcast Picks

A Power Plant for the Home

Basement furnaces generate electricity, too

Ready for their Close-ups

Breathing life into digitally animated faces

Strange Ways

A weaving together of minds, machines, and mathematics

Face Time

Our reporter gets ready for her own digital close-up in this month's Back Story

Who Cares Whether Johnny Knows Science?

Economic growth depends on having top-flight researchers, not on meeting the general technical standard of the school population

MIT Conference is Bullish on Solar Power

Energy from the sun, long touted by green activists, has found a more potent patron: business

Robo-girls

All-girl teams make their presence felt at regional high school robotics competitions

Robo-girls Know the Way to San Jose

A record number of all-girls teams competed in the Silicon Valley Regional match of the FIRST Robotics competition

Robo-girls Redux: Sacramento Semifinals

It's an up-and-down ride for the only all-girl team to make the semifinal rounds