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Nov 2008: TechnoGifts; Defibrillators; Sun in a Bottle;

A Holiday Tips List; Surviving Cardiac Arrest; Charles Seife interview;

TechnoGifts

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Defibrillators

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Sun in a Bottle

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November News Briefs

Water Goes Off the Grid; High Speed Down Under; Electric current could be the key to self-healing carbon-composite smart materials;

Water Goes Off the Grid

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High Speed Down Under

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Electric Fix for Carbon Composites

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October News Briefs

New Tech for Colon Check; Home Fuel Cell; Car Talk; Open-Source Voting;

New Tech for Colon Check

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Home Fuel Cell

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Car Talk

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Open-Source Voting

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Oct 2008: The Lady and the Li-on; The Innovators' Club; Geeks Cook; Robert Laughlin Author Interview; Clean Energy for the Military;

Battery Innovator; Hands On at the TechShop; Michael Antonorsi of Chuao Chocolatier; Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down; Air Force Green;

The Lady and the Li-on

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The Innovators' Club

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Geeks Cook

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Robert Laughlin Author Interview

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Clean Energy for the Military 

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Sep 2008: Do It Yourself Orchestration; Author Interview; Geeks Cooking; The Continental Divide

Your songs, virtually enhanced; "How the Universe Got Its Spots"; Talking with a "chemme fatale"; Golf and Globalization

Do It Yourself Orchestration

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Author Interview

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Talking with a "chemme fatale"

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The Continental Divide

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September News Briefs

Concussion Damage; Back to School?; Data Breaches; Extremist Engineers;

Concussion Damage

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Back to School?

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Data Breaches

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Extremist Engineers

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August News Briefs

Fuel Cells from Connecticut; More Female EEs in the Persian Gulf; We Convert the XO Laptop;

Fuel Cells from Connecticut

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More Female EEs in the Persian Gulf

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Earth-sized Radio Telescope

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We Convert the XO Laptop

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Aug 2008: Geeks Cooking; Jetsetting with Denise Gray; Buying My Scooter; Converting My Analog TV; Its All About CO2

Space-Age Chef; Life in High Altitudes; Cheap, Simple, and Green; Digital Signals for the Future; High Mileage, Low Emissions

Geeks Cooking

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Jetsetting with Denise Gray

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Buying My Scooter

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Converting My Analog TV

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Its All About CO2

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July 2008: Talking Tech Lit; Talking to Vernor Vinge; Wall Climbing Bots; Design for Winning

Steven Levy on Tech Books; More from the author of "Rainbow's End"; Defying Gravity; Computational Fluid Dynamics

Talking Tech Lit

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Talking to Vernor Vinge

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Wall Climbing Bots

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Design for Winning

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July News Briefs

Nuke Waste; Wave Power; Crimeware; Lunar Expeditions; Diesel Vehicles

Nuke Waste from Italy;

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Wave Power

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Crimeware

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Lunar Expeditions

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Diesel Vehicles

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June 2008: Electronic Interpreters for the Deaf; It's All About the "Vroom vroom."; Nuclear Family Vacation

Sign2Talk and Talk2Sign; Auto Writers Are Not Green Guys; Exploring Nuclear History

Electronic Interpreters for the Deaf

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It's All About the "Vroom vroom."

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Nuclear Family Vacation

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Geeks Cooking: Harold McGee; Copycat RoboToys

Editor Susan Hassler interviews the author of On Food & Cooking: The Science & Lore of the Kitchen; No-care, No-feed, No-walk Pets (batteries not included)

Geeks Cooking: Harold McGee

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Copycat RoboToys

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May 2008: The Met in HD; The Next Moon Landing; The Internet Comes to Arctic Bay

Spectrum's Jean Kumagai on the Met's "Live in HD" cinemacasts; Veterans of the Apollo program talk about what it takes to land on the Moon

Met Opera Tech

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The Next Moon Landing

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The Internet Comes to Arctic Bay

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Q&A with Harvard Business School's Clayton Christensen

His successful efforts to transferring Toyota's quality management style to semiconductor manufacturing

Clayton Christensen describes the migration of Toyota's Total Quality Control process to semiconductor fabs

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Q&A with management and PR guru Jim Lukaszewski

An interview with the author of "Why should the Boss Listen to You?"

Jim Lukaszewski talks about what it takes to be your boss's trusted strategic advisor

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April 2008: Bob Lucky Comments

Obsolescent Skills; More Like This One; Bob Lucky

When Skills Outlast Their Usefulness

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Recommending More Things Like This

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Bob Lucky: The community spirit of The Internet's amateurs

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Top 10 Tech Cars for 2008

John Voelcker's annual look at automotive wizardry

John Voelcker looks at the Top 10 Tech Cars for 2008

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Sir Arthur C. Clarke's final interview

Saswato Das interviews Sir Arthur in Sri Lankan hospital

Saswato Das interviews Sir Arthur C. Clarke in Sri Lankan hospital

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March 2008: Charles Perrow, Wind Turbines, Galapagos Power

Q&A with author Charles Perrow; Vertical wind turbine; Galapagos wind power

Q&A with Charles Perrow, author of "The Next Catastrophe"

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A fresh look at vertical wind turbines

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Erico Guizzo reports: Wind power adds to the Galapagos grid

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February 2008: Electric Motorcycle, Math Memories, Art and Technology, Wind Power

An electric motorcycle; Bittersweet math memories; Art and Technology; Wind Energy Growth

John Voelcker talks to Craig Bramscher

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Robert Lucky's bittersweet mathematical memories

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Dream Job: Ash Nehru builds intricate, interactive light displays

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Willie D. Jones comments on recent growth in wind energy

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January 2008: Telescopes, Electroshock, Solar Race, Books, Digital Formats

Remote Wireless Telescopes; Magnetic Seizure Therapy; Solar Car Race; Favorite Books; Digital Format Wars

Remote Telescopes Benefit from Wireless Data Collection

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New therapy uses powerful magnets instead of electric current

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Sandra Upson takes us into the Australian outback for the World Solar Challenge

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Favorite Books: MIT Prof. David Mindell on the influence of "Gravity's Rainbow"

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Commentary: Steven Cherry on The Digital Format Debate

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December 2007: Cars, Eco-footprints, Tech Toys, and Electric Cars

Los Angeles Car Show; Eco-Footprint; Tech Toys for the Holidays; Electric Vehicle Symposium

Automotive Editor John Voelcker takes a look at the 2007 Los Angeles Car Show

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What does the ecological footprint of a city say about its sustainability?

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Tech Toys for the Holidays

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John Voelcker takes us to the Electric Vehicle Symposium

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"King's Gambit" author Paul Hoffman on the world's most dangerous game

Paul Hoffman author of "King's Gambit" talks chess

Paul Hoffman discusses his latest work "King's Gambit" with Susan Hassler

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November 2007

Emoticons; Robot Cars; Vocal Joystick

Ever wonder where emoticons originated?

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Robot cars are back! John Voelcker reports on the six he recently saw compete.

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Software acts as a vocal joystick, translating sound into mouse moves.

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October 2007

Google's Solar Investment; Clean Coal; Mulitfuel Cars; Super Cars; Geek Cooking

Does Google's use of solar power for its needs signal a trend?

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Spectrum visits a clean coal power plant being built in eastern Germany

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Brazil's flexible-fuel car isn't limited to just two fuels

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Automotive Editor John Voelcker on building your own supercar

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Geek Cooking with Brian Young, Executive Chef at Tavern on the Green

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September 2007

Vibrations documentary; iPhone's real estate; Lithium-ion car batteries; Home power

"Passion and Power" a Rachel Maines documentary

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What to do with iPhone's available screen real estate

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Can modern cars go all electric? Or is the hybrid the best compromise?

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This home cogeneration plant provides heat and electricity

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August 2007

Challenge X; Bob Lucky; Cellphone Shopping; More from Bob Lucky

Challenge X: Vehicle innovation by teams of engineering students

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Bob Lucky: Consider your trail in cyberspace

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Shopping for a new cellphone? The options can be overwhelming

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Bob Lucky wants a new computer, but not for the reason you might think

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July 2007

Cars, Hybrid Cars; When Geeks Cook; NASA's Donna Shirley; Homebrewed Cellphones; Henry Petroski

Hybrid Car Mania: A reality check from Spectrum's auto editor John Voelcker

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Cooking with Michael Tamburro, engineering consultant

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The influence of Arthur C. Clark on NASA's Donna Shirley

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The Homebrew Mobile Phone Club

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Henry Petroski's fascination with Jon Hersey's "A Single Pebble"

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Megacities: An IEEE Spectrum Special Report

Tokyo's Seismic Disasters; Sao Paulo's Mass Transit; Mumbai's Power Grid; Shanghai's Green Future

How Tokyo prepares for earthquakes

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How Sao Paulo keeps 18 million people moving

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How Mumbai avoids blackouts

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How Shanghai builds a sustainable future

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Profiles in Technology

Dr. Jones: 2007 IEEE Founders Medal recipient

Anita K. Jones: 2007 IEEE Founders Medal recipient

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May 2007

Elecronic Newspapers; Vint Cerf; Digital Photography

Extra! Extra! Electronic newspapers designed for handheld devices

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Vint Cerf: How J.R.R. Tolkien changed my life

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Bob Lucky reflects on digital photography

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Roundtable: Top 10 Tech Cars

Spectrum Radio 's look at car culture

Automotive Editor John Voelcker talks "Tech Cars" with Spectrum Editor Susan Hassler

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April 2007

Fuel cells; Robot store; Ontario Power

How long before hydrogen-based fuel cells power our personal gadgets?

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Robot store: Where budding roboticists come to play

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Ontario Power's plan to curb its greenhouse emissions

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March 2007

Cars with Split Personalities; Power Without Wires; Under the Volcano; Smart Parking Meters; Bob Lucky's Commentary

What if cars could have split personalities? Sporty one minute, sensible the next

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Imagine accessing power the same way you do data: through the air

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Christian Anténor-Habazac: Under the Volcano

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These technologies ease finding and paying for a parking space

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Bob Lucky: Are you aware?

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February 2007

Manatees; The Bird Whisperer; Great Thoughts; Be Aware of GPS Stalking

Brazilian researchers track the Amazonian manatee

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Dale Joachim: The Bird Whisperer

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Bob Lucky on Great Thoughts

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GPS Stalking: The downside to this popular technology

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Cooking With Engineers

When engineers cook, it's all about the science — and the food.

Kevin Weeks: Programmer turned chef

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January 2007

Simulating thought; A.I. Auteur; Wireless Pioneer; Detroit Auto Show; Guadeloupe's Geothermal Resources

Barry Silverman: Simulating Thought to Model Terrorists

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Frederic Kaplan: Artificial Intelligence Auteur

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Rabih Moussa: Wireless in the Wild

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John Voelcker reports on the 2007 North American Auto Show

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Guadeloupe taps into its geothermal resources

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December 2006

Holiday Gift Guide; Corporate Generosity; 2010 TV Technology; Plug-In Hybrid Cars

Holiday Gift Guide

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Benetech's Jim Fruchterman is a new kind of entrepreneur

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TV Technology in 2010

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John Voelcker's Take on Plug-In Hybrid Cars

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November 2006

Future Cars, Email Habits, David Lemberg, Refueling Options, Robots that Emote

Cars of the Future: John Voelcker takes the Tesla Roadster for a ride

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Email Habits: What do our email habits say about us?

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A conversation with David Lemberg, executive producer of "Science & Society"

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John Voelcker looks at the realities and practicalities of NOT using gasoline

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Quasi Robot wears his heart on his sleeve

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October 2006

Electronic Voting; Ham Radio Operators; Jim Benya; Smart Cards

Electronic Voting: Computerized voter rolls pose problems, too

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Amateur radio operators provide a vital communications link

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Dark Skies: Jim Benya lights up the great outdoors

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Smart cards: Is your fingerprint more secure than your signature?

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Terrorism's Global Reach: Prevent and Prepare

A Roundtable Discussion in two parts

A Future without Terrorism

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Consider History to Prepare for the Future

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IEEE Fellows Survey

Editors' Roundtable Discussion of the 2006 Survey of IEEE Fellows

IEEE Fellows Survey — a roundtable discussion

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Assessing the Risks of Terrorism

Editors' Roundtable with Jean Kumagai and Harry Goldstein

Constructing risk assessments to evaluate terrorist threats

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Where should available resources be focused—resources or people?

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What poses the greatest threat?

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August 2006

Home wind turbines; Wireless advances

In the Wind: small wind turbines to power your home

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Wireless Advances: Mesh Wi-Fi is one post-Katrina success story in New Orleans

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Art & Technology: LEMUR creates electronic robotic instruments

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July 2006

Consumers Beware: TV & obesity; The end of "Fair Use"?; Untangle your PC cables; Sagging powerlines and blackouts

Technology, television and obesity

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Fair Use, Consumer Rights, and the Copyright Act

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Wireless USB: Untangle your computer desktop

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Sagging, overloaded powerlines can lead to blackouts

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The FBI's Software Debacle

In this two-part show, experts discuss a report advising the FBI to scrap it's Virtual Case File project and then suggest ways to make large software projects work

Why didn't the FBI heed its consultants and scrap the $170 million Virtual Case File project?

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What lessons learned can benefit other big software projects?

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June 2006

Broadband networks, cybercrime, engineers who cook, and hybrid race cars

Utopia: Can a coalition of municipalities provide better broadband than a monopoly?

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Cyber Crime: Just how much damage can it cause?

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When Engineers Cook

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Formula Racing with Hybrid Race Cars

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May 2006

Spectrum Radio's monthly radio program

Micro fuel cells; Plus Bob Lucky talks about remote controls

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On Ice: World's First Wireless Glacier Network

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How the Digital Millenium Copyright Act impacts consumers

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Night Vision: Can technology make nighttime driving safer?

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Archibald Putt Speaks

Spectrum Radio interviews the pseudonymous author of Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat

Archibald Putt Speaks: Susan Hassler interviews the pseudonymous author

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April 2006

Bogus Electronics

Beware of Bogus Electronics

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Open Target: How secure are American borders?

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The Lessons of Design Failure Lead to Success

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Data Shredder: Jeff Jonas writes crook-nabbing database software

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Top 10 Tech Cars

Editor's Roundtable

Editor's Roundtable: Spectrum's Top 10 Tech Cars of 2006

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March 2006

Green Roofs, Security, Electronic wildlife tracking, and more

Green Roofs: Sky-high gardens save energy and the environment

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Assemblyman to Internet: May I See Your Papers Please

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Editor's Roundtable: Psychiatry's Shocking New Tools

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Computer Safari: Handheld-computer expert tracks animals

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Expose: Bad Hollywood Science

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NSA Spying

Q&A with James Bamford

NSA Spying: William Sweet interviews James Bamford

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February 2006

Acoustic smog threatens whales; Using cellphones on airplanes; The $100 PC; Editor's Roundtable

Acoustic smog threatens whales

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Is it safe to use cellphones on airplanes?

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The US $100 PC; Plus computers we want to own...

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Editor's Roundtable: Setting up a Computer Center in Nigeria

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January 2006

Iraq's power grid, power from sugar cane, monitoring athletes core body temp, Dream Jobs

Restoring Electrical Service to Iraq

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Swallow This: Radio Pill Monitors Pro Footballers' Health

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Sugar Rush: Barbados is turning sugar cane into power

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Editors Roundtable: Engineers' Dream Jobs

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The R&D 100

Spectrum's Top 100 in R&D

An interview with R&D 100 editor Harry Goldstein

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December 2005

Electricity consumption

The African Hacker: An interview with Gregg Zachary about software developers in Ghana

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Consumer PowerLine helps its customers make money by not using electricity

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The Imagineer: It takes hard work to create serious fun

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Darwin: A personal reflection on the new exhibit at the American museum of Natural History

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Editor's Debriefing: Dissecting the R&D 100

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November 2005

Interviews, Q&A sessions

Iraq's reconstruction budget: an interview with the man in charge, Col. Gonzales, USArmy

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Apex, the southern hemisphere's biggest radio observatory, sets up shop

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Trojan Horse computer attacks are on the rise. Plus Paul McFedries on spyware

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Holiday Gifts — suggestions for the technophile on your gift list

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Projecting Chicken Little in 3-D; Plus Bob Lucky spots engineers everywhere

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Re-engineering Iraq

Back from Iraq, Executive Editor Glenn Zorpette sat down with Spectrum's Editor Susan Hassler to describe his two weeks in-country and rebuilding efforts there

Editor's Debrief: Re-engineering Iraq

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October 2005

Mathematical puzzles, robots

Sudoku puzzles — a tantalizing combination of logic and math

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Exoskeletons: An interview with bioroboticist Jacob Rosen

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Fly Like A Fly: aeronautical genius to emulate

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My Life Bits — the digitized life of Gordon Bell

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Reconstructing Iraq's Electricity Grid

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September 2005

Space elevators, email headaches, video via the Internet, and a California science museum. Plus: Can a shoe insert improve your balance?

Billboard

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Space Elevator

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Shoes that help you balance

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Editor's Roundtable: Software Failure

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A California Museum for Kids

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Electrical History

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Video on Demand via the Internet

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Wind Turbines to Balance the Power Grid

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Flexible Integrated Circuits

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Bob Lucky: Tired of email?

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Wrap Up

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August 2005

Great new cars, a boom town in China and a ghost town in the American Northwest. Plus checking the accuracy of 240-year-old instruments.

Billboard

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The Greening of GE

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Walking the Mason-Dixon Line

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Technically Speaking

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Editor's Roundtable

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Miami Museum of Science & Technology

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Letters From Readers

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Profiles in Engineering History

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Bob Lucky

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Wrap Up

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July 2005

Recycling computers, tiny atomic clocks, improving brain function, 3-D displays, and sci-fi TV.

Billboard

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Computer Recycling

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Renewable Energy Update

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Wind Turbines

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3-D Displays

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Improving Your Memory at any Age

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ID Theft

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Tiny Atomic Clocks

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The Return of Sci-Fi TV

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Bob Lucky on Wordsmithing

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Wrap Up

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May 2005

China's Technology Revolution

Billboard

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Semiconductor Manufacturing

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Trading Clean Air Emissions Credits

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Pandas Bring a Wireless Network to a Rural Village

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Riding the Mag-Lev Train

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Chengdu Exemplifies China's High Tech Future

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Business Education

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China Inc.: An Interview with Ted Fischman

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China's High-Tech Growth Spurt

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An Interview with Thomas Friedman

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March 2005

Space Weapons, laser lights, tsunami tracking, hydrogen cars, and more.

Billboard

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LED lights

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The New York Toy Fair

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Big Advances in Tiny Microprocessors

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Hydrogen Cars

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Space Weapons

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Tracking Tsunamis

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Job Prospects for Recent Graduates

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Boston's Museum of Science

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Bob Lucky on Disappearing Rules

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February 2005

Dream Jobs, Telescopes, and one Inventor's Nightmare, and much more.

Billboard

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Hawaii's Keck Telescope

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Stargazers

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Backyard Telescopes

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Expedition: Space

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Inventor's Nightmare

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Engineering Dream Jobs

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To Capitalize "Internet" or Not

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The Future of the Printed Book

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Diversity in Engineering

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Blimps as Missile Defense

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Gadgets: data locks and high-tech shoes

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Bob Lucky on Wordsmithing

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December 2004

40 Years of Spectrum Predictions, Online Learning, Surveillance Tools, Time to Slow Down, and more.

Billboard

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In the News

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Music Swapping

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40 Years of Spectrum Predictions

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In Praise of Slowness

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Going Wireless at Starbucks

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Online Learning

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Reporter's Notebook: Nigerian Computer Center

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Surveillance Tools

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Bob Lucky on Ego Surfing

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Wrap Up

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Spectrum Radio Pilot

Highlights include sensors and children, blogs and workplace rules, Bob lucky on books and science fiction and film.

Intro and RFID

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Cellphones

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Blogs

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Workplace Rules

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Science Fiction and Film

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Bob Lucky on books

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Wrap Up

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