Engineering Everquest
Online gaming demands heavyweight data centers
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Online gaming demands heavyweight data centers
How a strand of DNA launched a career
With home-brewed code and a little help from Microsoft, a programmer
in Ghana launches Africa's first software empire
Alternative Nets raise the specter of balkanization
A new glass glue opens the path to optical computing
Development agreement takes shape during the Paris Air Show
Alternative energy, once the province of do-it-yourselfers and scrappy technology developers,is suddenly Big Business
Online gaming demands heavyweight data centers
The Back Story
Marriage of silicon and previously incompatible
semiconductors is consummated
Scientists fret over storage of spent nuclear fuel in pools
Scientists fret over storage of spent nuclear fuel in pools
By harvesting energy from radioactive specks, nuclear
microbatteries could power tomorrow's microelectromechanical
marvels--and maybe your cellphone, too
Could Simple Mixed Materials Make Flat Lenses Cheap?
Yet another flavor of Wi-Fi is coming, and it will be the
fastest one yet
Tiny bubbles imploded by sound waves can make hydrogen nuclei fuse--and may one day become a revolutionary new energy source
Eager hybrid owners can't wait to connect their cars to the power grid
But stay tuned—supercomputers are getting faster, at an
even faster rate
James D. Meindl caught the low-power semiconductor wave
when it was barely a ripple and brought generations of
graduate students along for an exciting ride
No clear boundary between math and software exists
Customization and speed-to-market will drive the industry from the bottom up
Though hiring remains focused, there's more of it
Inkjet printers are not just for documents anymore. Today,
they are creating custom--and pliable--electronics for
cellphone displays and programmable signs. Tomorrow, they
could build large, lightweight antennas that stow compactly
and unfurl in space
A superb operating system has a few awkward spots
A small British firm shows that software bugs aren't inevitable
Movies, Monoliths, and Mission Control
Wages in the United States grow only slightly, while China and India see double-digit increases
The foundations of the computing age go up for auction
Part human, part machine, replacement organs may one day
extend your life
How the FBI blew more than $100 million on case-management
software it will never use
Building Better Lie Detectors With Neuroscience?
To preserve our knowledge base and cultures, we must find a way to save digital content for future generations
Beleaguered Chip Makers Are Counting On Single-Wafer
Manufacturing, Which Makes ICs On One Wafer At A Time, To
Cut Costs And Get Chips To Market Faster
Jack St. Clair Kilby(1923-2005): Engineering Monolith
A new wireless network helps Panda researchers and school kids, too
Silicon in 60-GHz band promises speedy downloads
How technology is driving the country's economic boom, and
what that means for the world
IEEE Spectrum ranks the world's most valuable patent portfolios
Biometric authentication systems for credit cards could put
identity thieves out of business
Borrowing from biology makes for low -- power computing
A polymer semiconductor approaches silicon speed
The unfolding tale of an ineffective DRAM conspiracy
Cell's nine processors make it a supercomputer on a chip
The most important invention of the 20th century was
conceived not just once, but twice
Applied Materials' new polishing technology could be the
key to the coming generation of microchips
Could basic research have saved AT&T?
Electrical Engineering has its share of human drama, too
Cut-and-paste, the one-button mouse, WYSIWIG desktop publishing--these
are just a few of the user interface innovations pioneered by Larry Tesler
A conversation with Internet security expert William R. Cheswick
The Spyware Nightmare
Chess computers are beating grand masters with ever-greater ease, and even more demoralizing, they're beginning to do it with style
Insights could lead to brighter and cheaper displays
Today's Dick Tracy wannabes can strap on PDAs, MP3 players, TVs, flash drives, and cellphones
Copyrights should replace software patents: Second in a two-part series
There's still not much to restrain it from engaging in anticompetitive practices
Solving
the power problems of the 21st century will mean letting
go of some cherished myths