The Indefatigable Inventor
An IEEE Fellow offers a humorous take on engineers and inventors
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An IEEE Fellow offers a humorous take on engineers and inventors
Big wind projects announced for New York Trade Center site,
offshore generation in Great Britain
Problems at showcase Horns Rev project provide wind energy critics with ammunition
Forecasters have learned to stay 48 hours ahead of a major
hurricane's twists and turns
How one engineer contributes to her field, her business,
and the community
Electrical Engineering has its share of human drama, too
Organic semiconductors are strong candidates for creating flexible,
full-color displays and circuits on plastic
Implanted semiconductors will allow drugs to be delivered
exactly when and where they are needed
A new type of patent is needed
Journalist David Kushner takes up a topic we all love to
complain about: outrageously stupid science in movies and
television.
Summaries of Research and Inventions from Science and
Technology Journals
Former Xerox PARC team to share US $500 000
Engines that search for meaning rather than words will make the Web more manageable
A popular puzzle helps researchers dig into deep math
Data forensics tools leave the lab and enter the
marketplace
The Alberta SuperNet is a model for the broadband future--everywhere
An old computational favorite is overhauled
In the new world of competition, power traders, grid
managers, public service boards, and the public itself all
need to take in what's happening at a glance
GPS games get players off their couches and into the real world
Sony BMG shoots itself--and its customers--in the foot
A bumper crop of techno-toys from US $30 to $16,000
We can't defend everything. So we should take steps that
protect against both terrorism and natural disasters
Ubiquitous sensors and massive interlinked databases are propelling
us into the post-Orwellian era. Are we ready to know everything about each other?
How, 50 years ago, Texas Instruments and Bell Labs pushed
electronics into the silicon age
The world's biggest R and D spenders are putting their
money on software and service
Some new technologies promise far more finely grained
regulation of current flow through today's vast electricity grids
Summaries of Research and Inventions from Science and
Technology Journals
Japan's DoCoMo gets ready to put your money where your
mouth is
A dark-horse technologythe Grating Light Valvemay join the
competition to dethrone the CRT
Tsunami of trash forecast for near future
Washington state sticks manufacturers with recycling tab
More service providers opt for wideband code-division multiple access
for the radio interface, but time-division multiple access is
not dead yet
A titanium dioxide coating gives this light bulb the power
to eat germs and odors
The augmented-reality wonderland of Pyramid Hill and Fairmont
High School is taking shape today
It's alarming! It's no big deal! How your personal information
is being collected and protected, used and misused
Advanced mathematical modeling suggests that big blackouts are inevitable
In this futuristic tale, Mike Villas is good at playing games.
He's about to find out if he's any good at playing people
Acacia Technologies is laying claim to the innovations that
move video and music through cyberspace. Could this tiny
company be the next Internet powerhouse?
From undersea robots to power electronics, technology's future
belongs to the bold.
Electronics and fabrics woven together will make smart dressers of firefighters,
football players, and fashionistas alike
One of the last remaining tube domains is in music applications,
but there the devices flourish and even innovate
How a Swedish engineer saved a once-in-a-lifetime mission to Saturn's mysterious moon
For the wired world, the allure and the danger of high-power microwave
weapons are both very real
Novel digital clocks get their glamour from the Nixie tube, the
mother of electronic numerical displays
Scanning light beams to the retina could revolutionize displays for
everything from cellphones to games
Development agreement takes shape during the Paris Air Show
Eager hybrid owners can't wait to connect their cars to the power grid
The Niagara microprocessor chip is Sun's best hope for a
comeback
Idaho's major utility has resisted deregulation and is
doing just fine
Can a retro tube-based amplifier live happily ever after with the Apple iPod?
Broadband TV concern hooks up the 'hood
Five years after 9/11, technology's role against terrorism
is still murky
Non-line-of-sight wireless systems promise strong signals for high-speed Internet access
The science of networks analyzes the hidden weaknesses and
strengths of critical infrastructures now at risk from
terrorist attack
NTT's shaky approach to data transfer targets a solved problem