Learning From Katrina
Hurricane Katrina can teach engineers a lot about the
unintended impact of technology as well as what can be done
to prepare for the next catastrophe
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Hurricane Katrina can teach engineers a lot about the
unintended impact of technology as well as what can be done
to prepare for the next catastrophe
Optical fiber interconnects not yet good enough for James
Webb Space Telescope, but SpaceWire standard is.
Why was the New Orleans levee system so vulnerable to
failure in Hurricane Katrina?
European efforts against Intel have a better chance than
American ones
A U.S. spectrum auction opens up the coveted 700-MHz band
to cellphones
More powerful FPGAs and other reconfigurable chips could
come from vertical wires made from phase-change material
Brammo's Enertia puts bikers on the grid
With Australia's desert as its raceway, the World Solar Challenge illuminates some of the best electric-vehicle technology
Dream Jobs 2008
Electronically controlled pneumatic brakes could help stop
accidents and speed cargo
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The need for backup power has been overstated, but grid
interconnections are crucial
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DARPA may decide the fate of Dean Kamen's next-generation prosthetic arm
Studying penguins in Antarctica, watching shooting stars in the South Pacific, tracking robots through the Amazon--yes, this is engineering
The big picture
News brief
Cheap silicon transceivers broadcasting in this still-unlicensed band may usher in the hi-def wireless home
A specialist in other people's obsessions writes about one
of his own--chess
How the Border Green Energy Team brought light to Huai Kra
Thing Village
Your company may own your brainchild
Long the ugly stepchild of computer arithmetic, division is
getting a much needed makeover
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It lip-syncs as you sing
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Tiny electrodes could bring gene therapy into the brain
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EoPlex Technologies miniaturizes for multiple markets
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"If I can claim no other accomplishment when I die, at
least I'll have one neologism to my name!" --Glen Whitman,
economics professor
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Get more out of business trips by applying
project-management skills
An Australian company takes on a controversial technique to
screen for breast cancer: X-raying hair
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