http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/articles/ Post your comments about IEEE Spectrum articles here en Copyright 2008 Wed, 07 May 2008 21:30:22 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Vermont's efforts to curb electricity demand are working, and Delaware is starting the most ambitious plan yet http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/articles/2008/05/the_rise_of_the_energyefficien.html http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/articles/2008/05/the_rise_of_the_energyefficien.html Wed, 07 May 2008 21:30:22 +0000 Engineers are attempting to reconstruct the 19 April Soyuz descent from the ISS http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/articles/2008/05/internal_nasa_documents_give_c.html http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/articles/2008/05/internal_nasa_documents_give_c.html Wed, 07 May 2008 15:09:14 +0000 A Chevrolet Volt update, two tiny Japanese EVs, and even a Tesla lawsuit http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/articles/2008/05/ev_roundup_electric_vehicles_m.html http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/articles/2008/05/ev_roundup_electric_vehicles_m.html Mon, 05 May 2008 21:31:31 +0000 A Chevrolet Volt update, two tiny Japanese EVs, and even a Tesla lawsuit http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/articles/2008/05/electric_vehicles_move_forward.html http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/articles/2008/05/electric_vehicles_move_forward.html Mon, 05 May 2008 21:31:14 +0000 http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/articles/2008/05/zipf_drive.html http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/articles/2008/05/zipf_drive.html Thu, 01 May 2008 16:19:43 +0000 The Toyota Production System has been applied to chip making. The electronics industry may never be the same http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/articles/2008/05/the_new_economics_of_semicondu.html http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/articles/2008/05/the_new_economics_of_semicondu.html Thu, 01 May 2008 16:19:33 +0000 http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/articles/2008/05/the_mash_monsters.html http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/articles/2008/05/the_mash_monsters.html Thu, 01 May 2008 16:18:52 +0000 Are chip makers building electronic trapdoors in key military hardware? The Pentagon is making its biggest effort yet to find out http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/articles/2008/05/the_hunt_for_the_kill_switch.html http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/articles/2008/05/the_hunt_for_the_kill_switch.html Thu, 01 May 2008 16:16:39 +0000 Evolutionary algorithm combined with three other prediction methods can spot which companies are headed for trouble two years in advance http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/articles/2008/05/taiwanese_software_spots_stock.html http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/articles/2008/05/taiwanese_software_spots_stock.html Thu, 01 May 2008 16:15:37 +0000 You can't avoid office politics, so you might as well learn the rules of the game http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/articles/2008/05/survivor_the_office.html http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/articles/2008/05/survivor_the_office.html Thu, 01 May 2008 16:14:29 +0000 Jonathan Sawyer spent $30 000--and voided the warranty--to add a plug to his Prius hybrid http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/articles/2008/05/plugging_away_in_a_prius.html http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/articles/2008/05/plugging_away_in_a_prius.html Thu, 01 May 2008 16:13:18 +0000 The first director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity discusses the differences between intelligence work and defense http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/articles/2008/05/qa_with_iarpa_director_lisa_po.html http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/articles/2008/05/qa_with_iarpa_director_lisa_po.html Thu, 01 May 2008 16:13:05 +0000 If you want to find the vulnerabilities in your system before the black-hat hackers do, Nokia's programmable handheld is just the ticket http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/articles/2008/05/n800_fights_the_bad_guys.html http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/articles/2008/05/n800_fights_the_bad_guys.html Thu, 01 May 2008 16:12:02 +0000 mini-profile http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/articles/2008/05/jeannine_mosely_paper_sculptor.html http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/articles/2008/05/jeannine_mosely_paper_sculptor.html Thu, 01 May 2008 16:09:05 +0000 In seven months, a chip-fabrication plant reduced wafer-manufacturing costs by 12 percent and cycle time by 67 percent. How'd they do it? http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/articles/2008/05/its_not_easy_being_lean.html http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/articles/2008/05/its_not_easy_being_lean.html Thu, 01 May 2008 16:08:46 +0000