IEEE Spectrum 2001 - Abstracts

IEEE Spectrum 2001
TitleSubjectAuthors
Amiga: the computer that wouldn't die.(Company Business and Marketing)(Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesLester B. Lave, Heather L. MacLean
An engineer's view of venture capitalists.(Speakout)(Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesNick Tredennick, Brion Shimamoto
A new world of terror: experts ponder technology's place in a changed counterterrorism landscape.(includes related article titled "Respond to Terror Like a Terrorist") (News Analysis)Engineering and manufacturing industriesGlenn Zorpette
Automation comes to analog.(Chip Design)(Industry Trend or Event)Engineering and manufacturing industriesBeth Martin
A venture capitalist's view of engineers.(Speakout)(Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesBrian Kinard, John Balbach
Barcelona spawns leading digital consultancy: merger of Spain's Cluster and Chicago's Diamond combines leaders in wireless and e-commerce. .(Cluster Consulting, Diamond Technology Partners) (News Analysis)(Company Business and Marketing)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn F. Mason
Biological warfare canaries: in the face of germ warfare, just knowing you are under attack is half the battle.(includes related article titled "Are We Prepared for)(a Bioterrorist Attack?")(Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesChristopher Aston
Bridging the divide between technologists and policy makers.(Speakout)(Government Activity)(Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJon M. Peha
Building the wireless Internet.(Speakout)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesChip Elliott
Cable slouches toward open access.(broadband cable) (includes related article titled "The Great Open Access Argument") (The Internet)(Government Activity)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMark Ingebretsen, Matt Siegel
Cisco's accounting proved vulnerable to human error.(Cisco Systems) (News Analysis)(Company Operations)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRobert Teitelman
Digital Millenium Copyright Act faces court tests; civil and criminal proceedings may limit enforcement of controversial U.S. law.(News Analysis)Engineering and manufacturing industriesSteven Cherry, Sanyin Siang
Digital radio takes to the road.(Sirius Satellite Radio Inc; XM Satellite Radio Inc) (Communications)(Company Business and Marketing)(Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDavid H. Layer
Digital TV rollout.(includes related comparison table titled "Status of Terrestrial Digital Television) (Consumer)(Industry Trend or Event)Engineering and manufacturing industriesBarry Fox
Display technology cuts projection TV costs.(Tools & Toys)(Column)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
EEs so far escape the rising tide of layoffs.(includes related table titled "Some Second-Quarter Layoffs") (electrical engineers)(Industry Trend or Event)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Effective resumes for uncertain times; expungiing the fatal flaws can make all the difference.(includes related "Resume Checklist") (Resources: Careers)Engineering and manufacturing industriesScott Kariya
Electronic voting systems make inroads in U.S. local elections; but Internet voting remains a distant prospect.(News Analysis)Engineering and manufacturing industriesPeter Gwynne
Embedded battle royale.(includes related article about real-time operating systems, or RTOS) (includes table titled "Some Vendors of Embedded Operating Systems") (Software)Engineering and manufacturing industriesBrian Santo
Ethernet's winning ways.(Networked Living)(Industry Trend or Event)Engineering and manufacturing industriesGadi Kaplan
Europe's cellulars to share infrastructure? Evolving 3G technology will provide for much more networking, but support costs threaten to bankrupt providers.(third-generation services) (includes related article titled "Why the Fuss About 3G?") (News Analysis)(Government Activity)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn Blau
EUV edging out rivals as next-generation IC fab tool.(extreme ultraviolet lithography; integrated circuit)Engineering and manufacturing industriesWade Roush
Fiber optics without fiber: beaming light through the air offers the speed of optics without the expense of fiber.(Industry Trend or Event)Engineering and manufacturing industriesHeinz A. Willebrand, Baksheesh S. Ghuman
Fiber to the curb reaches business centers.(Cogent Communications Inc.)(Company Business and Marketing)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMark Schrope
Fighting in the streets.(high-tech gear for soldiers involved in urban warfare) (Military)(Technology Information)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJean Kumgai
Fueling the Internet.(includes related articles about standby power waste, economic impacts of air regulation, and the shift to natural gas) (Power & The Environment)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Getting tough on antitrust.(communications and distribution networks are globalizing, and so are regulatory issues governing their operations) (includes related article titled "Mobile Merger Mania") (Network Infrastructure)(Government Activity)Engineering and manufacturing industriesWilliam Sweet
Harmonizing data, setting standards.(making sense of genomics by interconnecting diverse information sets) (Networked Living: Managing Genome Data)(Industry Trend or Event)Engineering and manufacturing industriesSamuel K. Moore
Herwig Kogelnik.(IEEE Medal of Honor recipient for work in developing lasers and optoelectronics)(People)Engineering and manufacturing industriesNeil Savage
Hitachi, Oracle are partners in protein-mapping megaproject.(Company Business and Marketing)Engineering and manufacturing industriesChristopher Morrison
How does it sound?(computer-based techniques are being used to check voice quality of transmissions on compressed and packetized networks) (Communications)(Industry Trend or Event)Engineering and manufacturing industriesPaul Denisowski
In search of transparent networks.(Optoelectronics)Engineering and manufacturing industriesArthur S. Morris III
In-vehicle cell phones: smoke, but where's the fire?(Speakout)(Government Activity)(Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDavid G. Curry
Keeping the Net up.(the Internet) (Network Infrastructure)(Industry Trend or Event)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRichard Comerford
Learning from hackers: the open-source movement can teach project managers a lot.(Careers)(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDennis F. Cioffi
Making chips to probe genes.(biochips for analyzing the human genome) (Biotechnology)(Industry Trend or Event)Engineering and manufacturing industriesSamuel K. Moore
Mathcad gets its feet webbed.(Mathcad 2001) (Resources: Software)(Software Review)(Evaluation)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDennis W. Prather
Matlab made easier.(Matlab 12 statistical and mathematical software) (includes related article titled "Testing With Matlab) (Resources: Software)(Software Review)(Evaluation)Engineering and manufacturing industriesKenneth R. Foster
Memory on the move.(portable memory) (Consumer Electronics)(Industry Trend or Event)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRichard M. Sherwin
Mindstorms: not just a kid's toy.(Lego Co's construction toy) (Consumer Electronics)Engineering and manufacturing industriesPaul Wallich
Nanotechnology: What will it mean?(Speakout)(Technology Information)(Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRalph C. Merkle
New CMOS imager threatens CCD supremacy.(complementary metal-oxide semiconductors; charge-coupled devices; Foveon Corp.) (News Analysis)(Company Business and Marketing)Engineering and manufacturing industriesPeter Gwynne
No longer in denial.(denial-of-service hacker attacks) (includes related article about how Web sites of Yahoo!, Amazon, eBay and Dell Computers were attacked) (Network Infrastructure)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRichard Comerford
Optical networks brace for even heavier traffic.(optical telecommunications technology) (includes related article titled "Let's Not Go Broke Repaving the Last Mile) (Network Infrastructure)(Industry Trend or Event)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMichael J. Riezenman
Redefining diversity: Agilent's approach links workplace diversity to innovation and business success.(Agilent Technologies Global Diversity Dir Aida Sabo)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJean Kumagi
RF bridges to the network.(integrated circuits for communications) (includes related article titled "Nortel Networks' Richard Baldey On the Right Process Choices for RF ICs") (Network Building Blocks)(Technology Information)Engineering and manufacturing industriesLinda Geppert
Seeing stars with digital eyes.(using high-resolution charge coupled devices in telescopes) (includes related article titled "CCD Primer")(Industry Trend or Event)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Service takes over in the networked world.(New Products No Longer Stand Alone) (includes related articles about DVD, digital radio, copyright issues) (Networked Living: Consumer Electronics)(Industry Trend or Event)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTeklas S. Perry
Simulating networks.(includes related articles on hybrid simulation, modeling and simulating the Internet) (Network Building Blocks)(Industry Trend or Event)Engineering and manufacturing industriesGadi Kaplan
Streamlining the Internet-fiber connection.(delivering Internet protocol traffic over a wavelength-division multiplexing infrastructure) (Communications)(Industry Trend or Event)Engineering and manufacturing industriesSudhir Dixit, Yinghua Ye
Take off, plug in, dial up.(air travel services) (includes related articles about standardization, surround sound, and safety) (Consumer)(Industry Trend or Event)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
The cable modem traffic jam.(broadband Internet access) (includes related article titled "Cable System Blueprint") (Consumer)(Industry Trend or Event)Engineering and manufacturing industriesWalter S. Ciciora
The digital signal processor derby.(Semiconductors)(Industry Trend or Event)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJennifer Eyre
The how-tos of hiring.(Careers)(Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesScott Kariya
The new chips on the block.(network processors) (Network Building Blocks)(Industry Trend or Event)Engineering and manufacturing industriesLinda Geppert
The quest for the spin transistor.(includes related articles about magnetic tunnel junctions, precession)(Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesGlenn Zorpette
The rebirth of radio.(wireless technology) (Network Infrastructure)(Industry Trend or Event)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
The topsy turvy world of quantum computing.(includes related articles titled "Defining Terms," "Quantum Teleportation") (Advanced Technology)(Technology Information)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJustin Mullins
Unhooking medicine.(Networked Living: Medical Informatics)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Visualizing the electric grid.(visualization software) (includes related article summarizing the history of using interconnected networks for transmitting electric power) (Power)(Industry Trend or Event)Engineering and manufacturing industriesThomas J. Overbye, James D. Weber
Welcome to the always-on world.(social implications of cell phones and other communications technologies) (Speakout)(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesPhilip E. Agre
Why Microsoft smears -- and fears -- open source.(open source software) (Speakout)(Company Business and Marketing)(Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesEric S. Raymond
Windows XP release ruffles many feathers ... and, with antitrust action, creates complex interference pattern.(Microsoft's new operating system) (News Analysis)(Product Announcement)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDan Rosenbaum
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