IEEE Spectrum 2003 - Abstracts

IEEE Spectrum 2003
TitleSubjectAuthors
5 commandments.(Transistors and circuits)Engineering and manufacturing industriesPhilip E. Ross
A clockwork orange: in which the author builds a GPS-controlled Nixie-tube timepiece.(Do It Yourself)(Resources: Tools & Toys)(Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesPaul Wallich
A digital media library for your living room.(RCA's Scenium DRS7000N Digital Media Recorder)(Resources: Tools & Toys)(Hardware Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRebecca Day
A little light magic: circuit designers are playing optical tricks to make nanoscale structures on ICs.(integrated circuits )(includes related article about "Optical Lithography" )(Semiconductors )Engineering and manufacturing industriesFrank Schellenberg
A revolutionary chipmaking technique? A top maker of lithographic systems and its partner have a new concept for maskless lithography.(Micronic Laser Systems AB of Taby, Sweden; and ASML of Veldhoven, the Netherlands)(News Analysis)Engineering and manufacturing industriesNeil Savage
Bioethics & the brain: microelectronics and medical imaging are bringing us closer to a world where mind reading is possible and blindness banished -- but we may not want to live there.(Neurotechnology)Engineering and manufacturing industriesArthur L. Caplan, Kenneth R. Foster, Paul Root Wolpe
Brazil tests the world's largest environmental monitoring system; but some question how well it will protect the Amazon's endangered ecosystems and peoples.(the System for the Vigilance of the Amazon, or SIVAM)(News Analysis)Engineering and manufacturing industriesHolli Riebeek
Coming soon: terabit hard disk drives.(News Analysis )Engineering and manufacturing industriesSaswato R. Das
Counting on a cool Tokyo summer; Japan's leading utility is urging its customers to conserve.(Tokyo Electric Power Company Inc)Engineering and manufacturing industriesBoyd Upchurch
Dawn of test e-bomb.(high-power microwave weapons, or HPM )(includes related article titled "E-Bomb Anatomy" )(Military)(Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMichael Abrams
Digital audio's final frontier: mini but mighty Class D amps are forging audio's future.(includes related articles titled "Yesterday, Today, & Tomorrow," "The Once and Future Audio Amplifiers," and "To Probe Further")(Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesBruno Putzeys
EE salaries: it could be worse: raises in U.S. to be modest this year (and don't even talk about stock options). .(electrical engineers)(includes related table titled "How Much Do U.S. EEs Make?" )(Resources: Careers )(Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTerry Costlow
Engineering, ethics & electricity: engineers must share the blame for the billion-dollar debacles in the utility industry .(Speakout )(Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJack Casazza
Europe's regulatory gridlock: as media-copying sprouts, Brussels fails to keep pace.(Europe)(Special Report: Copy Protection)(Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn Blau
Europe's semiconductor makers are back in the game; introducing 300-mm wafers has been one of several reasons.(News Analysis)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn Blau
Extreme lawsuits: with the advent of digital technology, defeat in court can mean death to a company .(digital copyright)(Legal)(Special Report: Copy Protection)(Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesR. Anthony Reese
Extreme solar storm strikes earth.Engineering and manufacturing industriesSamuel K. Moore
Faster than a speeding bullet train: China is throttling up a 430-km/h magnetically levitated train to link Shanghai and its airport.(includes related articles titled "Magnetic Takeoffs," "Moving on Air in China," and "selected Maglev Projects")Engineering and manufacturing industriesPhilip Holmer
Fast films: new insulators will save us from the "dirty little secret" that threatens Moore's Law.(Semiconductors)Engineering and manufacturing industriesAlan S. Brown
Fort TV: today you're free to mail a friend a videotape of a TV show, but new digital defenses may stop you from e-mailing them.(Broadcast)(Special Report: Copy Protection)(Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesBrian Smith
For your ears only: retrofitting a long-established technology with copy controls.(Compact Discs)(Special Report: Copy Protection)(Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMichael Jay Geier
Germs that build circuits: with viruses serving as construction crews and DNA as the blueprint, biotechnology may hold the key to postlithography ICs.(includes related list of "Selected Biological Self-Assembly Projects" )(Biotechnology )Engineering and manufacturing industriesPeter Fairley
Getting the message: it ain't just what you say, it's the way that you say it.(Special Report: Intelligence & Technology)(Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesPaul Wallich
HDTV -- ready for the long drive? Broadcasters and distributors are finally getting -- and giving -- the picture.(high-definition television)(News Analysis)(Industry Overview)Engineering and manufacturing industriesAlexander Wolfe
How not to get squeezed: lessons to learn from the ongoing patent battle over the BlackBerry e-mail system .(Research in Motion Ltd's BlackBerry wireless e-mail handheld devices )(Resources: Invention )(Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesGreg H. Gardella
Huawei-Cisco tests China's respect for property rights; outcome of court battle could have wide ramifications.(Huawei Technologies Co; Cisco Systems Inc)(News Analysis)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJen Lin-Liu
IEEE Spectrum Special Report: Top 100 R&D Spenders .(includes related tabular listing with numbers for R&D Expenditures and Sales)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRon Hira
Indian company stretches fixed wireless phone technology to make cellular network .(Reliance Infocomm Ltd )(includes related article about the cellular market in India )(News Analysis )Engineering and manufacturing industriesSeema Singh
Information was key to efficient U.S.-Anglo victory in Iraq.Engineering and manufacturing industriesMark Bowden
IT takes a village: how do-gooder engineers are helping Laotian settlers pedal their way onto the Internet .(information technology; a low-cost bicycle-powered computer and wireless network in the Laotian village of Phon Kham )(Internet )Engineering and manufacturing industriesAshton Applewhite
Leaking capacitors muck up motherboards; finger-pointing and fury as manufacturers try to dodge blame.(Exploding Capacitors Blow the Lid Off a Case of Intellectual Property Theft in the Electronics Industry)(News Analysis )Engineering and manufacturing industriesSamuel K. Moore, Yu-Tzu Chiu
Legacy phone networks get new lease on life.(News Analysis )(Industry Overview)Engineering and manufacturing industriesBridget Mintz Testa
Let it entertain them; options for a rear-seat entertainment system to end the "Are we there yet?" chorus before it begins this summer.(Resources: Tools & Toys)(Automotive)Engineering and manufacturing industriesElizabeth A. Bretz
Lights, camera, controls! The possibility of one DVD spawning countless perfect digital copies is, for the movie industry, the scenario for the ultimate horror show.(includes related article about the Copy Protection Technical Working Group)(DVDs)(Special Report: Copy Protection)(Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMichael Jay Geier
Machine chameleon.(Wireless multimedia device)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDiederik Verkest
Mars: dead or alive? A miniaturized marvel of engineering aspires to rewrite the textbooks about life on the Red Planet.(includes related article titled "Why NASA Said No to Life on Mars")(Space)(Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesBarry E. DiGregorio
Microsoft hits a new programming note: will C# lead Microsoft to e-commerce dominance .(Resources: Software )Engineering and manufacturing industriesCameron Laird
Mighty mites: the fuel cell's first big market success may be alcohol-fed units small enough to power cellphones, laptops, and PDAs.(includes related articles titled "How They Work" and "To Probe Further" )(Energy Storage)(Industry Overview)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMichael J. Riezenman
Mind the gap: awareness and open communication can resolve on-the-job frictions due to age differences.(includes related article titled "To Probe Further")(Resources: Careers)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDebra Schiff
Missile defense for airliners finds growing support in United States; four companies have systems that are candidates for deployment .(News Analysis )Engineering and manufacturing industriesScott Kariya
More treasured texts: from the 1940s to the 1980s, these books led engineers all the way to semiconductors and the Information Age.(classic EE textbooks)(includes related articles titled "How the Books Were Chosen," "The Book I Remember" and "Up-and-Coming Classics?" )(Education )(Bibliography)Engineering and manufacturing industriesFrederik Nebeker
Morpheus falling?(case against Napster Inc.)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRoger Parloff
Never out of touch.(New technologies used for communication equipment)Engineering and manufacturing industriesElizabeth A. Bretz
Next up: Korean nuclear crisis: no obvious military option, and long odds against successful diplomacy .(includes related article titled "What's Motivating the North Koreans?" )(News Analysis)Engineering and manufacturing industriesWilliam Sweet
Nifty new cellular phone systems race to capture Japan's consumers.(NTT DoCoMo Inc's FOMA versus KDDI's CDMA2000 1x)(News Analysis )Engineering and manufacturing industriesBoyd Upchurch
One-party rule returns to United States; Republican control of Congress will bring telecommunications and energy issues to the fore.(News Analysis )Engineering and manufacturing industriesStephen Barias
Online education expands and evolves: in a tight job market, engineers find it pays to stay current .(distance learning )(Careers: Resources)(Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesScott Kariya
Patent Do's and D'oh! Bad things happen to good inventors who don't know the patent process.(includes related article titled "Stepping Through the Patent Process")(Resources: Invention )(Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesSteven J. Frank
Patriot's second chance at glory: new missile interceptor descended from Star Wars anticipates strategic missile defenses .(News Analysis )Engineering and manufacturing industriesScott Karlya
Putting passives in their place: resistors, inductors, and capacitors are disappearing from view, integrated into the circuit board itself.(includes related articles titled "Size Matters" and "To Probe Further" )Engineering and manufacturing industriesRichard Ulrich, Leonard Schaper
Radio pirates grapple with U.S. regulators; low-power poachers see themselves as crusaders for diversity and free speech .(Communications)Engineering and manufacturing industriesWillie D. Jones
Ready to ware: electronics and fabrics woven together will make smart dressers of firefighters, football players, and fashionistas alike .(Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDiana Marculescu, Radu Marculescu, Sungmee Park, Sundaresan Jayaraman
Reconfigure.(Programmable logic devices)Engineering and manufacturing industriesNick Tredennick, Brion Shimamoto
Red hot: today LEDs come in yellow, orange, green, turquoise, blue-violet, and even white. But first there was red -- and first there was Nick Holonyak.(light-emitting diodes )(Industry Overview)(Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTekla S. Perry
Saving private e-mail: in the spam war trenches, clever programmers are trying to stem the tide of unwanted messages .(includes related article titled "The Spam Game" )(includes related list of "Some Open-Source Bayesian E-mail Filtering Software" )(Internet )Engineering and manufacturing industriesSteven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Saving the station: the International Space Station is a case where half a loaf isn't better than none .(includes related articles about the International Space Station, titled "Bigger is Better," "The Station at a Glance" and "Chinese Competition?" )Engineering and manufacturing industriesJames Oberg, Stephen Cass, Anatoly Zak
Secret enough for you?(intelligence and technology)(Spectral Lines)(Editorial)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Security and sanity: a fearful rush to control information in the United States is battering space sciences research .(Speakout)(Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesEugene B. Skolnioff
Sex, violence, and copy protection .(Spectral Lines)(Editorial)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Share and share not: Baby Bells must kep voice networks open to competitors, but need not share new broadband equipment.(News Analysis )Engineering and manufacturing industriesWillie D. Jones
Silicon shows its mettle; Deep Junior computer program proves the equal of highest-rated human chess player ever.(News Analysis )Engineering and manufacturing industriesPhillip Ross
Smart buildings: can building automation systems overcome interoperability problems to assert control over our offices, hotels, and airports?(includes related article about the attack on the Pentagon, on Sep 11, 2001)(Control Systems)(Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDeborah Snoonian
Sorry, wrong number: how to separate fact from fiction in the information age.(Speakout)(Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJonathan G. Koomey
Steady as she blows: power electronics and exotic energy storage devices are making wind power steady enough to compete with conventional electricity sources.(Electric Power)Engineering and manufacturing industriesPeter Fairley
Stuff you don't learn in engineering school: newbie engineers often leave school with technical know-how but without workplace savvy .(Resources: Careers)(Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesCarl Selinger
Taking the twinkle out of starlight.Engineering and manufacturing industriesMichael Lloyd-Hart
Technical win for Rambus in patents case.(News Analysis: Commentary)(Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRoger Parloff
The Congressional corral: the future of digital technology is in the hands of the U.S. Congress.(Legislation)(Special Report: Copy Protection)(Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesPamela Samuelson
The copyright wars: a new world of digital entertainment beckons, but industry clashes impede progress.(Special Report: Copy protection )(Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTekla S. Perry
The data alchemists: software vendors transmute heaps of data into nuggets of knowledge.(includes related annotated list of companies selling knowledge-management software)(Resources: Invention)(Industry Overview)(Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesPeter R. Savage
The problem with provisionals: a patent based on a poorly written provisional application may prove worthless.(Resources: Invention )(Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesKirk Teska
The wireless last mile: entangled in their copper wires, phone companies may miss out on the broader broadband revolution.(includes related article titled "Telcos in Trouble")(Special Report: Wireless Networking)(Industry Overview)(Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesStven M. Cherry
The Wright stuff.(100th anniversary of airplane invetion)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
They know where you are: new technologies can pinpoint your location at any time and place. They promise safety and convenience -- but threaten privacy and security.(includes related articles about cellphones that can figure out where they are in an emergency and about systems that accept payments via cellphones)(Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJay Warrior, Eric McHenry, Kenneth McGee
This assistant does it all; Sony's latest Clie PDA rivals a laptop, and for techies, its a digital playground.(Sony's Clie PEG-NX70V)(Resources: Tools & Toys)(Hardware Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRebecca Day
Tighter regional regulation needed of power grids; that is the unanimous conclusion of experts on the great 2003 blackout .Engineering and manufacturing industriesWilliam Sweet
Top 10 techno-cool cars: Spectrum picks the 10 most technically sophisticated cars for 2003.(Buyers Guide)(Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesPhilip Ross
Ultra-wideband: multimedia unplugged: very short low-power pulses can move a DVD's worth of bits around the home in seconds.(includes related article titled "At Home, Ultrawideband Will Do It All" )(Special Report: Wireless Networking)(Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesSteve Stroh
Unite or face irrelevance: why Apple, Sun, and Red Hat must merge.(Speakout )(Industry Overview)(Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRalph Rodriguez
U.S. phone companies set stage for fiber to the curb; the luckier homes and businesses could be offered all-optical connections early next year.(News Analysis)(Industry Overview)Engineering and manufacturing industriesBridget Mintz Testa
Watching the nanotube: tiny tubes of carbon could oust plasma in large flat-panel displays .(includes related article titled "Field Emission in a Nutshell" )(Displays )Engineering and manufacturing industriesGehan Amaratunga
Who goes there? How the U.S. Army's new satellite tracking system helped avert friendly fire and lift the fog of war in Iraq.Engineering and manufacturing industriesBruce T. Robinson
Who will get China's 3G dowry? U.S. and European suitors eagerly court network operators.(third-generation wireless Internet technology)(News Analysis)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJen Lin-Liu
Will U.S. sanctions have chilling effect on scholarly publishing? Treasury Department ruling puts IEEE on the spot, but could affect other groups, too.(IEEE cannot edit articles submitted by authors in embargoed countries)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJean Kumagal
Winners and losers in the information age; averting economic calamities now demands immense and ever increasing amounts of social and technical ingenuity.(Speakout)(Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesThomas Homer-Dixon
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