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Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 Hubert Kostal	Nano-optics: robust, optical devices for demanding applications In harsh environments, conventional optics and optical engineering have significant physical limitations. But, through nanometer-scale structuring of various materials, "Nano-optics" creates a new class of optical devices with desirable optical effects.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 Gurnett & Adams	Lead-free processing involves several board issues As worldwide electronics manufacturing moves slowly and unevenly into lead-free materials and processes, board assemblers should pay attention to six areas of potential problems.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 Ben Ames	FPGA companies will design supercomputer Over the next two years, the FPGA High Performance Computing Alliance, a group of technology companies and academics, will design and build an FPGA-based super computer capable of achieving processing speeds in excess of one trillion floating-point operations per second.
Reactive Reports Issue 47	Star Picks Three haiku Web sites with a scientific theme.
IndustryWeek August 1, 2005 John Teresko	Two Steps Forward, One Back? Leaders such as Motorola and IBM have embraced nanomaterials, but by spending less on R&D, the U.S. manufacturing sector could be stumbling in the race for more innovative products.
IndustryWeek August 1, 2005 John Teresko	The History Of Nanotechnology Today's popular excitement about the concept of nanotechnology probably dates back to 1959.
National Defense August 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Bomb Attacks Test U.S. Technological Ingenuity The Army is testing small robots -- remote-controlled toy cars, actually -- to help soldiers search for hidden explosives along Iraq's roads. These "Marcbots," from Exponent Inc., are much improved over earlier versions.
Real Estate Portfolio Jul/Aug 2005 Steve Bergsman	A Look into the Future In its infancy now, nanotechnology will play a large role in redefining how real estate is used and developed.
CIO July 15, 2005 Christopher Lindquist	This Game's On The Air An assistant professor at Virginia Tech is trying to apply mathematical game theory to modeling wireless networking communities.
PC Magazine July 13, 2005 David Murphy	Smart Swarm: Turning Flying Devices Into Mini Web Servers It's not a bird, and though it is just a plane, four researchers are trying to bridge the gap between flying machines and their avian counterparts.
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