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Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005	VITA maps out future path for VMEbus technology Today, VITA's mission includes not only promoting VMEbus, but also promoting the very concept of open technology as embodied in the many standards currently under development within the VITA Standards Organization.
InternetNews October 10, 2005 Roy Mark	Stanford's Stanley Wins Off-Road Prize The driverless Volkswagon powers past Carnegie Mellon's entry to win $2 million first prize in the Pentagon's driverless vehicle challenge.
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Paniccia & Koehl	The Silicon Solution In the future, ordinary silicon chips will move data using light rather than electrons, unleashing nearly limitless bandwidth and revolutionizing computing
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Salvatore Coffa	Light From Silicon For decades, silicon was a semiconducting dim bulb, but now we can make it into LEDs that match the best made from more exotic materials
IEEE Spectrum October 2005	Exoskeletons Around the World Photographs of exoskeletons.
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Prachi Patel-Predd	Juice From Solar Concentrate Taking a new approach to solar conversion, using advanced materials and solar-concentrator technology, researchers are developing a system that promises to be cheaper and smarter.
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Willie D. Jones	Fiber to the Brain Nanotech researchers have devised a method for attaching electrodes to small clusters of brain cells -- or even individual neurons -- using the cardiovascular system as the conduit through which wires are threaded.
IEEE Spectrum October 2005	Laissez les Bons Ingenieurs Rouler In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, engineers are orchestrating the drying out of power plants, the rebuilding of power transmission systems, and the reconstruction of levees.
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Prachi Patel-Predd	A League Of Extraordinary Women All too few girls consider engineering as a career, and the profession is the poorer for it, as talented individuals seek vocations elsewhere. But a new program is in the works in the United States to attract young women to engineering -- and to keep them in the career.
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Paul Wallich	I, Roboticist The author expounds on building a robot from a kit and talks about some of the technical difficulties he encountered.
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