Engineering

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Popular Mechanics January 2006 Steve Russell	Stanley, Stanford University's Robot Car - DARPA Grand Winner The race: 132 miles. 23 vehicles. 0 drivers. Stanley, a VW Touareg, wins the race of the century (so far).
Popular Mechanics January 2006 Josh Dean	The Train Welcome to tomorrow's computer-controlled, GPS-guided, ultra-energy-efficient transportation revolution.
Bio-IT World Dec 2005/Jan 2006 Chris Dwan	Interfaces Will Save the World Bioinformatics has passed the level of complexity at which any one individual can understand the entire stack of skills required in its practice. Well-defined interfaces can also help to span the chasm between the IT and research worlds.
Science News January 7, 2006	Slide Rule Universe A few decades ago, however, an ingenious calculating device called the slide rule was in every engineer's toolbox. This Web site provides a glimpse of those long-gone days.
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 Samuel K. Moore	Winner: Multimedia Monster Cell's nine processors make it a supercomputer on a chip. Cell, which is shorthand for Cell Broadband Engine Architecture, is a US $400 million joint effort of IBM, Sony, and Toshiba.
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 Aleksandar Lazinica	The Hits of Tokyo Robot Week Highlights from last month's big robotics exhibition in Japan: Almost Human: The Actroid humanoid robot... Expressive Features: Close-up of Actroid robot... Baby Seal Bot: The therapeutic robot PARO... etc.
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 Willie D. Jones	Taking Body Temperature, Inside Out The radio pill, which acts as an internal thermometer providing continuous readings to help protect athletes from heatstroke, relies on a temperature-sensitive quartz crystal oscillator.
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 Bernard L. Rue	It's Time for a Nanoelectronics Quality Standard The electronics industry will see the first nanoelectronics-based products within the next two years and is expected to see an explosion of applications within ten years. It is imperative that a high degree of standardization be developed in the measurement of product compliance and functionality.
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 Robert W. Lucky	Tragedy of the Commons Imagine if our cars acted like transmission control protocol -- TCP. You'd be allowed to drive as fast as you wanted, as long as you didn't interfere with others.
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 Stephen Cass	A Method Out Of Madness An interview with David Allen, author of a self-help book entitled Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity about how his ultimate engineering critical path for getting things off your mind and getting them done.
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