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IEEE Spectrum February 2006	Dream Jobs 2006 Special Report Are engineers with amazing jobs just lucky? Or do they have some focused drive that other people lack? From fine art to television, racetracks to the African bush, these ten technologists find surprising places to ply their trades.
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Glenn Zorpette	Re-engineering Iraq U.S. and Iraqi officials have spent billions on restoring Iraq's electrical system. So why is Baghdad getting just six hours of electricity a day?
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Holonyak & Feng	The Transistor Laser Ultrafast transistors that output optical and electrical signals open a new computing frontier.
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Jean Kumagai	U.S. Defense Dollars For Computer Science Plunge As long-term, federally funded projects become increasingly rare, some important problems aren't being addressed. However, it is critical for the future of IT in the United States and around the world that we figure it out.
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Justin Mullins	Butterfly Effect The structure that makes one LED researcher's device so special has recently been found to be similar to a sophisticated method of manipulating light discovered in the African swallowtail butterfly Princeps nireus.
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Barry E. DiGregorio	Mars Gets Broadband Connection NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, with its onboard Electra UHF relay transceiver, will serve as an engineering test bed for new communications and navigation technology.
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Carl Selinger	Learning Where the Jobs Are Whether you are a freshly minted graduate or a seasoned engineer with a career at full throttle, knowing the hot areas in technology and engineering is vital.
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Lee A. Hollaar	Patents 2.0 There are big problems with patents, especially software patents. A new type of patent is needed -- Congress should create a new, limited protection that protects against knockoffs without overreaching.
IEEE Spectrum February 2006	Dude, You've Got Mail What if you could surf the Web while you surf? Intel Corp.'s marketing team commissioned a surfboard with an integrated tablet laptop and a solar charger in 2004, but is still in use a year later.
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Lauren Aaronson	Sudoku Science Millions of people around the world are tackling one of the hardest problems in computer science without even knowing it. Could the Sudoku craze end up leading to breakthroughs in computer science?
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