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IEEE Spectrum May 2006	Live From New York! While consumers around the globe are just now getting acquainted with the vivid picture quality of HDTV, a far more advanced super-high-resolution system is in the works by NHK, Japan's public broadcaster.
IEEE Spectrum May 2006 John Boyd	Beyond HDTV Despite making technological progress, researchers at NHK, Japan's public broadcaster, are quick to caution that commercialization of Super Hi-Vision, a technology that produces live video with a resolution 16 times that of today's HDTV, is years -- and maybe decades -- away.
IEEE Spectrum May 2006 Harry Goldstein	GaAsing Up Cellphones Gallium arsenide transistors could power tiny, blazingly fast multimedia handsets.
IEEE Spectrum May 2006 Lauren Aaronson	Parallel Processor How IBM engineer Sandra Johnson contributes to her field, her business, and the community.
IEEE Spectrum May 2006 Stephen Cass	Getting Vexed Vex Robotics Starter Kit: A robot kit that's fun as well as functional. While the kit's target audience is high school kids in classroom and lab settings, it is versatile enough to appeal to a much wider audience.
IEEE Spectrum May 2006 Rahul Sarpeshkar	Brain Power Neuromorphic engineering has been around for 20 years, and its first fruits are finally approaching the market. The likely first application is bionics.
IEEE Spectrum May 2006 Erico Guizzo	The Olin Experiment Can a tiny new college reinvent engineering education?
IEEE Spectrum May 2006 Samuel K. Moore	Poky Plastic Perks Up Materials scientists have invented the first polymer semiconductor to perform almost as well as the type of silicon used to drive flat-panel displays.
Science News April 29, 2006 Ivars Peterson	Constructing Difference Engines The Science Museum in London built a complete, working version of Babbage's second difference engine that could hold seven number of 31 decimals each, allowing it to tabulate seventh-degree polynomials to high precision.
Chemistry World April 27, 2006	Arrays Learn to Multitask Researchers have increased the information density of microarrays without further shrinking the dimensions of the spots. Instead, they used a combinatorial approach that involves multiple usage of each spot, known as multiplexing.
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