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PC Magazine May 31, 2006 Sebastian Rupley	Bits & Bites v25n11 The Defense Department has announced its third Grand Challenge competition for robotic cars, to be held in November 2007.
Chemistry World June 1, 2006 Michael Gross	New Twists on Catalysis Chemists around the world have discovered several new twists to improve the performance of asymmetric catalysts in hydrogenation reactions.
Home Toys June 2006 George Wilkinson	Taming the System Checkout and Integration Procedures Beast Part 1: Necessities of Proper Planning. Audio and video systems are much more complex and highly integrated than every before. Here is the first of a five-part series that goes through the steps that form a complete systems checkout and integration process.
IEEE Spectrum June 2006 Tekla S. Perry	Wizard of Watts James D. Meindl, professor of microelectronics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, caught the low-power semiconductor wave when it was barely a ripple and brought generations of graduate students along for an exciting ride.
IEEE Spectrum June 2006 Theberge & Dudek	Gone Swimmin' An amphibious robot explores aquatic environments and could help save coral reefs, too.
IEEE Spectrum June 2006 Rao R. Tummala	Moore's Law Meets Its Match By 2010, the "More Than Moore's Law" movement -- which focuses on system integration rather than transistor density -- will lead to revolutionary megafunction electronics.
IEEE Spectrum June 2006 Samuel K. Moore	Cheap Chips for Next Wireless Frontier IBM engineers unveiled the first experimental 60-GHz transmitter and receiver chips. Now, researchers are presenting three key transceiver components built in a widely available and inexpensive silicon process technology.
IEEE Spectrum June 2006 Stephen Barlas	Troubled Weather Satellite Program Cost overruns and project delays have led to a cloudy forecast for the United States' new polar-orbiting weather satellites. The problems with the polar satellites are a major concern for the whole enterprise of monitoring Earth from outer space.
IEEE Spectrum June 2006 John Boyd	Sneak Peek At Cellphone Future Japan's largest mobile phone company demonstrates wireless transmission at 2.5 gigabits per second.
IEEE Spectrum June 2006	Four (Million) Eyes A mechanical engineer has used a pulsed titanium-sapphire laser to fashion glasses, just femtoseconds long, to fit a house fly.
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