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IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Tekla S. Perry	Silicon Valley 2.0 (Beta) Continued These engineers and computer scientists missed the dot-com boom -- and the bust. But they say that the time to start a tech company is now and that Silicon Valley is the place to do it.
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Tekla S. Perry	Silicon Valley 2.0 (Beta) These engineers and computer scientists missed the dot-com boom -- and the bust. But they say that the time to start a tech company is now and that Silicon Valley is the place to do it.
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Joel Pollack	Displays Of A Different Stripe The art of designing products to conform to the needs of the body has been dignified by a name, ergonomics. The expansion of information technology into new domains means that engineers must now learn to make products that conform to the needs of the mind and the senses, as well.
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Schoenbach et al.	Zap Extreme voltage could be a surprisingly delicate tool in the fight against cancer. The list of effects that scientists have achieved using nanoseconds-long pulses is growing rapidly, though their actual use as a medical treatment is still years away.
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 David Kushner	Inside the Academy's Science and Technology Council A report from a meeting of the renaissance engineers responsible for setting the technical standards of the motion picture industry.
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Willie Jones	Hydrogen on Track While much attention has been focused on fuel-cell-powered passenger cars, a little-noticed but promising development has been taking place in rail transportation and heavy industry, where experiments with hydrogen-fuel-cell propulsion are well under way.
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Alexander Hellemans	Engineering Warms To Frozen Light Separate groups in the U.S. and Europe say that they have built and successfully tested more compact, rugged, and efficient means of delaying light pulses. Their work may clear the way for applications in optical switching and quantum communications.
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Stephen Cass	The Idea Man Blue-chip companies and reality TV contestants alike want inventor and innovator Doug Hall on their side.
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Carl Selinger	Gilding Your Golden Years Are you preparing for your retirement? At whatever stage of your engineering career you happen to be -- not just those of you who are well into your careers and getting closer to that day of reckoning -- you should be thinking about what to do with the rest of your life.
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Lauren Aaronson	Q&A With: Grady Booch An interview with the chief scientist of Rational Software, a recently acquired subsidiary of IBM and one of the creators of the Unified Modeling Language about successful software projects.
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