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Bio-IT World September 2006 John Russell	IBM Races H5N1 Unlike most (perhaps all) of its IT brethren, IBM has the size and breadth of technology expertise to make waves in basic research beyond IT and to tackle global projects that enable Big Blue to do well by doing good. The Global Pandemic Initiative is a perfect example of that capacity.
Bio-IT World September 2006 Kevin Davies	Pfizer's Global Survey of Pharmacological Space The pharma blends knowledge, computational chemistry and research informatics to build a unified database. Gathering all the data in one place offered greater control for indexing and data retrieval and management, enabling Pfizer scientists to perform global mapping.
IEEE Spectrum September 2006 John Voelcker	Driving GM's New Hydrogen Car The radical thing about Chevy's hydrogen concept car is how normal it feels to drive. Outside, the Sequel is a sleek, stylish SUV. But underneath, it has little in common with today's cars beyond wheels and tires.
Popular Mechanics September 2006 Alex Hutchinson	Inventing the Future The next 20 years of American innovation will be shaped by 10 cutting-edge science and engineering programs. But before they change the world, these undergraduates will have to finish their homework.
BusinessWeek September 25, 2006 Brian Hindo	Rehabing the RIT Way Rochester Institute of Technology's research lab gives new life to old products, and allows companies to learn from the compiled data in the process.
PC Magazine September 15, 2006 Lance Ulanoff	LEGO Mindstorms NXT LEGO Mindstorms NXT is an excellent upgrade to an already worthy robot-building kit.
PC Magazine September 13, 2006 Sebastian Rupley	Bomb-sniffing Bot First came the Roomba vacuum cleaner. Now we have iRobot's PackBot EOD (short for explosive-ordnance disposal)... Now virtual surgery and soon a virtual human...
PC Magazine September 13, 2006	Now You See Me . . . Futurist Ray Kurzweil has been awarded U.S. patent No. 7,084,874, titled Virtual Reality Presentation, for his technology used to simulate the presence of a speaker at an event.
PC Magazine September 13, 2006	Lean Into It Segway has launched round two of its effort "to revolutionize personal transportation."
Reactive Reports Issue 58	ID Tags for Teenage Molecules One academic team has developed a logical technology that allows them to generate millions of unique tags to track sub-microscopic objects.
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