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IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Alexander Hellemans	Manufacturing Mayday What has gone so badly amiss at Europe's Airbus manufacturing consortium and with its A380 superjumbo airliner? Could Airbus go under? Nobody seems to think so -- provided they don't make any horrible mistake on a strategic basis, particularly in terms of products.
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Steven Cherry	Making Every E-Vote Count A group of graduate computer engineering students from universities in the US and Canada, working under the direction of a leading cryptographer, introduced a complete voting system in November that the group says avoids all the flaws and limitations of the commercial ones.
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Elizabeth Svoboda	Fresh Spin On Logic In the last few years, a new type of memory has begun to penetrate the market for nonvolatile data storage. In addition to being much faster, spintronics processors could be much smaller than present-day processors.
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Robert W. Lucky	Great Thoughts Great ideas do happen, as has occurred with many of the innovations and achievements we celebrate as engineers -- it's just that they don't tend to get scheduled or to come about because of a job requirement.
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Prachi Patel-Predd	The Enabler How Rob Sinclair has been spearheading Microsoft's efforts to make computer software and devices more usable for people with physical or learning disabilities.
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Erico Guizzo	The Omnivorous Engine A Brazilian fuel control system lets cars run on gasoline, ethanol, and natural gas.
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Harry Goldstein	Not Ready To Wear Philips trumpets a power-sucking LED display as the next big thing in textiles.
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Harry Goldstein	Cure for the Multicore Blues Michael McCool has the prescription for programmers paralyzed by parallel processing.
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Sandra Upson	Tongue Vision A fuzzy outlook for an unpalatable technology: BrainPort, designed to help the blind, is telling you that you are facing a round object. It might be a tennis ball right in front of you. But then again, it might be a hot-air balloon a kilometer away. You really can't tell.
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Samuel K. Moore	Masters of Memory Swiss firm Innovative Silicon crams 5 megabytes of RAM into the space of one. Their chip is called called Z-RAM, and if it grabs even a little piece of the on-chip memory market, it will change the ground rules for microprocessor design and will quickly become a company to be reckoned with.
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