Engineering

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IEEE Spectrum March 2007 Foster & Jaeger	RFID Inside Maybe the ultimate solution, to allow accurate identification of individuals without some of the ethical issues raised by implanted radio chips, might require a different technology completely -- biometric scanners.
IEEE Spectrum March 2007 Jean Kumagai	AT&T's Attic Locked away in a suburban New Jersey warehouse, a quirky archive preserves funky but priceless relics of the electronic age.
IEEE Spectrum March 2007 William Sweet	Protecting The Big Easy From The Next Big One U.S. Army engineers face New Orleans's dilemma.
IEEE Spectrum March 2007 Harry Goldstein	Q&A With: Sudhinder Thakur This leading executive in India's civilian nuclear power program tells us that his country's recent agreement with the United States will help in a plan to use thorium as a fuel.
IEEE Spectrum March 2007 Prachi Patel Predd	Beyond Blue High-definition DVD movies and players based on blue lasers have only just arrived on the market, but already a new generation is in sight, promising another fivefold increase in storage density. The key to making UV-emitting devices is likely to be zinc oxide.
IEEE Spectrum March 2007 Robert W. Lucky	Are You Aware? The instinct to showcase one's own expertise is human nature, but perhaps it is accentuated in engineering. The central question is sometimes not how good the solution is but who gets the credit.
IEEE Spectrum March 2007 Steven Rubin	Hooray for the Patent Troll! Patent owners who are often accused of being patent trolls are acting within the law. There is nothing wrong either with them or the law. Far from stifling innovation, trolls foster it. By creating market liquidity, "patent trolls" provide a valuable service to inventors.
IEEE Spectrum March 2007 Susan Karlin	Mom vs. Bomb Naomi Zirkind -- a soft-spoken mother of eight -- is the lone woman and the only person with a doctorate on a seven-member military engineering team working on better ways to use robots to detect, inspect, and neutralize bombs.
IEEE Spectrum March 2007 Philip E. Ross	Benedetto Vigna: The Man Behind the Chip Behind the Wii The designer of the MEMS motion sensor in Nintendo's fabulous game tells how he got into micro-machining and where he's taking it next.
IEEE Spectrum March 2007 Mouli & Carriker	Future Fab If a billion transistors on a postage-stamp-size chip impress you, consider the fabrication facilities that put them there. How software is helping Intel go nano -- and beyond.
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