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IEEE Spectrum April 2007 Jeff Hawkins	Learn Like A Human Computer scientists have recognized a fundamental concept of how the neo-cortex uses hierarchy and time to create a model of the world and to perceive novel patterns as part of that model. If we are right, the true age of intelligent machines may just be getting started.
IEEE Spectrum April 2007 Eric Pavey	Ready for their Close-ups Making all the right choices to create a computer-generated figure that looks truly alive is no easy task. It probably will take a Leonardo da Vinci, or a team of da Vincis-computer-graphics artists talented enough to put it all together.
IEEE Spectrum April 2007 Prachi Patel Predd	A Power Plant for the Home Basement furnaces generate electricity, too: Recently gaining popularity in Europe and Japan, micro-CHP (combined heat and power), as it's called, has now broken into the lucrative U.S. market.
IEEE Spectrum April 2007 Carl Selinger	Becoming Your Own Boss Do you want to become a chief engineer or a chief executive officer some day? You owe it to yourself to seriously consider becoming your own corporate boss.
IEEE Spectrum April 2007 Willie D. Jones	Termites in Your Tank Could the microbes that bugs use to digest wood be the answer to economic ethanol production?
IEEE Spectrum April 2007	Glacier Power As an island country, Iceland would face difficult challenges in exporting energy. So instead, the country's government is importing manufacturers that need energy, the idea behind the Karahnjukar hydropower project.
IEEE Spectrum April 2007 Tekla S. Perry	The Laptop Crusade Nicholas Negroponte's $100 laptop is a sweet piece of engineering. But can his One Laptop Per Child project really change the world?
IEEE Spectrum April 2007 Ethan Zuckerman	Other Roads to Computing for All The One Laptop Per Child project is only one of more than 20 initiatives in low-cost computing. Some are trying to design low cost or ruggedized computers; others are trying different approaches to make traditional computers more affordable.
Popular Mechanics March 29, 2007 Amanda Leigh Haag	Pond-Powered Biofuels: Turning Algae into America's New Energy Using a complex photosynthetic process, breakthrough innovators have developed biodiesel and ethanol from an unlikely source that can double its output overnight and just might help give alternative energy the bump it needs.
Wired March 2007 Sunny Bains	Mixed Feelings See with your tongue. Navigate with your skin. Fly by the seat of your pants (literally). How researchers can tap the plasticity of the brain to hack our 5 senses and build a few new ones.
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