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Technology Research News January 1, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Interface gets the point Researchers are working to untangle the relationships between prosody -- the loudness, pitch, and timing of speech -- and gestures in an attempt to improve the way computers recognize human gestures.
Technology Research News January 1, 2003 Eric Smalley	Altered protein orders metal bits Researchers from NASA, the SETI Institute and Argonne National Laboratory have genetically modified a bacteria that lives in geothermal hot springs in order to make a microscopic scaffolding that produces a high-tech material.
Technology Research News January 1, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Hubs increase Net risk The Internet has much in common with air travel, according to researchers from Ohio State University. This does not bode well, considering how disruptive storms can be to the airlines.
Technology Research News January 1, 2003 Eric Smalley	Electron pairs power quantum plan Researchers from HP Laboratories and Qinetiq plc in England have mapped out a way to manipulate a pair of very cold electrons that could eventually lead to practical quantum computers made from quantum dots, or tiny specks of the type of semiconductor material used in electronics.
Technology Research News January 1, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Aligned fields could speed storage Researchers from three institutes in Germany and Russia have found a material whose electric and magnetic domains line up together. The work could bring together the currently separate fields of magnetic and electronic data storage, which would give both methods more flexibility.
CIO January 1, 2003 Matthew W. Beale	Unseen Stripes Imagine a nanowire -- 10,000 times thinner than a human hair -- that can function as a transistor, a light-emitting diode, a biochemical sensor and many other devices, all along a single candy-striped strand.
CIO January 1, 2003 Megan Santosus	Hair-Raising Technology In the war against baldness, weapons run the gamut -- from spray paint and toupees to transplants and hormone-based drugs. Now the follically challenged can add laser technology to their arsenal.
CIO January 1, 2003 Ben Worthen	Bar Codes on Steroids Radio Frequency identification (RFID) tags are like bar codes on steroids; they're to traditional SKUs what Robocop was to your ordinary cop on the beat.
CIO January 1, 2003 Meridith Levinson	Segway May Get Last Laugh Yet Since its much-hyped unveiling on Good Morning America on Dec. 3, 2001, the Segway Human Transporter (HT) has been met with both acclaim and disdain. But if HTs themselves don't catch on, the technology that makes them work is likely to find a home elsewhere.
CIO January 1, 2003 Susannah Patton	Still Searching (After All These Years) A profile of efficient-algorithm-lover Monika Henzinger, director of research at Google.
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