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IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Tekla S. Perry	The Codemaker Eric Hahn has been an executive, an entrepreneur, and an investigator. But he's happiest of all to call himself a programmer.
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Erico Guizzo	Anatomy of a Crash-Test Dummy We've been learning a lot from dummies -- some of the most advanced crash-test dummies manufactured, as a matter of fact. And some day, they could save your life. Here's how.
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Feng - Hsiung Hsu	Cracking GO Brute-force computation has eclipsed humans in chess, and it could soon do the same in this ancient Asian game.
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Sarah Adee	Chips Tracked in Fab by Wi-Fi Freescale Semiconductor furthers the removal of humans from the chip-making process.
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Willie D. Jones	Helmets Sense The Hard Knocks A new wireless device will let coaches pull football players before they suffer brain damage.
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Prachi Patel-Predd	From Nerd to Wonk Tired of designing devices that policy-makers will misuse? Go back to school and train to become a policy maven yourself. Of course, there are other options for engineers who want to view the world through a wider-angle lens than the one they got in college.
Popular Mechanics September 27, 2007 Wayne Ma	Bionic Woman: Hollywood Sci-Fi vs. Reality Experts tell us which, if any, of TV's new Bionic Woman far-out science is (super)humanly possible.
Popular Mechanics September 26, 2007 Alex Hutchinson	Post-Minneapolis, Engineers Go Gonzo to Bombproof U.S. Bridges Paintball, Nanotechnology and Molecular Band-Aids may sound like a science fair, but these are the gizmos that could prevent terrorists from knocking out your city.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2007 Courtney E. Howard	FCS is Coming to Fruition Industry players advance vehicle electronics in an effort to put Future Combat Systems in the hands of current-force soldiers sooner than expected.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2007 John McHale	Sharing the stage: 10-Gig Ethernet and Serial RapidIO Military designers see Serial RapidIO and 10 Gigabit Ethernet complementing each other in systems today and the near future. Meanwhile Rocket IO in field-programmable gate arrays is exciting board designers.
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