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IEEE Spectrum April 2009 Sally Adee	What Weapons Want: Q&A With DARPA's Microsystems Master, Greg Kovacs The director of DARPA's Microsystems Technology Office, discusses his section's coolest projects and life after Tony Tether
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2009	Frontline Robotics Keeps Unmanned Security Vehicles on Track with KVH Fiber-Optic Gyros Securing large areas such as airport perimeters and container yards is an increasingly dangerous task, and Frontline Robotics is working to make it safer for human security personnel by designing unmanned vehicles to patrol these spaces.
Popular Mechanics April 3, 2009 Andrew Moseman	The Future of Needles: Upgrading Medicine's Most-Used Tool When inserting needles, doctors and nurses rely on tactile feedback, says Jeffrey Karp, chemical and bioengineering professor of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology.
Popular Mechanics April 2, 2009	Star Party: 100 Hours of Astronomy At a Telescope Near You Starting April 2, there will be 100 hours of telescope-centered events around the world. Here is a list of U.S. events, by State, for April 2 - 5, 2009.
IEEE Spectrum April 2009 Goldman et al.	March of the SandBots A new generation of legged robots will navigate the world's trickiest terrain
IEEE Spectrum April 2009 William Sweet	The Biggest Little PV Plant in the East The northeastern United States is not where most would think to put a photovoltaic power plant. But one just started up in Pennsylvania this winter. It's delivering the watts, but at what cost?
IEEE Spectrum April 2009	Slideshow: Robots Gone Wild Creatures from across the animal kingdom offer design principles to make robots more useful, engaging, and lifelike
IEEE Spectrum April 2009 Bill Arnold	Shrinking Possibilities Lithography will need multiple strategies to keep up with the evolution of memory and logic
IEEE Spectrum April 2009 Koch & Prasad	The Universal Handset Software-defined radio will let cellphones speak Wi-Fi, 3G, WiMax, and more.
IEEE Spectrum April 2009	Running With Robots Robots built to mimic sand creatures such as cockroaches, lizards, and crabs.
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