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CIO November 1, 2003 Scott Berinato	Face Recognition Hype Is Over Since 9/11, few counterterrorism technologies have been hyped more than face recognition. Recently, though, reality interrupted the hype when two public pilot projects of the technology ended in failure.
Fast Company November 2003 Scott Kirsner	Some Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines They won't end up in every garage, but a new generation of low-cost "personal" jets could really take off. Tiny Adam Aircraft is racing to be first on the runway.
Fast Company November 2003 Chuck Salter	How MapQuest Gets You From Here to There It's not all algorithms. Think geographers driving around in a Ford Taurus.
Geotimes November 2003 Lisa Corathers	Mineral Resource of the Month: Silicon The Silicon Commodity Specialist for the U.S. Geological Survey has compiled this information about silicon, an extremely versatile mineral with many applications in the manufacture of iron and steel, aluminum alloys, chemicals, and electronic microchips.
BusinessWeek November 3, 2003 Faith Arner	Computing That Only Looks Like Child's Play Can MIT replace keyboards with pinwheels, globes, and what resembles a hockey game?
Technology Research News October 22, 2003 Eric Smalley	Body network gains speed Enabling a handshake paperless exchange of business cards could be just the beginning for personal area networks that use the human electric field. A prototype that zips along at ethernet speed points the way to indoor wireless networks without radio waves or infrared beams.
Technology Research News October 22, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Queries guide Web crawlers Search engines approach the problem of sorting out the vast amount of information on the Internet by casting their nets as widely as they can, then sifting through the catch. An algorithm that analyzes what people are looking for could point search engines toward more relevant pages.
Technology Research News October 22, 2003 Eric Smalley	Nanowires make flexible circuits Nanowires might one day be used to make microscopic machines. But before then they could help liberate computer circuits from the rigid, expensive confines of silicon chips. A process that makes thin films from semiconductor nanowires improves the prospects for plastic electronics and electronic paper.
Technology Research News October 22, 2003 Kimberly Patch	DNA forms nano waffles A method for stitching together strands of DNA yields microscopic waffled sheets and ribbons. The nanostructures make handy building materials that could help bridge the huge technological chasm between the realm of molecules and the merely microscopic.
Technology Research News October 22, 2003	Fiber handles powerful pulses Researchers from Cornell University and Corning, Inc. have shown that it's possible to preserve the shape, intensity and color of a very high-power light pulse as it travels through 200 meters of a fiber-optic cable.
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