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Technology Research News June 2, 2004	Cursor Speed Shows Virtual Bumps Haptic, or tactile feedback devices offer computer users a way to feel virtual surfaces, including graphs that can represent large data sets. Researchers have devised a way for computer users to sense textures in the absence of a haptic interface.
Technology Research News June 2, 2004	Sensors Track Martial Arts Blows Researchers from Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Stanford University, and Impact Measurement have brought computers into a martial arts sparring ring with a system that senses the force of a hit.
Technology Research News June 2, 2004	Nanotubes Move Molten Metal Researchers from the University of California at Berkeley have found a way to move globules of molten metal that are as small as 30 nanometers in diameter. A nanometer is one millionth of a millimeter, or the span of 10 hydrogen atoms.
Industrial Physicist Avouris & Appenzeller	Electronics and Optoelectronics with Carbon Nanotubes Evaluating the potential of carbon nanotubes as the basis of a future nanoelectronics technology.
Industrial Physicist Edward J. Staples	Technology Safeguarding ports with a new chemical-profiling system that samples the vapours inside cargo containers.
Industrial Physicist Jennifer Ouellette	Seeing with Sound Acoustic microscopy is making inroads into areas such as materials characterization, biology, and medical diagnosis, and giving researchers yet another valuable tool in their imaging arsenal.
BusinessWeek June 7, 2004 Nanette Byrnes	Chet Carlson: A Dogged Image Maker Considered one of the greatest innovators of the past 75 years, Chet Carlson spent 21 years turning photocopying into reality.
BusinessWeek June 7, 2004 Otis Port	Fired Up for the Supercomputer Derby The Pentagon's Defense Advance Research Projects Agency contest to spur supercomputers to even more unthinkable speeds is down to three heavyweight contenders.
BusinessWeek June 7, 2004 Port & Tashiro	Where No Computer Has Gone Before The secrets of fusion energy, subatomic behavior, and more are being attacked by supercomputers capable of supersimulations.
Science News May 29, 2004	Famous Engineers Website offers access to an extensive list of engineering achievers.
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