IEEE Spectrum Magazine January 2008

IEEE Spectrum Magazine January 2008

January 2008 Feature Articles

An Antitrust Lawyer Dissects New York AG's Decision to Investigate Intel

European efforts against Intel have a better chance than American ones

Visualizing Electronic Health Records With "Google-Earth for the Body"

IBM researchers develop 3-D visualization tool for electronic health records

Learning From Katrina

Hurricane Katrina can teach engineers a lot about the unintended impact of technology as well as what can be done to prepare for the next catastrophe

Synthetic Fuel From a Solar Collector

Solar energy powers greenhouse-gas-free synthetic fuel production in Sandia experiment

Greenhouse Gas Trends

A tale of two perspectives

Why Losers?

We don't do this because we're mean spirited. We do it because we care

Winner: Solving the Oil Equation

A team of geophysicists and computer scientists closes in on the ultimate seismic-imaging code for finding oil

Loser: Algae Bloom Climate-Change Scheme Doomed

Planktos's ploy to combat global warming by sequestering carbon in the oceans holds no water

Winner: The Ultimate Dielectric Is...Nothing

IBM packs wires in vacuum to speed chips and save power

Loser: Satellite TV Soccer Moms Will Hate

Sirius's car TV may be great technology, but it will drive parents crazy

Winner: Make Your Very Own Virtual World with OLIVE

Forterra's OLIVE software makes the business of virtual-world environments real

Loser: No Payoff for Galileo Navigation System

Europe's answer to GPS isn't worth it

Winner: Sprint's Broadband Gamble

A new cellular service will sell high-speed data access instead of phones and phone calls

Loser: Social Networking Goes To The Dogs

A $200 RFID dog tag tells owners