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Lest You Miss!
October 2004
Myth of mind control: will anyone ever decode the human brain
By John Horgan
Discover
Vol. 25 (10), 2004, pp40-47.
Seeding the Universe: Search for life on Mars could be a bit complicated by the hitchhikers on our rovers
Discover
Vol. 25 (10), 2004, pp56-61.
Make it simple: a survey of information technology
Economist
Vol. 373 (8399), 2004, pp1-16. (Special supplement)
Can China overtake the U.S. in Science?
By David Stipp
Fortune International
Vol. 150 (8), 2004, pp58-63.
Ethics: A Responsibility for Us All
By Hiromasa Haneda
IEEE-USA Today's Engineer
http://www.todaysengineer.org/Oct04/ethics.asp
Voice over Internet Protocol and the Changing Face of Communications
By Terry Costlow
IEEE-USA Today’s Engineer
http://www.todaysengineer.org/2004/nov/voIP.asp
The View from the Top
Where has technology taken us in the last 40 years, and where might it go next? To celebrate its 40th anniversary, IEEE Spectrum magazine has invited
40 of "technology's masterminds" to look back and look forward. Included are comments from Craig R. Barrett, William A. Wulf, C. Gordon Bell and many others. Find out what they have to say at:
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/nov04/1104lumi.html
Mathematical tour through the Sydney Opera House
By Joe Hammer
Mathematical Intelligence
Vol. 26 (4), 2004, pp 48-52.
Redesigning the world
By Catheleen McGuigan
Newsweek
October 25, 2004, pp34-52.
Inventing the future
Newsweek
November 1, 2004, pp30-33.
The body: Gap between the bodies we have and the bodies we would like is getting wider
New Scientist
Vol. 184 (2471), 2004, pp34-60.
How to mend a broken Internet? : Experts agree the net is on the brink of collapse. Now an argument is raging over how to fix it
By Danny O’Brien
New Scientist
Vol. 184 (2473), 2004, pp46-49.
Black hole computers: In keeping with the spirit of the age, researchers can think of the laws of physics as computer programs and the universe as a computer
By Seth Lloyd and Y Jack NG
Scientific American
Vol. 291 (5), 2004, pp30-39.
Computing at the speed of light: Emerging ways to make photonic connections to electronic microchips may dramatically change the shape of computers in the decade ahead
By W Wayt Gibbs
Scientific American
Vol. 291 (5), 2004, pp58-65.
Music and the Brain: What is the secret of music’s strange power? Seeking an answer, scientists are piecing together a picture of what happens in the brains of listeners and musicians
By Norman M Weinberger
Scientific American
Vol. 291 (5), 2004, pp66-73.
A split at the core: Physics is forcing the microchip industry to redesign its lucrative products. That is bad news for software companies
By W Wayt Gibbs
Scientific American
Vol. 291 (5), 2004, pp74-77.
Indian footprint, global design
S Rmamadorai
Smart Manager
Vol. 3 (4), 2004, pp55-62.
Every job is worth doing: the story of integrated service solutions.
By Sumantra Ghoshal
Smart Manager
Vol. 3 (4), 2004, pp106-115.
Forward thinking
By Lev Grossman
Time
Vol. 164 (17), 2004, pp40-52.
Road to Narrowband?: The broadband policy lacks a clear direction. However the silver lining is, at least the government has a policy now
Voice & Data
Vol. 11 (5), 2004, pp24-28.
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