[tt] IEEE Spectrum articles.. heaven!

Sat Feb 2 20:22:35 UTC 2008

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From: Amara Graps <amara at amara.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 13:19:20 -0700
To: eugen at leitl.org
Subject: IEEE Spectrum articles.. heaven!

IEEE Spectrum is making all of their articles available for free,
online. There used to be a part available only for paid IEEE members and
a part of other articles for free, but they appear to have changed that
policy.  (Physics Today, are you listening?)

Go here:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/

And the menu "Past Issues" gives you articles to  middle 2006. But there
are more! In this post, I give a sample (of my interests obviously :-)).

In the Archive
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/thearchive

"In The Archive
We're moving the back issues and Web-only articles to the new Spectrum
Online, but we've begun by moving reader favorites. All articles will be
moving, so if you don't see the piece you're looking for, it's just a
matter of time. Links to readers' favorite articles from April 2005 and
earlier issues are here."

They have more online than what is listed on that page, apparently not
indexed yet. If you don't see what you're looking for, type the month
and "magazine index". (must be all in lower case)

For example:
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jul05/magazineindex

And if it is not there, type the magazine article's title into Google to
get the article number, and it will likely pop up.

Special Report: Prosthetic Arms
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/feb08/5958

Greenhouse Gas Trends
A tale of two perspectives
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jan08/5826

Visualizing Electronic Health Records With "Google-Earth for the Body"
IBM researchers develop 3-D visualization tool for electronic health records
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jan08/5854

Winner: Make Your Very Own Virtual World with OLIVE
Forterra's OLIVE software makes the business of virtual-world environments 
real
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jan08/5838

Playing Dirty
Automating computer game play takes cheating to a new-and profitable-level
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/dec07/5719

The R&D 100
Spectrum's Top R&D Spenders
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/dec07/5742

* And they have an interactive R&D Calculator here!
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/dec07/rndcalc

Controlled Chaos
We need to exploit the science of order and disorder to protect networks
against coming generations of superworms
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/dec07/5722

Terraforming Mars
Proposals to terraform the Red Planet abound, but are any of them feasible?
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/nov07/5676

Arthur C. Clarke Rembering Sputnik
http://spectrum.ieee.org/oct07/5584

Secrets of Sputnik
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/oct07/5589

All A-Twitter
But the major buzz in microblogging centers around Twitter
(http://twitter.com) a site that combines social networking and
microblogging. It periodically asks members a simple question: "What are
you doing?"
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/oct07/5563

It's a Wiki, Wiki World
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/dec06/4759

Who Dares, Wins
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/dec06/4741

The Physicist of "Star Trek"
Our Science of Hollywood columnist talks to Lawrence M. Krauss, the
scientist who paid the ultimate compliment to a science-fiction
series-he took its science seriously
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/dec06/4782

Impossible Tradeoffs
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/nov06/4693

The New Search for E.T.
If extraterrestrials are trying to communicate with us, they're probably
using lasers, not radio waves
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/nov06/4710

Shaman, Bless This Lab
How to cross the cultural divide when working overseas
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/oct06/4653

Does NASA Need a Better Launch Site?
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/oct06/4571

Unsystematic Engineering
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/sep06/4387

Imagining the Future of Technology
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/sep06/4427
with:
Bursting Tech Bubbles Before they Balloon
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/sep06/4435

Zap
Extreme voltage could be a surprisingly delicate tool in the fight
against cancer
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/aug06/4257

The Web, Take Two
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jun06/3655

Moore's Law Meet its Match
By 2010, the "More Than Moore's Law" movement-which focuses on system
integration rather than transistor density-will lead to revolutionary
megafunction electronics
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jun06/3649

Four Million Eyes (I love this!)
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jun06/3654

Taking Wind Mainstream
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jun06/3544

Stellar Engineer
When two spacecraft meet, they rely on Vladimir Syromyatnikov
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/apr06/3222

Time Tunnels Meet Warped Passages
Our Science of Hollywood columnist spotlights the celebrated work of
Harvard physicist Lisa Randall, who's become quite the scientific
celebrity herself.
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/apr06/3230

Uncommon Law
Lawrence Lessig has pioneered a new approach to copyright
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/mar06/3042

Butterfly Effect
Sophisticated method of manipulating light is discovered in Princeps
nireus
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/feb06/2811

Mars Gets Broadband Connection
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/feb06/2810

A Method Out of Madness
Overwhelmed by to-do lists? David Allen ("Getting Things Done") has a
solution
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jan06/2568

Tragedy of the Commons
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jan06/2549

Space Mountain (about ALMA)
High in the Chilean Andes, the southern hemisphere's biggest radio
observatory sets up shop
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/dec05/2359

Fly Like a Fly
The common housefly executes exquisitely precise and complex aerobatics
with less computational might than an electric toaster.
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/nov05/2151

A Hoist to the Heavens  (Space Elevators)
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/aug05/1690

The African Hacker (about the first large software company in Africa)
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/aug05/1699

"This Looks Like a Job for...SUPERATOMS
(Who says quantum weirdness can't also be practical?)"
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/aug05/1701

Engineering Everquest
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jul05/1561

Software Patents Don't Compute
How the U.S. patent system attempts to draw a dividing line between
patentable machines and unpatentable mathematics-and why the system is
failing.
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jul05/1557

The Nanotech Patent Trap  ?
(waiting for online article, should be in issue jul05)

All the Tech in China
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jun05/1224

China's Tech Revolution
How technology is driving the country's economic boom, and what that
means for the world
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jun05/1231

Born to Run
Could an 18-year-old double amputee perched on a pair of carbon-fiber
springs have an edge over able-bodied athletes? Spectrum Online asked
leading experts, and the answers are as different as they are
surprising.
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/nov05/2189
and
Running Against the Wind
A double-leg amputee and his high-tech prosthetics are blazing a trail
into able-bodied sports. Will they be welcomed?
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jun05/1217

Sins Of Transmission?
Vatican Radio's high-power antennas stand accused of causing cancer
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/oct05/1866

Exoskeletons Around the World
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/oct05/1974

A League of Extraordinary Women
A new program hopes to attract girls to engineering
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/oct05/1845

The Earth Strikes Back
Some 19th-century science fiction makes for fun 21st-century reading
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/sep05/1675

Bubble Fusion Research Under Scrutiny
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/may06/3428
and
Bubble Power
Tiny bubbles imploded by sound waves can make hydrogen nuclei fuse-and
may one day become a revolutionary new energy source
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/may05/1119

How Venture Capital Thwarts Innovation (The tech bubble saw an
explosion of VC-funded start-ups-and a dearth of orignal ideas )
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/apr05/1300

Writing NASA's Marching Orders  (book review)
How White House Insiders forged a new space policy
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/mar05/2048

And appealing to the writer in me:

Changing Climate, Changing Language
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/aug06/4234

Folk Wisdom
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/feb06/2756

Words in the Wind
"The tech sector is a marvelous linguistic factory that ships out
truckloads of new words and phrases every year. In this month's
column, I'll introduce you to a sampling of new terms that have
crossed my path in recent months."
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/apr05/1101

Life Bits
A grab bag of terms floating in the techno-ether.
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/may05/1132

Have Fun!

Amara

-- 

Amara Graps, PhD      www.amara.com
Research Scientist, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Boulder, Colorado

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