Phase Change Materials

Microcapsules that keep you comfy.

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Video Game Odyssey

The start of a worldwide obsession: white dots on a TV screen.

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Wal-Mart Trumps Moore's Law

Information technology matters–when it delivers “everyday low prices.”

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The Nanotube Computer

The nano future is emerging through the haze of hype: the road to terabit memory and cheap flat-screen displays will be paved with carbon nanotubes.

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From PlayStation to PC

Whether you play them or not, video games are good for you. These exercises in interactivity are spurring advances in interfaces and 3-D graphics that will benefit all computer users.

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A.I. Reboots

“Artificial intelligence” used to mean robots that think like people; now it means software for rejecting junk e-mail. Low expectations could yield better applications, sooner.

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Picture This

Image-based rendering creates photorealistic 3-D models from plain old pictures.

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Persuasive, Pervasive Computing

Nearly two years after its inception, MIT’s ubiquitous computing project begins to bear fruit.

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Decade of Light

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Sandia Tackles Tomorrow's Terror

Sandia National Laboratories develops a five-point plan to beat terrorism with technology.

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