Technology Review: March/April 2009
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Notebooks
- Global Health
- Medical tests for poor countries need to be properly field-tested.
By José Miguel Trevejo.
- Solving AI
- Why we need a new language for artificial intelligence.
By Pedro Domingos
- Green Nuclear
- Nuclear power should be part of the renewable-energy portfolio.
By Andrew Kadak
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Features
- A Zero-Emissions City in the Desert
- Oil-rich Abu Dhabi is building a green metropolis. Should the rest of the world care?
By Kevin Bullis
- But Who's Counting?
- No one really knows how many people visit websites. A San Francisco startup and Google are both working to change that.
By Jason Pontin
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Q&A
- America's First CTO?
- Cisco's Padmasree Warrior tells us what role a U.S CTO should play.
By David Talbot
Photo Essay
- Growing Nanotube Forests
- Carefully grown carbon nanotube arrays could be the basis of new energy storage devices and chip cooling systems.
By Katherine Bourzac
Reviews
- Personalized Campaigning
- Fattened voter databases will prove to be among the 2008 presidential race's most enduring legacies.
By David Talbot
- A Hole in the Genome
- A small chunk of DNA chunk may change how we think about disease.
By Emily Singer
- Our Own Devices
- Why we love the machines we shouldn't.
By Emily Gould
Hack
- Sharing Fingerprints
- Hackers can manipulate outdated algorithms to give documents the same digital signature.
By Erica Naone
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Electric Vehicles and Plug-in Hybrids
Massachusetts Institute of Technology