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Technology Review: March 2004

Search Beyond Google

Google reigns supreme as the search engine of choice-but for how long? A pack of startups-and Microsoft-are developing technologies to find what you want, faster.

Nanotech´s First Blockbusters?

Nanosys hopes to become the first successful nanotechnology company by blitzing the market with supercheap solar cells, faster and lighter computer displays, and supersmall lasers and sensors.

Translation in the Age of Terror

A new U.S. government center will connect linguists on the front lines of the war against terror with translation assistance technologies that can digitize, parse, and digest raw intelligence material.

The Virtual Heart

A global research team is creating a computer model that depicts the heart from a single cell up to the whole organ, heralding new approaches to diagnosing and treating cardiac disease.

Leading Edge

The Patriot Act: A Visitor's Tale

From the editor in chief

Letters

Letters

Insights and opinions from our readers

Trailing Edge

The Birth of Cool

Willis Carrier, who invented modern air conditioning more than 100 years ago, is the father of cool.

Demo

Demo: Hollywood´s Master of Light

USC´s Paul Debevec shows how to use light from the real world-and algorithms from the digital one-to render an actor´s face as it would appear under any conditions.

Columns

Mind the Gap

A U.K. Internet startup is monetizing the economic influence of kids.

Dial N for Net Phone

An online phone service shows that Internet telephony´s time may finally have come.

Disruptive Incrementalism

Sometimes a cosmetic change can be the innovation that makes a product catch fire.

Point of Impact

Domain Master

The Internet´s head administrator, Paul Twomey, on controlling the core functionality of the Web.

Launch Pad

Smarter Drugs

Polymerix promises a better way to get drugs to where they´re needed in the body.

Visualize

RFID

How radio frequency identification tags will help retailers, from supply chains to store shelves.

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