Technology Review: July/August 2003
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Spam Wars
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The proliferation of junk e-mail is threatening to overwhelm the Internet. Software companies are rushing to build defenses-but will the new technologies do more harm than good?
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Letters
- Letters
- Insights and opinions from our readers.
Prototype
- Prototype
- Straight from the Lab: Technology´s First Draft
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Features
- Essay: Biotech's Big Chill
- Government efforts to keep science and technology out of terrorist hands conjure images of the Cold War. But it’s biomedical researchers in the United States who could be frozen out.
- Casting the Wireless
Sensor Net - Smart, networked sensors will soon be all around us, collectively processing vast amounts of previously unrecorded data to help run factories, maintain crops, and even watch for earthquakes.
- Saving Lives with Living Machines
- Hybrid devices that are part machine, part living cells, offer new hope to patients for whom purely artificial treatments like dialysis aren´t good enough.
Demo
- Demo: Teachable Robots
- Michigan State University researcher Juyang Weng shows off his "developmental" robots, which learn the same way kids do.
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Point of Impact
- Total Information Overload
- Co–program manager Robert L. Popp on the U.S. Defense Department´s Terrorism Information Awareness project.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology