Technology Review: May 2002
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Grid Computing
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Hook enough computers together and what do you get? A new kind of utility that offers supercomputer processing on tap.
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Letters
- Feedback
- Letters from our readers
Prototype
- Prototype
- Straight from the lab: technology´s first draft.
Trailing Edge
- Ratings Roundup
- How did we end up with $2 million Super Bowl ads? It started with a pen attached to a radio dial.
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Features
- Should the Government Make Vaccines?
- Vaccine shortages could have the United States on the brink of a public health disaster. Federal health organizations are pushing for nationalized vaccine production, but industry says no.
- The Invention Factory
- Nathan Myhrvold created Microsoft´s research group and left with a vast fortune. Now he´s created his own organization to keep innovation humming.
- Reconfigurable Robots
- PARC´s Mark Yim shows off his robots, which reassemble themselves to slink like snakes, roll like wheels or scamper like lizards.
- Nanobiotech Makes the Diagnosis
- Electronic components the size of molecules could test for diseases and provide personal DNA profiles on demand.
- Economic Bust, Patent Boom
- High-tech companies try to invent their way out of the recession, applying for a record number of patents in 2001.
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Columns
- The Robots Are Coming
- Robots that can climb stairs, crawl over ditches, survive three-story falls—and pester people who ignore your e-mails.
- Spy, Then Innovate
- Most companies have no clue how people use their products. A little covert observation could help.
- Attack of the Zombie Rembrandts
- In laying claim to the decades-old idea of the hyperlink, British Telecom shows what´s wrong with patenting.
Upstream
- Programmable Chips
- Chips that change function on the fly will mean more versatile handhelds.
Visualize
- Gene Therapy
- How viruses deliver healing DNA to malfunctioning cells.
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