Technology Review: October 2001
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It´s Time for Clockless Chips
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Megahertz, shmegahertz. A few iconoclasts are building computer chips that dispense with the traditional clock. But they face big barriers in bringing their idea into the mainstream.
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Trailing Edge
- Back to BASIC
- Two mathematicians set out to make programming easy-and transformed computing.
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Features
- The Proteomics Payoff
- Now that the human genome project is done, proteins are set to displace genes as the new darlings of drug discovery. But are biologists up to the task?
- Speeding Drug Discovery
- It takes years and millions to get a new drug to market. New techniques might burrow through the mountain of genome data and break the bottleneck.
- Consulting Biotech´s Oracle
- The CEO of Human Genome Sciences, Bill Haseltine, has created a powerful new tool that he just knows will revolutionize the discovery of new medicines.
- DARPA´s Disruptive Technologies
- The Defense Department agency that midwifed the Internet has a uniquely effective strategy to spur innovation-and plenty of hot new technologies in its pipeline.
- Bankrolling the Future
- Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe and Nobelist Walter Gilbert, now both venture capitalists, meet to pick the most significant emerging technologies in IT and biotech.
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Columns
- Apple´s X Factor
- Apple is betting on a mongrel operating system to freshen the Macintosh.
- Engineering Odysseys
- Scientists´ curiosity often turns them into world travelers. But the ease of travel makes it hard to really get away.
- Tourism with a Twist
- Ecotourism, meet teletourism. You´ve seen it on TV. Now see it in person.
- Content Discontent
- The Internet and globalization are creating new battle lines between producers and distributors of content.
Upstream
- Glycomics
- Sugars could be biology´s next sweet spot.
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