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Technology Review: October 2001

It´s Time for Clockless Chips

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.

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.

Leading Edge

The Human Proteome

From the editor in chief

Insight

Brave New World for Higher Education

Digital technologies have created the "open-source" university.

Trailing Edge

Back to BASIC

Two mathematicians set out to make programming easy-and transformed computing.

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.

Visualize

Magnetically Levitated Trains

How a maglev train works.

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