Technology Review: November/December 2000
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Print Your Next PC
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Forget billion-dollar fabs. If Joe Jacobson has his way, you may be printing cheap semiconductor chips on your desktop.
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Trailing Edge
- Smooth Groove
- The excimer laser is no turkey-it gave us scarless eye surgery.
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Features
- The Software Chip
- Upstart Transmeta´s pioneering microprocessor chips are heralding a fundamental evolutionary step in the design of computing´s core technology.
- Fill ´er Up With Hydrogen
- Tired of waiting for an electric car? Automakers have put clean, efficient vehicles powered by fuel cells on the inside track.
- RoboSurgeons
- Their bedside manner is a tad impersonal. But the computer-assisted robotic systems finding their way into today´s operating room may someday save your life.
- Biotech Speeds Its Evolution
- A handful of hot startups are exploiting nature´s own methods - vastly accelerated - in order to breed better detergents, drugs and crops.
- Lucent Ventures Into the Future
- Researchers from Bell Labs are taking company ideas and using them to start new businesses, some of which could threaten Lucent´s established product lines. So what´s the company doing about it? Supporting them every step of the way.
- The Corporate R&D Scorecard 2000
- See how much 150 of the world´s top companies invest in R&D.
- Search Us, Says Google
- Can´t find it on the Web? The Google guys came up with a better way to sift through a billion Web pages-a stack of documents 100 kilometers high-in less than a second. As a result, they´re the hottest search engine around.
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Columns
- Your Work Is Mine!
- Becoming interconnected is no excuse for surrendering to the fallacious notion that our information work must be shared for free.
- Fabulous Science
- Telling a good story has become essential to today´s biotechnology enterprise. But truth still matters.
- IP´s Middle Child Grows Up
- Trademark is the ignored middle child of intellectual property. But branding an idea is crucial.
- Less Money, Better Technology
- Are the vast sums of money pouring into Net ventures creating innovators who lack the character to deal with failure?
Mixed Media
- Toppling the Desktop
- The Mac´s new OS X erodes the familiar user interface metaphor as Web browsers and the command line assert their influence.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology