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Computers That Speak Your Language

Voice recognition that finally holds up its end of a conversation is revolutionizing customer service. Now the goal is to make natural language the way to find any type of information, anywhere.

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Genes, Medicine, and the New Race Debate
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The Deceit Detector
University of Pennsylvania biophysicist Britton Chance demonstrates the latest in lie detection technology.

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Computers That Speak Your Language

Letter from the editor

Features

Genes, Medicine, and the New Race Debate

Essay: You Bought It. Who Controls It?

Pinpoint Weather

The Deceit Detector

Letters

Prototype

Biotech Boost for Nanoelectronics

Managing Antiterror Databases

Smart Specks

Taming the Terahertz

New Vision for Eye Disease

Jamming the Spammers

Wireless Outreach

Fingerprinting’s finger-pointing past

Excuse Me, Are You Human?

Amateur Innovation

A Painful IP Ruling

Cloning, Stem Cells, and Medicine’s Future

Garbage Into Oil

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