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Intel’s Breakthrough

July 2005

Its silicon laser could mean a solution to one of the great challenges facing the semiconductor industry: how to move data fast enough to keep up with tomorrow’s ultrafast computers.

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Magazine

Intel’s Breakthrough

Letter from the editor

Features

The Fading Memory of the State

MIT’s DSpace Explained

Wired to Eat

Letters

Your Ad Here

Forward: Prototype

Quantum Calculation

Spectrum Scavenging

From Lewis and Clark to Landsat

LimeWire’s Live Wire

And More…

Memo to Washington: Save the Data.

End Fattism

Push(y) E-Mail

Funding of Innovative Startups

From the Lab: Information Technology

From the Lab: Biotechnology

From the Lab: Nanotechnology

Nuclear Accountability

Art by Numbers

Digital Media Make Their Mark

Investors Tire of Energy, Think Chips Are Fab

Plain Technology

The Myth of Jonas Salk

Wishful Medicine

On Display: the Unthinkable

The Willing Partner

One Decision

Carbon Dioxide for Sale

Darwin’s Disciple

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