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February 2009 Issue

Dream Jobs 09: Special Report

Building a solar-powered plane, creating stunning effects for Bollywood films, designing search-and-rescue robots—it’s not just a job, it’s engineering

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Features

In-depth articles from top experts, Spectrum editors, and contributors

Marco Migliari: Studio Virtuoso

At Real World Studios in the British countryside, he masters the mix

5 min read

Show Recap: Detroit Goes Electro-tastic!

Slammed by the economic crisis, most carmakers showed hybrid or electric vehicles

3 min read

Robin Murphy: Roboticist to the Rescue

Her intelligent robots help search for victims of disaster

4 min read

Tech Titans Building Boom

Google, Microsoft, and other Internet giants race to build the mega data centers that will power cloud computing

12 min read

Keya Banerjee: Magical Realism

This specialist in reality-based movie effects is happiest when you don’t notice her work

7 min read

Erlendur Thorsteinsson: Master of the Universe

This computer scientist breathes life into the many worlds of the sci-fi game Eve Online

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Insight and analysis on the latest advances in technology

Inside the Plastic Electronics Revolution

IEEE Spectrum tours Plastic Logic's new fab in Dresden, Germany, where it will make its Kindle-killing e-reader

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Solid-State Circuits, in 3-D!

At this year's IEEE ISSCC, some 3-D integration technologies are ready to wear, while others will remain haute couture

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February 2009 Issue

Building a solar-powered plane, creating stunning effects for Bollywood films, designing search-and-rescue robots—it’s not just a job, it’s engineering

How a B student landed an A+ job in the toy industry

At Real World Studios in the British countryside, he masters the mix

An electrical engineer with a passion for motorcycles finds a job designing all-electric dirt bikes

Slammed by the economic crisis, most carmakers showed hybrid or electric vehicles

Her intelligent robots help search for victims of disaster

He and his team are building a plane that will circle the globe on sunlight alone

She brings electricity to remote islands in the South Pacific

Google, Microsoft, and other Internet giants race to build the mega data centers that will power cloud computing

This specialist in reality-based movie effects is happiest when you don’t notice her work

This Seiko engineer makes every second count

It takes dozens of microprocessors running 100 million lines of code to get a premium car out of the driveway, and this software is only going to get more complex

From CTO to Chief Tunes Officer

This month’s planned shutdown of analog broadcast TV in the United States will bring antenna technology back into the spotlight

This computer scientist breathes life into the many worlds of the sci-fi game Eve Online

Car makers showed off their latest electric vehicles to a receptive audience at last month's Detroit Auto Show

IEEE Spectrum tours Plastic Logic's new fab in Dresden, Germany, where it will make its Kindle-killing e-reader

Nonlinear optics tricks bring terabit-per-second bandwidth within reach

Researchers use computer algorithms to tweak enzymes that make antibiotics

Research reported this week advances the goal of turning insects into unmanned aerial vehicles

At this year's IEEE ISSCC, some 3-D integration technologies are ready to wear, while others will remain haute couture

A new electrical approach to cutting out cancerous tumors

Technically speaking

Back story

Mini-profile

Media

Patents, like every other company asset, need to be tracked and appraised

The data

Can you walk a mile in a manager's shoes?

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