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February 2010 Issue

The willingness to jump off an obvious career path, make a sudden change in direction, and, sometimes, take advantage of a stroke of luck landed these 10 technologists their dream jobs

Video-game company Valve takes the fight against cheats directly to players' computers

Experts say instantaneous info is cool, but real-time search isn't quite ready for prime time

How a struggling student found a dream come true at Dreamworks Animation

A growing cadre of criminals is hiding secret messages in voice data

Henrik Sørensen works with architects to design sustainable buildings

An unlikely automotive engineer oversees all the electricity at a revolutionary vehicle maker

Bob Marsh brings the hacker ethic and Internet access to the far corners of the globe

José Losada writes code for the world’s biggest telescope while cavorting in the Canaries

Rick Armstrong’s job is half flying and half math, and it’s hard to say which he loves more

Ernst Völlm makes the dive computer that every aquanaut wants

Infrared quantum dots will lead to cheaper photovoltaic cells

At Yamaha, in Japan, Hiroko Ohmura dreams up the electronic keyboards of the future

Catherine Mohr went from designing solar planes to surgical robots and couldn’t be happier

Ronald Thomas tracks the weird and vivid bursts of lightning that accompany erupting volcanoes

Saint Bernard sidelined? Use your remote-control avalanche-proof air bag

Haitian engineer Charles-Edouard Denis describes the cellular landscape before and after Haiti's quake

Through-silicon vias promise smaller, smarter chips--but not yet

Lasers made of silicon-compatible material could bring optical data transmission onto computer chips

A 48-core prototype processor is part of a move from supercomputer-on-a-chip to data-center-on-a-chip

Q&A with Richard Holdaway, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

Get a first-person view from the air with your own RC drone

In a few years, millions will have purchased their own genome

The next four years will be brought to you by the letters A, C, G, and T

Photographers Take Note: California is the capital for rubbernecking onlookers

A Jesuit priest EE finds a new calling in Africa

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