Media briefing will feature a panel of experts on current and future surveillance technologies that can be employed to help prevent terrorist threats, as well as the legal, moral and societal impact of their implementation.
IEEE Spectrum examines threats to the information infrastructure. They look under the surface of the bewildering array of malicious programs to pull out the common threads by which computer systems become compromised.
Concerns over energy shortages and global warming have raised new interest in nuclear power and new concerns as well--among them nuclear terrorism, the safety of relicensed reactors, and different reactor designs that could be more efficient.
A brief era of free music is ending, yielding to copyright protection and digital rights management schemes.
A. J. Nichols, the court-appointed neutral expert in the case against Napster Inc., may prove pivotal in the outcome of this highly visible lawsuit.
Today's hackers are like the hot rodders of old, as they fiddle with the software in the digital car to improve its performance.
Amidst mounting concern over the threat of biological warfare, researchers are developing a new breed of early-warning sensors capable of detecting an attack in a matter of minutes.
Venture capitalists know how to deal with engineers, but engineers don't know how to deal with venture capitalists.
Smart autos and advanced algorithms will help keep cars from crashing into each other.
Grown-ups are gleefully turning smart Lego bricks into autonomous gadgets.
IEEE Spectrum visits one of China's largest dams.
Zapping laser beams through the air speeds communications without the expense of burying optical fiber.
Frequent fliers may soon enjoy e-mail, Web surfing, TV, and cell phones, as airlines seek to make flying more like being on the ground.
Radio broadcasting in the United States is poised to make a digital leap, with satellite digital radio about to begin service and a standard for terrestrial digital radio soon to be set.
Reports from the Cheney task force and the national labs present sharply different versions of the U.S. energy future.
This co-founder of Bridge Communications, Network Computing Devices, and Precept Software has started a company whose product is networking and communications companies.
Herwig Kogelnik, laser and optoelectronics pioneer, wins the IEEE Medal of Honor.
The cable modem traffic jam is all too real, but don't lean on the horn yet; fixes are near at hand.
NASA's first flight director doesn't mince words.
Three analysts examine the deregulation of the U.S. electric industry.
Digital X-rays and computers that read films hope to make it in the mammography clinic.
In 50 years, you may be reading a magazine page printed on a leaf.
Has the Chinese space program made rapid progress through espionage or legitimate research and acquisition?
The chip industry has a love-hate relationship with Rambus, Inc.
Will higher gasoline prices convince U.S. drivers to give up their SUVs? Not likely.
Should U.S. cable companies be required to open their networks to competing Internet service providers? Nowadays the government shrugs, while the industry nods maybe.
In a bid to find water on Mars and redemption in the public eye on Earth, NASA is launching a mission to the Red Planet on 7 April.
This March, for the first time, an Oscar was awarded for computer science; IEEE Spectrum profiles the three winners and the technology they developed.
The Amiga computer is reborn! The nearly-20-year-old computing platform is getting ready to appear in a new generation of cell phones, set-top boxes, home control systems, and PCs.
Finding out what genes do is opening a huge new market for old-line companies.
Hybrid electric vehicles are not yet worth the price.
Linux is poised to storm the once-closed world of embedded applications.
Aging wires buried deep within an aircraft pose a hidden--and possibly deadly--hazard, as recent airline tragedies attest.
California's electricity crisis--rolling blackouts, soaring prices, utilities at the brink of bankrupty, charges of profiteering--is being watched with mounting alarm in the other states that are reorganizing and deregulating their electric power systems.
The recent national election created qualms about voting systems, but Internet voting may not be any better.
The spin of an atom has become the basis for quantum computers that can factor large numbers into prime numbers quickly; the implications for encryption are alarming.
The annual technology forecast from IEEE Spectrum is the first issue of the relaunched magazine.
Electronics manufacturers have been hard at work packing each of the newest gadgets with a host of functions that mimic the capabilities of high-tech toys.
Researchers stuff more and more bits into each square centimeter of space on a magnetic disk, keeping it king of mass storage data.
The loss of the submarine Kursk and the TV tower fire are the tip of the iceberg in a country with little money for vital needs, let alone maintenance and repair.
The fastest integrated circuits in the world today--made of niobium--are unique for their technology as well as for their speed.
Gene sequencing technology has reached industrial scale, thanks to some key innovations.
Giving consumers what they want "overnight," the e-commerce mantra, may be doing more environmental harm than good.
Neuroscientists challenge all comers to determine the inner workings of a virtual mouse.
Once used to pirate computer chip designs, reverse engineering is finding new, and legitimate, applications in the semiconductor industry--to defend patents, spur innovation, and trace product failures.
NASA's next flights to the space station, with no time to spare, must be ready for glitches and workarounds.
New display technologies promise a new era in reading.
VCR clocks across the country were telling the wrong time, and only recently were synchronized into on-time performance.
Wearable computers are now being mass-marketed, with barely noticeable "stealth" computers on the way.
Bursting tires, a chronic concern with Concordes, led to the Air France crash and the planes' grounding.
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