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Marion Delaney, m.delaney@ieee.org
PEtEr FAirlEy,
lAwrEncE G.
robErts led the
a contributing editor,
writes about energy
team of scientists
for Spectrum. When
who developed
he started research
ARPANET, the
for "Germany's Green-Energy Gap" predecessor of the Internet, in the
[p. 40], he anticipated that the
late 1960s. In "A Radical New
nation's efforts to replace coal- and
Router" [p. 34], he proposes
nuclear-fueled electricity with
dumping his old router design for
power from offshore wind turbines one that will better handle the
might provide a road map for other
complexities of today's audio and
countries. He discovered, though,
video Web traffic. Not that Roberts
that Germany's green-energy push
watches movies or listens to music
has stalled. His article reveals why. online. "I don't get a lot off the
Fairley also writes about a strategy
Internet in that way," he says.
to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions "I don't even watch TV."
from power plants by mixing
biomass with coal, in "King Coal
JAmEs turnEr,
Eats Its Vegetables" [p. 16].
Java expert and
freelance writer,
clivE FEAthEr
says he once wrote
sifts through
code for a portable
Professor Stewart's
Linux-embedded bar-code scanner
Cabinet of
with Wi-Fi to catalog his thousands
Mathematical
of science-fiction books. He then
Curiosities in "Puzzles by the
printed the information on library
Drawerful" [p. 25]. He says that if
cards and put them in a "genuine
he had to pick a favorite trick
two-drawer card-catalog box I got
from the book, the one he
off eBay." In "Time Is on Your Side"
probably had the most fun with
[p. 24], Turner describes his latest
DIY project, building a straightwas "learning how to not slice off
my fingers with a piece of string."
forward network-based clock.
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CloCkwise from top left: elise ACkermAn; CArin BAer; AnAgrAn;
JAmes turner; lindA feAther; rAndi silBermAn
ElisE AckErmAn, Feather is an Internet regulatory
technology writer for
expert and an amateur historian
the San Jose Mercury
of the London Underground.
News, began her techreporting career after
susAn kArlin
covering the Clinton sex scandal in
lists among her
the 1990s. "Space missions and
achievements acting,
artificial intelligence are just more
drawing, traveling
interesting than Monica Lewinsky's
to every continent
blue dress," she says. But Ackerman on Earth, and writing for publicawas never a stranger to technology.
tions such as The New York Times,
The daughter of a computer
Entertainment Weekly, and
scientist, she grew up with
Spectrum. For this issue she
IEEE Spectrum on the coffee table.
follows the trail of a coffeeIn "Interplanetary Internet Tested"
making cellphone in "Phone-y
[p. 13], she looks at how a team from
Brew" [p. 22] and reports on an
the University of Colorado at
electrical engineer who helps
museums spot fake van Goghs in
Boulder is working to extend
"Art Fraud Forensics" [p. 23].
Earth's Internet structure to space.
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