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Interplanetary GPS
Future spacecraft will navigate
by the light of dead stars.
By davey alba

Profile: Bre Pettis
The CEO of MakerBot is leading the
charge of the 3-D printing revolution.
By Rachel Courtland

12 Tidal Energy Turns a Corner
14 Graphene's Competition
15 Millimeter Waves for
5G Phones
18 The Big Picture

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Spectral Lines
More information could enhance
cognition and lead to better decision
making-or drown us in a deluge of
data points.
By G. Pascal Zachary

Big data Is Changing everything
In a special report, IEEE Spectrum's
"Techwise Conversations" looks at
how IBM's Watson is learning to mine
millions of public databases, how a
lawyer's start-up mines court data,
and how supermarkets track shoppers' movements. Even the definition
of "data scientist" is changing, as two
other shows examine.

News

Resources

Hands On: Software Radio
Careers: Where the Jobs Are
First Look: Braille Smartphone
Dataflow: Measuring the global
carbon intensity of energy

Opinion

Spectrum.ieee.org

04 Back Story
06 Contributors
26 Reflections

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Integrated Distribution GIS and Enterprise Asset Management Proof of
Concept at Southern Company
Challenges and Solution Needs for Delivering the Promise of NextGeneration Infotainment
Using MATLAB With COMSOL Multiphysics to Simulate and
Customize Designs
Diagnostic Grifols: Being Agile While Still Being Compliant
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sMell-o-VisioN is here Ever wish you could smell the objects
you see on TV? Two members recently demonstrated a prototype of
their Smelling Screen, an LCD monitor that releases scented vapor to
correspond with what's on the screen.
reachiNg For the stars Continuing education helped IEEE
Member Peter T. Johnson go from being a janitor at an elementary
school to an instrumentation engineer at NASA.
car talK This year's IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, to
be held in September in Las Vegas, will focus on what's happening
in wireless communication technology and its mobile, vehicular, and
transport applications.

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