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JOHN BLAU, who
lives in Düsseldorf,
Germany, has been
contributing to
IEEE Spectrum for
nearly 20 years. Though he's
written for us about such diverse
topics as low-power processors,
peer-to-peer TV, and robotics,
his article, "Car Talk" [p. 16],
about vehicle-to-vehicle communications schemes, is a natural
fit. "I'm based in a country
whose economy is highly
dependent on car manufacturing," he points out.
VIKTOR KOEN
portrays entrapment in his
illustrations for
"Fresh Phish" [p. 34],
which describes a recently
discovered flaw in the Internet's
Domain Name System. "The
multiplicity of the hooks" in his
underwater scene "gives it a
dramatic effect," he says. Born in
Thessaloníki, Greece, Koen is on
the faculty of the Parsons School
of Design, in New York City. His
award-winning images have been
exhibited worldwide in museums,
galleries, and private collections.

PAUL McFEDRIES
has been writing
the Technically
Speaking column
since June 2002. He
says he knew it was time for this
month's "E-cycling E-waste"
[p. 21] when he saw the term
e‑waste in The New York Times.
McFedries has written numerous
books, including The Complete
Idiot's Guide to Weird Word Origins,
which was published this past
August. He also runs Wordspy,
a Web site that tracks emerging
words and phrases.
NATHAN PERKEL
was aiming for
"a mix of oldfashioned taste with
modern technology"
in the photo of Jake von Slatt in
our cover story, "Steampunk
Contraptors" [p. 48]. Enthusiasts
like von Slatt (né Sean Slattery)
envision a 19th-century world
that might have been. To add to
the historical effect, Perkel shot
the portrait with a traditional
large-format 4-by-5-inch film
camera instead of the digital
camera he used for his other
photos in the article.
JONATHAN
SPRAGUE wanted
to capture the
craftsmanship of
steampunk artists
I-Wei "Crab Fu" Huang and
Richard "Datamancer" Nagy
[p. 48]. Sprague says he focused
on the intricacies of the gears and
parts in such creations as the
laptop computer disguised as a
music box. A first-time
contributor to Spectrum, Sprague
has also shot for Travel & Leisure,
Fortune, and Men's Journal.

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MARK
ANDERSON does
double duty in this
issue. With the U.S.
presidential
elections looming, he looks into
the long-running battle for secure
electronic voting in "Open-Source
Voting" [p. 13]. He also reviews
Michael Brian Schiffer's book
on the history of electrical
engineering prior to Edison
[p. 26]. "It's filling in a gap that
many people, including me, didn't
know existed," says Anderson.
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