IEEE Spectrum November, 2008 - Cover2

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11.08

update
13 BroadBand down under
Australia's building a multibilliondollar national broadband network.
By Monica Heger
15 supercomputing's Bad news
16 self-healing hulls
18 water goes off the grid
19 commentary:
europe's gas pains

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20 the Big picture
Panic on the streets of Liverpool.

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32

opinion
9 spectral lines
the reasons behind the U.s.
Department of Defense's chronic time
and money woes. By Susan Hassler
10 forum
Is there a connection between
engineering and extremism?

easy as aed:
engineers
foolproofed the
defibrillator so
that anybody can
use it [top left];
fatima mansouri
[top right] helped
link morocco's
power grid with
europe's; the u.s.
marine corps'
expeditionary
fighting Vehicle
[bottom] is
expected to take
20 years to field.

COVER:
U.S. AiR FORCE
ThiS PAgE, ClOCkwiSE FROm
TOP lEFT: CARdiAC SCiEnCE;
AnA nAnCE; U.S. mARinE CORPS

24 reflections
How do you know what-or when-
your computer is thinking?
By Robert W. Lucky

cover story

32 What's Wrong
With Weapons
acquisitions?

departments
4 Back story
two worlds are finally getting in sync.
6 contriButors

Most programs to develop new military systems cost far too much
and take way too long. Here's why. By Robert N. Charette

40 idiotproofing the defibrillator
One of the greatest engineering success stories in medicine is the
automation of the defibrillator. By Mark W. Kroll, Karl Kroll
& Byron Gilman

25 holiday gifts
this year's holiday buying guide
features the world's cleanest dirt
bike, an interactive dinosaur, a
collision-avoiding flying toy, the first
Pc equipped with a cell processor,
and five iPhone accessories you won't
want to be without.
100 the data
russia has a frighteningly firm grip on
the global natural-gas market.
By William Sweet

46 seeing double
Double-patterning lithography is the worst chip-making technique
in the world-except for all the others. By Chris A. Mack

52 closing the circuit
Key improvements to the electrical grids of North Africa will aid the
free flow of power all around the Mediterranean. By Peter Fairley
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