IEEE Spectrum Magazine ~ Volume 46 Issue 10,October 2009

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IEEE Spectrum Magazine ~ Volume 46 Issue 10,October 2009
by: IEEE

                               
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cover story
30 Infoglut
E-mail, tweets, and Facebook updates are destroying our productivity
and our leisure. By Nathan Zeldes
24 A Real Cloud Computer
Climate scientists dearly want to track cloud systems with their models.
But first, a very different sort of supercomputer must be built.
By Michael Wehner, Lenny Oliker & John Shalf
34 CHILL OUT
Heat can be a CPU’s worst enemy, but researchers are devising new
materials and chip designs to keep the microprocessors cool.
By Alexander A. Balandin
40 the recession’s silver lining
The recession has not been kind to the semiconductor industry. But there
may be an opportunity in this crisis. By Pushkar Apte & George Scalise
46 may the forc e of light be with you
Light exerts enough force to throw nanoscale switches, making
superfast photonic signal processing possible. By Hong X. Tang
Update
13 the brain, unplugged
Researchers report prototype wireless
neural interfaces. By Prachi Patel
14 the spaser nanolaser
18 a reimagined database
18 exoskeletons on
the march
opinion
10 Spectral Lines
IE6 is the 8-track tape of Generation
Web. It’s time to move on—
or get left
behind. By Harry Goldstein
12 Forum
Readers comment on the energy
efficiencies of island empires and
incandescent bulbs.
23 technically speaking
Bioengineering technology is
maturing, and so is its vocabulary.
By Paul McFedries
depar tments
4 Back Story
How fighting information overload
turned into a full-time job.
6 Contributors
20 hands on
Google’s Street View vans don’t go
everywhere. Now you can make your
own panoramas with a do-it-yourself
camera array. By Roy D. Ragsdale
22 geek life
Airlines are finally making it easy to
plug in at the airport and go online in
the air. By Prachi Patel
22 books
There are plenty of patent handbooks
but none written by engineers, for
engineers—until now.
Reviewed by Kirk Teska
68 the data
Mobile devices are producing exabytes
of data, and more and more of it
resides in the Internet cloud.
By Steven Cherry

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