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Volume 3, Issue 17
11 October 2008
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 17, page: 2 –2
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081717
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 17, page: 3 –3
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081718
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(3 pages) - Author(s): L. Collins
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 17, page: 7 –7
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081719
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The credit crunch is squeezing advice services for technology start-ups, say those at the sharp end, and there should be more support for contract research. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 17, p. 8 –9
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081720
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 17, page: 10 –10
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081721
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 17, p. 11 –15
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081722
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 17, p. 16 –17
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081723
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- Author(s): E. Adams and B. Cervi
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 17, page: 18 –18
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081724
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- Author(s): D. Lewis
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 17, p. 20 –23
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081700
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With no end in sight to the current global economic turmoil, Dan Lewis looks at the implications for the engineering and technology sector. - Author(s): M. Williamson
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 17, p. 24 –27
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081701
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So Beijing's Olympic fireworks weren't real. But, says Mark Williamson, deception is all around us, entertaining us, tricking our enemies, or even making the sun shine. - Author(s): P. Neroth
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 17, p. 28 –31
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081702
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Look at the CVs of China's ruling body, and you'll find a familiar collection of skills. So what draws engineers to the top of the political tree? - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 17, p. 32 –33
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081725
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This week we compare devices that aim to unleash your multimedia content from your computer to your living room TV. - Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 17, p. 34 –37
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081703
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Mike Fister, president and CEO of electronic design automation (EDA) company Cadence Design Systems, was in bullish mood when he told investors that he had launched a bid for third-placed supplier Mentor Graphics. Fister's aim was to create an EDA powerhouse that could dominate the market and regain ground lost to Synopsys in recent years. - Author(s): P. Stearns
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 17, p. 38 –39
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081704
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Low-speed serial buses can look easy but they have debug problems of their own. Oscilloscopes can help track the bugs down. - Author(s): B. Greenaway
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 17, p. 40 –43
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081705
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This paper discusses the development and current difficulties of a robot-assisted surgery. - Author(s): B. Greenaway
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 17, p. 44 –47
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081706
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This paper presents a new radiotherapy treatment can not only significantly lower treatment time of cancer but also reduce the side effects.Cancer treatment was revolutionised by the development of the medical linear particle accelerators replacing the original gamma ray treatments using Cobalt-60. - Author(s): A. Harris
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 17, p. 48 –50
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081707
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With the technology investment sector buckling under the strains of the credit crunch, Anne Harris discovers that renewable energy continues to flourish. - Author(s): P. Dempsey
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 17, p. 52 –55
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081708
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As the US gears up to adopt renewable energy it is facing some familiar challenges but on a much larger scale than ever before, as Paul Dempsey discovers. - Author(s): P. Hunter
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 17, p. 56 –59
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081709
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This paper deals with legacy data management. computing legend speaks of legacy data as a heaving hydra with many heads, any one of which can give an enterprise a nasty gnaw-even when its fellows have all been bludgeoned. Legend tells us legacy data is immortal and practically indestructible, although it can be tamed-even harnessed, if properly treated. Perhaps legacy data's true monstrousness lies in the definition, given that no two experts seem able to agree on what legacy data is. The only point of consensus over definition is that most enterprises have data in many places that was created at different times, incurring varying burdens and costs on the IT function. There is little badinage over the big issue of confronting all data, legacy or not, which is the advent of SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture). Legacy data is distinct from archived data that is rarely accessed, and therefore it does need to be in a form that can be accessed in real time by live applications. Legacy data can accumulate like toxic waste-a lethal cocktail of cost and legal liability. As principle repository of legacy software, the mainframe is gaining yet another lease of life from the SOA phenomenon by sucking-in the necessary middleware: SOA is one reason for the resurgence of the mainframe, which is still the best-performance platform. - Author(s): J. Hayes
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 17, p. 60 –62
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081710
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A new approach to healthcare informatics should lead the way to a more reliable, safer sector - and might also be the spearhead that brings Web 2.0 to the hospital bedside. According to the UK Health Informatics Society, the term 'health/healthcare informatics' is replacing the previously more common term 'medical informatics'. This reflects a concern to define an agenda for health services that "recognises the role of citizens as agents in their own care, as well as the major information-handling roles of the non-medical healthcare professions". - Author(s): B. Cervi
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 17, p. 64 –65
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081711
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British industry has lost a million jobs in the past decade and is now facing a recession, but the government says it still has every chance of a rosy future. Bob Cervi assesses how the manufacturing sector will batten down its hatches. - Author(s): K. Allan
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 17, p. 66 –68
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081712
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In the face of worldwide economic turmoil, one UK metals group is on course to forge a successful year as it taps into global markets. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 17, page: 69 –69
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081713
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Volkswagen has come up with three futuristic vehicles which, it suggests, show what can be achieved technologically in just 20 years' time to meet the needs of consumers and the planet. To this end, it has produced three different types of concept car - one for the single urban-user, a second for the pleasure-driver, and a third for the family. The 'One' concept car is driven by a single occupant in urban areas, has a fully-electric (zero-emission) motor and can fold up for ease of parking. The suitably named 'Ego' is a high-performance two-seater coupe, while the 'Room' family car brings home into the vehicle and will be able to change its interior space at the touch of a button. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 17, p. 70 –73
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081726
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The 60GHz unlicensed frequency band has never been that popular. But congestion is forcing chipmakers to look at it as a way to boost data bandwidths. - Author(s): G. Talmi
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 17, p. 74 –75
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081727
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It's hard to do targeted marketing to hundreds of millions of customers. Guy Talmi looks at some of the telcoms operators' most common mistakes, and how they could be avoided. - Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 17, p. 76 –79
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081714
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When corporate giants such as Apple and Microsoft 'pre-announce' products, they seem to send positive signals to their market, developers and stockholders. But in taking the decision to get ahead of the game, you could be making a rod for your own back. - Author(s): W. Altman
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 17, p. 80 –81
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081715
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At a time when some redundancies and early retirements may be unavoidable, how do you decide who has to go, even among senior colleagues of long standing? Wilf Altman discusses the process of making difficult decisions. - Author(s): J. Pollard
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 17, page: 95 –95
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081716
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Justin Pollard on how falling into ditches and other, often unintended, ways of self sacrifice led to the invention of electricity. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 17, page: 96 –96
- DOI: 10.1049/et:20081728
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Our long-suffering son of longer-suffering engineering parents is joined by his dad in trying to find a technology-friendly pop song.
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If you ask me
Gloom or doom?
Technology of deception
Ruled by engineers
Gadget speak
Chips feel the crunch
Five steps to serial joy [electronics test]
Impatient for robots [medical robots]
Targeting tumours [radiotherapy]
The colour of money
State of the nation
Across the generation gap [legacy data]
Keeping data healthy [health care informatics]
Weathering the storm
Steely resolve
Wheely friends [automotive engineering]
From slow to 60GHz
Ten top marketing mistakes
Letting the cat out of the bag
Deadly deeds done decisively
The eccentric engineer
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