Technology Review: November 2003

Special Report: Software Goes Extreme: PC legends Charles Simonyi´s and Mitch Kapor´s upstart ventures aim to create software that does what you want it to do and never crashes. Our exclusive report brings you to the front lines of the new software revolution.

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Prototype

Videoconferencing by the Numbers

Identity Antitheft

Digital Doorman

Heart Helper

Cell-Free Proteins

E-Paper Printer

Programmable Window

Curvy Security

Innovation News

Booster Shot against Cancer

Just Tilt to Enter Text

Digital Darwin

Souped-Up Jet Engine

Listening to the Data

Banishing Bad Beans

Drug Patches Advance

Trailing Edge

Vocal Codes: A quirky artificial voice synthesizer built in the 1930s paved the way for cell phones.

Features

Everyone’s a Programmer: Software is collapsing under the weight of its own complexity, but Charles Simonyi’s has a simple solution.

Trash Your Desktop: Mitch Kapor’s new, more intuitive computer interface puts all the information we need to manage our digital lives at our fingertips.

From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Biology?: The ultimate goal for programming: software that heals itself.

Extreme Programming: The Zero G Experience: How a software company saved itself.

Stopping Pain: Insights into the neuroscience behind pain are spawning a new generation of drugs.

Instant Manufacturing: Machines that create products directly from digital files are efficient and cost effective.

Demo

Demo: Waterproof Anything: MIT professor Karen Gleason can waterproof just about anything by coating it with an ultrathin layer of Teflon.

Columns

Toward a Brain-Internet Link: Surfing the Web via chips implanted in your brain isn´t as far-fetched as you might think.

Apple-Picking Time in PC Land: Apple´s recent advances in compatibility make Macs network with PCs better than PCs do.

Little Bang for the RFID Buck: Radio frequency identification tags flounder as innovators figure out how to best use them.

Point of Impact

Radio Freedom: Next-generation-wireless-networks researcher David P. Reed on radio spectrum allocation.

Launch Pad

The RNA Cure?: Alnylam Pharmaceuticals is poised to commercialize drugs made from RNA molecules.

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