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Aerospace Job Forecast: Skies Are Clearing...
http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/tech-ca reers/aerospace-job-forecast-skies-are-c learing

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A MEMS-based microfluidic implant could open up many difficult-to-treat diseases to drug therapy
http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devi ces/flexible-microsystems-deliver-drugs- through-the-ear

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IEEE Spectrum Sneak peek at stories appearing in the November 2009 issue of IEEE Spectrum. (Mailing next week!)

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The final webcast in this series will address one of the biggest challenges in robotics…the roboticists need for powerful software to design their autonomous systems.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/webinar/1359360
Time:Thursday, 12 November 2009 15:00

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Skiing Robot Races Down Slope (Video)
http://spectrum.ieee.org/blog/robotics/r obotics-software/automaton/skiing-robot- races-down-slope
Move over, humans! This autonomous robot skier can race down a snowy slope, slalom-style.

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DASH Hexapedal Cockroach-Inspired Robot Survives Large Falls, Dashes Off
http://spectrum.ieee.org/blog/robotics/r obotics-software/automaton/dash-hexapeda l-cockroach-inspired-robot
This little robot developed at UC Berkeley's Biomimetic Millisystems
Lab can survive a 7-story fall -- and dash off at high-speed.

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Video: iRobot's Shape-Shifting Blob 'Bot Takes Its First Steps
http://spectrum.ieee.org/blog/robotics/r obotics-software/automaton/irobot-soft-m orphing-blob-chembot

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Nobel Prizefight! Former Bell Labs Employee Says He Invented the CCD Imager http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/blog/semico nductors/devices/tech-talk/nobel-controv ersy-former-bell-labs-employee-says-he-i nvented-the-ccd-imager and Who Deserves Credit for Inventing the CCD? http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/blog/semico nductors/devices/tech-talk/nobel-controv ersy-who-deserves-credit-for-inventing-t he-ccd

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Video: DIY Automated Bartender http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/video/robot ics/diy/barbot Toast your successful project with a drink that the project mixes itself

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Inventors of the CCD Camera Chip Share Nobel in Physics
http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electr onics/gadgets/inventors-of-the-ccd-camer a-chip-share-nobel-in-physics
IEEE Fellows Willard Boyle and George Smith started the digital-image revolution

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Optical Fiber Pioneer Shares Physics Nobel
http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/interne t/optical-fiber-pioneer-shares-physics-n obel
IEEE Life Fellow Charles Kuen Kao came up with the theory behind optical-fiber telecommunications


IEEE Spectrum
October issue now available online:
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/static/maga zine/
Cover story is about information overload.
Source: www.spectrum.ieee.org
October 2009 issue COVER STORY Infoglut E-mail, tweets, and Facebook updates are destroying our productivity and our leisure. By Nathan Zeldes




























