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HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Virginia Hughes	Glimpsing Inside a Moving Fruit Fly's Brain Vivek Jayaraman wants to capture, in real time, how the fly's brain responds to a changing environment. Ultimately, he hopes to uncover very basic patterns -- "algorithms" -- of fly brain activity that hold true in more complex brains including, presumably, ours.
PC Magazine January 20, 2004 Les Freed	Look Into The Camera New technologies can dramatically improve your photos. We discuss developments that will help with image artifacts, inaccurate color, poor contrast, and much more.
IEEE Spectrum May 2012 Grotta & Grotta	Pixels: Size Matters A camera's sensor area, not its pixel count, determines the quality of a photograph
PC World February 20, 2002 Martyn Williams	Sony Focuses on 6 Megapixels Company's new image sensor will allow consumers to create professional-quality digital images -- at a price...
IEEE Spectrum December 2010 Versace & Chandler	MoNETA: A Mind Made from Memristors DARPA's new memristor-based approach to Artificial Intelligence consists of a chip that mimics how neurons process information
PC Magazine February 1, 2006 Sebastian Rupley	Lights, Cameras--Everywhere Astounding battery life could lead to the camera's next frontiers.
Popular Mechanics November 2009 Seth Porges	How to Get Dust off a DSLR Sensor: Digital Clinic Digital SLR cameras with interchangeable lenses are highly versatile, but they have a unique vulnerability: When the lens is removed, the door is open for dust
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2006 Maureen Campbell	Intelligence in Three Dimensions: We Live in a 3-D World, and so Should Computers Encouraged by the progress on target recognition and tracking for in-the-field use, engineers are extending the principle of intelligent 3-D processing to dynamic change detection.
PC Magazine June 8, 2004 Grotta & Wiener	More Than Just Megapixels Image size is important in selecting a digital camera, but it's far from the complete picture.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005 Ben Ames	Optical sensors light up the battlefield Tomorrow's sensors will be modular, digital, fused, and networked
PC Magazine August 12, 2003 Bill Howard	Bring Me to Life Sony seeks to animate ordinary objects.
IEEE Spectrum April 2006 Brian Betts	Smart Sensors A single moment of human error can make a sensor and all the data it gathers worse than worthless. A new standard for analog sensors could save lives and money.
IEEE Spectrum May 2012 Mark Harris	Light-Field Photography Revolutionizes Imaging A new generation of cameras promises an imaging revolution
National Defense July 2009 Grace V. Jean	360-Degree Sensor to Help Troops Nab Insurgents Nabbing insurgents before they can plant roadside bombs or finding enemy snipers before they shoot have been among the toughest challenges that the U.S. military has faced in current conflicts.
Popular Mechanics October 2008 Joel Johnson	Take High-Quality Pics With Your Phone's Low-Quality Camera Learning to live with a plastic lens, digital zoom, and cheap image sensor.
IEEE Spectrum March 2007 Philip E. Ross	Benedetto Vigna: The Man Behind the Chip Behind the Wii The designer of the MEMS motion sensor in Nintendo's fabulous game tells how he got into micro-machining and where he's taking it next.
IEEE Spectrum March 2008 Robert Wood	Fly, Robot Fly Whether as rescue robot or flying spy, this micro-aerial vehicle could change how we look at the common housefly
PC Magazine September 29, 2003 Les Freed	Minolta's Hot Shot The Minolta DiMage A1 is loaded with the latest technology. It can even counteract your unsteady hands.
Popular Mechanics February 2006 Mike Allen	Troubleshooting Antilock Braking Your ABS light is on. Now what?
Popular Mechanics March 2007 Mike Allen	Unplugging ABS Sensors If your ABS gives out, you'll still have brakes, but not the antilock feature. On most vehicles, this is not an issue, but on some -- notably pickup trucks -- this can lead to lack of stability.
National Defense March 2008 Grace V. Jean	Robots Get Smarter, But Who Will Buy Them? While the technologies to enable fully autonomous vehicles have advanced, robotics experts say there is still more to be done to make them viable in military and commercial applications in the next decade.
IEEE Spectrum March 2013 David Schneider	Camera Chip Makes Already-Compressed Images Compressed sensing is brought to a CMOS image sensor
PC Magazine June 1, 2005 John C. Dvorak	Inside Track v24n11 Because we all got caught up in a pixel war, we lost sight of the goal: great digital photos on a par with the best 35-mm photos.
National Defense July 2007 Grace Jean	Hyperspectral Sensor Provides Piercing `Eyes' In Space In a few months, an 'unblinking eye' will scrutinize the battlefield from space.
Defense Update Issue 1, 2006	Unattended Ground Sensors After several decades of rather obscure awareness in military operations, the use of passive sensors for remote battlefield applications is becoming more popular... Ground surveillance sensors... Future combat systems... etc.
Scientific American April 2006 Steven Ashley	Sharp Shooter Sony's Cybershot DSC R1 digital still camera is the first of a new category of reasonably affordable, all-in-one electronic picture-takers that combines some of the best features of existing high- and low-end digital designs.
National Defense July 2013 Stew Magnuson	Research Arm for Intel Agencies Looking for Nontraditional Sensors The Intelligence Advanced Research Project Activity is funding long-term research for several sensors, although not necessarily the kinds that are installed in a ball underneath an unmanned aerial vehicle.
IEEE Spectrum February 2009 Sally Adee	Solid-State Circuits, in 3-D! At this year's IEEE ISSCC, some 3-D integration technologies are ready to wear, while others will remain haute couture
Technology Research News July 16, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Sensors guard privacy The idea behind a new privacy scheme is to make sensor networks automatically reduce the accuracy of the location data they report whenever anyone is in danger of standing out. The goal is to allow people to be monitored without any one person being tracked.
IEEE Spectrum June 2008 Neil Savage	Chip for Future Eye Implants Runs on Picowatts, Thanks to New Deep-Sleep Tech Chip could run for a year on millimeter-sized battery.
The Motley Fool March 13, 2007 Dan Bloom	Will Image Sensors Continue to Light Micron? Image sensor growth is slowing, and it looks like the competition is getting stiffer. Investors beware.
Home Toys December 2002 David Steele	Driveway And Entry Annunciators For Home Automation Driveway and entry annunciators have been around for many years. To add them to your home automation and security system can add a whole new meaning to convenience. They can provide you not only with being alerted when a visitor approaches, but also turn on lights for safety and convenience.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005 Tom Adams	The shrinking-package approach to low-cost, robust sensor arrays One potential benefit of shrinking the sizes of microelectronics components is the potential to scatter a large number of sensors arranged as a distributed array over an area for surveillance.
Fast Company May 2014	Selling Sensors to Sports You can buy sensors for golf clubs, basketballs, hockey sticks, and more.
The Motley Fool July 13, 2006 Dan Bloom	Omnivision's Shrewd Move An acquisition may give the semiconductor company a leg up on its much larger competitors. Investors, take note.
IEEE Spectrum March 2008 Chang & Subramian	Electronic Noses Sniff Success E-noses will soon be ubiquitous, thanks to printed organic semiconductors.
AskMen.com October 25, 2002 Scott Roush	The Benefits Of ABS Despite the strong penetration in the car market, recent surveys indicate that almost half the drivers on the road still do not know how to use antilock brakes properly. Drivers need to learn how to use antilock brakes properly.
PC Magazine July 12, 2006 Sebastian Rupley	A Tiny Touch Sensors that mimic human touch.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2009 John Keller	Multi-Sensor Fusion Hits the Mainstream Once considered as futuristic, difficult, and elusive, multi-sensor fusion is coming into its own as a standard approach of processing signals from a wide variety of sensors, and making sense of incomplete and sketchy sensor data.
Technology Research News July 30, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Eyes off, screen off Giving computers the ability to discern where you are looking means, among other possibilities, setting screens to go dormant when they don't have your attention. The trick to making it practical is keeping the energy-saving mechanism from using more energy than it saves.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2008 John Keller	Joining sensors through data fusion Data experts are are relying on various approaches to refine sensor outputs into useful information, and essentially create a whole sensor picture that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Fast Company Jul/Aug 2013 Farhad Manjoo	Smart Cars: Fill 'Er Up With Apps We have to figure out a way to harness the people who want to make our cars better.
This Old House Thomas Baker	How Carbon-Monoxide Sniffers Work The technology used in a CO detector effects how much it costs to buy and operate as well as how long it will last.
Wired December 2003 Brendan I. Koerner	Intel's Tiny Hope for the Future The microprocessor giant is thinking even smaller: tiny sensor chips that network with each other -- inside everything on earth.
IEEE Spectrum April 2008 Michael Dumiak	Magnetic Field Sensors Could Help Halt Runway Crashes European engineers harness Earth's magnetic field to improve airport safety.
Food Engineering June 4, 2007	Not Your Mama's Sensor More rugged, adaptable and reliable sensors are being deployed in industrial automation. And the fact they're taken for granted attests to how well they perform.
National Defense August 2011 Grace V. Jean	New Sensor Aims to Give F-35 Pilots a 'Window Into the Night' F-35 fighter pilots will wear a helmet that allows them to peer into the darkness with ease -- but only if a new digital sensor proves itself as capable as or better than existing night vision technology.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005	Optoelectronics Briefs Second-generation Fibre Channel network adapter cards... NASA turns to Adtech Optics for space optoelectronics... Toshiba unveils remote head camera IK-M44A... Low-cost multi-output pulse generator for optoelectronics research... etc.