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  Advanced Silicon Microelectronics/ULSI
  Interconnecting the Cores: The Roadmap • Next-Generation Solutions: Carbon • Next-Generation Solutions: Optical • Interconnect Past and Future

  Biocatalysis
  Opportunities in Biopharmaceuticals: Biopharma Market Trends • Upswing in Microbial Systems for Manufacturing

  Biomaterials
  The Drugs Don't Work: The Growing Market for Neurotechnology

  Biopolymers
  Regenerative Medicine

  Biosensors
  Monitoring Blood Glucose: Current Technology Status: Commercial Continuous or Noninvasive Glucose Monitoring • Research and Development • Outlook

  Connected Cars
  Ford's Return to the Telematics Business: The Long Road to Ford's Connected Sync Platform • The No-Concierge Approach to Emergency Services • Ford's Satellite-Connected Navigation • Ford Outsourcing a Key Telematics Role to Airbiquity • Possible Implications of Ford's Telematics Program

  Connected Homes
  Changes in Store for Home-Network Data Storage: Potential Growth Drivers for Home Storage • Potential for Decreased Demand for Storage • Packaged Media, Pro and Con • Future Directions for Storage • Concluding Perspectives

  Engineering Polymers
  Blu-ray Disc Technology Triumphs
Dow Chemical Lightens Up

  Flat-Panel Displays
  Sony Shifting LCD Alliance from Samsung to Sharp: The Panel- and TV-Maker Joint Venture • Sony and Sharp's Joint Venture • Implications

  Fuel Cells
  Fuel Cells in Developing Economies: China • India • South Africa • Future Developments

  Genomics
  Scientific and Technical Advances toward Personalized Medicine

  Knowledge-Based Systems
  How Knowledge-Based Systems Relate to the Rest of Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence: A Definition • Types of Artificial Intelligence • Knowledge-Based Systems and the Future of Commercial AI

  Knowledge-Management Tools
  The Rise of Virtual Work: A Billion Mobile Workers? • Virtual Work in 2018

  Membrane Separation
  Carbon Dioxide Capture: An Opportunity for Membranes: Carbon Dioxide–Removal Technologies • Carbon Dioxide–Removal Costs • Membrane Research in Carbon Dioxide Capture

  MEMS/Micromachining
  RF MEMS Update: Military and Aerospace Applications • Commercial Consumer Applications • Timing Devices

  Mobile Communications
  Coalition Lobby to Unlock Spectrum White Space: Analog-to-Digital TV Conversion • The Debate about White-Space Spectrum • Proposals from the Google- and Microsoft-Led Coalition • Outlook

  Nanobiotechnology
  Opportunities in Nanobiotechnology Engineering and Systems Design

  Nanoelectronics
  Nanophotonics Roadmaps: Nanophotonics or Just Small? • Displays • Photovoltaics

  Nanomaterials
  Standards and Standardization: Standards: The Basics • Nanotechnology Standards and Standardization • Recent Developments in Nanotechnology Standards • Outlook and Implications

  Novel Ceramic/Metallic Materials
  Advanced Ceramics in the Kitchen: Advantages and Disadvantages • Technical Background • Commercial Activity and Market Trends • Implications • Beyond the Kitchen: A Final Note of Caution

  Optoelectronics/Photonics
  Optical Correlators: Optical Correlators and Fourier Transform Basics • History and Progress in Optical Correlators • Outlook

  Organic Electronics
  OLED-Display Production: A Snapshot
The Inside Story: Materials for OLED Displays, Part 2

  Pervasive Computing
  Location, Location, Location: Navigation Devices: Points of Interest • The Unintended Consequences • Know Your Place

  Photovoltaics
  CIS/CIGS Photovoltaics Commercialization Gathers Pace

  Polymer-Matrix Composites
  Airborne: The Nascent Air-Taxi Industry: Microjets • Air-Taxi Operators • Outlook for the Air-Taxi Industry

  Portable Electronic Devices   (formerly Portable Intelligence)
  Power Air to Release Micro Fuel Cells for Portable Electronic Devices: Power Air and Zinc/Air Fuel Cell • Power Air's Fuel-Cell-Based Recharger • Commercial Outlook

  Portable Power
  Energy Harvesting for Portable Power: Some Recent Developments: Nanowires for Power Dressing • Nanowires for Solar Energy

  Renewable Energy Technologies
  Expanding Opportunities for Geothermal Power: Technology-Commercialization Outlook • HDR and EGS Technology Development

  RFID Technologies
  Compliance Fees as a Driver for RFID Technology?: The Compliance Requirements • The First Step to Further Rollouts • Noncompliance Fees as a Driver

  Robotics
  Future Market Developments: Market Data • Analysis • Performance of Key Players • Signpost

  Smart Materials
  Recent Developments: Shape-Memory Polymer Changes Color • CRF Pushes Smart Materials

  Solid-State Microsensors
  Fingerprint Sensors to the Fore
Recent Developments: Health and Fitness Monitoring

  User Interfaces     (New Technology Area!)
  Toward a Universal Remote Control for Your Life: What Remote Control Is and Isn't • Current Markets for Advanced Remote Controls • Emerging Solutions • Implications for Users and Suppliers

  Virtual Worlds   (formerly Virtual Environments)
  Second Life behind the Firewall: IBM and Linden Lab Announcement • Analysis



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