We hope to see you there. And you thought that the mapping of the human genome meant that we were at the end of the road of scientific discovery about the human species. In a Scientific American feature article, Steve Ditlea reviews recent developments in and prospects for this field. Last month, we wrote about how to organize a technology scouting function to help keep abreast of emerging technologies. In it, we noted the use that some firms make of outposts to maintain their connections to far flung developments.
Trend lines showing increasing transistor density on a chip tell only a small part of the story.
In this article from EE Times , David Lammers examines the competing strategies of increasing frequency and increasing instructions per cycle. You've read a lot about 3G wireless and the telecoms have certainly spent enough buying licenses for it. But recent analyses indicate that perhaps it isn't as close as many had predicted. In Connected , Simon Goodley discusses Nokia's recent prediction that it could be farther off than many had hoped. In this article from Florida State University, Frank Stephenson discusses research into such possible effects.