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Special Report
Action
in the Outback
Direct
from the World Solar Challenge in Australia, Senior Editor Glenn
Zorpette keeps Spectrum OnLine readers up to date with daily
reports on all the action in this technology competition as seen
from his spot riding with one team.
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Weekly Newslog
Unmanned
spy plane targeted bin Laden comrade
The
U.S. Department of Defense revealed on 22 November that the U.S.
fighter jet attack on an al Qaeda facility outside Kabul, Afghanistan
that killed Osama bin Laden lieutenant Mohammed Atef was aided by
detailed images provided by an unmanned Predator surveillance plane....continued
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This Week in Electrical History
(1879) Daniel and Thomas Connolly and Thomas McTighe received a patent for
perhaps the first automatic telephone system; previously, telephone calls were
placed through operators. The system patented on this day allowed users to place
their own calls, but it was never commercially applied. The first successful
system, that of Strowger, was put into use in 1892.
Calendar
Fourth
Workshop on Workload Characterization (C);
2
Dec.; University of Texas at Austin; Lizy Kurian John, ENS 143,
ECE Department, Austin, TX 78712–1084;...continued
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