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Jen JudGe
photographed
electrical engineer
and volcanolightning expert Ron
Thomas [p. 30] in "the most remote
portrait shoot I've ever done." After
riding an hour into New Mexico's
El Malpais national monument in
Thomas's pickup truck, hiking a
few miles to the park's lava tubes,
and scrambling down rock faces to
find the perfect spot, she wasn't
prepared to find her own car
locked inside the visitors' parking
lot at the end of the day. The state
police finally came to her rescue.
Józef lubacz, WoJciecH
Mazurczyk & krzysztof
szczypiorski, who wrote
"Vice Over IP" [p. 42], are
professors at Warsaw University
of Technology, in Poland. As part
of the Network Security Group
at WUT, they have looked since
2002 for new ways to smuggle
data through networks, and more
important, how to thwart such
attempts. In 2008, the group
published the first paper about
network steganography in IP
telephony. After many years spent
anticipating evildoers and their
machinations, Szczypiorski says

his favorite saying comes from
Indiana Jones: "Nothing shocks me.
I'm a scientist."

edWard H.
sarGent decided
to study semiconductors that can
be applied like paint
soon after becoming a professor at
the University of Toronto. At the
time, many engineers viewed what
he was doing as "totally wacky," he
recalls. But that research, which
he describes in "Connecting the
Quantum Dots" [p. 48], allowed
him to strike out on his own and
make optically interesting semiconductors, without having to
depend on an established lab's
million-dollar fabrication tools.
Giselle Weiss
is a freelance writer
based in Basel,
Switzerland. In
Dream Jobs, she
profiles Ernst Völlm [p. 40], who
designs and field-tests advanced dive
computers. "I worried that I'd have
to go diving in Lake Zurich with
Ernst," says Weiss. Happily, she
didn't have to. Instead, she drank in
the late afternoon sun while Völlm
and a buddy dropped their clothes in
the parking lot and suited up.
cédric WidMer
did have to get a little
wet while photographing dive
computer designer
Ernst Völlm. He divided the shoot
between Lake Zurich and a local
school's swimming pool, where he
took his first underwater photographs. After borrowing dive gear
from Völlm, he even got a few
underwater tips from him. Widmer
studied at the Applied Arts School
of Vevey, in Switzerland, and has
been freelancing since 2005.

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Gabriela
Hasbun photographed surgical
device designer
Catherine Mohr for
Dream Jobs [p. 36]. Having had her
gall bladder removed with
laparoscopic surgery, she found it
"twice as interesting" to learn about
Mohr's work with robot-assisted
surgery. The challenge during the
shoot was to keep the machine
from overshadowing the person.
That's hard to plan beforehand,
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backdrop and an open mind.

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