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dave levitan,
a freelance
journalist in
New York City,
is a contributor to
Spectrum's EnergyWise blog. He
wrote "Prospects for an Artificial
Leaf Are Growing" [p. 15]
because "some of the best ideas
for energy are already out there
in nature," he says. "We just
have to adapt what exists."
A companion piece on how
engineers are taking cues from
whales and fish in designing
wind farms is at http://spectrum.
ieee.org/levitan0911.

Peter fairley
writes about energy
as a contributing
editor for IEEE
Spectrum. Fairley,
a world traveler who divides his
time between Vancouver Island
and Paris, has the international
perspective Spectrum needed for
articles about China's nuclearpowered future [p. 46] and
Germany's nuclear-free future
[p. 47]. "When it comes to energy,
every country has its own unique
set of political restraints and
cultural hang-ups," he says.
"That's what makes it interesting."

harry teasley
has been developing
video games for
more than 20 years,
and many of his
games, like the massively
multiplayer Lord of the Rings
online, are supported by
hyperspecialized computer mice.
"I could open a museum of input
devices, and most of them are
total failures," says Teasley, who
writes about the Microsoft Touch
Mouse in "Gestures Creep Into
Mouse Interfaces" [p. 26]. But
when you find a mouse that
works well with a game, he says,
"it's a revelation."

david Kushner
wrote "Ticking to
Paul Wallich
Eternity" [p. 54],
took to his
about the effort to
basement workshop
build a monumental
in Vermont to test
clock that will tell time for
out a MakerBot
10 000 years. He wonders how
3-D printer for "Absolutely Fab"
people will view the clock millennia [p. 22]. There, he made a number
from now: "I keep picturing the
of small plastic doodads,
Neanderthals in 2001: A Space
including a SpongeBob
Odyssey discovering the monolith,
SquarePants figurine for his
stumbling on to this amazing thing." 6-year-old son. His 3-year-old
A Spectrum contributing editor,
isn't so lucky, at least for now.
Kushner has written three books,
"He's being kept far away from
including Levittown: Two Families,
this thing," says Wallich,
One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil
"considering that it's squirting
Rights in America's Legendary Suburb. out plastic at 220 °C."
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Khaled ahmed and Klaus
schuegraf write about the
coming competition between thinchannel 3-D and 2-D transistors in
"Transistor Wars" [p. 50]. Ahmed
is an IEEE senior member and
a technology strategist in the
Silicon Systems Group at Applied
Materials, where Schuegraf is chief
technology officer. After years of
working on ways to manufacture
smaller and smaller bulk silicon
transistors, both are excited about
the rapid development of the new,
thin-channel alternatives. "From
a device physics perspective, thin
is definitely in," Ahmed says.

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