IEEE Spectrum Podcast show

IEEE Spectrum Podcast

Summary: IEEE Spectrum Podcast

Podcasts:

 The End of Free Conference Calls | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: Unknown

New FCC regulations will make for new winners and losers

 The Cultural Treasures in Google Ngram | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: Unknown

A database of words yields new findings for historians, linguists, and psychologists

 14-Year-Old Student Turns Rain Into Electricity | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: Unknown

Raymond Wang’s Google Science Fair project harvests wind as well

 A Butane Recharger for Your Cellphone | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: Unknown

A USB-based fuel cell system will recharge your portable electronics for pennies

 Can Chips Keep Their Cool? | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: Unknown

Increasing speed but not power consumption is just one challenge for the next eight years

 Why Bad Jobs-or No Jobs-Happen to Good Workers | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: Unknown

An expert blames employers for unrealistically high expectations and unrealistically low wages

 Start-ups: Money versus Control—Or, Often, Neither | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: Unknown

A “Techwise Conversation” with Noam Wasserman, author of The Founder’s Dilemmas

 Human Memory, Computer Memory, and Memento | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: Unknown

The Soar cognitive architecture doesn’t look like a brain, but it functions like one

 Fastest Sailboat: Alain Thébault’s Hydroptère | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: Unknown

A French trimaran flies above the water

 Fastest Swimmer: Sailfish | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: Unknown

Dave Kerstetter tags sailfish for Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center

 Fastest Jet Fighter: Lockheed Martin’s F-22 Raptor | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: Unknown

Robert Novotny on Lockheed Martin’s F-22 Raptor

 Fastest Helicopter: Sikorsky Aircraft’s X2 | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: Unknown

Kevin Bredenbeck explains the Advancing Blade Concept of coaxial rotors

 Fastest Natural Flier: Peregrine Falcon | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: Unknown

Ken Franklin’s peregrine falcon, Frightful, at 242 miles per hour

 Fastest Land Animal: Cheetah | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: Unknown

Patricia Tricorache helps protect the cheetah

 Transrapid International’s Maglev | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: Unknown

Marc Thompson tells how Transrapid International’s magnetic levitation train flies on the ground in Shanghai

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