April 1998
from the editor
Setting Technology's Future Course

letters
Solar Power Deserves More Respect
How Much Difference Will Biomass Make?
Early Air Bags
Cleaner Engines
The Potential of Fuel Cells
Java Jive
Whose Design?

news and notes
Recovering Valuable Plastics
A Hybrid Concept Car
Consortium Readies Tooling Technology
Monitoring Pollution Via Modem
Getting Extra Summer Megawatts
The Raptor Flies
Briefly Noted

computing
Compaq Acquires DEC
Engineering Web Master
Simulating Sunroofs
Faster Graphics for NT
Dynamic Memory for Finite-element Analysis
Online Resources
Briefly Noted

input/output
Heavenly Music

m.e. bookshelf
Twelve New Reviews of the Latest Engineering Books

call for papers
Entries for April

washington window
Technology Development Drives State Economies


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