Engineering and Science, Volume 69:1, 2006
Editor: Smith, Douglas L.
Published in: Engineering and Science, Volume 69, Number 1, 2006
Item Category: Complete Issues
Persistent URL: https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:69.1.0
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Table of Contents
The Dawn of the Computer Age
by Irving S. Reed
Back when vacuum-tube computers filled entire rooms, a group of young bucks working for the Northrop Corporation built one that fit on a coffee table.
The Social Brain
by Ralph Adolphs
Tell me where are emotions bred: Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished? "With gazing fed," a neuroscientist replies. "It is engendered in the eyes." Shakespeare was closer to the mark than he knew.
A Nice Place to Visit?
by Douglas L. Smith
Enceladus, a tiny moon of Saturn, is spewing geysers of ice and water to a height of its own diameter. What else lurks beneath its frozen surface?
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