http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sciref/feature/ en Copyright 2008 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:05:33 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.33.uthink http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science is a series of electronic books that provides overviews of key developments and research in a wide range of areas such as antennas, audio speech processing, biomedical engineering, computational electromagnetics, solid state materials and devices. A tiny sampling of specific topics for the lectures/reviews: bionanotechnology; engineering, poverty, and the earth; game theory for wireless engineers; and RFID explained.

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