Engineering tomorrow : today's technology experts envision the next century /

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Author / Creator:Bell, Trudy E.
Imprint:Piscataway, NJ : IEEE Press, ©2000.
Description:xiv, 308 pages : color illustrations, portraits (some color) ; 29 cm
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4147241
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Other authors / contributors:Dooling, David.
Fouke, Janie McLawhorn.
ISBN:0780353609
9780780353602
0780353617
9780780353619
0780353625
9780780353626
Notes:Includes index.
Summary:Examines several significant devices, techniques, software developments, and systems concerns related to twenty-first century advances in technology; explores technologies that could directly affect individuals and society; and articulates principal issues in some of the largest technology-related challenges facing society.

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