"We've taken security to the hardware level and built it in from the ground up, " said Chris Satchell from the Xbox Advanced Technology Group.

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Reinert, national manager for Toyota's advanced technology group, suggests that an on-demand, personal rapid transit system might be just as effective and no more costly than self-guided cars.

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New leaders include Motorola unit head Dennis Woodside and former Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency chief Regina Dugan, who joined Google in March and will lead an advanced technology group at Motorola.

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When asked about the end of scaling, Dr. Kelin Kuhn, Intel Fellow, Technology and Manufacturing Group and director of Advanced Device Technology, rattled off a list of prior technical challenges and the technology advances that moved the industry past those limitations.

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He leads the Large Area Electronics and Nanotechnology research group, which is part of the Advanced Technology Institute at the University of Surrey.

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With a fast and exuberant laugh, he has a passion for subjects ranging from technology (he heads Microsoft's advanced-research group) to dinosaurs (he's about to publish a paper on the aerodynamics of the apatosaurus tail) to cooking.

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Now a group of researchers led by Lee Sang-yup of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology say they have come up with an even better way to make PLA, using the emerging science of synthetic biology.

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