al, 74-75 Retail business applications, Radio Spec, mesh networks, 73-74 Frequency Identification (RFID), Shahidi, Ghavam, 46 Shark, Alan, 4-5 Reynolds, Martin, 27 Sharma, Gaurav, 170-171 Ribton, Colin, 143-144 Shen, Shyh-Chiang, 53 Ringel, Steven, 178-179 Shields, Andrew, 173-174 Rippard, William, 142-143 Shipley, Chris, 27 Rooms, smart, BARN project, 40-41 Shlesinger, Mike, 93 Rosinski, Jarek, 139 Shopping, online, 29 Roy, Rajarshi, 92 Shukla, Sandeep, 32-33 INDEX Siewiorek, Daniel P., 119 Tekalp, Murat, 171 Silicon chip, wireless, turbocharged data, Telecommunications Act of 1996, 210 47-49 Telecommunications services, 1-24. Simpson, Paul, 161 See also specific services and Sincerity research, E-mail applications communication, 124-125 advances in, 1-2 Slater, Mel, 198 airline services, 14-15 Smailagic, Asim, 40 broadband service, 3-5 Small screens, output, 201 curtesy technology, 8-9 Smarr, Larry, 115 E-mail and instant messaging, 9-13 Smart appliances, 67-68 entertainment, 13-14 Smart brick, 66-67 fourth-generation, 6-7 Smart fabrics, 31-32 health care industry, 19-24 Smart phone operating system, modular software, 7-8 turbocharged data, 50-51 speech integration, 15-19 Smart rooms, BARN project, 40-41 wireless service, 5-6 Smart surveillance camera software, wireline service, 2-3 160-162 Tele-learning, Internet, 120-121 Smith, James, 167 Telstar communications satellite, Smith-Jackson, Tonya, 210 XV-xvi Software-defined radio (SDR) Terrorism. See also Security technology, 129-130 data hiding, 169-170 Spam. See also Security; Virus scanning mesh networks, 71-72 blocking of, 123-124 security testing, 152-154 E-mail service, 9-10 Testing research, security, 152-154 Speech, computer, voice input, 193-194 Text-to-speech (TTS) output, voice Speech-controlled arms, disabled access, input, 194 input/output technologies, 212-213 Thermocouples, electromagnetic Speech integration service, applications interference, 75 of, 15-19 Thin films, power sources, 178-179 Sponges, fiber-optical technology, 85-87 Thorat, Dana, 14