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Issue #207 October 2007
Across
1. PHOTORESISTOR—A device whose resistance decreases with exposure to light
2. SAFARI—An Apple web browser first released in 2003
4. CAPACITANCE—The amount of charge stored on an electrically charged isolated conductor
7. BITSTREAM—The flow of binary data as an unstructured sequence of bits
9. ATLANTIS—Space shuttle; Hint: circular island
11. PASSBAND—The range of frequencies transmitted (with minimum relative loss or maximum relative gain) by a band-pass filter
14. MULTIPLEXER—A device that combines many analog or digital inputs and outputs into a single channel
16. ROUTER—A device that controls the flow of data packets between different networks
17. BOWIE—This famous singer/songwriter who played Nikola Tesla in the 2006 film The Prestige
Down
1. PICOCELL—A cellular station designed to cover a small area
3. AUTOTRANSFORMER—An electrical transformer with a single tapped winding
5. BROADVOICE—VoIP network used for talking via a broadband Internet connection
6. MICROPROCESSOR—An IC that incorporates the functions of a CPU on a single chip
8. TIM—The name of MIT’s mascot
10. WATCHDOG—A timer used to “unhang” a system and restore it to normal operation
12. METCALFE—The Brooklyn-born scientist (1946–) who coinvented the Ethernet and founded 3Com
13. GERBER—A standard file used to draw patterns for circuit boards. The file controls a photoplotter.
15. PV—Photovoltaic
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