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March 24, 2003 (Computerworld) -- A summary of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and work that it's funding on smart dust.
www.darpa.mil/mto/mems/summaries/projects/individual_57.html

List of research accomplishments and potential applications for smart dust out of the University of California, Berkeley. The site includes links to presentations, reports and other researchers who are evaluating smart dust.
www-bsac.eecs.berkeley.edu/~pister/SmartDust/

Links to stories about smart dust
http://abcnews.go.com/onair/cuttingedge/wnt_991119_ce_smartdust_feature.html
www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,27573,00.html
www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,44101,00.html
www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?document_id=1935
www.popsci.com/popsci/bown/article/0,16106,388248,00.html
www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/co/5269/1.html

Link to Crossbow Technology, which sells MEMS-based equipment such as accelerometers and sensors.
http://store.yahoo.com/crossbow

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