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This article reports the Santa Clara County, California, recently became the first county in the U.S. to purchase voting machines that produce paper receipts, a move that reflects the concern over the trend toward electronic voting machines. Santa Clara's Board of Supervisors agreed to invest $20 million for 5,000 voting machines from Sequoia Voting Systems, Oakland, California, which provide voter-verified paper backup.

The article discusses the papers presented at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) held in February 2009 at the San Francisco Marriott hotel in California. One of the papers considers the introduction of Intel Corp.'s Nehalem-EX server CPU, a 2.3 billion-transistor member of its 45-nm Nehalem family. Meanwhile, another paper shows the technique described by Hideaki Saito, a principal researcher at NEC Corp., for stacking a memory chip using direct aluminum-to-copper links.

Reports on the 2204 Design Automation Conference on June 7-11 in San Diego, California. Theme of the conference; Number of accepted papers; Topics for discussion; Keynote speakers; Hands-on tutorials.