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Hazeltine, who has researched Defense Department contracts to Boston companies, traced the development of a "university military-industrial complex" involved in strategic weapons system. then counter-insurgency, and most recently in the electronic battlefield. Hazeltine cited contracts to local companies for such devices as antipersonnel bombs, an airborne sensor system for night target surveillance, an armed reconnaissance scout vehicle, and a tactical communications satellite...
...Igloo White is an Air Force ground sensor system modeled on the Navy's acoustic submarine detectors. The sensors are dropped during overflights and either catch in tree branches or bury themselves in the ground. Two main types have been used: seismic, which detect ground movements caused by moving trucks and even marching soldiers, and acoustic, which use tiny microphones so sensitive that they can clearly transmit human voices (several conversations have been picked up among Communist troops discussing how to dismantle the sensor). Information from the sensors is relayed by planes to ground-based monitors stationed in South...
...room just burned, and we didn't know what happened," Karen L. Wilson '71 said. No one noticed the fire until the fire alarm, activated by a smoke sensor, sounded in the halls...
Pollution sensors are not unique to The Netherlands. Some U.S. cities, such as New York, have tried various types since 1967. IBM is currently working on a 103-sensor network for Pennsylvania's Allegheny County (Pittsburgh). None of these systems, however, can pinpoint the source of existing pollution...
...system is so precise that the sniffers can detect a single polluting smokestack almost four miles from a sensor. Officials at Shell's giant refinery in Rotterdam recently received a call asking them why the plant's No. 4 boiler was burning oil with an unusually high sulfur content. As it turned out, Shell had run out of cleaner fuel-and wrongly figured that its burn would pass unnoticed in Rotterdam's smoggy...