Douglas Heingartner

Journalist and editor with 20+ years of experience. I have written about science, technology, politics, art, architecture, and more for publications including the The New York Times, The Economist, Wired, New Scientist, BBC, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, IEEE Spectrum, Quartz, The Village Voice, CBS News, and Frieze. From 2018 - 2020, I also worked as a Media Affairs Specialist for the U.S. Embassy in The Hague. Currently editing and .

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Communication

Scopus Publications

What will the food miracle be? [Blueprints for a Miracle]
Douglas Heingartner
IEEE Spectrum, 2018
ATZE JAN VAN DER GOOT removes a laptop-size slab from a refrigerator and deposits it on a table with an icy thump. It's a reddish-brown mass, with clearly visible fibrous striations. And though it's half frozen, it's still pliable: You can pick away small pieces with your fingers, but it retains its shape, just like a hunk of frigid raw beef would. This is no ordinary fake steak. For one thing, it has attracted the interest-and money-of some of the world's leading food conglomerates, including Unilever, the Swiss flavor maker Givaudan, and Avril Group, the Parisbased agro-industrial concern. Then, too, it was not made with an ordinary food extruder, like most meat substitutes on the market today. Rather, it was produced with a new and radically different kind of machine. This machine was designed by Van der Goot to do one thing extraordinarily well: turn vegetable-based ingredients into something so similar to meat that it can grab a healthy share of the fast-growing market for meat substitutes, which was estimated at US $4 billion last year by the research firm Visiongain, in London.
Mental block
Douglas Heingartner
IEEE Spectrum, 2009
Controlling objects with just your thoughts has been a dream of sci-fi from ¿Star Trek¿ to Star Wars, but in the past few years that dream has inched closer to reality. Brain-computer interfaces have allowed wheelchair-bound quadriplegics to move cursors on screens and monkeys to control robot arms.

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

Defeating the IQ test
D Heingartner
New Scientist 247 (3297), 19 , 2020
2020.0
What will the food miracle be?[Blueprints for a Miracle]
D Heingartner
IEEE Spectrum 55 (6), 66-71 , 2018
2018.0
The Port of Rotterdam: world between city and sea
M Steenhuis, J Linders, S Swart, B Scholma
(No Title) , 2015
2015.0
Citations: 6
Lasers to blast leaves out of trains' paths
D Heingartner
New Scientist 224 (2998), 23 , 2014
2014.0
LOSER-Interfaces-It'd be great if your brain waves could control fast video-game action--But they can't.
D Heingartner
IEEE Spectrum 46 (1), 34 , 2009
2009.0
Citations: 1
Mental block
D Heingartner
IEEE Spectrum 46 (1), 42-43 , 2008
2008.0
Citations: 27
Patent Fights Are a Legacy of MP3’s Tangled Origins
D Heingartner
New York Times , 2007
2007.0
Barbara Visser
D Heingartner
Frieze, 181 , 2007
2007.0
Focus-Kan Xuan
D Heingartner
Frieze, 164 , 2007
2007.0
Maybe we should leave that up to the computer
D Heingartner
The New York Times Technology Section , 2006
2006.0
Citations: 5
Connecting Paper and Online Worlds by Cellphone Camera
D Heingartner
The New York Times, G5-G5 , 2004
2004.0
Citations: 5
Just like high-definition TV, but with higher definition
D Heingartner
The New York Times. June 3 , 2004
2004.0
Citations: 5
Software Piracy Is in Resurgence, With New Safeguards Eroded by File Sharing
D Heingartner
New York Times 19 , 2004
2004.0
Citations: 4
Now Hear This, Quickly
D Heingartner
New York Times 2 , 2003
2003.0
Citations: 2
Picking up the pieces
D Heingartner
New York Times 17 , 2003
2003.0
Citations: 5
Back together again
D Heingartner
New York Times 17 , 2003
2003.0
Citations: 10
Richard Brewster
D Wagman, D Heingartner, MN Eisler, E Dolgin
Mercury in retrograde
D Heingartner
De Appel, Amsterdam, Frieze , 0
Citations: 2

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

Mental block
D Heingartner
IEEE Spectrum 46 (1), 42-43 , 2008
2008.0
Citations: 27
Back together again
D Heingartner
New York Times 17 , 2003
2003.0
Citations: 10
The Port of Rotterdam: world between city and sea
M Steenhuis, J Linders, S Swart, B Scholma
(No Title) , 2015
2015.0
Citations: 6
Maybe we should leave that up to the computer
D Heingartner
The New York Times Technology Section , 2006
2006.0
Citations: 5
Connecting Paper and Online Worlds by Cellphone Camera
D Heingartner
The New York Times, G5-G5 , 2004
2004.0
Citations: 5
Just like high-definition TV, but with higher definition
D Heingartner
The New York Times. June 3 , 2004
2004.0
Citations: 5
Picking up the pieces
D Heingartner
New York Times 17 , 2003
2003.0
Citations: 5
Software Piracy Is in Resurgence, With New Safeguards Eroded by File Sharing
D Heingartner
New York Times 19 , 2004
2004.0
Citations: 4
Now Hear This, Quickly
D Heingartner
New York Times 2 , 2003
2003.0
Citations: 2
Mercury in retrograde
D Heingartner
De Appel, Amsterdam, Frieze , 0
Citations: 2
LOSER-Interfaces-It'd be great if your brain waves could control fast video-game action--But they can't.
D Heingartner
IEEE Spectrum 46 (1), 34 , 2009
2009.0
Citations: 1
Defeating the IQ test
D Heingartner
New Scientist 247 (3297), 19 , 2020
2020.0
What will the food miracle be?[Blueprints for a Miracle]
D Heingartner
IEEE Spectrum 55 (6), 66-71 , 2018
2018.0
Lasers to blast leaves out of trains' paths
D Heingartner
New Scientist 224 (2998), 23 , 2014
2014.0
Patent Fights Are a Legacy of MP3’s Tangled Origins
D Heingartner
New York Times , 2007
2007.0
Barbara Visser
D Heingartner
Frieze, 181 , 2007
2007.0
Focus-Kan Xuan
D Heingartner
Frieze, 164 , 2007
2007.0
Richard Brewster
D Wagman, D Heingartner, MN Eisler, E Dolgin