  We review recent developments in the field of ultracold atomic Fermi gases.
As the cold atom system evolves from BCS to Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC),
the behavior of the thermodynamics, and the particle density profiles evolves
smoothly in a way which can be well understood theoretically. In the
interesting "unitary" regime, we show that these and other data necessarily
requires the introduction of a pseudogap in the fermionic spectrum which
exhibits many striking similarities to its counterpart in underdoped high $T_c$
superconductors. We emphasize these similarities, giving an overview of the
experimental tools and key issues of common interest in both systems.
