Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2005 Symposium (2006)
Chapter: Appendix: Program
Program
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
2005 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
September 22–24, 2005
Chair: Pablo G. Debenedetti, Princeton University
ID AND VERIFICATION TECHNOLOGIES
Organizers: Stephen S. Intille, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Visvanathan Ramesh, Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.
Ongoing Challenges in Face Recognition
Peter N. Belhumeur, Columbia University
Designing Biometrict Evaluations and Challenge Problems for Face Recognition Systems
P. Jonathon Phillips, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Large-Scale Human Activity Recognition Using Ultra-Dense Sensing
Matthai Philipose, Intel Research
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ENGINEERING FOR DEVELOPING COMMUNITIES
Organizers: Garrick E. Louis, University of Virginia, and Amy Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Challenges in Implementation of Appropriate Technology Projects: The Case of the DISACARE Wheelchair Center in Zambia
Kurt Kornbluth, University of California, Davis
Engineering Inputs to Increase Impact of the CDC Safe Water System Program
Daniele S. Lantagne, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Sustainable Development Through the Principles of Green Engineering
Julie Beth Zimmerman, University of Virginia and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
“We Don’t Tenure Mother Teresa”: Evolving Science and Engineering Research to Value the Planet
Daniel M. Kammen, University of California, Berkeley
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Dinner Speech—Engineering for a New World
Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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ENGINEERING COMPLEX SYSTEMS
Organizers: Luis A. Nunes Amaral, Northwestern University, and Kelvin H. Lee, Cornell University
Complex Networks: Ubiquity, Importance, and Implications
Alessandro Vespignani, Indiana University
Engineering Bacteria for Drug Production
Jay D. Keasling, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Population Dyanimcs of Human Language: A Complex System
Natalia L. Komarova, University of California, Irvine
Agent-based Modeling as a Decision Making Tool: How to Halt a Smallpox Epidemic
Zoltán Toroczkai, Los Alamos National Laboratory
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ENERGY RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE
Organizers: Allan J. Connolly, GE Energy, and John M. Vohs, University of Pennsylvania
Future Energy
John K. Reinker, GE Global Research
Organic-based Solar Cells
Michael D. McGehee, Stanford University
Hydrogen Production and Storage Research and Development Activities at the U.S. Department of Energy
Sunita Satyapal, U.S. Department of Energy
Fuel Cells: Current Status and Future Challenges
Stuart B. Adler, University of Washington
