Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2007 Symposium (2008)
Chapter: Program
Program
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
2007 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
September 24-26, 2007
Chair: Julia M. Phillips, Sandia National Laboratory
ENGINEERING TRUSTWORTHY COMPUTER SYSTEMS
Organizers: Annie I. Antón and John Dunagan
Privacy in a Networked World
Rebecca N. Wright
Unifying Disparate Tools in Software Security
Greg Morrisett
Usable Security: Oxymoron or Challenge?
Diana K. Smetters
Freedom to Tinker: The Struggle to Access Devices You Own
Edward W. Felten
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CONTROL OF PROTEIN CONFORMATIONS
Organizer: Donald J. Leo
The Evolutionary Design of Proteins
Rama Ranganathan
Lighting Up the Mechanome
Matthew J. Lang
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BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR FUELS AND CHEMICALS
Organizers: Richard T. Elander and Vijay Singh
Corn-Based Materials
Sanjay V. Malhotra
Process Review of Lignocellulose Biochemical Conversion to Fuel Ethanol
Bruce S. Dien
Sustainable Biorefineries
Carina Maria Alles
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MODELING AND SIMULATING HUMAN BEHAVIOR
Organizers: Christian Lebiere and Robert Wray
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience and Its Applications
Laurent Itti
Barriers, Bridges, and Progress in Cognitive Modeling for Military Applications
Kevin A. Gluck
Modeling of Culturally Affected Human Behavior
Michael van Lent
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SAFE WATER TECHNOLOGIES
Organizers: Carol R. Rego and Paul K. Westerhoff
Ultraviolet Irradiation: An Age-Old Emerging Technology for Water Treatment
Karl G. Linden
Membrane Processes to Address the Global Challenge of Desalination
Amy E. Childress
Biological Treatments of Drinking Water
Jess C. Brown
Distribution Systems: The Next Frontier
Vanessa L. Speight
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DINNER SPEECH
Microsoft’s Future: An Overview of Microsoft Research
Henrique (Rico) Malvar
