Frontiers of engineering : reports on leading-edge engineering from the 2007 symposium.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

National Academy of Engineering.

Conference Name:

Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering (2007 : Redmond, Wash.)

Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Engineering--Congresses.

Engineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) symposia bring together 100 outstanding engineers (ages 30 to 45) to exchange information about leading-edge technologies in a range of engineering fields. The 2007 symposium covered engineering trustworthy computer systems, control of protein conformations, biotechnology for fuels and chemicals, modulating and simulating human behavior, and safe water technologies. Papers in this volume describe leading-edge research on disparate tools in software security, decoding the "mechanome," corn-based materials, modeling human cultural behavior, water treatment by UV irradiation, and many other topics. A speech by dinner speaker Dr. Henrique (Rico) Malvar, managing director of Microsoft Research, is also included. Appendixes provide information about contributors, the symposium program, summaries of break-out sessions, and a list of participants. This is the thirteenth volume in the USFOE series.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Engineering Trustworthy Computer Systems""; ""Introduction

Ana 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""; ""Control of Protein Conformations""; ""Introduction

Donald J. Leo""; ""The Evolutionary Design of Proteins

Rama Ranganathan""; ""Lighting Up the Mechanome

Matthew J. Lang""; ""Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals""; ""Introduction

Richard T. Elander and Vijay Singh""

""Corn-Based Materials

Sanjay V. Malhotra, Vineet Kumar, Anthony East, and Michael Jaffe""""Process Review of Lignocellulose Biochemical Conversion to Fuel Ethanol

Bruce S. Dien""; ""Sustainable Biorefineries

Carina Maria Alles and Robin Jenkins""; ""Modeling and Simulating Human Behavior""; ""Introduction

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, Mark Core, Steve Solomon, Milton Rosenberg, Ryan McAlinden, and Paul Carpenter""""Safe Water Technologies""; ""Introduction

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""; ""Appendixes""; ""Breakout Sessions""

""Contributors""""Program""; ""Participants""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786611209261

9780309177931

0309177936

9781281209269

1281209260

9780309112543

0309112540

OCLC:

923284330