2010 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

Janet Hunziker

Director, Frontiers of Engineering

National Academy of Engineering

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On September 23-25, the 2010 US Frontiers of Engineering took place at IBM Learning Center in Armonk, New York. About 100 outstanding engineers under the age of 45 met for an intensive 2-1/2 day symposium to discuss cutting-edge developments in four areas: Cloud Computing, Engineering and Music, Autonomous Aerospace Systems, and Engineering Inspired by Biology. The goal of the Frontiers of Engineering program is to bring together engineers from all engineering disciplines and from industry, universities, and federal labs to facilitate cross-disciplinary exchange and promote the transfer of new techniques and approaches across fields in order to sustain and build U.S. innovative capacity.

The National Academy of Engineering would like to express its gratitude to a number of meeting sponsors for their support of the 2010 USFOE Symposium.

Please click on the links below to view the presentations:

CLOUD COMPUTING:

The Potential of Cloud Computing: Opportunities and Challenges
Armando Fox, University of California, Berkeley

Warehouse-scale Computers: The Machinery that Runs the Cloud
Luiz Andre Barroso, Google

Developing Robust Cloud Applications
YuanYuan Zhou, University of California, San Diego

Green Clouds: The Next Frontier
Parthasarathy Ranganathan, HP Labs

ENGINEERING AND MUSIC

Very Large-scale Music Understanding
Brian Whitman, The Echo Nest Corporation

Doing it Wrong
Douglas Repetto, Columbia University

Digital Instrument Building and the Laptop Orchestra
Daniel Trueman, Princeton University

De-mystifying Music and Its Performance
Elaine Chew, University of Southern California

AUTONOMOUS AEROSPACE SYSTEMS

Intelligent Autonomy in Robotic Systems
Mark Campbell, Cornell University

Challenges and Opportunities for Autonomous Systems in Space
Chad Frost, NASA Ames Research Center

Role of Health Awareness in Systems of Multiple Autonomous Vehicle
Stefan Bieniawski, Boeing Phantom Works

Certifiable Autonomous Flight Management for Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Ella Atkins, University of Michigan

ENGINEERING INSPIRED BY BIOLOGY

Current and Future Outlook of Genomic Technologies
Mostafa Ronaghi, Illumina, Inc.

Engineering Biomimetic Peptides for Targeted Drug Delivery
Efie Kokkoli, University of Minnesota

Autonomous Systems and Synthetic Biology
Henry Hess, Columbia University

2010 USFOE Program

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Wednesday, Sep 22, 2010

07:30 PM To 09:30 PM
Pre-registration/Reception
Fireplace Lounge

Thursday, Sep 23, 2010

06:30 AM To 08:30 AM
Breakfast
Arbor Room
08:30 AM To 09:00 AM
Welcome
Auditorium
09:00 AM To 10:35 AM
Cloud Computing
Auditorium
10:35 AM To 11:05 AM
Break
Fireplace Lounge
11:05 AM To 12:30 PM
Cloud Computing (cont'd)
Auditorium
12:30 PM To 01:45 PM
Lunch
Arbor Room
01:45 PM To 03:15 PM
Get-aquainted Session
Various Rooms
03:15 PM To 03:45 AM
Break
Fireplace Lounge
03:45 PM To 05:15 PM
Engineering and Music
Auditorium
05:15 PM To 05:45 PM
Break
05:45 PM To 07:00 PM
Dinner
Arbor Room
07:00 PM To 07:00 PM
Dinner Speech

Friday, Sep 24, 2010

06:30 AM To 08:30 AM
Breakfast
Arbor Room
08:30 AM To 10:00 AM
Engineering and Music (cont'd)
Auditorium
10:00 AM To 10:30 AM
Break
Fireplace Lounge
10:30 AM To 10:45 AM
Presentation by Sohi Rastegar, NSF
Auditorium
10:45 AM To 12:15 PM
Autonomous Aerospace Systems
Auditorium
12:15 PM To 01:30 PM
Lunch
Arbor Room
01:30 PM To 03:00 PM
Autonomous Aerospace Systems (cont'd)
Auditorium
03:00 PM To 03:15 PM
Break
Fireplace Lounge
03:15 PM To 05:30 PM
Tours
06:00 PM To 06:00 PM
Reception/Dinner
Cafe Annex, T.J. Watson Research Center

Saturday, Sep 25, 2010

06:30 AM To 08:30 AM
Breakfast
Arbor Room
08:30 AM To 10:00 AM
Engineering Inspired by Biology
Auditorium
09:00 AM To 10:45 AM
Break
Fireplace Lounge
10:45 AM To 11:30 AM
Engineering Inspired by Biology (cont'd)
Auditorium
11:30 AM To 11:30 AM
Lunch
Arbor Room
12:15 PM To 12:15 PM
Buses depart for the airports