1999 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

At-a-Glance
Key Contacts

FIFTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON FRONTIERS OF ENGINEERING
Chair: Robert H. Wagoner,Professor, Ohio State University

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The National Academy of Engineering would like to express its gratitude to a number of meeting sponsors for their support of the 2003 USFOE Symposium.

Program


Drowning in Data
Organizers: Ken Goldberg, Erik Hagersten, Jian-Gang Zhu

Magnetic Recording: Winner of the Data Storage Technology Race
Thomas Albrecht, IBM Almaden Research Center

Evolution in Large Multiprocessor Servers
Kourosh Gharachorloo, Compaq Computer Corporation

Network Survivability and Information Warfare
Michael Reiter, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies

Moving up the Information Food Chain: The Future of Web Search
Oren Etzioni, University of Washington

 


Making Sense of the Human Genome
Organizers: Frances Arnold, Julio Ottino

Genes, Chips and the Human Genome
Steven Fodor, Affymetrix, Inc.


Engineering Novel Structures
Organizers: Frances Arnold, Julio Ottino

Colloidal Scale Engineering
Eric Kaler, University of Delaware

Biomimetic Recognition Between Polymers and Surfaces
Arup Chakraborty, University of California-Berkeley

 


Energy for the Future and its Environmental Impact
Organizers: Michael Corradini, David McLaughlin

Deregulating the Electric Grid: The Engineering Challenge
Tom Overbye, University of Illinois

The Future of Nuclear Power
Per Peterson, University of California-Berkeley

Renewable Energy Technologies: Today and in the Future
Jim Chavez, Sandia National Laboratories
Jane Davidson, University of Minnesota

 


Optics
Organizers: Connie Gutowski, Cliff Renschler, Eva Sevick-Muraca

Surface-Emitting Lasers: A Key Component for Global Communication
Thomas Brennan, EMCOREwest

Optical Applications of MEMS
Ming Wu, University of California-Los Angeles


Dinner Speech

Career Flexibility in Rapidly Changing Times
Kent Kresa, Northrop Grumman Corporation

 

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October
14
1999
to
October
16
1999
July 20, 2021 AT 06:55 AM
Irvine, California
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