Frontiers of engineering
Subtitle: reports on leading-edge engineering from the 2010 symposium
By: National Academy of Engineering of the National Academies
Contributors: National Academy of Engineering
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780309163637; 9780309163620
Subjects: Systems engineering; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING; Reference; Research; Engineering; Congresses; Technological innovations; Engineering (General)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Ali R. Butt and Dilma Da Silva; title: Opportunities and challenges of cloud computing  -- Armando Fox; title: Warehouse-scale computing : the machinery that runs the cloud  -- Luiz André Barroso; title: Developing robust cloud applications  -- Yuanyuan (YY) Zhou; title: Green clouds : the next frontier  -- Parthasarathy Ranganathan; title: Introduction  -- Daniel Ellis and Youngmoo Kim; title: Very large scale music understanding  -- Brian Whitman; title: Doing it wrong  -- Douglas Repetto; title: Digital instrument building and the laptop orchestra  -- Daniel Trueman; title: Demystifyinf music and its performance  -- Elaine Chew; title: Introduction  -- Michel Ingham and Jack Langelaan; title: Intelligent autonomy in robotic systems  -- Mark Campbell; title: Challenges and opportunities for autonomous systems in space  -- Chad R. Frost; title: Health awareness in systems of multiple autonomous aerospace vehicles  -- Stefan Bieniawski; title: Certifiable autonomous flight management for unmanned aircraft systems  -- Ella M. Atkins; title: Introduction  -- Mark Byrne and Babak Parviz; title: The current status and future outlook for genomic technologies  -- Mostafa Ronaghi and Jeffrey Fisher; title: Engineering biomimetic peptides for targeted drug delivery  -- Efrosini Kokkoli; title: Autonomous systems and synthetic biology -- Henry Hess.