Frontiers of engineering
Subtitle: reports on leading-edge engineering from the 2007 symposium
By: National Academy of Engineering of the National Academy
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780309112536
Subjects: Systems engineering; Human behavior; Technological innovations; Proteins; Conformation; Purification; Water; Engineering; Computer simulation; Congresses; Fuel; Biotechnology; Research
Notes: "The 2007 symposium was held September 24-26, and was hosted by Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available online.
Table of contents: title: Engineering trustworthy computer systems:; title: Introduction  -- Ana I. Anton and John Dunagan; title: Privacy in a networked world  -- Rebecca N. Wright; title: Unifying disparate tools in software security  -- Greg Morrisett; title: Usable security: oxymoron or challenge?  -- Diana K. Smetters -- Control of protein conformations:; title: Introduction  -- Donald J. Leo; title: The evolutionary design of proteins  -- Rama Ranganathan; title: Lighting up the mechanome  -- Matthew J. Lang -- Biotechnology for fuels and chemicals:; title: Introduction  -- Richard T. Elander and Vijay Singh; title: Corn-based materials  -- Sanjay V. Malhotra, Vineet Kumar, Anthony East, and Michael Jaffe; title: Process review of lignocellulose biochemical conversion to fuel ethanol  -- Bruce S. Dien; title: Sustainable biorefineries  -- Carina Maria Alles and Robin Jenkins -- Modeling and simulating human behavior:; title: Introduction  -- Christian Lebiere and Robert Wray; title: Computational cognitive neuroscience and its applications  -- Laurent Itti; title: Barriers, bridges and progress in cognitive modeling for military applications  -- Kevin A. Gluck; title: Modeling of culturally affected human behavior  -- Michael van Lent, Mark Core, Steve Solomon, Milton Rosenberg, Ryan McAlinden, and Paul Carpenter -- Safe water technologies:; title: Introduction  -- Carol R. Rego and Paul K. Westerhoff; title: Ultraviolet irradiation: an age-old emerging technology for water treatment  -- Karl G. Linden; title: Membrane processes to address the global challenge of desalination  -- Amy E. Childress; title: Biological treatments of drinking water  -- Jess C. Brown; title: Distribution systems: the next frontier -- Vanessa L. Speight.