2010 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

September 23, 2010 —September 25, 2010


 National Academy of Engineering
2010 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering
September 23-25, 2010
IBM Learning Center
Armonk, New York

LIST OF SESSIONS
(Order of sessions TBD.)

Chair: Andrew M. Weiner, Purdue University 

CLOUD COMPUTING
Organizers: Dilma Da Silva, IBM Research, and Ali Butt, Virginia Tech

Cloud Computing: Challenges and Opportunities of a Fundamental Shift in Computing
Armando Fox, University of California, Berkeley

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

Resilience and fault-tolerance in clouds. Making applications robust.
YuanYuan Zhou, University of California, San Diego

Green Clouds: The Next Frontiers for Efficiency
Parthasarathy Ranganathan, HP Labs

AUTONOMOUS AEROSPACE SYSTEMS
Michel Ingham, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Jack Langelaan, Penn State University

Intelligent Autonomy in Robotic Systems 
Mark Campbell, Cornell University

Applications and Challenges of Automation for NASA Missions
Chad Frost, NASA Ames Research Center

Role of health awareness in systems of multiple autonomous vehicles, addressing problems such as failures of components in a vehicle or failure of a vehicle in the team
Stefan Bieniawski, Boeing Phantom Works

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

ENGINEERING AND MUSIC
Daniel Ellis, Columbia University, and Youngmoo Kim, Drexel University

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

The Laptop Orchestra as Ensemble and Laboratory
Daniel Trueman, Princeton University

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

Doing it Wrong
Douglas Repetto, Columbia University

ENGINEERING INSPIRED BY BIOLOGY
Mark Byrne, Auburn University, and Babak Parviz, University of Washington

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