FIFTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON FRONTIERS OF ENGINEERING
Chair: Robert H. Wagoner,Professor, Ohio State University
U.S. FOE 1999 List of Participants
U.S. FOE 1999 Sponsors
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