THIRTEENTH ANNUAL U.S. FRONTIERS OF ENGINEERING SYMPOSIUM
Chair: Julia M. Phillips, Director, Physical, Chemical, and Nano Sciences Center, Sandia National Laboratories
Engineering Trustworthy Computer Systems
Organizers: Annie Anton, North Carolina State University, and John Dunagan, Microsoft Research
Privacy in a Networked World
Rebecca Wright, Rutgers University
Unifying Disparate Tools in Software Security
Greg Morrisett, Harvard University
Usable Security: Oxymoron or Challenge?
Diana Smetters, PARC
Freedom to Tinker: The Struggle to Access Devices You Own
Ed Felten, Princeton University
Control of Protein Conformations
Organizer: Donald Leo, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
The Evolutionary Design of Proteins
Rama Ranganathan, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Lighting Up the Mechanome
Matthew J. Lang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals
Organizers: Richard Elander, National Renewable Energy Lab, and Vijay Singh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Corn-Based Chemistry and Its Applications
Sanjay Malhotra, National Cancer Institute
Process Review of Lignocellulose Biochemical Conversion to Fuel Ethanol
Bruce Dien, United States Department of Agriculture
Sustainable Biorefineries
Carina Alles, DuPont
Modeling and Simulating Human Behavior
Organizers: Christian Lebiere, Carnegie-Mellon University, and Robert Wray, Soar Technology
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience and Its Applications
Laurent Itti, University of Southern California.
Barriers, Bridges, and Progress in Cognitive Modeling for Military Applications
Kevin Gluck, Air Force Research Laboratory.
Culturally-Affected Human Behavior Modeling and Its Applications to Serious Games
Michael van Lent, University of Southern California.
Safe Water Technologies
Organizers: Paul Westerhoff, Arizona State University and Carol Rego, CDM
UV Irradation: An Age-Old Emerging Technology for Water Treatment
Karl Linden, Duke University
Membrance Processes to Control the Global Challenge of Desalination
Amy Childress, University of Nevada, Reno
Biological Drinking Water Treatment: Benefiting from Bacteria
Jess Brown, Carollo Engineers
Distribution Systems: The Next Frontier
Vanessa Speight, Malcolm Pirnie, Inc.