2007 U.S. FRONTIERS OF ENGINEERING SYMPOSIUM
Microsoft Research
Redmond, Washington
September 24-26, 2007

Chair: Julia M. Phillips, Director, Physical, Chemical, and Nano Sciences Center, Sandia National Laboratories


Sponsors
Presentations


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.