Frontiers of Engineering: reports on leading-edge engineering from the 2005 symposium
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Körperschaft: Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering < 2005, Niskayuna, N.Y.> (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C. National Academies Press ©2006
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Beschreibung:"On September 22-24, 2005, NAE held its eleventh U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium at GE Global Research Center in Niskayuna, New York"--Preface
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ID AND VERIFICATION TECHNOLOGIES: Introduction - Stephen S. Intille and Visvanathan Ramesh -- - Ongoing challenges in face recognition - Peter N. Belhumeur -- - Designing biometric evaluations and challenge problems for face-recognition systems - P. Jonathon Phillips -- - Large-scale activity-recognition systems - Matthai Philipose -- - ENGINEERING FOR DEVELOPING COMMUNITIES: Introduction - Garrick E. Louis and Amy Smith -- - Challenges in the implementation of appropriate technology projects: The case of the DISACARE Wheelchair Center in Zambia - Kurt L. Kornbluth and Philip Osafo-Kwaako -- - Engineering inputs to the CDC Safe Water System Program - Daniele S. Lantagne -- - Sustainable development through the principles of green engineering - Julie Beth Zimmerman -- - Science and engineering research that values the planet - Daniel M. Kammen and Arne Jacobson -- - ENGINEERING COMPLEX SYSTEMS: Introduction - Luis A. Nunes Amaral and Kelvin H. Lee -- - Complex networks: ubiquity, importance, and implications - Alessandro Vespignani -- - The Promise of synthetic biology - Jay D. Keasling -- - Population dynamics of human language: a complex system - Natalia L. Komarova -- - Agent-based modeling as a decision-making tool - Zoltán Toroczkai -- - ENERGY RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE: Introduction - Allan J. Connolly and John M. Vohs -- - Future energy - John K. Reinker -- - Organic semiconductors for low-cost solar cells - Michael D. McGehee -- - Research and development at the U.S. Department of Energy on hydrogen production and storage - Sunita Satyapal-- - Fuel cells: current status and future challenges - Stuart B. Adler -- DINNER SPEECH - Engineering for a new world - Shirley Ann Jackson -- - Appendices: Contributors, program, participants
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 189 pages)
ISBN:0309101026
0309656974
1280349352
9780309101028
9780309656979
9781280349355

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