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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820787503321

Titolo

Frontiers of engineering : reports on leading-edge engineering from the 2007 symposium

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, 2008

ISBN

1-281-20926-0

9786611209261

0-309-11254-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Disciplina

620

Soggetti

Engineering

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Engineering Trustworthy Computer Systems""; ""Introduction--Ana I. Antón and John Dunagan""; ""Privacy in a Networked World--Rebecca N. Wright""; ""Unifying Disparate Tools in Software Security--Greg Morrisett""; ""Usable Security: Oxymoron or Challenge?--Diana K. Smetters""; ""Control of Protein Conformations""; ""Introduction--Donald J. Leo""; ""The Evolutionary Design of Proteins--Rama Ranganathan""; ""Lighting Up the Mechanome--Matthew J. Lang""; ""Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals""; ""Introduction--Richard T. Elander and Vijay Singh""

""Corn-Based Materials--Sanjay V. Malhotra, Vineet Kumar, Anthony East, and Michael Jaffe""""Process Review of Lignocellulose Biochemical Conversion to Fuel Ethanol--Bruce S. Dien""; ""Sustainable Biorefineries--Carina Maria Alles and Robin Jenkins""; ""Modeling and Simulating Human Behavior""; ""Introduction--Christian Lebiere and Robert Wray""; ""Computational Cognitive Neuroscience and Its Applications--Laurent Itti""; ""Barriers, Bridges, and Progress in Cognitive Modeling for Military Applications--Kevin A. Gluck""

""Modeling of Culturally Affected Human Behavior--Michael van Lent, Mark Core, Steve Solomon, Milton Rosenberg, Ryan McAlinden, and Paul Carpenter""""Safe Water Technologies""; ""Introduction--Carol R. Rego and Paul K. Westerhoff""; ""Ultraviolet Irradiation: An Age-Old Emerging Technology for Water Treatment--Karl G. Linden""; ""Membrane



Processes to Address the Global Challenge of Desalination--Amy E. Childress""; ""Biological Treatments of Drinking Water--Jess C. Brown""; ""Distribution Systems: The Next Frontier--Vanessa L. Speight""; ""Appendixes""; ""Breakout Sessions""

""Contributors""""Program""; ""Participants""