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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957296803321

Titolo

Eighth Annual Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering / / National Academy of Engineering of the National Academy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, c2003

ISBN

9786610209378

9780309168496

030916849X

9781280209376

1280209372

9780309504317

0309504317

Edizione

[8th ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (149 p.)

Disciplina

620

Soggetti

Engineering - Research - United States

Engineering - Technological innovations - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Reports on leading-edge engineering from the 2002 NAE Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering"--Cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Fuel Cells That Run on Common Fuels -- Dimension-Dependent Properties of Macromolecules in Nanoscopic Structures -- The Role of Computational Fluid Dynamics in Process Industries -- The Human Factor -- Human Factors Applications in Surface Transportation -- Implications of Human Factors Engineering for Novel Software User-Interface Design -- Frontiers of Human-Computer Interaction: Direct-Brain Interfaces -- Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies -- Licensing and Building New Nuclear Infrastructure -- Quantum Cryptography -- Ion-Trap Quantum Computation -- Scalable Quantum Computing Using Solid-State Devices -- The Science, Technology, and Business of Digital Communication -- Contributors -- Program -- Participants.

Sommario/riassunto

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