"Reports on leading edge engineering from the 1999 NAE Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering"--Cover.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Magnetic recording : winner of the data storage technology race / Thomas R. Albrecht -- Evolution of large multiprocessor servers / Kourosh Gharachorloo -- Network survivability and information warfare / Michael K. Reiter -- Moving up the information food chain : the future of web search / Oren Etzioni -- Genes, chips, and the human genome / Stephen P.A. Fodor -- Colloidal-scale engineering / Eric W. Kaler -- Design of biomimetic polymeric materials / Arup K. Chakraborty -- Deregulating the electric grid : engineering challenges / Thomas J. Overbye -- The future of nuclear energy / Per F. Peterson -- Renewable energy technologies : today and tomorrow / James M. Chavez and Jane H. Davidson -- Issues associated with the volume manufacturing of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers / Thomas M. Brennan and H.Q. Hou -- Optical applications of microelectromechanical systems / Ming C. Wu -- Dinner speech: Career fexibility in rapidly changing times / Kent Kresa -- Appendixes.
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