Frontiers of Engineering

National Academy of Engineering of the National Academies

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Engineering Trustworthy Computer Systems; 3 Introduction--Ana I. Anton and John Dunagan; 4 Privacy in a Networked World--Rebecca N. Wright; 5 Unifying Disparate Tools in Software Security--Greg Morrisett; 6 Usable Security: Oxymoron or Challenge?--Diana K. Smetters; 7 Control of Protein Conformations; 8 Introduction--Donald J. Leo; 9 The Evolutionary Design of Proteins--Rama Ranganathan; 10 Lighting Up the Mechanome--Matthew J. Lang; 11 Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals; 12 Introduction--Richard T. Elander and Vijay Singh; 13 Corn-Based Materials--Sanjay V. Malhotra, Vineet Kumar, Anthony East, and Michael Jaffe; 14 Process Review of Lignocellulose Biochemical Conversion to Fuel Ethanol--Bruce S. Dien; 15 Sustainable Biorefineries--Carina Maria Alles and Robin Jenkins; 16 Modeling and Simulating Human Behavior; 17 Introduction--Christian Lebiere and Robert Wray; 18 Computational Cognitive Neuroscience and Its Applications--Laurent Itti; 19 Barriers, Bridges, and Progress in Cognitive Modeling for Military Applications--Kevin A. Gluck; 20 Modeling of Culturally Affected Human Behavior--Michael van Lent, Mark Core, Steve Solomon, Milton Rosenberg, Ryan McAlinden, and Paul Carpenter; 21 Safe Water Technologies; 22 Introduction--Carol R. Rego and Paul K. Westerhoff; 23 Ultraviolet Irradiation: An Age-Old Emerging Technology for Water Treatment--Karl G. Linden; 24 Membrane Processes to Address the Global Challenge of Desalination--Amy E. Childress; 25 Biological Treatments of Drinking Water--Jess C. Brown; 26 Distribution Systems: The Next Frontier--Vanessa L. Speight; 27 Appendixes; 28 Breakout Sessions; 29 Contributors; 30 Program; 31 Participants