Frontiers of Engineering

This volume highlights the papers presented at the National Academy of Engineering's 2010 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. Every year, the symposium brings together 100 outstanding young leaders in engineering to share their cutting-edge research and technical work. The 2010 symposium was held September 23 - 25, and hosted by IBM at the IBM Learning Center in Armonk, New York. Speakers were asked to prepare extended summaries of their presentations, which are reprinted here. The intent of this book is to convey the excitement of this unique meeting and to highlight cutting-edge developments in engineering research and technical work.Table of ContentsFront MatterCLOUD COMPUTINGIntroduction--Ali R. Butt and Dilma Da Silva Opportunities and Challenges of Cloud Computing--Armando FoxWarehouse-Scale Computing: The Machinery That Runs the Cloud--Luiz André BarrosoDeveloping Robust Cloud Applications--Yuanyuan (YY) ZhouGreen Clouds: The Next Frontier--Parthasarathy RanganathanENGINEERING AND MUSICIntroduction--Daniel Ellis and Youngmoo KimVery Large Scale Music Understanding--Brian WhitmanDoing It Wrong--Douglas RepettoDigital Instrument Building and the Laptop Orchestra--Daniel TruemanDemystifying Music and Its Performance--Elaine ChewAUTONOMOUS AEROSPACE SYSTEMSIntroduction--Michel Ingham and Jack LangelaanIntelligent Autonomy in Robotic Systems--Mark CampbellChallenges and Opportunities for Autonomous Systems in Space--Chad R. FrostHealth Awareness in Systems of Multiple Autonomous Aerospace Vehicles--Stefan BieniawskiCertifiable Autonomous Flight Management for Unmanned Aircraft Systems--Ella M. AtkinsENGINEERING INSPIRED BY BIOLOGYIntroduction--Mark Byrne and Babak ParvizThe Current Status and Future Outlook for Genomic Technologies--Mostafa Ronaghi and Jeffrey FisherEngineering Biomimetic Peptides for Targeted Drug Delivery--Efrosini KokkoliAutonomous Systems and Synthetic Biology--Henry HessAPPENDIXESContributorsProgramParticipants