Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ID AND VERIFICATION TECHNOLOGIES: Introduction / Stephen S. Intille and Visvanathan Ramesh
  • Ongoing challenges in face recognition / Peter N. Belhumeur
  • Designing biometric evaluations and challenge problems for face-recognition systems / P. Jonathon Phillips
  • Large-scale activity-recognition systems / Matthai Philipose
  • ENGINEERING FOR DEVELOPING COMMUNITIES: Introduction / Garrick E. Louis and Amy Smith
  • Challenges in the implementation of appropriate technology projects: The case of the DISACARE Wheelchair Center in Zambia / Kurt L. Kornbluth and Philip Osafo-Kwaako
  • Engineering inputs to the CDC Safe Water System Program / Daniele S. Lantagne
  • Sustainable development through the principles of green engineering / Julie Beth Zimmerman
  • Science and engineering research that values the planet / Daniel M. Kammen and Arne Jacobson
  • ENGINEERING COMPLEX SYSTEMS: Introduction / Luis A. Nunes Amaral and Kelvin H. Lee
  • Complex networks: ubiquity, importance, and implications / Alessandro Vespignani
  • The Promise of synthetic biology / Jay D. Keasling
  • Population dynamics of human language: a complex system / Natalia L. Komarova
  • Agent-based modeling as a decision-making tool / Zoltán Toroczkai
  • ENERGY RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE: Introduction / Allan J. Connolly and John M. Vohs
  • Future energy / John K. Reinker
  • Organic semiconductors for low-cost solar cells / Michael D. McGehee
  • Research and development at the U.S. Department of Energy on hydrogen production and storage / Sunita Satyapal-- Fuel cells: current status and future challenges / Stuart B. Adler
  • DINNER SPEECH: Engineering for a new world / Shirley Ann Jackson
  • Appendices: Contributors, program, participants.