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Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2007 Symposium (2008)

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Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2007 Symposium

Introduction

ANA I. ANTÓN

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, North Carolina


JOHN DUNAGAN

Microsoft Research

Redmond, Washington


Improving the trustworthiness of computer systems is a very broad research challenge in computer science. The negative consequences of our current computing infrastructure are sufficiently severe that they are discussed in the popular press, in academic forums, and in the legislative arena. While identity theft is perhaps the most widespread negative consequence today, we also face threats ranging from vote fraud to failure to protect consumer privacy.

Two of the presentations in this session cover two public concerns that remain mostly unaddressed in practice: vote fraud and consumer privacy. The other two presentations in this session cover infrastructural approaches to improving computer trustworthiness: software engineering tools and new security technologies. In total, we hope these convey the breadth of effort being expended in the research community to develop computing technologies that merit the trust society wants to place in them.

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Front Matter (R1-R12)
Engineering Trustworthy Computer Systems (1-2)
Introduction--Ana I. Antón and John Dunagan (3-4)
Privacy in a Networked World--Rebecca N. Wright (5-12)
Unifying Disparate Tools in Software Security--Greg Morrisett (13-20)
Usable Security: Oxymoron or Challenge?--Diana K. Smetters (21-28)
Control of Protein Conformations (29-30)
Introduction--Donald J. Leo (31-32)
The Evolutionary Design of Proteins--Rama Ranganathan (33-38)
Lighting Up the Mechanome--Matthew J. Lang (39-48)
Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals (49-50)
Introduction--Richard T. Elander and Vijay Singh (51-52)
Corn-Based Materials--Sanjay V. Malhotra, Vineet Kumar, Anthony East, and Michael Jaffe (53-64)
Process Review of Lignocellulose Biochemical Conversion to Fuel Ethanol--Bruce S. Dien (65-74)
Sustainable Biorefineries--Carina Maria Alles and Robin Jenkins (75-82)
Modeling and Simulating Human Behavior (83-84)
Introduction--Christian Lebiere and Robert Wray (85-86)
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience and Its Applications--Laurent Itti (87-98)
Barriers, Bridges, and Progress in Cognitive Modeling for Military Applications--Kevin A. Gluck (99-104)
Modeling of Culturally Affected Human Behavior--Michael van Lent, Mark Core, Steve Solomon, Milton Rosenberg, Ryan McAlinden, and Paul Carpenter (105-112)
Safe Water Technologies (113-114)
Introduction--Carol R. Rego and Paul K. Westerhoff (115-116)
Ultraviolet Irradiation: An Age-Old Emerging Technology for Water Treatment--Karl G. Linden (117-124)
Membrane Processes to Address the Global Challenge of Desalination--Amy E. Childress (125-134)
Biological Treatments of Drinking Water--Jess C. Brown (135-146)
Distribution Systems: The Next Frontier--Vanessa L. Speight (147-154)
Appendixes (155-156)
Breakout Sessions (157-174)
Contributors (175-182)
Program (183-186)
Participants (187-196)

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Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2007 Symposium Introduction ANA I. ANTÓN North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina JOHN DUNAGAN Microsoft Research Redmond, Washington Improving the trustworthiness of computer systems is a very broad research challenge in computer science. The negative consequences of our current computing infrastructure are sufficiently severe that they are discussed in the popular press, in academic forums, and in the legislative arena. While identity theft is perhaps the most widespread negative consequence today, we also face threats ranging from vote fraud to failure to protect consumer privacy. Two of the presentations in this session cover two public concerns that remain mostly unaddressed in practice: vote fraud and consumer privacy. The other two presentations in this session cover infrastructural approaches to improving computer trustworthiness: software engineering tools and new security technologies. In total, we hope these convey the breadth of effort being expended in the research community to develop computing technologies that merit the trust society wants to place in them.

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