NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
2011 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium September 19–21, 2011
Chair: Andrew M. Weiner, Purdue University
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
Organizers: Carolyn Seepersad and Michael Siemer
Additive Manufacturing Technologies: Technology Introduction and Business Implications
Brent Stucker
Additive Manufacturing in Aerospace: Examples and Research Outlook
Brett Lyons
Additive Manufacturing is Changing Surgery
Andrew Christensen
The Shape of Things to Come: Frontiers in Additive Manufacturing
Hod Lipson
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SEMANTIC PROCESSING
Organizers: Aleksandar Kuzmanovic and Amarnag Subramanya
Automatic Text Understanding of Content and Text Quality
Ani Nenkova
Advancing Natural Language Understanding with Collaboratively Generated Content
Evgeniy Gabrilovich
Large-Scale Visual Semantic Extraction
Samy Bengio
Searching for Statistical Diagrams
Michael Cafarella
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ENGINEERING SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS
Organizers: Annie Pearce and John Zhai
Challenges and Opportunities for Low-Carbon Buildings
John Ochsendorf
Expanding Design Spaces
John Haymaker
Opportunities and Challenges for Multiscale Modeling of Sustainable Buildings
Jelena Srebric
Accelerating Green Building Market Transformation with Information Technology
Christopher Pyke
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NEUROPROSTHETICS
Organizers: Timothy Denison and Justin Williams
Retinal Prosthetic Systems for Treatment of Blindness
James Weiland
The Evolution of Brain-Computer Interfaces
Eric Leuthardt
Ultra Low-Power Biomedical and Bio-Inspired Systems
Rahul Sarpeshkar
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DINNER SPEECH
The Evolution of Computer Science
Alfred Spector