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NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
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SIXTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON FRONTIERS OFENGINEERING
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September 14–16, 2000
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Atul Adya
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Researcher
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Microsoft Corporation
 
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Zhenan Bao
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Member of the Technical Staff
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Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
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David Baraff
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Senior Animation Scientist
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Pixar Animation Studios
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Donald M. Baskin
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Materials Specialist
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DaimlerChrysler Corporation
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David J. Beebe
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Assistant Professor
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Department of Biomedical Engineering
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University of Wisconsin
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Sangeeta Bhatia
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Assistant Professor
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Department of Bioengineering
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University of California, San Diego
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Sarah L. Billington
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Assistant Professor
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Cornell University
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R. 
 D. Shawn Blanton
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Associate Professor
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Carnegie Mellon University
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Brenda M. Bohlke (unable to attend)
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Vice President
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Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc. 
 
 

 
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Robert D. Braun
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Mars Sample Return Earth Entry Vehicle Manager
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NASA Langley Research Center
 
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Carla E. Brodley
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Associate Professor
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School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Purdue University
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John W. Bryant
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Executive Assistant to Director of R&D
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Eastman Kodak Company
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Michael J. Burns
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Project Director
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Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Jeffrey D. Carbeck
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Assistant Professor
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Department of Chemical Engineering
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Princeton University
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Darren T. Castro
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Senior Research Engineer
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3M Company
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Gert Cauwenberghs
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Associate Professor
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Johns Hopkins University
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Richard Y. Chiao
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Manager
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Ultrasound Systems Engineering
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GE Medical Systems
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Michael L. Corradini
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Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
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Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics
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University of Wisconsin
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Peter T. Cummings (unable to attend)
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Distinguished Professor
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UT/ORNL Distinguished Scientist
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Department of Chemical Engineering
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University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Raffaello D'Andrea
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Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
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Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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Cornell University
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Karen Donohue
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Assistant Professor
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Operations and Management Science
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University of Minnesota
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Chang-Beom Eom
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Professor
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Department of Materials Science and Engineering
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University of Wisconsin
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Gregory T. Fieldson
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Polymer Scientist
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LumiCyte, Inc. 
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Jeffrey T. Glass
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Joseph F. Toot Professor of Engineering
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Department of Chemical Engineering
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Case Western Reserve University 
 

 
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Peter W. Glynn
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Deputy Chair and Professor
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Department of Management Science and Engineering
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Stanford University
 
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Theresa A. Good
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Assistant Professor
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Department of Chemical Engineering
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Texas A&M University
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Richard G. Goodwin
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AVP/Chief Scientist
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Science Applications International Corporation
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Eric D. Green
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Chief, Genome Technology Branch
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Director, NIH Intramural Sequencing Center
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NIH National Human Genome Research Institute
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Horst W. Hahn
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Vice Chairman, Department of Materials Science
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Head, Thin Films Division
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Darmstadt University of Technology
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Patrick Hanrahan
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Canon USA Professor
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Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Departments
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Stanford University
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Wahid L. Hermina
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Manager
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Microscale Sciences and Technology Department
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Sandia National Laboratories
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Jeffrey G. Hippler
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Principal Engineer
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Union Carbide Corporation
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Storrs Hoen
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Project Scientist
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Agilent Technologies
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Hugh Jack
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Associate Professor
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Padnos School of Engineering
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Grand Valley State University
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Timothy L. Jacobs
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Manager
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Operations Research and Decision Support
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American Airlines
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Alan L. Jacobson
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Director of Product Development
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Ford Motor Company
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Clas A. Jacobson
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Manager
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Systems Department
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United Technologies Research Center
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Mark D. Jenks
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Boeing/MSFC International Space Station Chief Engineer
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Space and Communications Group
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Boeing Company
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Nikola M. Juhasz
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Principal Research Engineer
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Elf Atochem North America, Inc. 
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David A. King
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Principal Project Engineer
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Agilent Technologies 
 

 
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Cheryl A. Klepser
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Technical Specialist
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Advanced Engineering
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Cummins Engine Company
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David A. Kofke
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Professor
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Department of Chemical Engineering
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State University of New York at Buffalo
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Ron Kohavi
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Director of Data Mining Applications
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Blue Martini Software
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Phyllis L. Kurz
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PW4000 Fan/LPC CIPT Manager
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Pratt & Whitney
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Edgar Lara-Curzio
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Group Leader/Development Staff Member
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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Edward T. W. 
 Lau
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Customer Care Advocate
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Akamai Technologies, Inc. 
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Douglas A. Lauffenburger
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Co-Director, Division of Bioengineering and Environmental Health
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Director, Biotechnology Process Engineering Center
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Luke P. Lee
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Assistant Professor
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Department of Bioengineering
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University of California, Berkeley
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Jennifer A. Lewis
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Associate Professor
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Department of Materials Science and Engineering
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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Mark W. Maier
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Senior Engineering Specialist
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Aerospace Corporation
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James C. Malas
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Chief
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Nondestructive Evaluation Branch
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Air Force Research Laboratory
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Michael Martin
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Manager
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Electromechanical Systems Engineering
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Xerox Production Systems Group
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Gary S. May
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Professor
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School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Georgia Institute of Technology
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Sue McNeil
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Director
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Urban Transportation Center
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University of Illinois, Chicago
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Deirdre R. Meldrum
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Associate Professor
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Department of Electrical Engineering
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University of Washington
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Christine M. Moore
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Senior Research Engineer
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Pharmacia 
 

 
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Thomas G. Moore
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Manager, Research and Development
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Amphenol T&M Antennas
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Laura E. Niklason
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Assistant Professor
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Department of Biomedical Engineering
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Duke University
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Donald R. Nilson
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Director
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Engineering Technology
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Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company
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John D. Norton
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Staff Scientist
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Medtronic, Inc. 
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Tucker T. Norton
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Research Engineer
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DuPont Company
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Sharon L. Nunes
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Director, Emerging Technologies
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Corporate Technology Group
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IBM Corporation
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Pilar Ossorio
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Assistant Professor
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University of Wisconsin Law School
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René M. Overney
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Assistant Professor
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Chemical Engineering Department
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University of Washington
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Robert G. Parker
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Associate Professor
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Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Ohio State University
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Ranjan Patnaik
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Staff Scientist
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Maxygen, Inc. 
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Heather J. Patrick
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Physicist
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U. 
S. 
 Naval Research Laboratory
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Michael W. Phillips
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Senior Consulting Engineer
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Millipore Corporation
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Devadas Pillai
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Director
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Operational Decision Support Technology
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Intel Corporation
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Albert P. Pisano
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Professor
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Department of Mechanical Engineering
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University of California, Berkeley
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Sotiris E. Pratsinis
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Professor
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Institute of Process Engineering
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Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
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Richard M. Ratliff
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Vice President
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Technology and Product Integration
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Sabre Inc. 
 
 

 
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Lynne J. Regan
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Professor
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Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
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Department of Chemistry
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Yale University
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Joy L. Rempe
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Engineering Fellow
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Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory
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Anne Skaja Robinson
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Assistant Professor
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Department of Chemical Engineering
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University of Delaware
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John A. Rogers
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Member of Technical Staff
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Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
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David C. Rudolph
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Senior System Engineer
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Space and Electronics Group
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TRW Defense Systems Division
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Varsha Sadekar
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Senior Research Engineer
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General Motors Research and Development Center
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Charles Sanderson
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Staff Research Engineer
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Central Research
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Cargill, Inc. 
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Peter Schröder
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Associate Professor
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Department of Computer Science
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California Institute of Technology
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Ali Shakouri
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Assistant Professor
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Baskin School of Engineering
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University of California, Santa Cruz
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Patrick M. Shanahan
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Vice President and General Manager, 757 Programs
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Commercial Airplane Group
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Boeing Company
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Talid Sinno
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Assistant Professor
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Department of Chemical Engineering
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University of Pennsylvania
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Ganesh Skandan
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Vice President of R&D
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Nanopowder Enterprises, Inc. 
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Donald N. Slinn
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Assistant Professor
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Department of Ocean Engineering
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Florida Atlantic University
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Alexander H. Slocum
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Professor
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Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Brian L. Smith
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Assistant Professor
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Department of Civil Engineering
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University of Virginia
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Randall Q. Snurr
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Assistant Professor
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Department of Chemical Engineering
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Northwestern University 
 

 
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Paul J. Stewart
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Senior Technical Specialist
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Ford Research Lab
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Ford Motor Company
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Marvin M. Theimer
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Senior Researcher
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Microsoft Research
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Jeff Tian
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Assistant Professor
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Department of Computer Science and Engineering
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Southern Methodist University
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James N. Tilton
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Senior Consultant
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DuPont Engineering Technology
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Martha M. Tritten
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Laboratory Director
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Emulsion Manufacturability Laboratory
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Eastman Kodak Company
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Rudolf Tromp
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Engineering Consultant
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Corporate Technical Strategy Development
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IBM Corporation
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Eileen M. Van Aken
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Assistant Professor
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Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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Venugopal V. Veeravalli
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Associate Professor, ECE Department
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Coordinated Science Lab
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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Yulun Wang
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Chief Technical Officer and Founder
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Computer Motion, Inc. 
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Charles J. Werth
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Assistant Professor
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Environmental Engineering and Science
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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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David H. West
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Research Scientist
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Dow Chemical Company
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Erik Winfree
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Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
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Computation and Neural Systems
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California Institute of Technology
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Laura A. Wojcik
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Assistant Professor
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Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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Margaret S. Wooldridge
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Assistant Professor
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Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
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University of Michigan
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Jun Ye
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Associate Fellow, NIST
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Assistant Professor Adjoint, Department of Physics
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University of Colorado 
 

 
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Minerva M. Yeung
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Principal Engineer/Researcher and Manager of Media and Internet Technology
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Microprocessor Research Labs
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Intel Corporation
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John Yin
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Associate Professor and Cargill Faculty Fellow
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Department of Chemical Engineering
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University of Wisconsin
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Otto Z. Zhou
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Associate Professor, Physics and Materials Science
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Director, North Carolina Center for Nanoscale Materials
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University of North Carolina
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Guest Speaker
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Robert W. Lucky
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Corporate Vice President of Applied Research
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Telcordia Technologies, Inc. 
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Guests
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Malcolm J. Abzug
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Retired President
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ACA Systems, Inc. 
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Ajay Arora
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Design Engineer
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Motorola Canada
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Irving L. Ashkenas
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Vice Chairman of the Board
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Systems Technology, Inc. 
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William F. Ballhaus, Sr. 
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President
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International Numatics, Inc. 
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Maria Pellegrini
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Program Director
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W. 
M. 
 Keck Foundation
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Gordon Slemon
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Past-President, Canadian Academy of Engineering
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Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
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Mercedes Talley
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Senior Program Officer
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W. 
M. 
 Keck Foundation
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Robert H. Wertheim
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Consultant
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Science Applications International Corporation
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Abe M. Zarem
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Consultant
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National Academy of Sciences
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Bridget Coughlin
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Associate Recruiting Editor
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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National Academy of Engineering
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W. 
 Dale Compton
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Home Secretary
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Lance A. Davis
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Executive Officer
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Penny Gibbs
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Program Associate
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Janet Hunziker
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Program Officer
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Mary Kutruff
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Administrative Assistant
 
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Daniel Whitt
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Media Liaison
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