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 Contents

Front Matter
CLOUD COMPUTING
Introduction--Ali R. Butt and Dilma Da Silva
Opportunities and Challenges of Cloud Computing--Armando Fox
Warehouse-Scale Computing: The Machinery That Runs the Cloud--Luiz André Barroso
Developing Robust Cloud Applications--Yuanyuan (YY) Zhou
Green Clouds: The Next Frontier--Parthasarathy Ranganathan
ENGINEERING AND MUSIC
Introduction--Daniel Ellis and Youngmoo Kim
Very Large Scale Music Understanding--Brian Whitman
Doing It Wrong--Douglas Repetto
Digital Instrument Building and the Laptop Orchestra--Daniel Trueman
Demystifying Music and Its Performance--Elaine Chew
AUTONOMOUS AEROSPACE SYSTEMS
Introduction--Michel Ingham and Jack Langelaan
Intelligent Autonomy in Robotic Systems--Mark Campbell
Challenges and Opportunities for Autonomous Systems in Space--Chad R. Frost
Health Awareness in Systems of Multiple Autonomous Aerospace Vehicles--Stefan Bieniawski
Certifiable Autonomous Flight Management for Unmanned Aircraft Systems--Ella M. Atkins
ENGINEERING INSPIRED BY BIOLOGY
Introduction--Mark Byrne and Babak Parviz
The Current Status and Future Outlook for Genomic Technologies--Mostafa Ronaghi and Jeffrey Fisher
Engineering Biomimetic Peptides for Targeted Drug Delivery--Efrosini Kokkoli
Autonomous Systems and Synthetic Biology--Henry Hess
APPENDIXES
Contributors
Program
Participants

Frontiers of Engineering - nidottu, Englanti, 2011