Frontiers of Engineering

National Academy of Engineering

• 1 Front Matter; 2 ID AND VERIFICATION TECHNOLOGIES: Introduction; 3 Ongoing Challenges in Face Recognition; 4 Designing Biometric Evaluations and Challenge Problems for Face-Recognition Systems; 5 Large-Scale Activity-Recognition Systems; 6 ENGINEERING FOR DEVELOPING COMMUNITIES: Introduction; 7 Challenges in the Implementation of Appropriate Technology Projects: The Case of the DISACARE Wheelchair Center in Zambia; 8 Engineering Inputs to the CDC Safe Water System Program; 9 Sustainable Development Through the Principles of Green Engineering; 10 Science and Engineering Research That Values the Planet; 11 ENGINEERING COMPLEX SYSTEMS: Introduction; 12 Complex Networks: Ubiquity, Importance, and Implications; 13 The Promise of Synthetic Biology; 14 Population Dynamics of Human Language: A Complex System; 15 Agent-Based Modeling as a Decision-Making Tool; 16 ENERGY RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE: Introduction; 17 Future Energy; 18 Organic Semiconductors for Low-Cost Solar Cells; 19 Research and Development at the U.S. Department of Energy on Hydrogen Production and Storage; 20 Fuel Cells: Current Status and Future Challenges; 21 DINNER SPEECH: Engineering for a New World; 22 Appendix: Contributors; 23 Appendix: Program; 24 Appendix: Participants