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Suggested Citation:"Introduction--Ana I. Antón and John Dunagan." National Academy of Engineering. 2008. Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2007 Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12027.
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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.

Suggested Citation:"Introduction--Ana I. Antón and John Dunagan." National Academy of Engineering. 2008. Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2007 Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12027.
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Suggested Citation:"Introduction--Ana I. Antón and John Dunagan." National Academy of Engineering. 2008. Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2007 Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12027.
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Suggested Citation:"Introduction--Ana I. Antón and John Dunagan." National Academy of Engineering. 2008. Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2007 Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12027.
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U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) symposia bring together 100 outstanding engineers (ages 30 to 45) to exchange information about leading-edge technologies in a range of engineering fields. The 2007 symposium covered engineering trustworthy computer systems, control of protein conformations, biotechnology for fuels and chemicals, modulating and simulating human behavior, and safe water technologies. Papers in this volume describe leading-edge research on disparate tools in software security, decoding the "mechanome," corn-based materials, modeling human cultural behavior, water treatment by UV irradiation, and many other topics. A speech by dinner speaker Dr. Henrique (Rico) Malvar, managing director of Microsoft Research, is also included. Appendixes provide information about contributors, the symposium program, summaries of break-out sessions, and a list of participants. This is the thirteenth volume in the USFOE series.

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