Frontiers of engineering reports on leading-edge engineering from the 2015 Symposium / National Academy of Engineering.

Other author National Academy of Engineering.
Other author Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering (2015 : Irvine, Calif.)
Format Electronic
Publication InfoWashington, D. C. : National Academies Press, [2016]
Descriptionxi, 161 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Computer networks--Security measures. --Congresses.
Data protection--Congresses.
Extrasolar planets--Congresses.
Metamaterials--Congresses.
Natural disasters--Forecasting. --Congresses.

Contents Cybersecurity and privacy: introduction / David Brumley and Daniela Oliveira -- Security at different layers of abstractions: application, operating systems, and hardware / Bryan D. Payne -- Computer security and privacy: where human factors meet engineering / Franziska Roesner -- On the technical debt of medical device security / Kevin Fu -- Challenges of engineering cybersecurity: a government perspective / Tomas Vagoun -- Engineering the search for Earth-like exoplanets: introduction / Sara Seager and Mitchel Walker -- Engineering the James Webb space telescope / Amy Lo -- Starlight suppression: technologies for direct imaging of exoplanets / Dmitry Savransky -- Realizing large structures in space / Jeremy Banik -- Sensing controls for spaces-based planet finding / Jonathan T. Black -- Optical and mechanical metamaterials: introduction / Jennifer Dionne and Luke Sweatlock -- Materials by design: using architecture and nanomaterial size effects to attain unexplored properties / Julia Greer -- Mechanical metamaterials: design, fabrication, and performance / Christopher Spadaccini -- Metamaterial-based device engineering / Andrea Alù -- Catching light rays: refractory plasmonics for energy conversion, data storage, and medical applications / Alexandra Boltasseva and Urcan Guler --Forcasting natural disasters: introduction / James Done and Amir AghaKouchak -- An integrated approach to assess and manage hurricane risk in a changing climate / Ning Lin -- Moving from risk assessment to risk reduction: an economic perspective on decision making in natural disasters / Jeffrey Czajkowski.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2017385892
ISBN0309379539
ISBN9780309379533

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