Frontiers of engineering : reports on leading-edge engineering from the 2011 symposium / / National Academy of Engineering of the National Academies.

• Author: Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering Mountain View, Calif.)
• TeilnehmendeR: National Academy of Engineering.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xi, 161 p. :; ill. (some col.)

Table of Contents

Introduction [Additive manufacturing] -- Additive manufacturing technologies: technology introduction and business implications -- Additive manufacturing in aerospace: examples and research outlook --- Additive manufacturing is changing surgery -- The shape of things to come: frontiers in additive manufacturing -- Introduction [Semantic processing] -- Automatic text understanding of content and text quality -- Advancing natural language understanding with collaboratively generated content -- Large-scale visual semantic extraction -- Searching for statistical diagrams -- Introduction [Engineering-sustainable buildings] -- Challenges and opportunities for low-carbon buildings -- Expanding design spaces -- Opportunities and challenges for multiscale modeling of sustainable buildings -- Accelerating green building market transformation with information technology -- Introduction [Neuroprosthetics] -- Retinal prosthetic systems for treatment of blindness -- The evolution of brain-computer interfaces -- Ultra low-power biomedical and bio-inspired systems.