Front Matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Magnetic Recording: Winner of the Data Storage Technology Race -- Evolution of Large Multiprocessor Servers -- Network Survivability and Information Warfare -- Moving up the Information Food Chain: The Future of Web Search -- Genes, Chips, and the Human Genome -- Colloidal-Scale Engineering -- Design of Biomimetic Polymeric Materials -- Deregulating the Electric Grid: Engineering Challenges -- The Future of Nuclear Energy -- Renewable Energy Technologies: Today and Tomorrow -- Issues Associated with the Volume Manufacturing of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers -- Optical Applications of Microelectromechanical Systems -- Career Flexibility in Rapidly Changing Times -- Break-out Session Outcomes -- Contributors -- Program -- Participants.