Frontiers of Engineering : Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2000 NAE Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering.

Cover -- Front Matter -- Preface -- Contents -- SYSTEMS ENGINEERING -- Systems Engineering Challenges of the International Space Station -- Battlefield Management -- Software Development at Microsoft -- VISUAL SIMULATION AND ANALYSIS -- Physically Based Animation -- Data Mining and Visualization -- Digital Geometry Processing -- ENGINEERING CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN THE GENOMIC ERA -- The Human Genome Project: Elucidating Our Genetic Blueprint -- Current Genomic Research: The Proteins Have It -- Bioengineering for the Science and Technology of Biological Systems -- Genomics and Ethics -- NANOSCALE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY -- From Clusters to Automobiles: Processing and Applications of Granular Nanomaterials -- Science and Technology of Nanotube-Based Materials -- Nanoscale Materials: Synthesis, Analysis, and Applications -- DINNER SPEECH -- Bits Versus Atoms-The Future of Information Technology -- APPENDIXES -- Contributors.