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ENGINEERING WORLD enhance the quality of cocoa, the key ingredient in chocolate. Research results may enable farmers to produce better-quality cocoa and, more importantly, help create healthier, stronger cocoa crops with higher yields, pest and disease resistance, and increased water and nutrient use efficiency. These crops may help protect an important social, economic, and environmental driver in Africa, where 70 percent of the world’s cocoa is produced. Additionally, Mars will make its research results freely available through the Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture (PIPRA), which supports agricultural innovation for both humanitarian and small-scale commercial purposes. Here is a sample of what they said: • Bioengineering – Phillip Sharp, Ph.D. • Biosolar Cells – Shuguang Zhang, Ph.D. • Digital Fabrication – Neil Gershenfeld, Ph.D. • Education – Eric Klopfer, Ph.D. • Electrochemical Energy – Paula Hammond, Ph.D. • Embedded Electronics – Michael S. Strano, Ph.D. • Fusion – Leslie Bromberg, Ph.D. • Life Extension – Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Ph.D. • Mitigating Autism – Rosalind W. Picard, Ph.D. • Problem Solving – Ed Boyden, Ph.D. • Robots – Rodney Brooks, Ph.D. • Sustainable Cities – William J. Mitchell • Transcending Technology – Rebecca Henderson, Ph.D. Innovations. As envisioned, GENI will allow researchers throughout the country to build and experiment with completely new and different designs and capabilities that will inform the creation of a 21st century Internet. An Internet fundamentally better than today’s may require large-scale, systematic research initiatives focused on the most difficult scientific and technical challenges, driven by overarching visions of how the future might look. GENI will give scientists a clean slate on which to imagine a completely new Internet that will likely be materially different from that of today. Solar Energy in Color Revisiting a once-abandoned technique, engineers at MIT have created a sophisticated, yet affordable, method to turn ordinary glass into a high-tech solar concentrator. The technology, which uses dye-coated glass to collect and channel photons otherwise lost from a solar panel’s surface, could eventually enable an office building to draw energy from its tinted windows as well as its roof. Ideas to Boost the Economy History is filled with examples of how technology helped usher in new eras of prosperity. To help build the case for optimism, the MIT News Office asked a collection of MIT faculty and researchers for their thoughts on the potentially life-altering technologies that lie just around the corner. A GENI That’s out of the Bottle With support from the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, researchers are working together to design a bold new research platform called GENI, the Global Environment for Network 62 SWE CONFERENCE 2008 http://www.johnsoncontrols.com http://www.johnsoncontrols.com

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SWE - Conference 2008 Contents President’s Note View from the Executive Suite Editor’s Page Readers’ Forum ICWES14 Women of Courage Engineering’s Grand Challenges — What’s Your Pick? Diversity from the Ground Up Membership Information & Calendar A&B FY08 Membership Meeting Minutes Engineering World Point of View Career Toolbox Bookshelf SWE Smiles SWE Scrapbook Conference Sponsors and Program Overview Corporate Partnership Council Thursday Conference Program Friday Conference Program Saturday Conference Program Corporate Members Opportunity Index

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