[CAnet - news] Grand challenges of engineering

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[From a posting on Dave Farber's IPer list -- BSA]

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From: "Atkinson, Robert" 


Today's Wall Street Journal noted that the National Academy of  
Engineering has an open invitation ".to join in a worldwide  
brainstorming session. The goal: To determine the Grand Challenges  
for Engineering during the next 100 years and, perhaps, beyond."



Challenges are submitted to and, after vetting, are posted at: http:// 
www.engineeringchallenges.org/cms/7187.aspx 

A skim of ideas already posted reveals a lot of unoriginal "usual suspects"
(clean energy) and a few interesting ones (artificial brains). Surely the IP

community could do better.  

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