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Media Advisory 08-014
Engineering: Grand Challenges for the 21st Century
Blue ribbon panel to announce their findings at AAAS meeting in Boston on Fri., Feb. 15
February 13, 2008
For the last year, an 18-member blue ribbon panel has been determining key grand challenges that will face society in the 21st century, challenges for which engineering will provide the solutions. Convened by the National Academy of Engineering at the request of the National Science Foundation, the panel included experts from a wide range of fields, from a founder of Google and a pioneer in the mapping of the human genome to a Nobel laureate and a past director of the National Institutes of Health. Members of the panel will announce the challenges--findings that considered input from countless members of the engineering community and general public and were reviewed by more than 50 experts--on Feb. 15, 2008, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting in Boston. Reporters registered for AAAS (only) can attend. | What: | News conference to announce the Engineering Grand Challenges | | | | | When: | Friday, Feb. 15, 2:00 p.m. EST | | | | | Where: | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting, Room 112, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Mass. | | | | | Who: | Charles M. Vest (President, National Academy of Engineering)
William J. Perry (former U.S. Secretary of Defense, current Stanford University professor)
Ray Kurzweil (Kurzweil Technologies)
Calestous Juma (Harvard University) |
For more information, contact Randy Atkins, Senior Media Relations Officer National Academy of Engineering, 202-334-1508, atkins@nae.edu More information about the Engineering Grand Challenges can be found at http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/ The committe members who devised the challenges are: | William Perry (chair) | Robert Langer | | Alec Broers | Jaime Lerner | | Farouk El-Baz | Bindu Lohani | | Wesley Harris | Jane Lubchenco | | Bernadine Healy | Mario Molína | | W. Daniel Hillis | Larry Page | | Calestous Juma | Robert Socolow | | Dean Kamen | J. Craig Venter | | Raymond Kurzweil | Jackie Ying |
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