National Academy of Engineering to unveil Grand Challenges
Date: Saturday, February 09, 2008 @ 13:55:51 UTC
Topic: General
KurzweilAI.net,
Feb. 8, 2008 - An 18-member National Academy of Engineering committee --
chaired by former U.S. Secretary of Defense William J. Perry and
including Ray Kurzweil, as well as Google founder Larry Page, human genome
pioneer J. Craig Venter, Nobel Prize winner Mario Molina, former
National Institutes of Health director Bernadine Healy, and other
leading technological thinkers -- plans to propose the 21st Century's
"Grand Challenges for Engineering."
The year-long effort received worldwide input from prominent engineers
and scientists as well as the general public, and its conclusions were
reviewed by more than 60 experts. "Success realizing any one of the
challenges would dramatically improve life on Earth," NAE officials told KurzweilAI.net.
On February 15, the "Grand Challenges for Engineering" will be
simultaneously revealed to reporters at a news conference at the
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting in Boston at 2 PM and on the NAE website, where the public will be offered the opportunity to vote and comment on what they think is most important.
Source:
KurzweilAI.net
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