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LOS ANGELES, June 25, 2007— Dr. Swarup Medasani, a senior research staff member at HRL Laboratories, LLC, has been selected to participate in the National Academy of EngineeringÕs (NAE) 13th annual Frontiers of Engineering symposium. Eighty-three young engineers across the country have been selected from industry, academia, and government to learn about cutting-edge developments in fields other than their own in the September 24 to 26 symposium at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington.
Topics to be featured in the 200 program include trustworthy computer systems, safe water technologies, modeling and simulating human behavior, biotechnology
for fuels and chemicals, and the control of protein conformations. Sponsors this year are the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the U.S. Department
of Defense (DDR&E-Research), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Science Foundation, Microsoft Corp., Cummins Inc., and numerous
individual donors.
A list of the selected engineers and more information about the Frontiers of Engineering is available at the NAE web site at www.nae.edu/frontiers. According to the site, ÒThe National Academy of Engineering is an independent, nonprofit institution that serves as an adviser to government and the public on issues in engineering and technology. Its members consist of the nationÕs premier engineers, who are elected by their peers for their distinguished achievements. Established in 1964, NAE operates under the congressional charter granted to the National Academy of Sciences in 1863.Ó
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HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, California, is a corporate R&D laboratory owned by Boeing and General Motors. HRL provides custom R&D and performs additional R&D contract services for its LLC Members, for the U.S. government, and for other commercial entities.
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