The 2005 Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering symposium was held November 3-5, 2005 in San Jose, California. JAFOE aims to bring together outstanding, early-career Japanese and American Engineers from industry, universities, and other research institutions to introduce their areas of engineering research and technical work, thereby facilitating an interdisciplinary transfer of knowledge and methodology that could eventually lead to collaborative networks of engineers from the two countries.
Co-Chairs:
James Fujimoto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kazuhiro Sakurada, Nihon Schering K.K.
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Program
Humanoid Robots
Organizers: Cynthia Breazeal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Satoshi Iwaki, NTT Corp.
Autonomous and Interactive Behaviors of Humanoid Robots
Satoshi Kagami, AIST
Computational Motor Control for Humans and Humanoids
Stefan Schaal, Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California
Learning the Foundations for Humanoid Autonomy
Chad Jenkins, Computer Science, Brown University
QRIO: A Small Bipedal Entertainment Robot
Kenichiro Nagasaka, SONY
Pure Water Technologies
Organizers: Shinjiro Kanae, University of Tokyo, and Darren Lytle, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Management of Water Supply Systems in Asian Countries
Satoshi Takizawa, University of Tokyo
The First Space-borne Precipitation Radar
Shinta Seto, National Institute of Information and Communication Technology
Arsenic in Drinking Water
Paul Westerhoff, Department of Civil Engineering, Arizona State University
Semiconductor R&D
Organizers: Naohiko Irie, Hitachi Ltd., and Clement Wann, IBM Semiconductor R&D Center
Sustaining the Silicon Revolution: Challenges and Opportunities
Tsu-Jae King, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department, University of California-Berkeley
Data Storage - Hard Disk Drives vs. Semiconductors
Barry Stipe, Hitachi Global Storage Technology
On-Chip Measurement Technology for Further Miniaturization of CMOS Devices
Masayuki Mizuno, System Devices Research Labs, NEC Corporation.
Silicon Quantum Computer
Kohei Itoh, Department of Applied Physics, Keio University
Biotechnology: Detection and Destruction of Pathogens
Organizers: Noriko Osumi, Tohoku University, and Alan Russell, University of Pittsburgh
DNA Directed Formation of Nano-scale Wires and their Use in a DNA Identification System
Michael Connolly, Integrated Nano-Technologies
Molecular Toxicology of Low-Level Exposure to Chemical Nerve Agents
Jennifer Sekowski, Edgewood Chemical Biological Center
Prion Protein and Prion Diseases
Suehiro Sakaguchi, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Application of a Novel Scientific Discovery to the Detection and Destruction of Pathogens
Naomi Hachiya, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry
