Key Contacts Janet Hunziker Director, The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering National Academy of Engineering E-mail jhunziker@nae.edu 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. Browse the participant list 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