Quantum computing, the evolution of microelectronics, and the interface of nanotechnology with supramolecular chemistry and biology were just a few of the issues discussed over three days at the 2004 Industrial Physics Forum and its academic–industrial workshop, held 24–26 October at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York.
The annual meeting was sponsored by the corporate associates of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), The Industrial Physicist , and the American Physical Society’s Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics. The daylong preconference workshop focused on engineering education and opened with a keynote address by Norman Fortenberry, director of the center for the advancement of scholarship in engineering education at the National Academy of Engineering in Washington, DC. The workshop included presentations and roundtable discussions on such topics as the future of electrical and computer engineering and sustaining engineering education through research.
The forum’s theme, “Sustaining...
