Abstract
This week, members of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), deeply troubled by the angst of recent months, will be gathering for what likely will be the most important annual meeting in their organization's 33-year history. Presiding will be interim President William A. Wulf, a University of Virginia computer scientist who was selected by NAE's council in late June to restore order to the organization. Wulf is a nonclassical engineer; that is, one who walks the line between engineering and science through his chosen field of computer science. His wife already is a lofty Washington presence—Anita K. Jones, director of research and engineering at the Defense Department. Those who have followed NAE's travails over the past two years know the story. The quick summary is that last year a protest candidate named Harold Liebowitz defeated the handpicked candidate of NAE's leadership in the academy's presidential election. Liebowitz campaigned by telling ...
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