Cultivating emerging and black swan technologies

ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)

Volumn 6, Issue PARTS A AND B, 2012, Pages 549-557

  Mahajan, Roop L ^a   Reed, Jeff ^b   Ramakrishnan, Naren ^a   Mueller, Rolf ^b   Williams, Christopher B ^b   Campbell, Thomas A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

20TH CENTURY; BREEDING GROUNDS; CUTTING EDGES; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; ETHICAL ASPECTS; MOST LIKELY; NEW YORK TIME; SMART MANUFACTURING; WALL STREET JOURNAL; WIRELESS REVOLUTION;

BIG DATA;

EID: 84887279567     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IMECE2012-89339     Document Type: Conference Paper

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