From a sampling of the table of contents:

Ongoing Challenges in Face Recognition
Large-Scale Activity-Recognition Systems
Complex Networks: Ubiquity, Importance, and Implications
The Promise of Synthetic Biology
Population Dynamics of Human Language: A Complex System
Agent-Based Modeling as a Decision-Making Tool
DINNER SPEECH: Engineering for a New World

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