Keynote: Moonshots: How Engineers and Scientists Are Achieving the Impossible

Moonshots—projects with lofty and seemingly impossible goals—are the engines that drive innovation, increase human knowledge, and improve our standard of living. Over 50 years ago, NASA's Apollo program landed the first people on the moon, accomplishing a literal moonshot and fostering emerging technologies that are now ubiquitous, such as integrated circuits, photovoltaic cells, and digital image processing. Today, engineers and scientists are aiming to generate unlimited clean energy, create advanced medical devices to save and improve lives, travel to Mars, and explore the universe. In this talk, learn about some of these visionary projects, the role MATLAB^® and Simulink^® played in helping engineers and scientists achieve their goals, and how you can apply these same tools and techniques to your own "moonshots."