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	Nanotechnology
		Nanotechnology in manufacturing by John Walker, part of a talk he gave in 1990 at the Autodesk technology forum.
		Theoretical studies of a hydrogen abstraction tool for nanotechnology is an ab initio study of a proposed molecular tool.
		Drexler and Smalley debate feasibility of molecular nanotechnology in Chemical and Engineering News cover story.
	www.zyvex.com /nano (2285 words)

	Biotech: An Introduction to Molecular Nanotechnology
		Nanotechnology strives to use biological, physical, chemical, and computational techniques already in existence to build things with atomic precision.
		After Feynman's address, there was a brief period of excitement involving alot of dreamy talk and a reprint in Engineering and Science, and then everyone went quietly back to finding out who could throw a subatomic particle the hardest.
		Self cleaning clothing, blood vessel maintenance robots, and food are some of the long term goals of nanotechnology's most ambitious advocates.
	biotech.icmb.utexas.edu /pages/science/nano.html (243 words)

	Nanotechnology
		Nanotechnology in manufacturing by John Walker, part of a talk he gave in 1990 at the Autodesk technology forum.
		Eric Drexler's new website at e-drexler.com focuses on clarifying core technical issues in molecular nanotechnology.
		It has had a special issue for each of the Foresight Conferences on Molecular Nanotechnology and is well worth reading.
	www.zyvex.com /nano (243 words)

	The coming revolution in molecular manufacturing
		"Nanotechnology and Global Security", a talk presented at the Fourth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology by Admiral David E. Jeremiah, United States Navy (Retired), former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
		The first journal article published on molecular nanotechnology: "Molecular engineering: An approach to the development of general capabilities for molecular manipulation," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 1981, is now available at the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing web site.
		The first journal article published on molecular nanotechnology: "Molecular engineering: An approach to the development of general capabilities for molecular manipulation," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 1981, is now available at the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing Web site.
	www.foresight.org /NanoRev (243 words)

	Nanotechnology
		Nanotechnology in manufacturing by John Walker, part of a talk he gave in 1990 at the Autodesk technology forum.
		Theoretical studies of a hydrogen abstraction tool for nanotechnology is an ab initio study of a proposed molecular tool.
		Drexler and Smalley debate feasibility of molecular nanotechnology in Chemical and Engineering News cover story.
	www.zyvex.com /nano (2285 words)

	Nanotechnology - Open Encyclopedia
		The term nanotechnology is often used interchangeably with molecular nanotechnology (also known as "MNT"), a hypothetical advanced form of nanotechnology that is believed will be developed some time in the future.
		The first mention of nanotechnology (not yet using that name) occurred in a talk given by Richard Feynman in 1959, entitled There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom.
		One fundamental characteristic of nanotechnology is that nanodevices self-assemble.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Nanotechnology (1081 words)

	Geometry in Action: Molecular Modeling
		Classical molecular modeling has dealt with biological molecules which generally have a tree-like structure, but applications to nanotechnology require dealing with more complicated diamond-like structures; it is unclear to what extent this affects the relevant algorithms.
		In the talk announced here, J. MacGregor Smith discusses Euclidean Steiner tree theory and describes potential applications of Steiner trees to protein conformation and molecular modeling.
		Michel Sanner of Scripps studies algorithms for molecular modeling, and published a paper on molecular surface accessability at the 11th ACM Symp.
	www.ics.uci.edu /~eppstein/gina/molmod.html (405 words)

	Molecular Foundry Workshop Highlights
		The full agenda included plenary talks (above, left) covering the many facets of nanotechnology and research, presentations from the Molecular Foundry facilities directors (talks in PowerPoint format below), and focused breakout sessions (above, right).
		Following her talk, Paul Alivisatos of MSD and the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) and head of the Molecular Foundry at Berkeley Lab, discussed the concept and design of the future facility (right).
		The Molecular Foundry is one of three Nanoscale Science Research Centers already selected to be established at Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories with funding by DOE's Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
	foundry.lbl.gov /workshops/wrksp.html (168 words)

	C&EN: COVER STORY - NANOTECHNOLOGY
		Since "nanotechnology" is now used to label diverse current activities, I have attempted to minimize confusion by relabeling the longer term goal "molecular manufacturing." The consequences of molecular manufacturing are widely understood to be enormous, posing opportunities and dangers of first-rank importance to the long-term security of the U.S. and the world.
		"Replicating assemblers and thinking machines pose basic threats to people and to life on Earth," he wrote in a chapter titled "Engines of Destruction." Because Drexler sees the development of molecular assemblers and nanotechnology as inevitable, he urged society to thoroughly examine the implications of the technology and develop mechanisms to ensure its benevolent application.
		As you know, I introduced the term "nanotechnology" in the mid-1980s to describe advanced capabilities based on molecular assemblers: proposed devices able to guide chemical reactions by positioning reactive molecules with atomic precision.
	pubs.acs.org /cen/coverstory/8148/8148counterpoint.html (168 words)

	World Tribune.com: Lev Navrozov: Molecular Nano weapons: Research in China and talk in the West
		As a result of such advice and testimonies, molecular nano weapons, expected to give their possessor the global military superiority or restrict it via Mutual Assured Destruction with molecular nano retaliation, have been ignored or almost ignored by the U.S. government and the U.S. Congress.
		The only way to survive for the United States is for the U.S. government to convert Drexler's Foresight Institute into a molecular nanotech Manhattan Project by funding it as generously as the nuclear Manhattan Project was in 1942.
		As a research associate of Drexler's Foresight Institute puts it today, a country confronted by molecular nano weapons “would be in the position of a band of spear-throwing warriors, confronted with an army deploying mass-produced guns, armored vehicles, and helicopters”.
	216.26.163.62 /2004/lev2_27.html (168 words)

	Untitled Document
		-- Groundbreaking for Berkeley Lab's $85 million, six-story Molecular Foundry building (a SmithGroup design), one of the centerpieces in the U.S. Department of Energy's nanotechnology initiative.
		Keynote talk (Larry Bock), 10:45 to 11:30 a.m.; Groundbreaking, 11:30 a.m.
		Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Building 66 (groundbreaking outside, weather permitting; Forum and talk in 66 Auditorium).
	www.ascribe.org /cgi-bin/spew4th.pl?ascribeid=20040126.083607&time=08%2057%20PST&year=2004&public=1 (168 words)

	Apostolic Succession
		Drexler has insisted that the core of Feynman’s vision was the large-scale precision manipulation and combination of atoms and molecules (now called molecular manufacturing), and he adamantly suggests that he himself continues the rightful essence of that vision.
		Last year in “Nanotechnology: From Feynman to Funding,” Drexler presented his views as the legitimate continuation of Feynman’s, arguing that Feynman’s bold vision instigated nanotechnology, and that the heart of that vision was atom-by-atom control of nanomachines to build things.
		We can also ask about Feynman’s follow-up talk, “Infinitesimal Machinery,” published posthumously in the Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems in 1993.
	pr.caltech.edu /periodicals/EandS/articles/LXVIII1_2/apostolic.html (4638 words)

	Untitled Writers' Group: Hooray! No more gray goo!
		Eric Drexler, known as the father of nanotechnology, today (Wednesday, 9th June 2004) publishes a paper that admits that self-replicating machines are not vital for large-scale molecular manufacture, and that nanotechnology-based fabrication can be thoroughly non-biological and inherently safe.
		Talk of runaway self-replicating machines, or "grey goo", which he first cautioned against in his book Engines of Creation in 1986, has spurred fears that have long hampered rational public debate about nanotechnology.
		Writing in the Institute of Physics journal Nanotechnology, Drexler slays the myth that molecular manufacture must use dangerous self-replicating machines.
	leutheuser.blogs.com /uwg/2004/06/hooray_no_more_.html (4638 words)

	Nanotechnology pioneer slays 'grey goo' myths
		Eric Drexler, known as the father of nanotechnology, today (Wednesday, 9th June 2004) publishes a paper that admits that self-replicating machines are not vital for large-scale molecular manufacture, and that nanotechnology-based fabrication can be thoroughly non-biological and inherently safe.
		Talk of runaway self-replicating machines, or "grey goo", which he first cautioned against in his book Engines of Creation in 1986, has spurred fears that have long hampered rational public debate about nanotechnology.
		"Runaway replicators, while theoretically possible according to the laws of physics, cannot be built with today's nanotechnology toolset," says Dr. Drexler, founder of the Foresight Institute, in California, and Senior Research Fellow of the Molecular Engineering Research Institute (MERI).
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-06/iop-nps060704.php (830 words)

	Ralph C. Merkle - WOLFMAN PRODUCTIONS
		Ralph C. Merkle, Ph.D. is on the Board of Directors at Alcor, the leader in Cryonic Suspension Services, and Vice President, Technology Assessment for the Foresight Institute, which focuses on molecular manufacturing or Nanotechnology.
		He chaired the Fourth and Fifth Foresight Conferences on Nanotechnology, was corecipient of the 1998 Feynman Prize for Nanotechnology for theory, and was corecipient of the ACM's Kanellakis Award for Theory and Practice, the 2000 RSA Award in Mathematics, and the IEEE Kobayashi Award.
		This talk will explore the fundamental principles underlying replicating systems and examine the proposals that have been advanced so far, as well as the vast differences between proposed artificial systems and the remarkably adaptable and error tolerant biological systems that have served as "proof of principal."
	www.wolfmanproductions.com /merkle.html (478 words)

	The Assembler, First Quarter 1996
		Though most MNT (molecular nanotechnology) experts agree that microtechnologies are not necessary to develop nanotechnology, these technologies may still be useful in developing Space, in addition to inspiring new ways to develop or apply MNT.
		Stephen Gillett gave a talk on using early versions of molecular to extract particular elements from a background of many elements.
		Electrorheological and electrohydrodynamic techniques provide ways of directly manipulating fluids and may provide great mass savings by reducing the supporting parts needed for pneumatic and hydraulic systems.
	www.islandone.org /MMSG/9601-news.html (478 words)

	IEET - Ethical Technology Blog
		In the summer of 2003 Keiper authored “ The Nanotechnology Revolution ” in The New Atlantis which argued that the prospect of molecular manufacturing had to be debated in Washington.
		And they must offer not only lamentations for the disruptions and dehumanization that nanotechnology might cause, but a sensible vision of how nanotechnology might do some practical good—or even stir the very wonder that could be diminished by rearranging the smallest parts without seeing the whole.”
		In particular the EPPC’s wunderkind Adam Keiper, managing editor of their bioconservative journal The New Atlantis, set up a blog for the conference, blogged every talk, and even posted video clips of speakers.
	ieet.org /blog.htm (478 words)

	Feynman Grand Prize Page 2
		Feynman spoke at Caltech in 1959 on the topic, "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom." In that talk, he pointed toward the feasibility of molecular nanotechnology.
		Judges for the 1995 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology
		Charles Musgrave, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for his work on modeling a hydrogen abstraction tool useful in nanotechnology.
	www.islandone.org /Foresight/GrandPrize.2.html (1759 words)

	Newsbytes News Network: Nanotech expert forsees powerful "sugar cube" computers - Ralph Merkle
		Merkle concluded his talk by speculating the impact that molecular machines may have in the field of cryonics.
		Merkle then went into the use of these molecular systems in medicine, explaining that we presently have two basic medical tools: surgery, which has intelligent guidance but uses very crude tools that themselves damage the organism, and drugs, which have no intelligence but are atomically precise tools.
		Merkle then went on to relate the development of nanotechnology with the history of computer development, showing charts tracing the increase in power, decrease in thermal consumption and decrease in material necessary to store information.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0NEW/is_1992_April_27/ai_12198903 (698 words)

	CSC
		MIKA - a multigrid-based program package and a project for the development of real-space methods for electronic structure calculations, an invited talk given at the CECAM workshop on State of the art developments and perspectives of real-space electronic structure techniques in condensed matter and molecular physics on 24.6.2005.
		Real-space electronic-property calculations for nanoscale structures, an article submitted on 16.1.2005 to the Handbook of theoretical and computational nanotechnology, edited by Rieth and Schommers.
		Talk given in Benasque, Spain in a workshop on Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) on 10.9.2004.
	www.csc.fi /physics/mika (698 words)

	InfoSatellite.com - Nanorobotics - Part 1
		It seems that the birth of nanotechnology is associated with a talk by Nobel-prize winner Richard Feynman entitled "There is plenty of room at the bottom" in 1959 at the California Institute of Technology.
		As an atom has a diameter of a few Ångstroms (1 Å = 0.1 nm = 10-10 m), and a molecule´s size is a few nanometers, nanorobotics is concerned with interactions with atomic- and molecular-sized objects, and is sometimes called molecular robotics.
		Nanorobotics deals with the controlled manipulation of objects with nanometer-scale dimensions.
	www.infosatellite.com /news/2001/11/p231101nanorobotics1.html (698 words)

	Design of Diamondoid Nanomachines
		This is an abstract for a talk to be given at the Fifth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology.
		This talk will review examples of goals and results in nanomachine design, along with the status of methods, tools, and computational modeling for design, testing, redesign, and verification.
		The constraints of predictability, stability, and positional control in the face of thermal vibration all favor the use of diamondoid covalent structures in future nanomachines.
	www.islandone.org /Foresight/Conferences/MNT05/Abstracts/Drexabst.html (698 words)

	Nanotechnology
		Ralph C. Merkle's talk on the need for continued nanotechnology research at the Stanford Spiritual Robots Symposium.
		The Materials and Process Simulation Center at Caltech, run by Bill Goddard, has computationally modeled a broad range of structures, including those relevant to the development of nanotechnology.
		It's worth pointing out that the word "nanotechnology" has become very popular and is used to describe many types of research where the characteristic dimensions are less than about 1,000 nanometers.
	www.zyvex.com /nano (2285 words)

	InfoSatellite.com - Nanorobotics - Part 1
		It seems that the birth of nanotechnology is associated with a talk by Nobel-prize winner Richard Feynman entitled "There is plenty of room at the bottom" in 1959 at the California Institute of Technology.
		As an atom has a diameter of a few Ångstroms (1 Å = 0.1 nm = 10-10 m), and a molecule´s size is a few nanometers, nanorobotics is concerned with interactions with atomic- and molecular-sized objects, and is sometimes called molecular robotics.
		Nanorobotics deals with the controlled manipulation of objects with nanometer-scale dimensions.
	www.infosatellite.com /news/2001/11/p231101nanorobotics1.html (2285 words)

	Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology
		A prize in the amount of $10,000 will be awarded to the researcher whose recent work has most advanced the development of molecular nanotechnology.
		The 1995 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology was awarded to Nadrian C.
		Richard P. Feynman who, in 1959, gave a visionary talk at Caltech in which he said "The problems of chemistry and biology can be greatly helped if our ability to see what we are doing, and to do things on an atomic level, is ultimately developed---a development which I think cannot be avoided."
	www.zyvex.com /nanotech/feynmanPrize.html (451 words)

	Nanotechnology pioneer slays 'grey goo' myths
		Science fiction writers focused on this idea, and ‘grey goo’ became closely associated with nanotechnology, spreading a serious misconception about molecular manufacturing systems and diverting attention from more pressing concerns.
		Talk of runaway self-replicating machines, or “grey goo”, which he first cautioned against in his book Engines of Creation in 1986, has spurred fears that have long hampered rational public debate about nanotechnology.
		Eric Drexler, also warns that scaremongering over remote scenarios such as “grey goo” is taking attention away from serious safety concerns, such as a deliberate abuse of the technology.
	www.physorg.com /news170.html (762 words)

	Nanotechnology
		Ralph C. Merkle's talk on the need for continued nanotechnology research at the Stanford Spiritual Robots Symposium.
		Ralph C. Merkle's brief video introduction to nanotechnology (from his appearance on Big Thinkers).
		Molecular Assembly Sequence Software (MASS) for the Macintosh.
	www.zyvex.com /nano (2295 words)

	O'Reilly Network: Tim O'Reilly on Nanotechnology at the Foresight Gathering
		Ralph's "noteworthy rather than routine" comment was a key to his talk.
		We want manufacturing." IBM Zurich's Millipede, which uses an array of STM microscopes, gives the first inkling that we are building a core of molecular manufacturing capabilities.
		Ralph went on from there to discuss what he thought were some significant recent achievements.
	www.oreillynet.com /pub/a/network/2002/05/28/foresight.html (1506 words)

	Nanotechnology
		Ralph C. Merkle's talk on the need for continued nanotechnology research at the Stanford Spiritual Robots Symposium.
		Ralph C. Merkle's brief video introduction to nanotechnology (from his appearance on Big Thinkers).
		This is the home page of Ralph C. Merkle 's nanotechnology web site.
	www.zyvex.com /nano (1506 words)

	Feynman's Talk
		An excellent technical introduction to nanotechnology is Nanosystems: molecular machinery, manufacturing, and computation by K. Eric Drexler, Wiley 1992.
		This transcript of the classic talk that Richard Feynman gave on December 29th 1959 at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) was first published in the February 1960 issue of Caltech's Engineering and Science, which owns the copyright.
		For an account of the talk and how people reacted to it, see chapter 4 of Nano!
	www.zyvex.com /nanotech/feynman.html (1506 words)

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