Molecular Nanotechnology: Giant Amoebas Invade Cities? Producer of the first computer animated series on Molecular nanotechnology for the Discovery Channel of Canada (1996), Bill Spence is a cofounder and on the http://www.viewzone.com/nanotech.html
Extractions: Appearing from seemingly nowhere, huge amorphous blobs congeal on skyscrapers and bridges... eating the structures, ripping them apart beam by beam, from the top down in some bizarre slow motion choreography, stacking the construction materials in neat piles around their consumed victims. Soon, whole buildings are razed to the ground, surrounded by their own components. Has science unleashed some uncontrollable mutant, destined to devour our cities and infrastructure? Is this a motion picture? Yes, but a movie run backwards. Seen from the beginning (in forward time), trucks arrive at a hole in the ground dumping structural materials to the side. A few special trucks appear loaded with solid rectangular cargo Suddenly these featureless cargoes become animated, break into individual cubes and "pour" themselves off the flatbeds to the ground by sliding over and around each other. Now a chunky blob, the mass raises itself from legs made of its own cubes, while cubes at the top slide over the bottom cubes, then down the leading edge to.make more legs as back legs withdraw into the mass. The monstrosity "walks" over by two other off loaded blobs. The blobs congeal into a larger mass then heads for a pile
C&EN: COVER STORY - NANOTECHNOLOGY in a pretend world where atoms go where you want because your computer program directs A few weeks ago I gave a talk on nanotechnology and energy titled Be a http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/8148/8148counterpoint.html
Extractions: Drexler and Smalley make the case for and against 'molecular assemblers' RUDY BAUM PHOTO BY RUDY BAUM PHOTO BY LINDA CICERO OPEN DEBATE Rice University's Smalley (left) takes issue with mechanosynthesis and molecular manufacturing as set forth by Foresight Institute's Drexler. I n this C&EN exclusive "Point-Counterpoint," two of nanotechnology's biggest advocates square off on a fundamental question that will dramatically affect the future development of this field. Are "molecular assemblers"devices capable of positioning atoms and molecules for precisely defined reactions in almost any environmentphysically possible? In his landmark 1986 book, " Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology ," K. Eric Drexler envisioned a world utterly transformed by such assemblers. They would be able to build anything with absolute precision and no pollution. They would confer something approaching immortality. They would enable the colonization of the solar system.
Extractions: The IOP journal Nanotechnology has published a paper by Chris Phoenix and Eric Drexler titled "Safe exponential manufacturing" that addresses the fear of out-of-control nano-replicators, and analyzes risks, concerns, progress, misperceptions, and safety guidelines for future molecular nanotechnology (MNT) development. Read More... 8827 bytes in body Articles New Scientist reports that three interlocking molecular Borromean rings were self assembled by a team led by Fraser Stoddart. Stoddart told New Scientist his work on Borromean rings was inspired in part by "their potential to be turned into some of the smallest possible machines and switches you can design at the molecular level." Jay Siegel, a chemist at the University of Zurich, agreed that "Chains and links are important for making gears and switching devices". Read More...
Extractions: A computer can make anything... almost. If you have AutoCad, 3D Studio Max, and RenderMan, you can design any machine, you can create objects of any kind and animate them, and you can render them to make them look realistic. If you have a printer, you can print pictures of them. You can even make pictures of the computer not only pictures of how it looks, but animated diagrams of all its internal workings. Theoretically you could do this at whatever level of detail you want. So a computer can almost make anything, including copies of itself. Of course, you can't make the objects themselves. But you can almost make them. You can do everything except the last step. Now suppose, in addition to your printer, you have another peripheral, which can go ahead and make the object itself. This is the famous "box" the desktop manufacturing facility. With the box, the computer can make anything, including copies of itself. The thing is, there is a long learning curve for any program capable of making anything. There are thick books one must read before using AutoCad. It takes a while to get started with such software, even for someone with considerable sophistication. I have been using computers for a long time, but I couldn't just sit down and start using a 3D modeling program. It would probably take me at least a month to reach fluency in 3D Studio Max, and longer for AutoCad. It takes years to learn all the nuances of such programs, even for professionals who use the software every day.
Nanotechnology Distributed Molecular Modeling over VeryLow-Bandwidth computer Networks by Will An implementation of NanoCAD, a Freeware CAD System for nanotechnology by Will http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Tech/Nanotech/
Extractions: Technological Sphere Nanotechnology Nanotechnology is the postulated ability to manufacture objects and structures with atomic precision, literally atom by atom. This would mirror the abilities of living cells (which do exactly the same thing, although based on evolution and not design). This technology will have tremendous potential if it can be developed; simple applications involve the creation of new and powerful materials, perfect diamond in bulk quantities and a tool to manipulate objects on any scale. More advanced applications would involve massively parallel nanocomputers, self-replication and more or less bright nanodevices able to interact with their surroundings. Since there are tremendous amounts of material on nanotechnology and its possibilities, implementation and limitations, I will concentrate mainly on its applications in transhumanism and some technical aspects. Sections
Extractions: Canadian researchers say they are determined to prove nanotechnology is more than just a scientific parlour game and will help create new forms of IT equipment for enterprises. Ever since single-walled carbon nanotubes were discovered in the early 1990s, the scientific community around the world has discussed in glowing terms the potential of the tiny technology width of approximately 10 hydrogen atoms lined up nanotubes are self-created from an electrical discharge between electrons. They could eventually perform the same functions as chips, some say, making PCs run billions of times faster. The opportunity presented by nanotechnology has already led to at least one scandal, when last September the experiments of Bell Labs scientist Jan Hendrik Schon were proven false. It has also entered popular culture: Prey, the new thriller by author Michael Crichton, concerns a nanotechnology firm.
Extractions: Archived Articles for Advanced Computing Cryonics Pervasive Computing Space ... Virtual Reality Advanced Computing. Smaller, faster and more robust than anything around today - plus, the power of cooperative computing, by harnessing PCs like yours. Binary a Bit Behind Quantum Math (Wired, 16 Jan 01) Quantum Computers: Harnessing the Power of Atoms, Molecules (USA Today, 12 Dec 00) How Does DNA Computing Work? (GeneLetter, 2 Oct 00) Companies Put Idle PCs to Work Through Net (USA Today, 17 Nov 00) The Grid: A Computer Web for Astrophysics and More (Space.com, 28 Sep 00) Quantum Discovery Could Mean Faster Computer Chips (CNN, 27 Sep 00) Molecular "GENEius": The DNA Computer (Techknowlogia, Sep-Oct 00 - free registration required) Buddy, can you spare some processing time? DISCUSSION: Distributed Computing Projects Other Than Distributed.Net? (Slashdot, 30 Sep 00) Enter the Era of Supercomputers (USA Today, 5 Sep 00)
ABCNEWS.com : Nanotechnology: Small Stuff, Big Business And as even boosters of the field acknowledge, many of the bestknown and potentially useful nanotechnology applications ultra-fast computer chips, drugs http://abcnews.go.com/sections/business/DailyNews/nanotechnology020626.html
Extractions: Mom Hopes Mystery Boy Is Her Son ... Lowly Fruit Fly's Amazing Flight Secrets Nanotechnology firms, springing up across the country, envision all kinds of innovations: cancer-fighting drugs the size of a cell, ultra-fast computers as small as a sugar cube and even tiny sensors that can instantly detect the presence of anthrax. For instance, when shopping for food at the supermarket, "You could have a sensor that could detect pathogens on food," says Mark Modzelewski, head of the NanoBusiness Alliance in New York City. Other nanotechnology innovations seem tailored to the post-Sept. 11 world, like anthrax-detection devices that already exist and are being marketed. "If you open an envelope and apiece of white powder comes out, would you rather send it to the lab and get it back in a week, or have a sensor on your high-speed mail sorting machine that tells you if it's anthrax right away?" says Steve Crosby, editor of
Extractions: Suyama: I think that it is a very promising area of research. Many researchers in Europe and the United States believe that it may be possible to explore nanotechnology using DNA computers. Yet, however powerful the theoretical computing capacity of such a computer, the idea is meaningless unless we have a reaction that will achieve the expected level of performance. We need research to make that possible. Karaki: I see. In other words, there are right applications and wrong applications. You always say that we should not use a DNA computer to perform basic arithmetic. An application that addresses Olympus's need for parallel processing to handle the vast amounts of information required for gene analysis will be appropriate. Suyama: Indeed. In terms of size, the hybrid DNA computer that we have developed uses a bio-assay robot to carry out molecular calculations. That is why it is so bulky, like the early electronic computers. We should be able to build a compact, high-performance DNA computer by using micro analytical devices, such as Lab-on-Chip and -TAS, or microchips with chemical reaction circuits mounted on substrates to carry out the analysis reactions. With microchips, however, we cannot install a large reaction vessel to hold the large amounts of DNA molecules required to support massively parallel computing and provide vast memory capacity.
Extractions: Nanotechnology is the manipulation of materials on an atomic and molecular scale. This area of research offers a great deal of economic potential. The National Science Foundation has estimated it could become a $1 trillion industry over the next 10 years. But it also presents ethical and societal concerns because of the possible impact of microscopic devices in the environment and on human beings. The act would promote U.S. leadership in the development and application of nanotechnology, and also would ensure that government has a hand in developing and enforcing ethical standards for research. Issues singled out for concern in the act include the use of nanotechnology to enhance human intelligence and to create artificial intelligence, and the release of nanodevices into the environment.
Extractions: MRJ, Inc./NASA Ames Research Center The conference will begin with a reception the evening of Nov. 5. It will be a multidisciplinary meeting on molecular nanotechnology , that is, thorough three-dimensional structural control of materials and devices at the molecular level. Attendees will include chemists, materials scientists, physicists, engineers, computer scientists and others interested in learning about the field and participating in its development. The keynote speaker will be Richard Smalley 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry An intensive Tutorial on Critical Enabling Technologies for Nanotechnology is available prior to the conference reception. The Abstracts for Talks and Posters to be presented at the conference are now available. Index of full papers The previous conference provides an example of the activities and purposes of the Foresight conference series The next conference in this series will be held next year, not in two years as previously. The Sixth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechonology will be held on November 13,14,15, 1998 at the Westin Hotel in Santa Clara, CA. The Tutorial will be on November 12, 1998.
MPR: North Dakota Expects Big Things From Nanotechnology North Dakota expects big things from nanotechnology by Dan Gunderson, Minnesota Public Radio February 11, 2004 Larger view. These computer chips are displayed http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2004/02/11_gundersond_nanotech/
Extractions: Banking on Biotech Minnesota banks on technology Incubating biotech Pawlenty pitches biotech Biotech has potential in rural Minnesota ... North Dakota expects big things from nanotechnology North Dakota expects big things from nanotechnology (story audio) Tiny computer chips Dean Grier Vial of computer chips View full slideshow
California Computer News AdRevolver. nanotechnology. May 05 2004 0710AM The patented process is a major step toward establishing green nanotechnology practices. http://www.ccnmag.com/index.php?nav=headlines&id=2596
Komo News | Pushing The Limits On Nanotechnology is we have about 10 to 15 years, after which time unless we figure out how to work in the nanotechnology region you re not going to get a computer that s going http://www.komotv.com/news/story.asp?ID=11291
World Scientific Theoretical and Foundations of computer Science. Other fields in computer Science. Engineering. Nanoscience and nanotechnology. Nanoscience and nanotechnology. http://www.wspc.com/books/mailing_lists.shtml
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The Division Of Computer Science The Division of computer and Information Sciences promotes interdisciplinary links between computer Science and other disciplines will include the computer Science Department and http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/
Extractions: web@cs.rutgers.edu The Division of Computer and Information Sciences promotes interdisciplinary links between Computer Science and other disciplines in the Sciences, Engineering and Arts. Officially launched in 2001 it will include the Computer Science Department and several interdisciplinary research centers. The first center of the Division, The Center for Computational Biomedicine Imaging and Modeling, was founded in April of 2001. Director:
National Nanotechnology Initiative New NCI Publication online Cancer nanotechnology. Sen. Allen Announces Congressional nanotechnology Caucus a new brochure, Cancer nanotechnology, Going Small for Big Advances; Using nanotechnology to Advance Cancer Diagnosis researchers envision that nanotechnology will serve as multi http://www.nano.gov/
Extractions: Cancer Nanotechnology Sen. Allen Announces Congressional Nanotechnology Caucus The National Cancer Institute has published a new brochure, Cancer Nanotechnology, Going Small for Big Advances; Using Nanotechnology to Advance Cancer Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment (Copies can be downloaded by clicking on the brochure title.)
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