Site News Archive
1997

Preparing for nanotechnology

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December 1997

National Science Foundation announces nanotechnology research initiative
Foresight announces $45,000 Challenge Grant
Additional complete papers are available from the 1997 Fifth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology.
Database volunteer needed to help with CritSuite project

November 1997

1997 Feynman Prize winners announced
The Sixth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology has been scheduled for November 13-15, 1998, to be preceeded by a tutorial on November 12.
The Fifth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology is over. The Conference home page will remain the archival site for the Conference. Abstracts of talks and poster presentations are available, as are complete papers submitted to the Conference.
Web Enhancement Progress. "The Other Half of Hypertext" web software demoed and released for free use. To try these tools visit the CritSuite Web site.
Foresight proudly announces a re-design of our Web site. The new design provides a cleaner, more attractive appearance and a more complete navigation structure. The re-design has been done by E-SPACES. Please send any comments to webmaster@foresight.org and andre@e-spaces.com. Enhancements include more complete navigation aids at the top and bottom of each page, and a site map.

October 1997

To facilitate finding information on nanotechnology, links to introductions and other information have been collected on one page.
Statistics on traffic to Foresight's Web site are now available.
The full papers to be presented at the November 1997 Fifth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology are now becoming available. The index to full papers provides links to the full papers that are now available. In addition, each abstract will provide a link to the corresponding full paper as soon as it is available on the Web.
Prelimary schedule of speakers for the November 1997 Fifth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology is now available.

September 1997

A search engine has been added to facilitate searching this Web site for key words.
High Performance Networking and Computing conference announced.
Matching Grant reaches goal! Grant to help Foresight develop an interactive 3D graphics tour of the molecular-scale world has reached its goal.
Canadian Nanotechnology Center announced.
2nd IBC Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology announced.
Foresight Update 30 the current issue, is now available.
Abstracts are available for almost all of the talks and posters to be presented at the November 1997 Fifth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology.

August 1997

Web Enhancement Progress. The first software enabling universal annotation of all text on the Web, the CRIT Backlink Mediator, is now available on the Web.
The complete book Unbounding the Future is now available on this Web site.
Most recent conference announcements

July 1997

Extropy conference to highlight nanotechnology and AI issues
Foresight Update 29 the current issue, is now available.
Rapid Progress on the Web Enhancement project: The M1+ proposal

June 1997

Discover Magazine awards recognize nanotechnology researchers
Molecular electronics conference announced
The final word in the debate with Sceintific American in a post on sci.nanotech: "SciAm Now Advertising Nanotech"?
Positions available in a new nanoscale technology company and links to postdoctoral positions in nanotechnology have been added to the Jobs page.
Links to various introductions to nanotechnology have been added.
The Backlinks Page has been revised to point to a recently discovered fix for the incompatibility of backlinks with Netscape 3.
Foresight Update 16 (a back issue) is now available at this Web site, with links to current sources of information added.
Foresight Update 11 (a back issue) is now available at this Web site, with links to current sources of information added.
Selection Committee for the 1997 Feynman Prize has been chosen
Nobel Laureate to address National Science Foundation on Nanotechnology

May 1997

Foresight Update 1 (a back issue) is now available at this Web site, with links to current sources of information added.
Foresight Update 2 (a back issue) is now available at this Web site, with links to current sources of information added to the technical articles.
Molecular nanotechnology startup founded to develop first assembler now hiring
New "Jobs in Nanotechnology" page
New direction for Foresight's Web Enhancement project focuses on annotator software
Scientific American Web site hails computational nanotechnology work at NASA Ames Research Center. See 1997 epilogue to debate with Scientific American on nanotechnology.

April 1997

Tentative Program for Senior Associate mini-gathering
Latest Update on Senior Associate mini-gathering
Foresight Update 3 (a back issue) is now available at this Web site, with links to current sources of information added to the technical articles.
Workshop on hi-tech materials announced
Take our new survey to help choose the topics for our Nanotechnology Telephone Seminars!
Drexler named to Newsweek's "The Century Club"
Nanomachine conference announced
Foresight Update 4 (a back issue) is now available at this Web site, with links to current sources of information added to the technical articles.
Foresight Update 5 (a back issue) is now available at this Web site, with links to current sources of information added to the technical articles.
Foresight Update 6 (a back issue) is now available at this Web site, with links to current sources of information added to the technical articles.
Foresight Update 28, the current issue, is now available at this site, with graphics.
Nanotechnology and Micromachining talks to be given at Stanford
Engines of Creation is now also available at this web site. Many thanks to Russell Whitaker for converting Engines to html.

March 1997:

Additional material on the need for improved hypertext publishing systems has been added to this site:
- Eric Drexler's essay: Hypertext Publishing and the Evolution of Knowledge
- David Forrest's proposal: How Can we Leverage Corporate Influence to Catalyze the Development and Adoption of an Improved Hypertext Standard?
Matching Grant--Foresight announces effort to develop an interactive 3D graphics tour of the molecular-scale world. Contributions are sought to match a gift to buy a computer to be used in this effort.
Foresight to initiate telephone seminars (dates for the telephone seminars will be announced in the near future):
- Seminar 1: a technical discussion of molecular nanotechnology
- Seminar 2: a discussion of career paths and investment opportunities in nanotechnology
Two Feynman Prizes will be awarded in 1997: one for theoretical work and one for experimental work. Procedures for applying
Senior Associate mini-gathering announced for May 2-4, 1997.

February 1997:

Information on tutorials and registration added to Web page for 1997 Fifth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology
Suggestions sought for Foresight "State of the Field" report on molecular nanotechnology
Foresight Director shares Kanellakis Award
Foresight Institute sponsors Distinguished Student Award
Dr. Ralph Merkle to speak at RAND Critical Technologies seminar in March
Article on nanotechnology published by MIT Technology Review
Dr. K. Eric Drexler to speak at conference February 27-28, 1997
Web server statistics show a large increase in traffic to the Foresight Web site over the period January 1, 1996 through January 31, 1997.
Foresight's donors meet the matching grant challenge!
Dr. K. Eric Drexler presents the design for a fine motion controller for molecular assembly.

January 1997:

Check Foresight's progress towards the $40,000 matching grant.
"New Announcements!" section for Upcoming Events received since the most recent issue of Update. AAAS meeting in Seattle.
Foresight Update 7 (a back issue) is now available at this Web site, with graphics.
Foresight Update 8 (a back issue) is now available at this Web site, with graphics.
Foresight Update 9 (a back issue) is now available at this Web site, with graphics.
An editorial from Analog Science Fiction and Fact has been republished at this site. Stanley Schmidt comments on the April 1966 Scientific American story on nanotechnology, and discusses perceptions of how difficult it will be to develop nanotechnology.
Additional letters sent to Scientific American in response to their April 1996 story on nanotechnology have been archived at this site.
Please note: Some email sent to Foresight between Friday Jan. 3, 1997 and Monday Jan. 6, 1997 was lost. If you submitted a Free Electronic Membership during this period, please check with foresight@foresight.org that it was received, or else re-submit your application. We apologize for this inconvenience.
Information and donation form for Regular Foresight Membership has been added.