http://nanosoft.simplenet.com/nanovid.htm: it is now possible to watch videos over the Web of two talks from the Conference. At this site, you can use your computer to watch Ralph Merkle's introduction to the Conference and Richard Smalley's keynote address. There are two versions of each speech: a 28.8 version for modem users and an ISDN version for those with faster connections. Instructions for programs needed to watch the video are available at the above url.
Video tapes of the conference are available from Sound Photosynthesis, POB 2111 Mill Valley, CA 94942-2111, USA; 1-415-332-1533; [email protected]. Sound Photosynthesis also offers a Richard Feynman page, where the videotape of Feynman's lecture "tiny machines" about nanotechnology appears.
The conference began with a reception the evening of Nov. 5. It was a multidisciplinary meeting on molecular nanotechnology, that is, thorough three-dimensional structural control of materials and devices at the molecular level. Attendees included chemists, materials scientists, physicists, engineers, computer scientists and others interested in learning about the field and participating in its development.
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.
Topics Covered
This conference was a meeting of scientists and technologists
working in fields leading toward molecular nanotechnology:
thorough three-dimensional structural control of materials and
devices at the molecular level. The conference covered topics
relevant to the pursuit of molecular control:
supramolecular chemistry and self-assembly
proximal probes (e.g. STM, AFM)
biochemistry and protein engineering
computational chemistry and molecular modeling
computer science (e.g. computational models, system design issues)
fullerene nanotechnology
natural molecular machines (e.g. flagellar motor)
materials science
mechanical engineering (CAD) and robotics
Invited Speakers:
Richard Smalley(keynote)
(1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry)
Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology
Rice University
William A. Goddard III
Materials and Process Simulation Center
California Institute of Technology
Phaedon Avouris
IBM Research Division
T.J. Watson Research Center
Beckman provides quality products and services that
simplify or automate laboratory processes resulting in
improved customer productivity and efficiency to the
following selected market segments:
Bioresearch/Biotechnology; Clinical Diagnostics
Founded in 1982 by four idealistic young pioneers with
a shared vision of decentralized, heterogenous computing
systems, Sun Microsystems, Inc. has emerged as a global
Fortune 500 leader in enterprise network computing, with
over $8 billion in revenues and operations in 150
countries.
AMP Incorporated (NYSE: AMP) is the world leader in
the design and manufacture of electrical and electronic
connectors and interconnection systems. Headquartered in
Harrisburg, PA, AMP has 45,000 employees in 50 countries
in Europe, Asia/Pacific and the Americas and serves
customers in these industries: automotive, aerospace,
computer networking, power and utilities,
telecommunications, industrial and consumer goods. AMP
had sales of $5.47 billion in 1996.
Park Scientific Instruments (PSI) was founded in 1988 by Stanford University researchers to develop commercial instrumentation for scanning probe microscopy (SPM). Over the last 9 years, PSI has become the worldwide technology leader in atomic force microscopes (AFM) and scanning tunneling microscopes (STM) used in both ambient and ultra-high vacuum.
Zyvex is the first research and development company
focused on developing an assembler for molecular
nanotechnology. Started in April 1997, and headquartered
in Richardson Texas, the company has hired its initial
researchers and is building a lab capable of the task it
has set itself. In spite of being a small company, with
less than $20M in funding, Zyvex plans to achieve its
goal in less than 10 years.
Papers will be refereed and those accepted for publication will be published in a special issue of the journal Nanotechnology. Al Globus and Deepak Srivastava will serve as guest editors for this issue. Sample articles published in Nanotechnology have been made available on the Web by Ralph Merkle.
All papers accepted for the conference will be made available
on the web, linked from the conference page. For those papers
accepted for publication, the web version will also act as a
pre-print.
Index of full papers.
Each full paper is also linked from the respective abstract.