IMM Prizes in Computational Nanotechnology for 2004
Tim Fonseca writes "Greetings,
This is not a story, but a question. My question concerns my qualifications for entering my nanomedicine image renderings in the "IMM Prizes in Computational Nanotechnology for 2004 Art Contest" http://www.imm.org/prizes/ The IMM webpage mentions that submissions can be sent to Nanodot. Here I am at Nanodot, and damned if I can find a place to submit an image entrie. Please browse through my Nanobot Galleries, on my website. Let me know if my nano images qualify for the "design" and "rendering" categories of the 2004 IMM contest. Can one do a time reversal and enter the 2003 IMM contest, too, since no one won that year? As you can see, pride does not standeth in my wayeth.
Thanks,
Tim Fonseca"
The editors of nanodot apologize to Tim that it took so long to work back to his submission which is now ~6 months old.
December 24th, 2004 at 1:28 PM
IMM prizes in computational nanotechnology
As recent discussions regarding the nanofactory architecture (image links here) and the nanomanufacturing animation (references here) show there is a high interest in various aspects of robust MNT. [A picture is worth a thousand words kind of perspective.]
The pictures provided by Tim detail some interesting designs but present some problems. Presumably the primary category he is providing them for is "RENDERING". Just speaking from my own personal perspective (I am not a judge for any IMM/Foresight prizes) I would say one thing that may be lacking is a more detailed text description of what function the nanorobots pictured actually do and/or how they have "improvement(s) over previous depictions [esp. in the Nanomedicine Art Gallery]. Generally speaking the images in the Art Gallery are at least to some extent based on descriptions in Nanomedicine V. I or previously published papers.
One strays from these descriptions at ones own risk. For example "Scuba Doctors" make no sense. The other "Fantastic Voyage" images are similarly questionable. The images of Vasculocytes and Microbivores (or derivates thereof) are interesting. However one also might consider "vasculoid" nanorobots (there are multiple types described in the Vasculoid paper) which might more closely resemble the "walker" weapons (tank derivatives one would guess) that one sees in various Star Wars films. This opens the question of how long the "legs" of walking nanorobots should be in various locations within the body. Certainly the shape of nanorobots should be tuned for the viscosity of its external environment (blood, CSF, mucous, within a cell, etc.)
My suggestion would be that one make submissions to nanodot one or two at a time for a specific nanorobot type with a detailed explanation. After correcting for any feedback, one would then submit them to "admin@imm.org" as the prize documentation currently indicates.