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Foresight Update 24.09—September 9, 2011
ISSN 1078-9731
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In an advance that they hope will lead to semiconductor nanostructures suitable for a wide range of applications, researchers in the Weizmann Institute’s Chemistry Faculty have published in Science (abstract) the growth of millimeter-long nanowires of gallium nitride oriented on different crystal planes of sapphire. …
…significant molecular machine milestone …demonstrated a single rotaxane molecule less than 5 nm long working against an external load of 30 pN. …
A University of Oregon news release …announces the release by the American Chemical Society’s Green Chemistry Institute of a roadmap for the development of 'green' nanochemistry to bring the benefits of near-term nanotechnology with minimal threat to human health or to the environment. …
Thanks to all for a successful summer conference! We’re still hearing about some great connections and synergies made at the gathering that will help further transformative nanotech. …
Foresight is happy to congratulate our Director of Operations, Faisal Ahmed, on successful admittance to law school. Faisal will be with us as he transitions to a new schedule over the next month, but this also means Foresight has two positions open for immediate hire at our Menlo Park, California office. …
…The potential conflict between individual privacy, on the one hand, and ubiquitous data collection for safety, security, and law enforcement, on the other hand, is approaching faster than has perhaps been anticipated due to a number of projects that make use of smart phones to gather data. …
Stanford’s AI class "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" will be available free of charge online from October 10 to Dec. 16, 2011. Online enrollment ends Sept. 20. …
…I found "A brief review of molecular information theory" by Thomas D. Schneider useful. His analysis, in terms of Claude Shannon’s information theory, of the control of gene expression by proteins binding to specific sites on DNA leads him to conclude that "we should be able to build molecular communications that are just as robust as our macroscopic ones."
—Nanodot posts by James Lewis
Advancements in technologies such as nanotech, robotics, and biotech are promising to make major differences in our lives in the not-too-distant future, as the Industrial Revolution did to the agrarian world — to do for the physical world what the computer and Internet have done to the world of information.
Since 1986, the Foresight Institute has been in the forefront of a worldwide community of visionaries who work to help shape these possibilities into a positive, beneficial reality. If you would like to help us understand the potential of these technologies, and influence their direction, please consider becoming a member of the Foresight community. With your support, Foresight will continue to educate the general public on these technologies and what they will mean to our society.
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Upcoming Events
Nano and Giga Challenges in Electronics, Photonics and Renewable Energy
Symposium and Summer School (Tutorial Lectures)
September 12-16 2011 Moscow - Zelenograd, Russia
The NGC2011 conference in Russia invites academic and industrial researchers to present tutorial, expository and original research papers dedicated to solving scientific and technological problems in electronics, photonics and renewable energy …
The Seventeenth International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming
September 19-23 2011
Caltech, Pasadena, California, USA
Research in DNA computing and molecular programming draws together mathematics, computer science, physics, chemistry, biology, and nanotechnology to address the analysis, design, and synthesis of information-based molecular systems. This annual meeting is the premier forum where scientists with diverse backgrounds come together with the common purpose of advancing the engineering and science of biology and chemistry from the point of view of computer science, physics, and mathematics.
Moving from Top Down to Bottom Up
September 22 2011 - 14:00 GMT, webinar
This IOP webinar will look at examples of bottom up approaches to engineering and manufacturing from different sectors including biosensing, electronics and regenerative medicine.
International Precision Assembly Seminar 2012
February 12-15 2012
Chamonix, France
The aim of the Sixth International Precision Assembly Seminar is to discuss the rapidly evolving field of micro-assembly, including the development of microfactories and microsystem fabrication.
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