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Month: January 2001

Reduce agony of learning chemistry for nanotech

from the who-needs-lectures dept.
To do nanotechnology, one had better know a lot of chemistry. Chemistry is often poorly taught, so going to school isn't necessarily the answer. Instead, or in addition, get started with Bonding II from Cybered, reviewed in the 15 Dec 2000 issue of Science: "Bonding II provides electronic instruction on the basics of chemistry. Packaged on a Macintosh/Windows hybrid CD-ROM, the tutorial contains a narrated set of modules covering fundamental concepts for a freshman-level chemistry class." At $130, this is a lot cheaper than a college class, but we'd prefer an open source version: anybody know of one? Meanwhile, Cybered has other chemistry modules as well.

Defense Graduate Fellowships in Nanotechnology

from the tax-dollars-at-work dept.
The U.S. National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Program, administered by the American Society for Engineering Education, is offering up to 35 new graduate fellowships in nanotechnology beginning in Fall 2001. The U.S. Dept. of Defense is sponsoring interdisciplinary fellowships focusing in nanoelectronics, nanomaterials, and bionanotechnology. Application deadline is January 17, 2001.

Headline mailings return

from the he's-slow-as-heck-but-he-works-cheap dept.
As a side-effect of the relocation of the Nanodot server, the nightly and weekly headline mailings were being sent to nowhere. I recently became aware of the problem and fixed it, so you should be receiving these mailings much more regularly than previously.

Dave

Now: MEMS is nanotechnology?

from the that's-different dept.
Oldtimers among you will recall when nanotechnology was anathema to the MEMS community, who viewed it as science fiction. Now nanotech is such a (fundable) buzzword that MEMS is being repositioned as nanotechnology by "Trends in Nanotechnology", based in Europe. Elsewhere in the issue appears this: "We're going to make just one prediction, which is that the use of the word nanotechnology will see explosive growth in the coming year. Unfortunately, most of this growth is likely to represent bandwagon-jumping." Ironic, yes? Read More for the repositioning quote.

Mitsubishi Corp. to sponsor fullerene workshop

from the sooty-tubes-for-profit dept.
Bryan Hall writes "A press release on yahoo news reports that Mitsubishi Corp. is sponsoring an international meeting in Tokyo to discuss the state-of-the-art technology and strategies for commercializing fullerene nanotubes. The Mitsubishi International Fullerene Workshop 2001, Feb. 20-21, will feature keynote speeches from Nobel Prize winners and fullerene co-discoverers Richard E. Smalley and Sir Harold W. Kroto. Donald R. Huffman, the University of Arizona co-inventor of the method for producing commercial quantities of fullerenes, will chair a discussion on super-hard carbon material. Other sessions will include panel discussions and lectures on applied research and development." See the symposium website.

Difficulty of enforcing ethical standards

from the tough-question dept.
Sharad Bailur writes …I don't see the development in the forseeable future, of a system which is valid the world over, in which ethical standards which everybody agrees should be followed, are enforced. For instance how does one explain the millions of computer viruses floating around in the internet ether? If ethical standards cannot be enforced by some sort of international agreement, they will be followed more as an exception rather than as a rule. Besides, how does one enforce international agreements in the face of competing national sovereignties? We can at best by today's means isolate and blockade certain countries like Libya, Iraq and North Korea. In the face of a nanotech future these measures are surely hopelessly inadequate. How do we deal with this?" Read More for the full post.

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