Category: About Foresight

The deadline to nominate a colleague to be considered for the prestigious Foresight Institute Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology is Wednesday, June 30, 2004. Established in honor of Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman, two prizes, one for theory and one for experimental work, will be awarded. These prizes recognize researchers whose recent work have most advanced the achievement of Feynman's vision for nanotechnology: molecular manufacturing, defined as the construction of atomically-precise products through the use of molecular machine systems.

HLovy writes "Proud papa Luis Mavilla writes that his 13-year-old son, Peter Alexander Mavilla, has caught a bad case of the nanobug. When the Venezuelan youth decided that nanotechnology was just so cool that he had to learn more, the first thing he did was register as a free online member of that notorious purveyor of childhood nanofear, the Foresight Institute."

Foresight Institute and Working In Ltd., an employment and education web company, launched a comprehensive resource website, Workingin-Nanotechnology.com, on March 19, 2004. This site is designed to meet the increasing demand for career, education and training information in the emerging field of nanotechnology.

JohnFaith writes "Technology Research News reports that Researchers from the University of Cambridge have grown nanotubes on plastic substrate. From the pictures in the article, the structures look more like tall thin cones, but maybe the tips are single tubes?"

Nanotechnology researchers, journalists and a student were honored at the 11th Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology, Oct. 9-12, 2003. The Feynman Prize awards were covered by Small Times and Nanotechnology Now. A UCLA press release announced that Carlo Montemagno, UCLA professor and chair of bioengineering, received the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (Experimental).