from the For-VC-wonks dept.
Red Herring Magazine will hold it's first Nanotechnology Briefing on 24 September 2001 at the The Fairmont Copley Plaza, Boston, MA.
Red Herring ran a special issue on nanotechnology in July 2001.
Read more for a list of speakers for the briefing.
The Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs will present a panel discussion titled "Nanotech Today" on Thursday, 9 August 2001, at 6 pm.The event will be held on the Microsoft Campus in Mountain View, California. The panel will include:
* Jennifer Fonstadt, Partner, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
* Scott Mize, Chairman of the Advisory Board, Nanotechnology Opportunity Report
* Charles Ostman, Senior Fellow, Institute for Global Futures
* Moderator is John Gale, president of Taligo LLC.
More information and an online registration form is avilable at http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaID=15623 or the SVASE website. Cost for pre-registered attendees are $25 for SVASE members, $45 for nonmembers. Walk-in rates are an additional $10.
from the roving-reporter dept.
Small Times correspondent Jayne Fried filed a pair of interesting reports from the IBC NanoBiotechnology conference, which was held 16-17 July 2001. The Foresight Institute was a sponsoring organization for the conference.
The first article ("Nanotech's next challege is building a common model, language", 19 July 2001) notes that combining theory and computation with experiment is critical for rapid progress in nanotechnology, and quotes from a presentation by CalTech's William Goddard, who said computational chemistry, computational biology and computational materials science will play an essential role in designing, characterizing and optimizing nanoscale devices and machines.
A second article ("Venture capitalists listen, learn as scientists discuss nanobiotech", 17 July 2001) discusses interest expressed by potential investors who attended the conference on nanobiotechnology.
from the out-of-the-bottle dept.
The Joint Institute for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (JINN), a collaborative program of the University of Washington Center for Nanotechnology (UWCNT) and DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), will initiate their collaborative projects in nanoscience and nanotechnology with a Nanoscale Science and Technology Workshop to take place on the UW campus Thursday, 16 August and Friday, 17 August 2001. UW faculty, students, and PNNL scientists will present their most exciting research. Three invited speaker from outside community will highlight the event.
Cost for the event is $US 275 for UW or PNNL staff, and $375 for members of the general public, with a $25 discount if you register before 3 August 2001. Students may register for $85. To register, there is an online registration form. The deadline for registration is 8 August 2001. For more information, contact the UW CNT at [email protected] or call (206) 616-9760. There appear to be limited accommodations in dormitory rooms on campus for an additional charge.
alison writes "On July 19th, Stanford University will host a symposium called "Nanoscale: Just Handful of Atoms." IBM's Don Eigler will speak, followed by a panel discussion including Stanford professors Kyeongjae Cho, Hongjie Dai, Kam Moler and Michael McGehee. "This program is intended for corporations, venture capitalists, engineering and science faculty, alumni and their guests.""
The annual meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. (AIChE) will include a number of special sessions on Nanoscale Science and Engineering. The conference will be held in Reno, Nevada from 4-9 November 2001.
from the nanotech-for-futurists dept.
A special event at the World Future Society's annual conference, FutureScope 2001, will be Nanotech and MEMS Futures: "This session is based on Eric Drexler's vision of molecular nanotech vs. nanoscale science and technology, including comparisons of Macro, Micro, Meso, and Nano scale and overviews of their potential capabilities." Led by David Keenan (BF Goodrich Advance Micro Machines) and two Senior Associates, Hank Lederer and Steven Vetter (president, Angstrom Tools).
from the engineering-the-future dept.
A number of interesting presentations from a workshop titled "Beyond Micro Device Engineering: Nanotechnology", held by ASME International (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) in December 2000 in Washington, D.C., are now available either as HTML web pages or Adobe Acrobat PDF files. (Note: some of the PDF files are huge.)
This workshop, as well as the rapidly increasing level of interest in nanotechnology and nanosystems among various engineering communities, was the focus of one of the cover articles in Foresight Update #44 (April 2001). The article provides additional coverage on the workshop, as well as information on other engineering organizations that are taking an interest in nanotechnology.
Special Note: Nanotechnology will be the focal point of one of the many technical tracks that will be featured during ASME's 2001 Congress and Exhibition in November. Nanotechnology will also be the subject of several tutorials to be given during the conference, which will take place in New York City from November 11-16, 2001.
from the setting-standards? dept.
The Advanced Technology Program of the U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) is sponsoring a special program on "Technology at the Crossroads: Frontiers of the Future" at its 2001 national meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, 3-5 June 2001. Two session of high interest include:
– "Replication of Nanodevices", presented by Ralph Merkle of Zyvex and J. Storrs Hall from the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing. This session will cover molecular replicating systems, including replications of more complex structures on the nanometer scale and exponential assembly into larger devices at the micron scale.
– "The Challenge of Molecular Electronics: Focusing Nanotechnology on the Future Computer", presented by Christopher B. Murray, Manager, Nanoscale Materials and Devices, IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and Dr. Paul Weiss, Professor of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University. This Frontier session will explore recent notable achievements that show the promise of molecular scale electronics. Anticipating a stream of new advances, such as molecular wires, molecular switches and molecular sensors, particular attention will be placed on the enabling, spillover possibilities for this rapidly moving field.
Other sessions will cover virtual reality in medicine, regenerative medicine (tissue regeneration & stem cell research), information technology, and a discussion by a panel of venture capitalists.
There will also be a keynote address on "Ten Ideas that Have Already Decided the Future", by Foresight Advisor Peter Schwartz, Cofounder and Chairman, Global Business Network, and author, The Long Boom: The Coming Age of Prosperity.
from the thinking-big dept.
The Extropy Institute will be hosting the EXTRO-5 Conference: "Shaping Things to Come", in San Jose, California, June 15-17, 2001. According to a press release, the Extro-5 international conference will assemble "big thinkers from numerous fields to provoke our culture to think more carefully about the more plausible perils of progress and to shape the future for the better."
Big thinkers at Extro-5: "Shaping Things to Come" include inventor, entrepreneur, and writer Ray Kurzweil, leading information economist Hal Varian, science correspondent Ronald Bailey, leading information economy strategist Steve Flinn, cyberspace economist David Friedman, best-selling author Greg Bear, extropic philosopher Max More, evolutionary biologist Michael Rose, artist and cultural catalyst Natasha Vita-More, co-architect of the pre-Web Xanadu hypertext system Mark Miller, and other leading thinkers from computing, artificial intelligence, law, "hard" science fiction, Internet technologies, neuroscience, and business.
Don't miss out on this singular chance to listen to and network with those who are shaping the future. Stimulate your brain, expand your vision of the future, make contacts for your interests and businesses. Attendance is limited, so register now to secure your place.
For more information, visit the Extropy Institute conference Web site, email [email protected] or call conference Chair Max More at 310-823-3594.
Read more for the complete press release.
