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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

Last chance to have your 2000 donation doubled

from the and-now-a-word-from-our-sponsor dept.
Sunday, December 31, is the last day to have your tax-year-2000 donation to Foresight doubled by our $35,000 Challenge Grant. To get your year 2000 U.S. federal tax deduction: donate online, fax, or write your check by tomorrow. (Donations to Foresight are tax-deductible in the U.S. to the full extent allowed by law.) Save more by donating stock. Read more for the various options, from $5K and up, down to $45 or even $0.

Nanotech prospect affecting business decisions

from the waves-of-the-future? dept.
The prospect of nanotech is already affecting real-world business decisions, as reported by Reuters on Yahoo about the company KPNQwest NV, the Dutch-American data communications company: "President and Chief Executive Jack McMaster said nanotechnology meant the company may be able to pack so much more processing power into each 10,000 square meter center that it could build fewer. That would save it a fortune, as each center costs more than 50 million euros ($44.48 million) to build…'I've begun to rethink my position only because of the implications of nanotechnology,' he said. 'The amount of computing power that's going to occupy a square meter could be four, five, six times what we initially thought.' "

Now: Fabrics with nanotechnology?

from the for-your-holiday-amusement dept.
Yahoo's PR News reports that "Nano-Tex, LLC announced today that it has agreed to license Galey & Lord (NYSE: GNL – news) and Burlington PerformanceWear (NYSE: BUR – news) to utilize the molecular technology of Nano-Tex in fabric production… 'Nano-Care and Nano-Dry are the first introductions in a family of products being developed by Nano-Tex, bringing ease of care and superior performance to everyday fabrics. Research on other products is progressing well. The nanotechnology platform can be applied to a wide variety of fabric types to create multiple performance features. By changing the fabric at the molecular level, Nano-Tex creates new opportunities in the marketplace with differentiated products based on cutting-edge nanotechnology. We believe that our ability to bring this technology to everyday fabrics will set a new standard for fabric performance in the future.' Nano-Tex, LLC is a research company founded on the principles of nanotechnology creating new or improved textile properties through molecular engineering." CP: I don't know about the fabric, but the marketing is state of the art.

Clinton on nanotech: "potential is breathtaking"

from the sounds-like-he-gets-it dept.
In an interview with Science posted at Yahoo, outgoing President Clinton said: "[Most] people still don't know what nanotechnology is. But if you combine the sequencing of the human gene and the capacity to identify genetic variations that lead to various kinds of cancers with the potential of nanotechnology, you get to the point where, in the imagination, you're identifying cancers when, assuming you have the screening technologies right, there are only a few cells coagulated together in this mutinous way, so that you raise the prospect of literally having 100 percent cure and prevention rate for every kind of cancer, which is something that would have been just unimaginable before…And I think the work we've done in nanotechnology in 10, 20 years from now will look very big, indeed. I just think that the potential of this is just breathtaking, and it will change even the way we think about things like calculation or what we're supposed to know how to do. It will — it's going to really, I think, have a huge and still under-appreciated impact on our understanding of human processes and our capacity to do things."

Turing code For nanomachines?

from the please-not-in-Java dept.
vik writes "I was attracted by a slashdot article on 8-bit Java VM's implemented using a Turing Machine backend. With Turing Machines being conceptually simple, the design put forward by Bernard Hodson has relevance to nanotechnology in that we'll want to get the simplest possible hardware running the smallest possible software. Probably not in Java, but the principles still hold. If construction command sequences can be compressed in a similar way, assembler control machinery could be greatly simplified."

First cyborg professor & cyborg-to-be spouse

from the those-wacky-English dept.
eamon writes "CNN.com reports Professor [Kevin Warwick] to wire computer chip into his nervous system.The head of the Cybernetics Department at the the University of Reading in the U.K…Surgeons will connect the chip to his nervous system through nerve fibers in his left arm, and the chip will exchange signals between his brain and a computer…If the experiment is successful, Warwick's wife Irena will also receive a silicon chip implant to explore how movement, thought and emotion can be transmitted from one person to another."

California NanoSystems Institute gets $100 million

from the California-state-tax-dollars-at-work-(finally) dept.
UCLA professor Gary Axen reports this announcement from UCLA: " The California NanoSystems Institute — a wide-ranging research enterprise poised to make a major impact in areas ranging from information technology and household lighting to medical treatment — was named today as one of the three research efforts statewide to receive $100 million in state support to help propel the future of the state's economy…The Institute will explore the power and potential of manipulating structures atom-by-atom to engineer new materials, devices and systems that will dramatically change virtually every aspect of our technology, including medical delivery and health care, information technologies, and innovations for the environment." Read More for the full text including video link, since the announcement URL we're using looks temporary.

Trends in NanoTechnology: free weekly email

from the explosive-tech-news dept.
Tim Harper writes "TNT Weekly, a weekly round up of whats hot in the nanotech world has just gone live at www.cientifica.com — follow the links to TNT Weekly. Any comments, suggestions, questions or anything else, please let us know. thanks" From their website: "TNT Weekly is a free weekly e-mail newsletter providing links and introductions to articles and press releases that have appeared on the web in the last week on the subject of nanotechnology. Click here to view the week 45 sample issue, or here to view the week 48 issue…Our mission is twofold: To inform researchers in all disciplines relevant to Nanotechnology, a field where, like no other in history, multidisciplinary collaborations will bear the greatest fruit; To provide lay and business readers with access to the latest and most relevant information on research and existing and upcoming businesses poised to capitalise on the vast potential of nanotechnology. A key advantage of our editorial team is the ability to cut through the nanotechnology hype." CP: The company is based in Spain, and the site has a European focus.

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