Bio-Nanomachinery Dinner Lecture, Mountain View, CA, August 30

Have you seen those beautiful animations illustrating how the complex molecular machinery in a cell works? (Ex. http://youtu.be/sa563MdIiXE) Just how much of that is ‘made up’? How much is real? How is the information gathered, and what potentials can we unlock with it? Foresight is proud to announce its next dinner lecture: “Elucidating Bio-Nanomachines: Microscopies… Continue reading Bio-Nanomachinery Dinner Lecture, Mountain View, CA, August 30

Green Nanotechnology Roadmap Highlights Opportunities and Challenges

A green nanotechnology roadmap released by the American Chemical Society describes the opportunities and barriers to developing commercial applications of nanomaterials that present little threat of harm to health and the environment, and concludes with an action agenda to more forward.

Foresight@Google 25th Anniversary Reunion: Review and Closure

June 25-26, 2011 Mountain View, California https://foresight.org/reunion/ 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. With the addition of NASA-Ames Singularity University grad students, as well as 20Under20 Thiel Fellows, there was standing room only on… Continue reading Foresight@Google 25th Anniversary Reunion: Review and Closure

Foresight Positions Open: Ops and Office Manager

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. So… Inspired by emerging… Continue reading Foresight Positions Open: Ops and Office Manager

Smartphone projects foster discussion of ubiquitous surveillance

Proposed projects to use smartphone networks to gather data and inform authorities are opening discussion of how such data should be used.

Stanford Artificial Intelligence course free online

Enroll by September 20, 2011 for free online Stanford AI course taught by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig

Molecular information theory points to robust molecular communications

Those interested in issues of communication at the nanoscale will be interested to learn that the first volume of the new journal Nano Communication Networks, from Elsevier, edited by Ian Akyildiz, is available free of charge. The volume comprises four issues dated March through December of 2010. Just to pick one article out of dozens… Continue reading Molecular information theory points to robust molecular communications

2011 Foresight Institute Prize in Communication deadline is Sept. 30, 2011

The Foresight Institute Prize in Communication recognizes outstanding journalistic or other communication endeavors that lead to a better public understanding of molecular nanotechnology or other key emerging technologies of high social or environmental impact.

2011 Foresight Institute Feynman Prize deadline is September 30, 2011

Submit your own work or nominate a colleague for the 2011 Foresight Institute Feynman Prizes.

A four-artificial-neuron network from 112 DNA strands

A neural network made from 112 DNA strands organized into four artificial neurons was trained with four pieces of information to answer questions.

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