From: Gina Miller (nanogirl@halcyon.com)
Date: Tue Nov 09 1999 - 14:45:27 MST
Spike, with a giggle still pending in my gut, I tell you that the NSG email
addy is:
nsg-d@europe.std.com
nsg-d@world.std.com
And then there is my nano list at:
nanotech@onelist.com
You may want to visit the Nanotechnology Timeline site by Sean Morgan.
http://lucifer.com/%7Esean/N-FX/index.html
You may also want to mention the most recent advances or news on the
nanoscale. For example:
*Nadrian Seemans nanorobitic arm built from synthetic dna:
http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/nyu-bnr080199.html
*On July 7, 1999, the American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Science
Policy News reported that "one area of research that is beginning to come in
for special interest from the White House and Congress is nanotechnology.
http://www.aip.org/enews/fyi/1999/fyi99.106.htm
*Rick Smalley testified at a Senate hearing on nanotechnology (PDF)
http://www.senate.gov/~commerce/hearings/0512sma.pdf
*For the first time, researchers have designed from scratch a working,
chemically powered, molecular motor.September 8, 1999
http://www.nih.gov/nigms/news/releases/kelly.html
*Hewlett Packard presents their nanolab and with UCLA collaboration the
self-assembled molecular logic gate (Teramac computer) that has been hailed
on the Web as a major advance in nanotechnology.
http://www.hp.com/ghp/features/nano/index.html
*Viola Vogel, associate professor of bioengineering at the University of
Washington, uncovered the molecular switch operation while investigating
fibronectin, a molecule that plays a role in the cell binding functions of
living proteins.
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG19990315S0046
You can go to Foresights news page for more at:
http://www.foresight.org/hotnews/index.html
Or to mine of course:
http://www.homestead.com/nanotechind/newsarticles.html
You may want to look at some of these and summerize them into your timeline
for your group. I suggest you give them a little of your personal
evaluations as well.
Gina "Nanogirl" Miller
Spike said:
Extropians! Please help: Ive been asked to give a talk on short notice,
(as in tomorrow evening) to an engineering society to which
I belong.
I decided to talk on nanotechnology. The pitch is ready
except for a nanotech timeline.
What should I put in there?
1959: Feynmans talk Plenty of Room at the Bottom
1969: Gina Miller is born
1986: Engines of Creation by Drexler
1992: Nanotechnology by Drexler
Nov 1999: Nanomedicine by Freitas
etc. What are the most important milestones?
Thanks! I do appreciate the help. I have a copies of
Nanotech, Engines and Nanomedicine at home. Perhaps they
have timelines in there. I would forward this on to the nanotech
group but dont know the address, and im at work.. spike
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