Foresight Nanotech Institute Weekly News Digest: October 9, 2008
Discuss these news stories at http://foresight.org/nanodot.
Top Nano News of the Week
DARPA and a Texas fund have awarded $9.7M to investigate one nanotech path toward atomically precise manufacturing. Christine Peterson passes along this Zyvex press release from PRnewswire…
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Foresight Event – Convergence08 Vision Weekend
Advancing Beneficial Nanotechnology - Join Foresight
Conference – The Singularity Summit 2008
Conference – NanoManufacturing Conference & Exhibits 2009
Foresight Lectures
Nanotech Events
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The recent demonstration of the ability to "fully engineer the electronic band gap of graphene" is a major advance in the top-down approach to nanotech applications that take advantage of the many marvelous properties of graphene…
The 2nd International Festival for NanoArt … will be hosted in Stuttgart, Germany by NAHVISION Institute for International Culture Exchange, between November 1st and November 30th, 2008…
The Japan Space Elevator Association will hold a conference on Nov.15-16, 2008 at Miraikan (Kotoh ward,Tokyo) to draw up a proposal and timeline for a space elevator to be made possible through nanotechnology…
Objections have been raised against proposed nanotech systems composed of rigid mechanical parts because of the potential for friction to arise from van der Waals or Casimir forces between moving parts separated by only fractions of a nanometer. Now Swedish scientists have developed a computer program to calculate Casimir forces between various types of nanostructured materials, which may help to determine whether significant friction problems exist in specific designs…
A recently released poll shows that the American public is largely uniformed about both nanotechnology and synthetic biology, and furthermore that the level of public awareness about nanotechnology has not changed since 2004…
—Nanodot posts by James Lewis
Foresight Event – Convergence08
November 15-16, 2008
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On November 15-16, 2008, the world's most dangerous ideas will collide in Mountain View, California. Convergence08 examines the world-changing possibilities of NANOTECH and the life-changing promises of BIOTECH. It is the premier forum for debate and exploration of COGTECH ethics, and ground zero of the past and future INFOTECH revolution. Convergence08 is an innovative, lively unconference, the first and only forum dedicated to NBIC (Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno) technologies
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2008
Opportunity, Risk, Leadership
October 25, 2008
Montgomery Theater, San Jose, CA
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Foresight Lectures
October 17, 2008
Bay Area Future Salon
Palo Alto, California
Christine Peterson will speak on "Open Source Sensing: Using open source & nanotechnology to reduce surveillance & head off Iraq-style wars."
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October 24, 2008
Singularity Summit Emerging Tech Workshop
San Jose, California
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Nanotech Events
National Nano Engineering Conference 2008
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November 12-13, 2008
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