DMRussell.pa@XEROX.COM (05/19/86)
PARC Forum
May 22, 1986
3:45PM, PARC Auditorium
K. Eric Drexler
Research Affiliate, MIT Space Sciences Laboratory
NanoComputers and Molecular Engineering
The broad outlines of future technology will be set by the limits of
physical law, if we can develop means for approaching those limits.
Today, because we cannot directly manipulate atomic structures, we can
make no more than a fraction of the physical structures allowed.
Advances in biotechnology and computational chemistry are opening paths
to the development of molecular assemblers able to construct complex
atomic objects, making possible dramatic advances in the field. Among
these advances will be nanocomputers with parts of molecular size.
Mechanical nanocomputers are amenable to design and analysis with
available techniques. This technology promises sub-micron computers
with giga-hertz clock rates, nanowatt power dissipation, and RAM storage
densities in the hundreds of millions of terabytes per cubic centimeter.
This Forum is OPEN. All are invited.
Host: Dan Russell (Intelligent Systems Lab, 494-4308)
Refreshments will be served by the Ad Hoc Collective of Persons
Interested in Social Interchange (AHCPISI) at 3:30 pm.
Requests for videotaping should be sent to Susie Mulhern
<Mulhern:PA:Xerox or Mulhern.pa> before Tuesday noon.
Some upcoming Forums:
June 5, Ralph Bernstein, "Digital Image Processing for Remote Sensing --
With Examples of Images of the San Fransisco Area"
June 19, Jef Raskin, "Interface Design Principles"
Directions to PARC:
The PARC Auditorum is located at 3333 Coyote Hill Rd. in Palo Alto. We
are between Page Mill Road (west of Foothill Expressway) and Hillview
Avenue, in the Stanford Research Park. The easiest way here is to get
onto Page Mill Road, and turn onto Coyote Hill Road. As you drive up
Coyote Hill, PARC is the only building on the left after you crest the
hill. Park in the large parking lot, and enter the auditorium at the
upper level of the building. (The auditorum entrance is located down
the stairs and to the left of the main doors.)