thearlin%vdsvax@vdsvax.crd.ge.com (Thearling Kurt H) (09/20/89)
I've been trying to organize my nanotechnology references and into a coherent list (I'll post it in a couple days) and have some questions. Here they are. If anyone has an answer to one or more of them, I'd appreciate if you would send me some email. Question 1: In the first issue of "Foresight Update," there is the mention of the possibility that a proceedings from the January 1987 Nanotechnology Symposium might be produced. Has such a proceedings been created? This brings up question 2: Other than the Nanocon proceedings (Seattle, Feb. 1989), have any other Nanotechnology symposia produced a proceedings volume? (not including the three volumes of Molecular Electronic Devices) Question 3: Will future issues of "Foresight Update" be posted to sci.nanotech? [Yes--they send me stuff on a floppy (U.S. Snail) sometime after they publish the paper version. --JoSH] Question 4: What is the status of "Foresight Background?" The only issues I have seen are no. 0/rev. 4 (dated 1987) and no. 1/rev. 1 (dated 1988). [I seem to have gotten fewer Backgrounds in the stuff on the disks but in principle I get (and post) them also. ] Question 5: Has anyone read the MIT AI Lab TR titled "Twilight Zones and Cornerstones: A Gnat Robot Double Feature?" The TR describes "tiny gnat sized robots, a millimeter or two in diameter." According to the abstract, "Gnat robots are going to change the world." What is this stuff about? kurt ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Kurt Thearling General Electric CRD thearlin@vdsvax.crd.ge.com Bldg. KW, Room C301 uunet!vdsvax.crd.ge.com!thearlin P.O. Box 8 kurt@bach.csg.uiuc.edu Schenectady, NY 12301 -----------------------------------------------------------------------