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What's New at the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing Web site

October 1997

• To facilitate finding information on nanotechnology, links to introductions and other information have been collected on one page.
• Statistics on traffic to Foresight's Web site are now available.
• The full papers to be presented at the November 1997 Fifth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology are now becoming available. The index to full papers provides links to the full papers that are now available. In addition, each abstract will provide a link to the corresponding full paper as soon as it is available on the Web.
• Prelimary schedule of speakers for the November 1997 Fifth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology is now available.

September 1997

• A search engine has been added to facilitate searching this Web site for key words.
• High Performance Networking and Computing conference announced.
• Matching Grant reaches goal! Grant to help Foresight develop an interactive 3D graphics tour of the molecular-scale world has reached its goal.
• Canadian Nanotechnology Center announced.
• 2nd IBC Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology announced.
• Foresight Update 30 the current issue, is now available.
• Abstracts are available for almost all of the talks and posters to be presented at the November 1997 Fifth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology.

August 1997

• Web Enhancement Progress. The first software enabling universal annotation of all text on the Web, the CRIT Backlink Mediator, is now available on the Web.
• The complete book Unbounding the Future is now available on this Web site.
• Most recent conference announcements

July 1997

• Extropy conference to highlight nanotechnology and AI issues
• Foresight Update 29 the current issue, is now available.
• Rapid Progress on the Web Enhancement project: The M1+ proposal

June 1997

• Discover Magazine awards recognize nanotechnology researchers
• Molecular electronics conference announced
• The final word in the debate with Scientific American in a post on sci.nanotech: "SciAm Now Advertising Nanotech"?
• Positions available in a new nanoscale technology company and links to postdoctoral positions in nanotechnology have been added to the Jobs page.
• Links to various introductions to nanotechnology have been added.
• The Backlinks Page has been revised to point to a recently discovered fix for the incompatibility of backlinks with Netscape 3.
• Foresight Update 16 (a back issue) is now available at this Web site, with links to current sources of information added.
• Foresight Update 11 (a back issue) is now available at this Web site, with links to current sources of information added.
• Selection Committee for the 1997 Feynman Prize has been chosen
• Nobel Laureate to address National Science Foundation on Nanotechnology

May 1997

• Foresight Update 1 (a back issue) is now available at this Web site, with links to current sources of information added.
• Foresight Update 2 (a back issue) is now available at this Web site, with links to current sources of information added to the technical articles.
• Molecular nanotechnology startup founded to develop first assembler now hiring
• New "Jobs in Nanotechnology" page
• New direction for Foresight's Web Enhancement project focuses on annotator software
• Scientific American Web site hails computational nanotechnology work at NASA Ames Research Center. See 1997 epilogue to debate with Scientific American on nanotechnology.

April 1997

• Tentative Program for Senior Associate mini-gathering
• Latest Update on Senior Associate mini-gathering
• Foresight Update 3 (a back issue) is now available at this Web site, with links to current sources of information added to the technical articles.
• Workshop on hi-tech materials announced
• Take our new survey to help choose the topics for our Nanotechnology Telephone Seminars!
• Drexler named to Newsweek's "The Century Club"
• Nanomachine conference announced
• Foresight Update 4 (a back issue) is now available at this Web site, with links to current sources of information added to the technical articles.
• Foresight Update 5 (a back issue) is now available at this Web site, with links to current sources of information added to the technical articles.
• Foresight Update 6 (a back issue) is now available at this Web site, with links to current sources of information added to the technical articles.
• Foresight Update 28, the current issue, is now available at this site, with graphics.
• Nanotechnology and Micromachining talks to be given at Stanford
• Engines of Creation is now also available at this web site. Many thanks to Russell Whitaker for converting Engines to html.

March 1997:

• Additional material on the need for improved hypertext publishing systems has been added to this site:
  • Eric Drexler's essay: Hypertext Publishing and the Evolution of Knowledge
  • David Forrest's proposal: How Can we Leverage Corporate Influence to Catalyze the Development and Adoption of an Improved Hypertext Standard?
• Matching Grant--Foresight announces effort to develop an interactive 3D graphics tour of the molecular-scale world. Contributions are sought to match a gift to buy a computer to be used in this effort.
• Foresight to initiate telephone seminars (dates for the telephone seminars will be announced in the near future):
  • Seminar 1: a technical discussion of molecular nanotechnology
  • Seminar 2: a discussion of career paths and investment opportunities in nanotechnology
• Two Feynman Prizes will be awarded in 1997: one for theoretical work and one for experimental work. Procedures for applying
• Senior Associate mini-gathering announced for May 2-4, 1997.

February 1997:

• Information on tutorials and registration added to Web page for 1997 Fifth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology
• Suggestions sought for Foresight "State of the Field" report on molecular nanotechnology
• Foresight Director shares Kanellakis Award
• Foresight Institute sponsors Distinguished Student Award
• Dr. Ralph Merkle to speak at RAND Critical Technologies seminar in March
• Article on nanotechnology published by MIT Technology Review
• Dr. K. Eric Drexler to speak at conference February 27-28, 1997
• Web server statistics show a large increase in traffic to the Foresight Web site over the period January 1, 1996 through January 31, 1997.
• Foresight's donors meet the matching grant challenge!
• Dr. K. Eric Drexler presents the design for a fine motion controller for molecular assembly.

January 1997:

• Check Foresight's progress towards the $40,000 matching grant.
• "New Announcements!" section for Upcoming Events received since the most recent issue of Update. AAAS meeting in Seattle.
• Foresight Update 7 (a back issue) is now available at this Web site, with graphics.
• Foresight Update 8 (a back issue) is now available at this Web site, with graphics.
• Foresight Update 9 (a back issue) is now available at this Web site, with graphics.
• An editorial from Analog Science Fiction and Fact has been republished at this site. Stanley Schmidt comments on the April 1966 Scientific American story on nanotechnology, and discusses perceptions of how difficult it will be to develop nanotechnology.
• Additional letters sent to Scientific American in response to their April 1996 story on nanotechnology have been archived at this site.
• Please note: Some email sent to Foresight between Friday Jan. 3, 1997 and Monday Jan. 6, 1997 was lost. If you submitted a Free Electronic Membership during this period, please check with inform@foresight.org that it was received, or else re-submit your application. We apologize for this inconvenience.
• Information and donation form for Regular Foresight Membership has been added.

December 1996:

• Foresight Update 10 (a back issue) is now available at this Web site, with graphics.
• What's being said about Foresight and its tenth anniversary
• Foresight Update 27, the current issue, is now available at this site, with graphics.
• The introduction to the Senior Associates Program has been expanded.
• Anonymous donor pledges matching grant.

November 1996:

• A new, more concise home page is created, and much of the information that used to be on the home page is distributed to various second level menu pages linked to from the new home page.
• This page is started to provide a reverse chronological listing of substantial additions and changes to the Foresight Institute Web site.
• The role of Hyper-G in the Foresight Web Enhancement project is announced.
• A Free Electronic Membership in the Foresight Institute is announced and a form for registration is posted.
• Web page for 1997 Fifth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology is updated to show preliminary list of invited and confirmed speakers, and to provide information on submitting abstracts for presentations.
• Foresight Update 12 (a back issue) is now available at this Web site, with graphics.
• Foresight Update 14 (a back issue) is now available at this Web site, with graphics.

October 1996:

• Foresight Update 15 (a back issue) is now available at this Web site, with graphics.
• Nanotechnologist Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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