X-Message-Number: 827
Date: Thu, 14 May 92 17:07:35 PDT
From:  (Bob Smart)
Subject: CRYONET: Book announcement

The following originally appeared on sci.nanotech:


In article <>, 
 (Teresa A. Ehling) writes:
> 
> The following new title will be available from 
> the MIT Press this coming fall:
> 
> 
> 
> NANOTECHNOLOGY
> Research and Perspectives
> 
> edited by BC Crandall
> 
> Advances in physics, molecular biology, and computer science 
> are converging on the capacity to control, with  molecular 
> precision, the structure and function of matter. These twenty 
> original contributions provide the first broad-based 
> multidisciplinary definition and examination of the 
> revolutionary new discipline of molecular engineering, or 
> nanotechnology. They address both the promise as well as the 
> economic, environmental, and cultural challenges of this 
> emerging atomic-scale technology.
>   Leaders in their field describe current technologies that 
> feed into nanotechnology -- atomic imaging and positioning, 
> protein engineering, and the de novo design and synthesis of 
> self-assembling molecular structures. They present 
> development strategies for coordinating recent work in 
> chemistry, biotechnology, and scanning-probe microscopy in 
> order to successfully design and engineer molecular systems. 
> They also explore advances in molecular and quantum 
> electronics as well as reversible computational systems and 
> the fundamental physical constraints on computation. 
> Additional chapters discuss research efforts in Japan and 
> present the prospects of nanotechnology as seen from the 
> perspective of a microtechnologist.
>   The final section looks at the implications of success, 
> including the prospects of enormous computational power and 
> the radical consequences of molecular mechanical systems in 
> the fields of medicine and life extension. 
>   BC Crandall is Cofounder and Vice President of Prime 
> Arithmetics, Inc.
> 
> Contributors: Robert Birge. Federico Capasso. BC Crandall. 
> K. Eric Drexler. Gregory Fahy. Richard Feynman. John Foster. 
> Tracy Handel. Bill Joy. Arthur Kantrowitz. Joseph Mallon. 
> Norman Margolus. Ralph Merkle. Lester Milbrath. Gordon 
> Tullock. Hiroyuki Sasabe. Michael Ward.
> 
> November 1992
> ISBN 0-262-03195-7   CRANH
> 480 pp. -- 136 illus., 29 in color 
> $39.95, hardcover


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