Saturday, February 10, 2007

at the California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
Registration and Continental Breakfast:
8:00 a.m. Baxter Hall
Program: 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at Baxter Lecture Hall
Networking: 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at Baxter Lecture Hall
Cost: Early Registration - $40 (before Monday, February 5th)
Late Registration and at the door: $50; ($10 for students
with full-time student ID; free to Caltech students)

Now, more than 40 years after visionary Gordon Moore presciently identified the accelerating rate of semiconductor miniaturization, that path has brought the dimensions of the technology and the semiconductor industry squarely into the realm of nanotechnology.

On another front 50 years after its discovery, DNA has seen its uses extended beyond the biomedical sphere and into building structures and computing devices.

This dual history sets the stage for the fascinating challenges -- and potential solutions -- facing engineers in today's semiconductor companies. The "top down" tools they mastered over the past decades are approaching the end of Moore's law. Meanwhile biologists and chemists working from the "bottom up" have been able to construct complex devices from molecular components such as DNA or carbon nanotubes.

Does the future of computing depend on a collaboration between both camps? If so how will they work together, what and where will be the interface of biology and circuitry?

This program will examine such questions of how and when biological devices will be integrated into the trillion dollar electronics industry. Join us as researchers and entrepreneurs present their work and perspective on self-assembled devices and architectures, for critique by technology managers from major corporations in the semiconductor industry.

Speakers

George Thompson
Technology Strategy
Intel Corporation

Erik Winfree
Associate Professor
Caltech

Paul Rothemund
Senior Research Fellow
Caltech

Kumar Wickramasinghe
Professor
UC Irvine
IBM Fellow and member
IBM Academy of Technology

Jim Gimzewski
Professor
UCLA

Producer

Lynn Foster
Emerging Technologies Director
Greenberg Traurig L.L.P.

Date
Saturday morning, February 10, 2007

Location
Registration and Continental Breakfast:
8:00 a.m. at Baxter Hall, Caltech
Program:
9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at Baxter Lecture Hall
Networking:
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon at Baxter Hall, Caltech

Cost
Early Registration - $40 (before Monday, February 5th)
Late Registration and at the door: $50; ($10 for students
with full-time student ID; free to Caltech students)

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