610:029:004, First-Year Seminar: Explorations in Computing, Math, and Science
Homework 6. Due Thursday, October 18, 2007

• Read "Plenty of Room Indeed" by M. Roukes from Scientific American, 285(3), Sept. 2001, p. 48-57.
• Based on your reading write one-half to one page on your thoughts about nanotechnology. Some questions that you might consider are: which aspects of nanotechnology sound like entirely new phenomena, and which sound like incremental improvements? What technologies sound especially exciting or promising?