Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!planchet.rutgers.edu!nanotech From: jeremy@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Jeremy M. Wertheimer) Newsgroups: sci.nanotech Subject: News of Japanese NT in Nature Message-ID: Date: 20 May 91 22:04:45 GMT Sender: nanotech@planchet.rutgers.edu Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Lines: 14 Approved: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu A news article in Nature (351:90; 9 May 1991) reports that the Japanese are planning a major reorg of some of their research institutes in Tskuba, including launching a new research center focusing on nanotechnology and `holistic science', and incorporating an `atom factory' as one of its projects. This is intended to link-up with MITI next-generation projects in quantum dot and quantum well devices, and other areas of `angstrom technology.' Jeremy Wertheimer MIT AI Lab, 545 Tech. Sq., Room 805, Cambridge MA 02139 (617) 253-5867, Internet: Jeremy@AI.MIT.EDU