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Good Web Sites
to Start Your Research on New Technologies

WRI172: The Computing Age -- Library Presentation, 30 March 2005

Human Genome Research: Societal and Ethical Issues
http://cseserv.engr.scu.edu/nquinn/ENGR300Winter2001/researchprojects/
cwebster/research_paper/ResourceLinks.html
Bibliography for research paper

Human Germline Engineering
http://research.mednet.ucla.edu/pmts/Germline/default.htm
UCLA Program on Medicine Technology and Society "offers a unique compilation of opinion and commentary from specialists around the world on the scientific, social, and ehtical implications of altering the genes we pass to our children."

The Institute for Genomic Research
http://www.tigr.org/
Web site with links and news/background information on the topic from a "not-for-profit research institute" working in the field.

ANGIS (Australian National Genomic Information Service)
http://www.angis.org.au/new/index.html
A set of links for study in the current scientific developments in the field.

National Nanotechnology Initiative
http://www.nano.gov/
Web site that combines U.S. federal government agencies involved in research and development related to nanotechnology.

Institute of Nanotechnology
http://www.nano.org.uk/
British interorganizational effort to foster the growth of nanotechnology.

Human Brain Project at Caltech
http://wwww.gg.caltech.edu/hbp/
Website that that tracks research in buidling machines that approximate human intelligence. The site also tracks the latest scientific progress in progress in technologies required for develoting an artificial brain.

Biological Computing
http://www.simson.net/clips/2000/2000.TR.05.BiologicalComputing.pdf
The full text of an article on the topic by Simson L. Garfinkel, from BITS jorunal, which "explores new technologies and their impact in life sciences reserch and discovery."

The Future of CPUs in Brief
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/02/01/wo_essex012802.asp?p=1
Article by David Essex for the Technology Review (January 2002) covers future computing options.

There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom
http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html
Full-text transcript of a classic talk by Richard Feynman from December 29, 1959 at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society. "Why can't we get the full text of the Encyclopedia Britannica on the head of a pin?"

Nanotechnology
http://www.zyvex.com/nano/
A website with a brief introduction to core concepts and links to various resources from Zyvex Corporation.

Source: Nancy K. Herther, "The 21st Century: World of Computers" Online (July/August 2003) p.26-31

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