What is nanotechnology and why is it on this web site? Nanotechnology deals with engineering problems at the atomic level. The tools are being developed to manipulate atoms one at a time to the end of building complex, extremely small machines and materials. There is a lot about NT on the web, and I'll display some key links below. Nanotechnology is on this web site because I am researching nanocomputer issues dealing with software architecture, components, complexity, and reliability. More on this later...

The image at right is a ball-and-stick rendition of a "simple" nanopump designed by Dr. K. Eric Drexler. The pump is composed of 6165 atoms with 8870 bonds. I fed the nanopump pdb file into RASMOL to generate the image. See the pump at the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing.