Peterson, Christine L. - President of Foresight Institute. Writes, gives lectures, briefs the press and organizes conferences on powerful emerging technologies. Serves as an interface between technologists and the broader public, including business and policymakers. Co-authored "Unbounding the Future: the Nanotechnology Revolution". Coined the revolutionary term "Open Source software". Tomanek, David - Professor of theoretical condensed matter physics, Michigan State University. Researching fundamental properties of nanostructured materials using advanced numerical techniques. Nanotechnology animations, images, conferences, and people. Merkle, Ralph C. - Nanotechnolgy researcher, Alcor Director (Cryonics), Zyvex Principal Fellow, Foresight Institute advisor, Nanotechnology journal executive editor, public key cryptography co-inventor. Xerox PARC former Research Scientist. Smalley, Richard E. - Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics, 1996 Chemistry Nobel Prize Winner. His research laboratory is best known for discovering C60 and the Fullerenes in 1985, and much following development of this field. Drexler, K. Eric - Chief Technical Advisor, Nanorex. Author of many publications and of books including "Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation" and "Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology"; a leader/editor of the Battelle "Technology Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems". Alaca, Erdem - Assistant Professor, Koc University, Istanbul. Researches cross-disciplinary solid mechanics and materials, including self-assembled nanostructures, MEMS, materials testing, microstructure characterization. Taylor, Russell M. II - Research Associate Professor at UNC, Chapel Hill. Researching nanoscale tools. Freitas, Robert A. Jr. - Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Manufacturing; wrote Nanomedicine Vol. 1, 2, first book-length technical treatment of medical nanorobotics; Molecular Assemblers and Nanofactories. Philippe Basset's website - Presentation of the work of Philippe Basset, Associate Professor in micro and nanotechnologies at Université Paris-Est - ESIEE/ESYCOM Lab - France. Description of its research and academic activities. Durinyan, Karen - CV, publications and research interests in the microelectronics field. Cavalcanti, Adriano - CEO, Chairman, CAN Center for Automation in Nanobiotech; researches nanobioelectronic architecture integration to use nanorobots for biomedical problems: diabetes, cancer, cardiology, aneurysms.