Emerging Tech Forum

The Atlantic Nano Forum presents

Nanomaterials

presentations by Paul Franklin Nealey, University of Wisconsin and
Alex Nugent, KnowmTech, LLP

Date:	Tuesday, December 6, 2005
Time	Registration begins at 4:00 PM; program begins at 4:30 PM
Cost:	Attendance is free
Location:	United States Patent and Trademark Office Madison Auditorium - South Wing 600 Dulany Street Alexandria, VA Please send RSVP to nanotech@bipc.com Directions

Nanomaterials Used In Lithographic Processes

PAUL FRANKLIN NEALEY, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
Paul Nealey is currently the Smith-Bascom Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, and is the Founding Director of the National Science Foundation-funded Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center in Templated Synthesis and Assembly at the Nanoscale. He graduated with his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994, and from 1994 to 1995 he performed postdoctoral research in the Department of Chemistry at Harvard University. From 1995 until present, he has served on the faculty of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin. PaulÕs research interests include nanofabrication techniques based on advanced lithography and directed self-assembly, dimension dependent material properties of nanoscopic macromolecular structures, development of imaging materials for sub 50 nm lithography, and the effects of biomimetic nanostructured surfaces on cell behavior. He has received the National Science Foundation Career Award, the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the University of Wisconsin Romnes Fellowship and the Arthur K. Doolittle Award from the American Chemical Society.

Paul will discuss the integration of self-assembling resist materials into the lithographic process.

Nanomaterials Used In Artificial Intelligence Systems

ALEX NUGENT, KNOWMTECH, LLC
Alex Nugent is president of KnowmTech LLC, an IP holding company formed around the concept of using unreliable molecular connections as a foundation for building massively parallel self-repairing and adaptive pattern recognition systems. Alex has explored a multidisciplinary approach to designing nanocomputional systems, bridging the fields of microelectronics, neuroscience, liquid-particle physics and machine learning. He earned a degree in physics from Whitman College in 2003, worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory on active fault tolerant systems for nanocomputing from 2003-04, and commenced a Ph.D. track in electrical engineering at the University of Washington in the fall of 2004. Alex currently has placed his Ph.D. on hold to further the Knowm concept and see it through commercial development.

Alex's first patent, titled "Physical Neural Network Design Incorporating Nanotechnology," details a mechanism for building variable synaptic connections from particles in a liquid suspension and was issued in early 2005. Two additional patents have been allowed and 11 are pending.

Alex will discuss methods for building scalable self-repairing and adaptive pattern recognition systems from unreliable switching elements as well as commercial applications for the technology. More information on the Knowm concept can be found at http://knowmtech.com.

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