K. Eric Drexler

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K. Eric Drexler References

Books

• Drexler, K. E., Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing and Computation Wiley-Interscience (1992); [@Amazon]
• Drexler, K. E., C. Peterson, and G. Pergamit, Unbounding the Future: The Nanotechnology Revolution, William Morrow New York (1991).   [@Amazon]
• Drexler, K. E., Engines of Creation (Doubleday, 1986) [@Amazon]

Journal/Net Publications

• Allis, D. G. & Drexler, K. E., "Design and Analysis of a Molecular Tool for
  Carbon Transfer in Mechanosynthesis", Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience 2:45–55 (2005).
• Drexler, K. E., "Productive nanosystems: the physics of molecular fabrication", Physics Education 40(4):?? (2005).
• Drexler, K., "Nanotechnology: From Feynman to Funding", Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society 24(1):21-27 (Feb 2004); Nanodot discussion.
• Phoenix, C. and Drexler, K. , "Safe exponential manufacturing", Nanotechnology 15:869-872 (June, 2004); Alternate copy; Local copy; Nanodot discussion.
• Drexler, K. E., "Building toward molecular machine systems", Trends in Biotechnology 17:5-7 (1999).
• Drexler, K. E., "Molecular manufacturing: perspectives on the ultimate limits of fabrication", Phil. Trans. R. Soc. London A 353:323-331 (1995).
• Drexler, K. E., "Molecular nanomachines: physical principles and implementation strategies", Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure 23:337-405 (1994).
• Drexler, K. E., "Molecular Manufacturing for Space Systems: An Overview", JBIS 45:401-405 (1992).
• Drexler, K. E., "Biological and Nanomechanical Systems: Contrasts in Evolutionary Capacity", pp 501-519 in Artificial Life. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts (1989).
• Drexler, K. E., and M. S. Miller, "Incentive Engineering for Computational Resource Management", The Ecology of Computation, Bernardo Huberman (ed.) Elsevier, Amsterdam  (1988).
• Miller, M. S., and K. E. Drexler, "Comparative Ecology: A Computational Perspective", The Ecology of Computation, Bernardo Huberman (ed.) Elsevier, Amsterdam  (1988).
• Miller, M. S., and K. E. Drexler, "Markets and Computation: Agoric Open Systems," The Ecology of Computation, Bernardo Huberman (ed.) Elsevier, Amsterdam  (1988).
• Drexler, K. E., "Rod logic and thermal noise in the mechanical nanocomputer", pp. 39-56 in Molecular Electronic Devices: Proceedings of the3rd International Symposium on Molecular Electronic Devices Arlington, Virginia, 6-8 October, 1986, F. L. Carter, R. E. Siatkowski, H. Wohltjen (eds), Elsevier Science (North-Holland), Amsterdam (1988).
• Drexler, K. E., "Nanotechnology and future supercomputing" in Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Supercomputing, International Supercomputing Institute (1988).
• Drexler, K. E., "Molecular Machinery and Molecular Electronic Devices" pp. 549-571 in Molecular Electronic Devices II, F. Carter (ed.), Marcel Dekker, New York (August 1987); ISBN: 0824775627.  Probably from the 2nd International Workshop on Molecular Electronic Devices, 13-15 April 1983, Naval Research Laboratory, Chemistry Division, Washington DC.
• Drexler, K. E., "Nanomachinery: Atomically Precise Gears and Bearings", Proceedings of the IEEE Micro Robots and Teleoperators Workshop, Hyannis, MA (Nov 1987). [IEEE: 87TH0204-8]; See also Section 10.4 of Nanosystems.
• Drexler, K. E., "Hypertext publishing and the evolution of knowledge", Social Intelligence 1(2):87-120 (1987).
• Drexler, K. E., "Molecular Engineering: Assemblers and Future Space Hardware," paper AAS-86-415 at Aerospace XXI, 29 October 1986, Boulder, CO in Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the American Astronautical Society  (Oct 1986).
• Drexler, K. E., "Mightier machines from tiny atoms may someday grow", Smithsonian 13(8):145-154 (Nov 1982).
• Drexler, K. E., "" in Molecular Electronic Devices, F. Carter (ed.), Marcel Dekker, New York (1982); ISBN: 0824775627.
• Drexler, K. E., "Molecular engineering: An approach to the development of general capabilities for molecular manipulation", PNAS (U.S.A.) 78:5275-5278 (1981).
• Drexler, K. E., "High Performance Solar Sails and Related Reflecting Devices", Space Manufacturing III, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, New York (1979).
• Drexler, K. E., "Design of a High Performance Solar Sail System", M. S. Thesis, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1979).
• Drexler, K. E., "Design of a High Performance Solar Sail System" [CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE], MIT Space Systems Laboratory, Report 5-79, Boston (1979)
• Drexler, K. E., and H. K. Henson, "Design of Equipment for Vapor Phase Processing of Metals", Lunar Utilization,  D. Criswell, ed., Houston, Texas (1976).
• Drexler, K. E., , "Solar Sailing", National Space Institute Newsletter (Aug 1976).

Patents

• Henson, H. K., and K. E. Drexler. (1988) Heterodensity heat transfer apparatus and method.

U.S. Patent Office: #4,759,404
• Drexler, K. E. (1986) Solar sail.

U.S. Patent Office: #4,614,319
• Henson, H. K., and K. E. Drexler. (1984) Method for processing and fabricating metals in space.

U.S. Patent Office: #4,480,677

Academic Publications

• Drexler, K. E., "Molecular machinery and manufacturing with applications to computation", Ph.D. Thesis, 487 pp., Dept. of Architecture, Supervisor: Marvin L. Minsky, MIT (1991),
• Drexler, K. E., "Design of a high performance solar sail system", M.S. Thesis, 89 pp., Aeronautics and Astronautics, Supervisor: Walter Mark Hollister, MIT (1979).

K. Eric Drexler Web References

• K. Eric Drexler in Alexander Chislenko'sGreat Thinkers and Visionaries