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Chris Phoenix has been interested in nanotechnology since he took Eric Drexler's class "Nanotechnology and Exploratory Engineering" at Stanford University in 1988. He is a Senior Associate of the Foresight Institute and co-moderator of the sci.nanotech newsgroup. He has spent the last three years focused full-time on nanotechnology, co-founding the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRNano.org) in 2002 to promote discussion of the consequences of advanced nanotechnology and molecular manufacturing. His articles have been published in the Federation of American Scientists' Public Interest Report and on several prominent technology websites. His peer-reviewed technical publications include "œVasculoid: A Personal Nanomedical Appliance to Replace Human Blood" (primary author: Robert Freitas) and "œDesign of a Primitive Nanofactory."

Tihamer Toth-Fejel has been interested in self-replication since finding out about it while working on it in his EE Master'™s Thesis, "œSelf-Test: From Simple Circuits to Self-Replicating Automata". His 1996 article "œLEGOs to the Stars" anticipated much of the work that appeared after 2000 (especially that of NIAC fellow Greg Chirikjian http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/studies/final_report/pdf/880Chirikjian.pdf). Working as a research engineer on a wide variety of projects, many on which he has published in technical publications. Toth-Fejel has recently completed, with the help of Robert Freitas and Matt Moses a Phase 1 NIAC study, "Modeling Kinematic Cellular Automata: An Approach to Self-“Replication."