Forbes highlights pioneers, Prof. Mark Reed among them 

Prof. Mark Reed, EE, is once again in the national spotlight, this time
featured on the cover of Forbes as one of six nanotechnology innovators  
working on "finding ways to get inanimate materials to 'self-assemble,' 
in a fashion analogous to the way living things grow," writes Elizabeth 
Corcoran in "The Next Small Thing," Forbes Magazine, 07.23.01

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