The first podcast discussing nanotechnology law, policy, business and public opinion. New revolutions are cautiously measured. The revolution offering humans the ability to build products with atomic precision is no different. Anticipating revolution, President John F. Kennedy, on September 12, 1962, said:

"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win?."

And on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong took a step out of the Apollo 11 lunar craft onto the moon.
 

     While many have spoken of the nanotechnology revolution, it is only deliberately, cautiously emerging. But are the pertinent questions being addressed? Who is providing the answers? Is society involved and need society be involved? These podcasts will engage in dialogue with representatives of technical, legal, legislative, societal and economic regimes - those compelled and concerned by atomic level manufacturing to better understand the impact of this technology on the earth.

William J. Simmons, Executive Editor
William has been involved in primary scientific research since his undergraduate years when he was a member of the first research based Molecular Biology undergraduate program in the United States. More recently he is completing a postdoctoral fellowship, funded by the National Institutes of Health, where he studies molecular communications that make cellular function possible. He and colleagues recently developed a nanoscale experimental therapeutic DNA based strategy for combating the dysfunctional signal transduction mechanism in aberrant cells (press release). Through the study of law, William hopes to focus on the practical implications of bionanotechnology in society. William is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association and an active member of the American Bar Association, where he serves as Editor for the Science and Technology Section's Biotech Brief. His legal course work includes complex litigation, various forms of intellectual property law including patent law and federal regulation of electronic media. His scholarly legal research explores transnational regulatory regimes of nascent technologies, including nanotechnology, particularly the United States and Japanese patent regimes.
Email: wsimmons.s@nyls.edu
 

Nikitas Nicolakis, Webmaster/Editor
Nikitas graduated from Northeastern University with a B.S. in Computer Science. He is presently a third year law student at New York Law School and is interested in Intellectual Property. He is currently doing research on the Digital Media Project at The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. At the Institute for Information Law and Policy, Nikitas is also developing prototypes of e-Government & e-Rulemaking innovations. The project has led to the development of an e-Rulemaking gallery where researchers, students, citizens and government officials can discover and add suggestions for improving participation in government. He has developed prototypes for projects such as "Clickable Statues", a piece of legal software aimed at visually representing the meaning of statutes to citizens and students alike. He is also the President of the Intellectual Property and Information Law Society at New York Law School, and, at the same, serves on the Executive Board for the Media Law and Policy Journal.

Email: nicolakis@gmail.com
Blog: http://nyls.blogs.com/nicolakis

Paul Foreman, Jr., Senior Editor
Paul, a very recently graduated law student, is now an associate at Weiner Lesniak LLP, the privately owned law firm of New Jersey Senator Raymond Lesniak. His work focuses on commercial litigation and insurance defense, including the defense of numerous Fortune 500 companies. His firm is experienced in handling intensive litigation including sophisticated matters dealing with corporate and general commercial issues, securities fraud, anti-trust, environmental, patent infringement, contract, and other commercial matters. While a law student, Paul concentrated on criminal and domestic law studies.
Email: pfj660@aol.com
 

Robert Schecter, Senior Editor
While completing his first year of law school, Robert was also an Associate Producer at CNN Business News. Robert has a penchant for details. He served as the Executive Case Comment Editor for the New York Law School Law Review and as a Harlan Scholar for the Center for Professional Values and Practice. He is interested in practicing corporate law and developing innovative business solutions for his clients, including those developing nanotechnology methods and devices.
Email: rschechter.s@nyls.edu  

Ian Malin, Associate Editor
No stranger to high technology finance, Ian spent the past five years with Allco Finance Corporation in New York and in Frankfurt and has recently started Split Tack Advisors, LLC where he concentrates on structured finance arrangements. Ian's focus is on leveraged lease financing transactions involving infrastructure and rolling stock assets.  He has represented both lessors and lessees in these transactions and in 2003, while at Allco, arranged the largest ever qualified technological equipment transaction involving Germany's entire air traffic control system. A significant accomplishment, this deal won Deal of the Year award from Asset Finance International Magazine. Prior to joining Allco, Ian opened and operated the San Francisco office of KPMG's international trade and custom's group. Ian is currently pursuing his JD at New York Law School. He was a double major at Middlebury College, where he concentrated in both German and Geography. Ian speaks fluent German.
Email: imalin@nyls.edu
 

Maciej Simm, Composer
Website: cd4cd8.com
Email: simm@cd4cd8.com