# Summary of #hplusroadmap IRC Discussion (March 13, 2009)

• A collection of microfluidics papers was shared at http://dhcp-84-113.me.utexas.edu/papers/microfluidics/, highlighting ongoing interest in this technology among transhumanist researchers.

• Discussion of the Materials Genome Project was mentioned, with a link to http://michaelgr.com/2008/07/02/materials-genome-project/, suggesting interest in computational materials science.

• Tim Berners-Lee's philosophy of "Release the data before making a beautiful web site" was shared, along with his TED talk on linked data (http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html), indicating interest in semantic web technologies.

• Several semantic web tools and resources were discussed, including a comprehensive listing at http://www.mkbergman.com/?page_id=325, showing the community's interest in knowledge representation technologies.

• Technical work on CAD software was discussed, particularly using PythonOCC (Python bindings for OpenCASCADE) to break imported CAD objects into components, with the goal of working with models from the NIST national design repository.

• References to open manufacturing projects were made, including freefab.org and openmanufacturing.org, as well as discussion of a wire-EDM construction project.