Welcome to the Third International Conference on Nano-Networks (Nano-Net 2008). It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to this innovative conference and to the city of Boston on this the 3rd year since the vision of nano-scale networking was conceived. I was at the founding conference in EPFL, Switzerland and followed the second conference in Catania, Italy, with great interest.

While we have extended the Nano-Net conference this year to include a Workshop and a Tutorial, the highlight is, of course, the Technical Program. Alexandre Schmid has done an outstanding job presiding over the review process used to select the papers to be presented at this conference. I am deeply grateful to the members of the TPC for their tremendous effort in evaluating (along with many anonymous reviewers) the submissions and for organizing the papers into sessions, all on a tight schedule. I extend my deepest thanks to the organizing committee, in particular, Alex Schmid and Karen Decker, as well as the active organizing members, namely, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Alexander Sergienko, Nikolaus Correll, Kaustav Banerjee, Radu Marculescu, and Tatsuya Suda.

The Nano-Net organizing committee has selected three outstanding plenary speakers in Tatsuya Suda, Sylvain Martel, and Neil Gershenfeld, who will be speaking on a variety of truly fascinating topics regarding networking at the nano-scale.

A panel discussion on "Using Advanced Micro/Nano-electronic Technology to Establish Neuromorphic Systems" is planned for Monday afternnoon. Panelists Prof. Garrett Rose, Dr. Vladimir Gorelik, Prof. Masud Chowdhury, Shih-Chii Liu, and Dr. Matthew Hynd will share their perspectives on this growing technology related to the formation of the ultimate nanoscale network, a brain-like system.

Recent advances nano-networks, in the form of a Poster Session, is planned to take place Tuesday afternoon. This is a great opportunity for informal discussion with presenters regarding their latest developments.

The Conference Banquet takes place on Monday evening and will serve as another chance for an enjoyable gathering.

Karen Decker very ably served as Finance Chair and therefore was intimately involved in virtually all aspects of the planning and organization of the conference.

Neil Gershenfeld graciously handled local arrangements for the conference, including video recording of the presentations.

Yun Li organized an excellent tutorial. I would like to extend my warm thanks to Wei Lu for stepping up to share his ideas and expertise with the community in the form of this first Nano-Network tutorial.

As you will see from the proceedings, Maggie Chen has done an excellent job as Publications chair.

Last, but far from least, I owe a special debt of gratitude to Sanjay Goel and Damira Pon of SUNY for an outstanding and highly professional job in organizing the Nano-Net Workshop and hosting the symposium web site and responding to literally hundreds of requests for changes and updates to the website-- all done in a timely and efficient manner.

Again, welcome to the conference. I hope that you find these few days technically stimulating and professionally rewarding.

Stephen F Bush
General Chair
Nano-Net 2008, Boston