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From: Lesley Groff To: Jefffrey Epstein •1 Subject: Fwd: CBA News & Notes Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 15:32:08 +0000 Begin forwarded message: From: CBA News <cba news@ng.cba.mitedu> Subject: CBA News & Notes Date: August 6, 2013 11:03:32 AM EDT To: Lesley Groff < Reply-To: CBA News <cba news@cba.mit.edu> CBA logo CBA News & Notes August 6, 2013 • CBA's work on digital fabrication was featured by CNN: http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2013/07/17/exp-gps-gershenfeld- 3d-printing.cnn.html NPR: http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2013/06/19/gershenfeld-digital-revolution BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22559022 EFTA00385915 the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/as-fab-labs-spread-across-us-modern- day-tinkerers-reimagine-a-nation-that-makes-stuff/2013/04/15/6570fca4-a383-11e2- be47-b44febada3a8 story.html and the White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/04/30/science-digital-fabrication • Recent grad Matt Keeter was one of the winners in SIGGRAPH's student research competition: http://src.acm.org/winners.html and alum Ben Vigoda was featured in Tech Review: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/ben-vigoda-lyric-0501.html • CBA patents have issued for programmable surfaces: http://www.google.com/patents/US8473123 smart composite tooling: http://www.google.com/patents/US8473093 and microfluidic logic devices: http://www.google.com/patents/US8383061 • We're pleased to welcome Motorola/Google as CBA's newest sponsor, led by their Advanced Technology & Projects (ATAP) group: http://www.motorola.com/us/consumers/About Motorola-ATAP- ATAP Leads/About Motorola-ATAP-ATAP Leads en US pg.html • CBA researchers helped organize the Molecular Frontiers Symposium and Inquiry Prize in Stockholm: http://www.molecularfrontiers.org/media/Documents/Symposia/Molecular Frontiers S tockholm 2013 Program.pdf • TED has posted a presentation on the Interspecies Internet collaboration: http://www.ted.com/talks/the interspecies internet an idea in progress.html and it was covered by NPR: http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2013/07/09/gabriel-interspecies-internet • There's still time to register for FAB9, coming up in Yokohoma August 20-27: EFTA00385916 http://www.fab9jp com/program.html FAB10 will follow in Barcelona, July 2-8 2014: http://fab10.org/ • A number of fab labs gathered for events in Rome: http://www.makerfairerome.eu/neil-gershenfeld-a-roma-aspettando-la-maker-faire- europea/ http://www.biblionext.it/page/programma • A CBA team deployed a fab lab in Anchorage with the Cook Inlet Tribal Council: http://www.alaskadispatch.com/slideshow/photos-inside-fablab-alaskas-new-3d- printer A remote tour of the new lab was shown at the Global Philanthropy Forum, with a local demo from OtherFab: http://philanthropyforum.org/sessions/the-future-we-make-development-in-the-digital- age/ • The connection between technology and craft at the Haystack fab lab was discussed in this program: http://ttbook.org/book/crafting-technology • India's Vigyan Ashram fab lab was a finalist in the World Bank's Development Marketplace: http://blogs.worldbank.org/dmblog/overview-india-dm-2013-finalists • Cisco has made a generous donation of a carrier-class video Multipoint Control Unit, to provide capacity for distributed classes and programs in the fab lab network: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11340/index.html This is an occasional newsletter on the activities of CBA and its partners; to be added or removed from this list, or to submit items, please contact cba news@cba.mit.edu EFTA00385917