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From: CBA News <eba_news®ng.cba.rnit.edu> To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacationggmail.com> Subject: CBA News & Notes Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 20:35:05 +0000 GI'CBA logo CBA News & Notes May 15, 2015 • FAB11 registration is now open: http://www.fab11.org/ A fabulous group of CBA grads and collaborators will be coming in for this week of events. Space is limited, so register now! • Nice coverage of the work of CBA alums Saul Griffith: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/technology/the-robotics-inventors-who-are-trying- to-take-the-hard-out-of-hardware.html Ben Recht: http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/jan-22-2015-NASawards.html Yael Maguire: http://www.wired.com/2015/04/yael-maguire and Raffi Krikorian: http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/25/uber-snags-raffi-krikorian-former-twitter-vp-as- engineering-lead-for-its-moonshot-razjects EFTA00703093 • Current grad student Nadya Peek presented the fab lab 2.0 roadmap in Shenzhen: http://szsb.sznews.com/html/2015-03/19/content 3171677.htm and will be returning there with a larger group for the Shenzhen Maker Week: http://www.szida.org/content-40-2119.html Grad student Matt Carney gave a TEDx talk on robotic assembly: http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/One-bit-Bots-Robotic-Construc-2 • Wea Nre sorry to report on the passing of a good friend of the lab, Alex Rich: http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/obituary-alexander-rich-dies-90-0428 • Skylar Tibbits' Self-Assembly Lab hosted an Active Matter Summit: http://activemattersummit.com/ and he presented with Neil Gershenfeld at AAAS: https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2015/webprogram/Session9776.html • Prof. Gershenfeld received an honorary degree from the University of Antwerp: https://www.uantwerpen.be/nI/overuantwerpen/nieuwsoveruantwerperileredoctoraten/e redoctoraten-2015/ Here he is on digital reality: http://edge.org/conversation/neil gershenfeld-digital-reality and extinctions: https://origins.asu.edu/events/great-debate-extinctions-tragedy-opportunity • Barcelona's City Architect Vicente Guallart is providing universal access to fab labs as part of the city's infrastructure: http://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2015/apr/04/tooling-up-civic- visions-fablabs-and-grassroots-activism MIT's new Dean of Architecture and Planning Hashim Sarkis concluded his first NPR interview by mentioning CBA's work with cities on producing what they consume: http://wgbhnews.org/post/bpr-asks-mayor-and-you • Rep. Bill Foster has introduced the National Fab Lab Network act in this Congress: http://foster.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/foster-introduces-legislation-to- support-next-generation-of-makers EFTA00703094 • The Cairo fab lab hosted an Egyptian Maker Faire: https://medium.corril@dalepd/not-impossible-the-first-maker-faire-in-egypt- 22c6d81dab8d • A CBA patent issued on digital composites: http://www.google.com/patents/US8986809 • CBA joins a project team in DARPA's MENTOR2 program: http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2015/02/12.aspx • We've commissioned our newest tool, an Oxford solid-state laser micromachining system: http://www.oxfordlasers.com/laser-micromachining/laser-micromachining-system/a- series/ This will be used for work on additive assembly of integrated electronics. • Congrats to Big Hero 6 (which credits CBA) on winning a well-deserved Oscar for best Animated Feature Film: http://oscargo.cominominees/animated-feature-film/big-hero-6 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 EFTA00703095