We're pleased to announce a gift of five million dollars to create the Houssam Hariri Memorial Fund for Mind Machine Research, and welcome this generous opportunity to expand work in the Mind Machine Project.
A CBA team worked with the UK's Manufacturing Institute to open a first fab lab there, with events in Manchester:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/240a3c70-35f0-11df-aa43-00144feabdc0.html

and in London (at the House of Commons).
The newest fab lab officially opened Friday, May 20 in Akranes, Iceland, undeterred by volcanic ash.
The growing global fab lab network will be meeting in Amsterdam the week of August 16 for FAB6, the Sixth International Fab Lab Forum and Symposium on Digital Fabrication:
http://fab6.nl/

Space is limited for both the week of hands-on workshops and the one-day research meeting; registration is through the meeting site, and the technical program will be available at:
http://cba.mit.edu.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/events/10.08.FAB6/

with satellite local meetings connecting via our MCU.
Grad student Amy Sun was interviewed by NPR about the FabFi project in Afghanistan:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125866561&f=2&sc=17
Former grad student Saul Griffith, leader of Other Lab's component of our "milli-biology" programmable matter project, was profiled in the New Yorker (subscription required):
http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=2010-05-17#folio=042
A CBA team has developed "microdynamical" systems, in which microstructures are created dynamically rather than by static fabrication. These promise to be both cheaper and more versatile than micromechanical systems in important applications areas:
http://web.mit.edu.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/newsoffice/2010/accelerometer-0416