For those on or near campus, Jonathan Bachrach from Otherlab will be speaking about joint work on programmable matter, joined by fab class alum Neri Oxman, in the "How To Make (almost) Anything" lecture series on Wednesday 11/17 at 6:30 in 7-431. And new sponsor Moog Inc. will be hosting a lunch on Thursday 11/18 12:00-1:30 in the Silverman Room on the 6th floor of E14 to introduce their work on motion control for airplanes, satellites, buildings, amusement parks, ... .
Our mobile fab lab was featured at the USA Science & Engineering Festival:

http://www.usasciencefestival.org/

with long lines of kids, parents, researchers, inventors, legislators and administrators packing in from opening to closing.
Prof. Gershenfeld spoke about CBA's educational activities in a keynote for Educause (the group that runs .edu):

http://www.educause.edu/E2010/Program/GS02
The next session of Fab Academy fab lab classes will be starting in January:

http://fabacademy.org/
A CBA team helped open new fab labs in Tulsa:

http://www.fablabtulsa.com/

and Champaign-Urbana:

http://cucfablab.org/

and participated in setting up labs at Fermilab:

http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/archive_2010/today10-11-10.html

and in Fairbanks:

http://www.alaskajournal.com/stories/111110/loc_flak.shtml
The patent on CBA's work on microfluidic bubble logic devices has issued, number 7,784,495:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,784,495.PN.&OS=PN/7,784,495&RS=PN/7,784,495
We're pleased to announce that DARPA has selected a CBA proposal on programmable surfaces for funding in the first phase of its M3 program.

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