MIT's 150th anniversary open house 11:00-4:00 on Saturday April 30 will feature CBA's digital fabrication facility in its Under the Dome campus event. CBA will be demonstrating rapid-prototyping tools covering input and output from nanometers to meters in MIT's buildings E14 and E15. Please join us if you are in the area:

http://mit150.mit.edu.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/open-house/activity/center-bits-and-atoms-digital-fabricatio= n-facility-and-fab-lab-network
Recent CBA press coverage highlighted our use of micro-CT in this story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/business/02novel.html

and our work on embedded networking here:
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2011/02/28/online_universe_is_about to_grow/?page=3Dfull
CBA is managing an exciting speculative new DARPA project looking at quantum effects in biology, based on the observation that flies can smell isotopes:

http://news.sciencemag.org.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/sciencenow/2011/02/do-vibrating-molecules-give-us-o.html?ref=3Dhp
Two new CBA patents have issued, on analog logic:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,860,687&OS=7,860,687&RS=7,860,687

and on microfluidic logic:

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=7918244.PN.&OS=PN/7918244&RS=PN/7918244
Fab lab travels have included launching a new lab in Jeddah in January, preparing new labs in the UK in February,0 Prof. Gershenfeld joining President Obama at an event highlighting education and technology in Boston in March, and Sherry Lassiter addressing the business and education communities in Minnesota in April.=A0 With the many labs planned, the total number is approaching 100 in 23 countries. This growing network will be gathering in Lima, Peru August 15-19 for its annual meeting, FAB7:

http://www.fab7.pe/

The contact for meeting information is fab7@fabfoundation.org
We're pleased to welcome Patty Tolan <patty.tolan@cba.mit.edu> to CBA's staff; she'll be the lead contact for planning visits and events.

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