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

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://mv.ezproxy.com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/winners.html

and alum Ben Vigoda was featured in Tech Review:

http://web.mit.edu.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/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_Stockholm_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:

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

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