CBA News & Notes

August 15, 2014

CBA's mobile fab lab was featured at the first White House Maker Faire:

https://newsoffice-mit-edu.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/2014/mits-mobile-fab-lab-at-white-house-maker-faire-0620

Before that, Prof. Gershenfeld did NSF's first live Twitter appearance:

https://storify.com/NSF/the-national-science-foundation-twitter-chat-w-a-n

and he spoke for NSF at a Congressional briefing:

http://science360.gov/obj/tkn-video/b20cd5ee-e883-44f3-b7f4-88f364252649/made-order-customization-internet-enabled-manufacturing
Work at CBA was covered in Business Week:

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-06-16/fab-lab-the-diy-factory-that-can-make-anyone-a-maker

the Christian Science Monitor:

http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/2014/0706/The-maker-movement-creates-D.I.Y.-revolution

and Forbes:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2014/06/18/a-very-short-history-of-the-internet-of-things/
The coverage of Jeff Koons' Whitney retrospective includes his collaboration with CBA:

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/07/jeff-koons-whitney-retropective
Here are stories on alum Manu Prakash's science tools:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/22/science/science-tools-anyone-can-afford.html

and on alum Max Lobovosky's 3D printers:

http://newsoffice.mit.edu.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/2014/affordable-precision-3-d-printing-pros-0603
Presentations and videos from our Bits ↔ Biology meeting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/09/science/a-synthetic-biology-conference-lures-an-intriguing-audience.html

are now online:

http://cba.mit.edu.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/events/14.05.BB/index.html

We also hosted a gathering of the exceptional alumni from Alex Rich's lab:

http://cba.mit.edu.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/events/14.06.AW/index.html

and there were a number of CBA presentations at Solid:

http://solidcon.com/solid2014/public/schedule/speakers
CBA has received grants from NASA for "Active Wing Shaping Control Concept Using Composite Lattice-Based Cellular Materials" and "Modular Rapidly Manufactured Spacecraft".
CBA patents have issued for reconfigurable logic automata:

https://www.google.com/patents/US8766665

analog logic automata:

https://www.google.com/patents/US8742794

and asynchronous logic automata:

https://www.google.com/patents/US8692575
More than 50 countries were represented at FAB10; presentations and videos from the symposium have been posted:

https://www.fab10.org/en/symposium

After ten years, FAB11 will be returning to MIT August 3-8 2015.
Chevron has announced a generous ten million dollar grant to the Fab Foundation:

http://www.fabfoundation.org/2014/06/the-fab-foundation-launches-new-fab-labs-in-the-us-with-generous-grant-from-chevron/
Dina El-Zanfaly's work on fab labs in Egypt was featured on MIT's home page:

http://newsoffice.mit.edu.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/2014/profile-student-dina-el-zanfaly-0715

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