CBA News & Notes
April 28, 2019
- CBA had two articles featured on MIT's home page, one on a project with NASA on morphing aerostructures, led for CBA by Ben Jenett:
and one on a project growing cells in printed nanostructures, led for CBA by Filippos Tourlomousis:
The concept art for both was done by Eli Gershenfeld; the latter project was selected for the cover of Nature Microsystems & Nanoengineering:
- CBA is co-hosting three upcoming events. The first is a workshop on the Interspecies Internet project, at MIT on July 15:
The second is a critical look at the 50th anniversary of the Internet, at MIT on July 16:
And the third is FAB15, the annual gathering of the fab lab network, in Egypt this year from July 28-August 2:
Registration is open for all of them (which can be done through the CBA office if you're affiliated).
- A number of CBA personnel and collaborators contributed to this book on the future of AI:
Sam Calisch and colleagues wrote about driving boundary layers:
Andres Mershin and colleagues wrote about evolving laboratory evolution:
and Joel, Neil, and Alan Gershenfeld wrote about the future of work:
- Here's a story on CBA's role in the development of quantum computing:
Sara Falcone commenting on her winning team in an assistive technologies hackathon:
and an interview with Neil Gershenfeld on the foundations of digital fabrication:
- We're pleased to welcome Molex as a new sponsor, with a focus on advanced interconnect:
- CBA has received two new research awards, one for Structural Robotics from the Army Research Laboratory's Vehicle Technology Directorate:
and one for Discrete Integrated Circuit Electronics from DARPA's Microsystems Technology Office:
- We've added to our digital fabrication facility new tools for 3D printing:
http://cba.mit.edu.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/tools/index.html#Objet260_Connex3
http://cba.mit.edu.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/tools/index.html#Markforged_Mark_Two
http://cba.mit.edu.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/tools/index.html#Formlabs_Form_3
and scanning:
- A team from CBA, with support from SolidWorks, and their Chilean collaborators deployed a fab lab in the southernmost city on Earth, Puerto Williams:
And here's a story on the impact of fab labs in Kenya:
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