CBA News & Notes
October 10, 2024
- We're thrilled to announce the launch of of a local/regional/global fab lab hub in Kendall Square:
CBA collaborator Megan Smith wrote for the National Academy of Engineering about the role of fab labs in fostering talent to realize the national potential:
Congrats to Anna Waldman on being elected to the MIT Corporation; she's worked with international policymakers and grassroots innovators through the fab lab network:
Presentations and videos have been posted from FAB24, the global gathering that CBA co-hosted in Mexico:
Fab labs were highlighted as one of MIT’s biggest contributions of the past 25 years:
And the greatest recognition of all -- "fab labs" was a clue in the New York Times crossword puzzle:
- CBA grad student Camron Blackburn presented her work on zeptojoule logic with asynchronous adiabatic quantum flux parametrons at the Applied Superconductivity Conference:
Grad student Alfonso Parra Rubio presented his work on folded modular metal structures at the International Meeting on Origami in Science, Mathematics and Education:
and at Origami Bridging Art, Science and Industry:
His pieces will be shown in the Connecting Artifacts exhibit at the National Museum of Emerging Science in Tokyo:
- For the Santa Fe Institute's magisterial collection of Foundational Papers in Complexity Science, Neil Gershenfeld wrote about Self-Reproducing Ideas (on von Neumann's Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata) and about Finding Hidden Meaning (on Packard et al.'s Geometry from a Time Series), and CBA visitor Scott Kirkpatrick's Solvable Model of a Spin-Glass was included as one of the seminal papers:
- Congratulations to a team led by grad student Jack Forman for recognition by the Core77 Design Awards for liquid-crystal elastomer fibers for shape-shifting fabrics:
A team led by Patricia Stathatou extended work she started at CBA, showing how yeast encapsulated in hydrogels can quickly absorb lead as water flows through it:
- CBA patents have issued for Diamond rotors for MAS-NMR:
Cuboctahedron lattice materials:
Laser-assisted material phase-change and expulsion micro-machining process:
and Elastic shape morphing of ultra-light structures by programmable assembly:
- CBA has received funding from the Air Force Research Lab for continuing work on Discrete Integrated Circuit Electronics:
and from Lincoln Labs for continuing work on superconducting electronics:
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