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From: CBA News <cba_news(Og.eba.init.edu> To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation(regmail.com> Subject: CBA News & Notes Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 19:20:29 +0000 CBA logo CBA News & Notes December 12, 2014 • The annual open house for How To Make (almost) Anything will be held from 4:30-6:00 on Tuesday December 16, on the sixth floor of MIT's building E14: http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.14/ Come see what the expanded class has accomplished: http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.14/people/index.html • We're pleased to welcome GlaxoSmithKline as CBA's newest sponsor, with a focus on label-free sensing for advanced drug manufacturing and discovery: http://www.gsk.com/ • A CBA team was in Shanghai to kick off the MIT CBA China Innovation Program, with a focus on biomedical devices and the transition from prototype to production: http://www.bayvalley.com.cn/ and to launch a flagship fab lab at the Gezhi High School, which will anchor the new national China Inter-School Fab Lab Alliance: http://shanghai.kankanews.com/c/2014-11-09/0015863881.shtml EFTA00627808 After that the team was hosted by the city of Shenzhen, where FAB12 will be held in 2016. • A FABulous documentary on FAB10 has been released: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyMI Qedd7c FAB11 will be returning to MIT August 3-9, 2015, hosted with the Fab Foundation and the cities of Boston, Somerville, and Cambridge. • Two CBA patents have issued on microfluidic bubble logic devices: http://www.google.com/patents/US8820357 http://www.google.com/patents/US8828335 • A number of CBA collaborators participated in a debate on the risks (and opportunities) of Al: http://edge.org/conversation/the-myth-of-ai • Prof. Gershenfeld presented CBA research at a meeting of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology: http://www.tvworldwide.com/events/pcast/140919/default.cfm and received an award from ACADIA: http://www.aialosangeles.org/home-page-latest-news/grasshoppers-rhinos-and-fab- labs-at-acadia#.V1hbTIXd-Ns • Nature covered the Science and Entertainment Exchange: http://blogs.nature.com/ofschemesandmemes/2014/07/23/behind-the-science-of- hollywood that was seeded by an early CBA workshop: http://cba.mit.edu/events/03.01.NAS/index.html • Fortune covered CBA's collaboration with sponsor Google's ATAP team on Project Ara: http://fortune.com/2014/08/14/google-goes-darpa/ • Make featured a decade of fab labs in its 10th anniversary issue: http://makezine.com/magazine/make40/fab-labs-at-10/ and reported on fab lab Lima: http://makezine.com/2014/04/24/benom-juarez-on-the-future-of-digital-fabrication-in- peru/ • CBA visitor Michael Benson's latest book looks at changing representations of the universe: EFTA00627809 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/14/science/space/in-cosmigraphics-our-changing- pictures-of-space-through-time.html • Congrats to CBA student Spencer Wilson on being named a Marshall Scholar: http:finewsoffice.mit.edu/2014/senior-spencer-wilson-named-marshall-scholar-1201 • Happy holidays from all of us at CBA, and our best wishes for the coming year. This is an occasional newsletter on the activities of CBA and its partners; to be added or removed from this list, or to submit items, please contact cba [email protected] EFTA00627810