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December 12, 2014

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• 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/>

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- 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:\
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  <http://www.bayvalley.com.cn/>

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  and to launch a flagship fab lab at the Gezhi High School, which will anchor the new national China Inter-School Fab Lab Alliance:\
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  <http://shanghai.kankanews.com/c/2014-11-09/0015863881.shtml>

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  After that the team was hosted by the city of Shenzhen, where FAB12 will be held in 2016.\
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  - A FABulous documentary on FAB10 has been released:\
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    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyMl_Qedd7c>

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    FAB11 will be returning to MIT August 3-9, 2015, hosted with the Fab Foundation and the cities of Boston, Somerville, and Cambridge.\
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    - Two CBA patents have issued on microfluidic bubble logic devices:\
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      <http://www.google.com/patents/US8820357>\
      <http://www.google.com/patents/US8828335>

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      - A number of CBA collaborators participated in a debate on the risks (and opportunities) of AI:\
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        <http://edge.org/conversation/the-myth-of-ai>

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        - Prof. Gershenfeld presented CBA research at a meeting of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology:\
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          <http://www.tvworldwide.com/events/pcast/140919/default.cfm>

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          and received an award from ACADIA:\
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          <http://www.aialosangeles.org/home-page-latest-news/grasshoppers-rhinos-and-fab-labs-at-acadia#.VIhbTlXd-Ns>

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          - *Nature* covered the Science and Entertainment Exchange:\
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            <http://blogs.nature.com/ofschemesandmemes/2014/07/23/behind-the-science-of-hollywood>

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            that was seeded by an early CBA workshop:\
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            <http://cba.mit.edu/events/03.01.NAS/index.html>

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            - *Fortune* covered CBA's collaboration with sponsor Google's ATAP team on Project Ara:\
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              <http://fortune.com/2014/08/14/google-goes-darpa/>

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              - *Make* featured a decade of fab labs in its 10th anniversary issue:\
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                <http://makezine.com/magazine/make-40/fab-labs-at-10/>

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                and reported on fab lab Lima:\
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                <http://makezine.com/2014/04/24/benom-juarez-on-the-future-of-digital-fabrication-in-peru/>

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                - CBA visitor Michael Benson's latest book looks at changing representations of the universe:\
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                  <http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/14/science/space/in-cosmigraphics-our-changing-pictures-of-space-through-time.html>

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                  - Congrats to CBA student Spencer Wilson on being named a Marshall Scholar:\
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                    <http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/senior-spencer-wilson-named-marshall-scholar-1201>

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                    - Happy holidays from all of us at CBA, and our best wishes for the coming year.

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