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**CBA News & Notes**

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December 10, 2015

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- The annual fab class open house will be held on Tuesday December 15th from 5:00 to 6:30 on the sixth floor of MIT's building E14; come see the progress in projects and processes:\
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  <http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.15/>\

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  The global version of the class taught in the fab lab network is preparing to start a new cycle with ~100 sites participating:\
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  <http://fabacademy.org>\

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  and has inspired a second distributed class, *How To Grow (almost) Anything*, led by Harvard's George Church:\
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  <http://bio.academany.org/>\

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  - Videos and pictures are now posted for FAB11:\
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    <http://www.fab11.org/>\

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    This historic event brought participants from 78 countries to MIT's campus over the summer:\
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    <http://radioboston.wbur.org/2015/08/06/fab-labs>\

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    Highlights included the leadership of Boston, Somerville, and Cambridge joining Barcelona in committing to a countdown to urban self-sufficiency:\
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    <https://vimeo.com/136733025>\

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    Mark Raibert from Boston Dynamics revealing their latest creations:\
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    <http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/what-boston-dynamics-is-working-on-next>\

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    and a Symposium in Symphony Hall that assembled a ten-year look back and forward:\
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    <http://www.fab11.org/photos-and-video/>\

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    FAB12 will follow in Shenzhen, China from August 8-12 2016, and FAB13 will be held in Santiago, Chile in 2017.\
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    - After FAB11, CBA ran a pop-up lab at the Solutions Summit at the UN General Assembly where the Sustainable Development Goals were launched:\
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      <http://www.solutions-summit.org/>\

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      One of the featured solutions was Beno Juarez's presentation of the Amazon floating fab lab project:\
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      <http://amazon.fablat.org/>\

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      - We're pleased to welcome Dassault/SolidWorks as CBA's newest sponsor\
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        [http://www.solidworks.com](http://www.solidworks.com/)\

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        - Prof. Gershenfeld was one of 12 scientists interviewed for the National Academy of Sciences Great Hall:\
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          <http://nasgreathall.com/#interviews>\

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          He also spoke at TEDxCERN:\
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          <http://tedxcern.web.cern.ch/video/2015/programming-new-reality>\

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          and at the largest annual gathering of science communicators, hosted at MIT:\
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          <http://news.mit.edu/2015/mit-will-be-hub-universe-science-writers-october-0909>\

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          - There were student presentations by Nadya Peek (with James Coleman) at SIGGRAPH on machines that make machines:\
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            <http://s2015.siggraph.org/attendees/studio-courses/sessions/design-machines>\

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            and Lisa Nip at TEDxBeaconStreet on synthetic biology and human augmentation:\
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            <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na-NfaSbOjA>\

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            - *What To Think About Machines That Think* has been published with contributions from a number of CBA collaborators:\
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              <http://edge.org/annual-question/what-do-you-think-about-machines-that-think>\

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              - Mel King, the leader of the South End Technology Center which is the home of the first fab lab, was profiled:\
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                <http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/2015/0924/Mel-King-has-spent-a-lifetime-as-an-advocate-for-Boston-families>\

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                - CBA patent 9,073,962 has issued, on *Methods of serial assembly of DNA bricks into larger structures*: \
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                  <https://patents.google.com/patent/US9073962B2/en>\

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                  and patent 9,140,677 has issued, on *Methods and apparatus for artificial olfaction*:\
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                  <https://www.google.com/patents/US9140677>\

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                  - Best wishes from CBA for the holiday season and the coming year.\

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