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**Source**: http://cba.mit.edu/news/19_04.html
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**CBA News & Notes**

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April 28, 2019

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- 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:\
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  <http://mit.edu/archive/spotlight/shape-changing-plane-wing/>

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  and one on a project growing cells in printed nanostructures, led for CBA by Filippos Tourlomousis:\
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  <http://mit.edu/archive/spotlight/cell-scale-3-d-printing/>

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  The concept art for both was done by Eli Gershenfeld; the latter project was selected for the cover of *Nature Microsystems & Nanoengineering*:\
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  <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41378-019-0055-4>

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  - CBA is co-hosting three upcoming events. The first is a workshop on the Interspecies Internet project, at MIT on July 15:\
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    <http://cba.mit.edu/events/19.07.I2I/>

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    The second is a critical look at the 50th anniversary of the Internet, at MIT on July 16:\
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    <https://xconomy.com/net50/>

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    And the third is FAB15, the annual gathering of the fab lab network, in Egypt this year from July 28-August 2:\
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    <http://fab15.fabevent.org/>

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    Registration is open for all of them (which can be done through the CBA office if you're affiliated).\
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    - A number of CBA personnel and collaborators contributed to this book on the future of AI:\
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      <https://www.edge.org/conversation/john_brockman-possible-minds>

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      Sam Calisch and colleagues wrote about driving boundary layers:\
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      <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889974618306091>

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      Andres Mershin and colleagues wrote about evolving laboratory evolution:\
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      <https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000182>

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      and Joel, Neil, and Alan Gershenfeld wrote about the future of work:\
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      <http://cba.mit.edu/docs/papers/19.01.POW.pdf>

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      - Here's a story on CBA's role in the development of quantum computing:\
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        <https://gizmodo.com/the-unlikely-origins-of-the-first-quantum-computer-1831054476>

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        Sara Falcone commenting on her winning team in an assistive technologies hackathon:\
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        <https://www.ll.mit.edu/news/sixth-annual-mit-athack-develops-technology-bostonians-living-disabilities>

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        and an interview with Neil Gershenfeld on the foundations of digital fabrication:\
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        <https://www.lepoint.fr/futurapolis/neil-gershenfeld-l-evolution-n-a-rien-d-un-processus-hasardeux-03-03-2019-2297668_427.php>

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        - We're pleased to welcome Molex as a new sponsor, with a focus on advanced interconnect:\
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          <https://www.molex.com>

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          - CBA has received two new research awards, one for Structural Robotics from the Army Research Laboratory's Vehicle Technology Directorate:\
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            <https://www.arl.army.mil/www/default.cfm?page=34>

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            and one for Discrete Integrated Circuit Electronics from DARPA's Microsystems Technology Office:\
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            <https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/offices/mto>

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            - We've added to our digital fabrication facility new tools for 3D printing:\
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              <http://cba.mit.edu/tools/index.html#Objet260_Connex3>\
              <http://cba.mit.edu/tools/index.html#Markforged_Mark_Two>\
              <http://cba.mit.edu/tools/index.html#Formlabs_Form_3>\

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              and scanning:\
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              <http://cba.mit.edu/tools/index.html#Artec_Leo>

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              - A team from CBA, with support from SolidWorks, and their Chilean collaborators deployed a fab lab in the southernmost city on Earth, Puerto Williams:\
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                <https://prensaantartica.com/2019/01/22/inauguraron-taller-de-fabricacion-creativa-modelo-mit-en-puerto-williams>

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                And here's a story on the impact of fab labs in Kenya:\
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                <http://news.mit.edu/2019/soko-jewelry-kenya-artisans-0104>

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