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May 6, 2016

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• James Pelletier was a co-author on a landmark paper on creating a minimal synthetic organism: \ \

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/synthetic-microbe-lives-less-500-genes\

\ - CBA has received an award from DARPA's Biological Technologies Office:\ \

<http://www.darpa.mil/about-us/offices/bto>\

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to develop "B-codes" – direct cellular interfaces for machine control that are analogous to the G-codes used in manufacturing automation, and has received an award from the Hearst Foundation:\
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<http://www.hearstfdn.org/>\

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for *FAB: The Game*, a video game to teach digital fabrication skills.\
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- Congratulations to Skylar Tibbits on his selection as R&D Magazine's 2015 Innovator of the Year:\
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  <http://www.rdmag.com/articles/2015/12/art-innovation>\

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  to Joe Jacobson and his former students Barrett Comiskey and JD Albert on their induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame:\
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  <http://invent.org/inductees>\

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  and to Max Lobovsky on his selection as one of Forbes magazine's 30 under 30 in Manufacturing:\
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  <http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2016/01/04/30-under-30-making-the-personal-scalable-from-iced-tea-to-robots-to-spare-parts>\

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  - CBA research was presented at events on fabrication:\
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    <http://computationalfabrication.pages.ist.ac.at>\

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    design:\
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    <http://blogs.solidworks.com/solidworksblog/2016/02/solidworks-world-2016-day-one-general-session-recap.html>\

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    security:\
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    <https://boingboing.net/2016/02/04/videos-of-this-years-shmooco.html>\

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    and space:\
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    <http://www.forbes.com/sites/keithwagstaff/2016/02/12/bill-nye-could-genetic-engineering-and-replicators-be-the-key-to-colonizing-mars>\

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    - Shuguang Zhang and collaborators were awared a patent for the synthesis of water-soluble membrane proteins:\
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      <http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=9309302.PN.&OS=PN/9309302&RS=PN/9309302>\

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      - The event site is up for FAB12, to be held in Shenzhen August 8-14, 2016:\
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        <http://fab12.fabevent.org>\

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        Amsterdam is hosting a FabCity Campus, joining the commitments made by cities at FAB10 and FAB11:\
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        <http://fablabbcn.org/events/2016/03/09/fabcity-campus-amsterdam2.html>\

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        Fantastico, the most-viewed TV show in Brazil, did a series on the maker movement, starting with a program featuring Brazil's lively fab lab network:\
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        <http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/quadros/fab-lab>\

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        The Toulouse fab lab 3D-printed Neil Gershenfeld's voice:\
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        <http://www.3ders.org/articles/20160318-voice-sculptor-gilles-azzaro-3d-prints-what-is-a-fablab-as-ultimate-tribute-to-fablabs.html>\

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        And MIT reviewed the spread of fab labs:\
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        <http://news.mit.edu/2016/3-questions-neil-gershenfeld-fab-labs-0104>\

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        - We join the world in mourning the passing of Marvin Minsky, who was one of the advisors (and inspirations) for the founding of CBA. Here are thoughts from many of his collaborators:\
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          <http://edge.org/conversation/marvin_minsky-remembering-minsky>\

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