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\ \ CBA News & Notes

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January 31, 2018

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• Best wishes for the coming year from your friends and colleagues at CBA\ \

• James Burke returned to the BBC for a New Year's program that included conversations with Grace Copplestone and Neil Gershenfeld (starting at 15:00):\ \

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09jvfc4

  \ - Neil Gershenfeld and his brothers will be presenting their new book Designing Reality on February 6 at the MIT Museum:\ \

  https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/program/designingreality

  \ Here they are discussing it on C-SPAN:\ \

  https://www.c-span.org/video/?438596-1/designing-reality

  \ and NPR:\ \

  http://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2017/11/27/third-digital-revolution

  \ and here's a review in Science:\ \

  http://blogs.sciencemag.org/books/2017/11/21/designing-reality

  \ - CBA will co-host the ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication in June:\ \

  <http://scf.acm.org>
  
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  - Congrats to alum Ben Recht who received the Test of Time award with Ali Rahimi at NIPS 2017:\
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    <http://www.argmin.net/2017/12/05/kitchen-sinks>
  
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    covered here by *The Economist*:\
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    <https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21732081-machine-learnings-big-event-all-buzz-ais-big-shindig>
  
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    - Andreas Mershin talks about how fields are for sheep to graze in:
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      <http://www.proj61.com/vmag>
  
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      and about researching across disciplines:\
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      <http://ilp.mit.edu/newsstory.jsp?id=24093>
  
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      - CBA patents issued for microfluidic perfusion:\
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        <https://patents.google.com/patent/US9610578B2>
  
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        and nucleic acid transplantation:\
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        <https://patents.google.com/patent/US9834747B2>
  
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        - We welcome the Defond Group as our newest sponsor, with a focus on molecular sensors:\
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          <http://www.grpdfond.com>
  

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