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\ \ CBA News & Notes
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November 12, 2017
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- Prof. Gershenfeld's new book Designing Reality, written with his brothers Joel and Alan, comes out Nov 14:\ \
\ Here he is on assembling assemblers for the inaugural Science, Technology & Innovation Exchange:\ \
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA2wBdxy7Hc
\ - Work at CBA on programmable matter and self-reproducing replicators is presented in Skylar Tibbits' new book on Active Matter:\ \
<https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/active-matter>
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- Adam Savage's full CBA tour has been posted:\
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<http://www.tested.com/art/makers/684731-adam-savages-maker-tour-mits-center-bits-and-atoms-part-1>\
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<http://www.tested.com/art/689904-adam-savages-maker-tour-mits-center-bits-and-atoms-part-2>\
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<http://www.tested.com/art/makers/709067-adam-savages-maker-tour-mits-center-bits-and-atoms-part-3>\
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<http://www.tested.com/art/makers/716498-adam-savages-maker-tour-mits-center-bits-and-atoms-part-4>
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- Alum Raffi Krokorian is the DNC's new CTO:\
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<https://www.wired.com/story/the-dncs-technology-chief-is-phishing-his-staff-good>
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- We're pleased to add to our digital fabrication facility a 3 kilowatt fiber lasercutter, developed at alum Saul Griffith's Otherlab by a team including current CBA student Jake Read:\
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<http://cba.mit.edu/tools/#Fablight_3000_Laser_Cutter>
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We've also added a new Biosafety Level 2 lab for work on synthetic cells.\
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- Here are contributions from CBA to the microfluidic isolation of bacterial nucleoids:\
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<https://link.springer.com/protocol/10.1007/978-1-4939-7098-8_22>
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and on enhancing CRISPR specificity:\
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<http://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/06/08/147686>
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- CBA has received an award from DARPA's FUN DESIGN program:\
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<https://www.fbo.gov/spg/ODA/DARPA/CMO/DARPA-SN-17-71/listing.html>
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to study morphogenesis in design tools.\
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- A CBA team survived successful zero-g flight testing of robotic locomotion through cellular structures:\
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<https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/flightopportunities/feature/payload_performance>
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- Composites Manufacturing magazine featured CBA's work on morphing wings in an article on ground-breaking university R&D:\
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<http://compositesmanufacturingmagazine.com/digital/2017/Composites-Manufacturing-July-August-2017-Issue.pdf>
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- CBA patents issued on digital material construction:\
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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=9809001.PN.&OS=PN/9809001&RS=PN/9809001>
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and assembly:\
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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=9809977.PN.&OS=PN/9809977&RS=PN/9809977>
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- Metropolis magazine mentions MIT's fab lab as one of the reasons Boston is one of the world's best design cities:\
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<http://www.metropolismag.com/cities/the-worlds-best-design-cities-2017>
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- Photos and videos have been posted from FAB13 in Chile:\
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<http://fab13.fabevent.org>
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FAB14 will be France in 2018, and it was announced at the meeting that FAB15 will be hosted by Egypt, and FAB16 by Canada.\
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- Following FAB13, CBA research was presented at the ALMA radio telescope at 16,000 feet:\
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<https://twitter.com/almaobs/status/907677186626375680>
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- A CBA team deployed a fab lab in Bhutan, linking Gross National Happiness with physical sustainability:\
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<http://thebhutanese.bt/fab-lab-in-olakha>
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- CBA's work with the The Fab Foundation on fab labs in Northern Ireland received a Golden Bridges Award:\
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<https://aisling-events.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/GBAgenda.pdf>
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