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**CBA News & Notes**

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August 3, 2016

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- CBA is co-hosting FAB12 in Shenzhen from August 8-14, with hands-on workshops, a research Symposium, and public festival:\
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  <http://fab12.fabevent.org>\

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  - A CBA team has been selected by NASA for microgravity testing of robotic assemblers:\
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    <http://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-selects-new-technologies-for-flight-tests>\

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    - We're pleased to welcome Toyota as CBA's newest sponsor, with a focus on advanced manufacturing:\
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      <http://www.toyota.com>\

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      - Neil Gershenfeld featured CBA research in bonus material:\
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        <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxF0Y7qBnng>\

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        for the movie *The Martian*:\
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        <http://www.thedigitalbits.com/item/martian-extended-uhd-bd>\

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        and in a longer conversation:\
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        <http://boingboing.net/2016/07/07/claude-shannon-moocs-and-nan.html>\

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        and will be doing a keynote for IEEE on rebooting computing:\
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        <http://icrc.ieee.org/keynotes>\

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        - Sherry Lassiter and Nadya Peek spoke at a White House Maker to Manufacturer event:\
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          <https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/06/23/whole-week-making>\

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          and CBA participated in the Capitol Hill Maker Faire:\
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          <http://www.navy.mil/view_image.asp?id=220739>\
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          - Congratulations to Renee Fredericks from the Cook Inlet Tribal Council fab lab, Bert Crenca from the AS220 fab lab, and Sonya Pryor-Jones from the Fab Foundation for being recognized as Champions of Change by the White House:\
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            <https://www.whitehouse.gov/champions/past-champions#section-makers>\

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            to the Haystack fab lab for receiving an award from the James Renwick Alliance:\
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            <https://jra.org/events/spring-craft-weekend-2016/educator-awards-brunch-innovation-exploration>\

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            and to Charles Fracchia for being recognized as one of Technology Review's Innovators Under 35:\
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            <http://www.innovatorsunder35.com/innovator/charles-fracchia>\

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            - The International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has launched a Global Humanitarian Lab based on CBA's fab lab network:\
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              <http://blogs.icrc.org/gphi2/2016/05/24/fab-lab-humanity-born-global-humanitarian-lab>\
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              - Fab labs were in the news in Rwanda, where a CBA team deployed a lab:\
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                <http://www.newtimes.co.rw/section/article/2016-05-16/199925/>\

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                during the World Economic Forum on Africa:\
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                <https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-on-africa-2016/sessions/frontier-science>\

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                and in stories from Egypt:\
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                <http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-09/cairo-s-nerds-scrape-together-an-egyptian-tech-scene>\

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                and a BBC report from MIT and Mexico:\
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                <http://www.bbc.com/specialfeatures/horizonsbusiness/seriessix/march-of-the-makers/?vid=p03z71wd>\

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                "Des fablabs" has even made it into a French dictionary:\
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                <https://mobile.twitter.com/LeRobert_com/status/732157038965456896>\

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