CBA News & Notes
January 31, 2018
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
Congrats to alum Ben Recht who received the Test of Time award with Ali Rahimi at NIPS 2017:
http://www.argmin.net/2017/12/05/kitchen-sinks
covered here by
The Economist
:
https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21732081-machine-learnings-big-event-all-buzz-ais-big-shindig
Andreas Mershin talks about how fields are for sheep to graze in:
http://www.proj61.com/vmag
and about researching across disciplines:
http://ilp.mit.edu/newsstory.jsp?id=24093
CBA patents issued for microfluidic perfusion:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US9610578B2
and nucleic acid transplantation:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US9834747B2
We welcome the Defond Group as our newest sponsor, with a focus on molecular sensors:
http://www.grpdfond.com
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