[DC LoCo] Fwd: MIT Professor Neil Gershenfeld to speak in DC this week

[Kevin Cole]

[Though it probably won't explicitly come up in either of his
presentations, Fab Labs are big fans of Arduino,Ubuntu and Python. I'll
follow up with a link to a very short CNN interview that I captioned --
under two minutes .]
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From: "Fab Lab DC" <fab at fablabdc.org>
Date: Nov 5, 2012 12:51 AM
Subject: MIT Professor Neil Gershenfeld to speak in DC this week
To: <fab at fablabdc.org>

*MIT Professor Neil Gershenfeld to speak in DC this week.  *

• *November 8th <http://americanart.si.edu/renwick/symposium/>* @ The
Renwick's Symposium: *Nation Building: Craft & Contemporary American
Culture *(see the full program @ this link
http://americanart.si.edu/renwick/symposium/ ).  For/by
the Renwick, celebrating their 40th anniversary, the symposium is being
held at *McEvoy Auditorium, Smithsonian American Art Museum. MIT Professor *
*Neil Gershenfeld's panel starts @ 6PM with a reception immediately
following.*  This event is free, no registration required.

• *November 9th at 8:15PM
<http://www.philsoc.org/2012Fall/2307abstract.html> *MIT Professor Neil
Gershenfeld will give a talk at the *Philosophical Society of
Washington<http://www.philsoc.org/2012Fall/2307abstract.html>@
*the *John Wesley Powell Auditorium, which is adjacent to the **Cosmos
Club*<http://www.cosmos-club.org/>,
2170 Florida Avenue NW, Washington DC 20008. Entrance is through the club
gate, the first right-hand entrance on Florida Avenue north of the
intersection with Massachusetts Avenue NW. The auditorium entrance is to
the left of the gate.The Cosmos Club is within walking distance of the
Dupont Circle Metro stop (Q Street exit), the Connecticut Avenue bus routes
(L2, L4), and the Massachusetts Avenue bus routes (N2, N4).  The meetings
are open to the public, free, and no reservations are required. Dress is
informal. Meetings are followed by a social hour with beer, cider, snacks
and conversation.

____________________________________________________________

"Digital fabrication" is used informally to refer to computers controlling
manufacturing machines, but it has a deeper meaning in materials that can
contain codes. I will describe the historical and intellectual parallels
between digitizing communication and computation and now fabrication, and
present a research roadmap for making something that can make anything.
[image: Neil Gershenfeld]
About the Author:

NEIL GERSHENFELD is the Director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms. His
laboratory is developing technology to bridge the boundaries between the
digital and the physical. His lab has developed digital design software and
implemented hardware that can directly fabricate an astonishingly wide
variety of objects, ranging from musical instruments to molecular quantum
computers. The technology has been used and displayed in a wide diversity
of ways and settings throughout the world, from the Museum of Modern Art in
New York City to rural India, from the White House to inner-city community
centers. The technology is increasingly important for prototyping and is
finding its way into direct manufacturing applications.

He is the author of numerous technical publications and books, including
Fab, When Things Start To Think, The Nature of Mathematical Modeling, and
The Physics of Information Technology. He is an inventor of many patented
inventions. He has been featured in articles in The New York Times, The
Economist, and on the McNeil/Lehrer News Hour, among others. He is a Fellow
of the American Physical Society, has been named one of Scientific
American's 50 leaders in science and technology, has been designated as one
of 40 Modern-Day Leonardos by the Museum of Science and Industry, has been
selected as a CNN/Time/Fortune Principal Voice, and he has been named one
of the top 100 public intellectuals by Prospect/Foreign Policy

Neil earned a BA in Physics from Swarthmore and a PhD in Applied Physics
from Cornell. He also has an honorary Doctor of Science from Swarthmore,
was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard University Society of Fellows, and was a
member of the research staff at Bell Labs.
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