Just because it sounds cool:
*IF YOU COULD MAKE (ALMOST) ANYTHING, WHAT WOULD IT BE? < http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9HDMmyDwjE>* *An Evening with MITs Award-Winning Professor Neil Gershenfeld to launch Fab Lab DC* On Thursday, November 3rd, 2011, at 7PM, MIT Professor Neil Gershenfeld, founder of the Fab Lab (Fabrication Laboratory) Project, will be speaking at the Carnegie Institution of Washington <http://carnegiescience.edu/ >, 1530 P Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005. DC Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development Victor Hoskins will introduce the program. A reception will be held before the presentation, at 6PM. Tickets are available at www.fablabdc.org<http://www.fablabdc.org/>. *Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things. * That?s the idea behind Fab Labs < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab_lab>, which originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Bits and Atoms <http://cba.mit.edu/> with the leadership of Professor Neil Gershenfeld, who will be coming to Washington, DC on November 3rd, 2011 for a presentation about the fab lab project, new research, and cutting-edge developments in technology that are changing the way we learn, live, work, and make things. To help launch Fab Lab DC, Professor Gershenfeld will be speaking to DCs creative community about the Fab Lab project, which provides widespread access to modern means for invention. Fab Labs are community workshops that provide digital fabrication, 3D printing technology and educational resources (classes on technology, one-on-one instruction, immersive field trips from local schools) to the greater community. These workshops enable people of all ages to use cutting-edge digital technologies to create and produce physical prototypes ~ if you can dream it, you can access tools to build it. Fab Labs strive to bring opportunity found in top-shelf universities to local communities, including under-privileged populations. At these labs, local artisans have access to new materials and processes, tinkerers and engineers can experiment with groundbreaking technologies, and children gain exposure to a world of exciting possibilities and empowered imaginations. At Fab Labs, ordinary citizens create solutions to everyday problems. Fab Labs have seen success worldwide, spreading from inner-city Boston to rural India, from South Africa to the North of Norway, with projects tackling applications in areas including healthcare, agriculture, housing, and communications. FAB LAB DC <http://fablabdc.org/> is for local community members, life-long learners, inventors, entrepreneurs, creatives, and professionals, and was the inaugural winner of the Awesome Foundation DC prize< http://awesomefoundation.org/blog/2010/12/14/the-december-dc-awesome-grant-is-fab-ulous/ > . Professor Neil Gershenfeld is the Director of MITs Center for Bits and Atoms <http://cba.mit.edu/>. His unique laboratory is breaking down boundaries between the digital and physical worlds, from creating molecular quantum computers to virtuosic musical instruments. He is the author of numerous technical publications, patents, and books including Fab, When Things Start To Think, The Nature of Mathematical Modeling, and The Physics of Information Technology, and has been featured in media such as The New York Times, The Economist, and the McNeil/Lehrer News Hour. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, has been named one of Scientific Americans 50 leaders in science and technology, has been selected as a CNN/Time/Fortune Principal Voice, and by Prospect/FP as one of the top 100 public intellectuals. Professor Gershenfeld has given keynote presentations for events including TED < http://www.ted.com/talks/neil_gershenfeld_on_fab_labs.html>, EDUCAUSE, the ACM/IEEE Conference on Supercomputing, IEDM, NSF, the Library of Congress, the White House, Etech, APMM, Nano-Nets, NIP, and PICNIC< http://archive.picnicnetwork.org/person/5749> . Please join us in welcoming Professor Gershenfeld and for an evening of creative inspiration. *About the Fab Lab project:** * < http://neilgershenfeld-fablabdc.eventbrite.com/>* For more information, to become a sponsor, and/or to volunteer, please email info at fablabdc.org<mailto:info%40fablabdc.org>.
