<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Reminder: Tuesday, Feb 17, is an MIT "Monday".<div><br></div><div>The HASTS Colloquium will be by Neil Gershenfeld the Director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms about his work in Africa and india introducing his Fab Lab to village youth, getting them to feel that they can make the electronics they use, and getting them to understand that they too can become innovators and inventors. </div><div><br></div><div>NOTE: the venue will be in Anthropology (Building 16-220). We will start at 4:15-4:30 because the speaker is coming from a class that ends at 4.</div><div><br></div><div>For a more general preview of the Fab Lab idea, check out the video of Gershenfeld delivering the celebrated TED lecture: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 13px; "><a href="http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Gershenfeld,+Neil&oe=utf-">http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Gershenfeld,+Neil&oe=utf-</a>8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=MxuFSbWNMOH8tgfhi_3QCQ&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4 &ct=title# </span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Book Antiqua'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 13px; ">(you can find the link if this doesn't work on his home page). </span></div>
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