{"id":89300,"date":"2022-09-16T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=89300"},"modified":"2022-09-26T18:07:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T22:07:09","slug":"friday-night-making-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2022\/09\/16\/friday-night-making-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday night – Making Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
I’d been looking forward to this day for several weeks. Thanks to the help of my friends Jenn and Andrea, we’d planned a Burlington visit for some\u00a0 of our maker friends from other towns and affiliations. Our plan was to tour Beta then tour Generator to look for possible interactions. It was a fun group including :
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Prof Neil Gershenfeld an old friend from MIT who heads the Center for Atoms and Bits and was the fatehjr of the Fablab movement. We patterend the UVM Fablab , the Essex Highs chool Fablab and Generator after a template that neal created in the early 2010’s. Neil also runs a great class called “how to make almost anything” at mit which is amazingly cool<\/li>
Prof Scott Kirkpatrick – Now at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.. but formerly at IBM. A long time hero of mine. He was the creator of simulated annealing.. a technique I used in my phd thesis a zillion years ago.. Scott flew himself and Neil up from Boston. THey were able to roll right up to Beta. <\/li>
Tom Bodet and Johny Wolfman from the Hackspace woodworkers makerspace in Bratellboro. (My friend Lars works there too.. but couldn’t make it) . Tom and johnny are super fun.. (Tom’s a very funny guy. You can hear Tom sometimes on NPR’s “wait wait dont tell me:.”and as the wry voice pitching Motel 6.. “we’ll leave the light on for you” )<\/li>
From UVM my good friend and collaborator Jenn Karson who has appointments in Engineering and Fine Arts . Her friend Prof Eric Munson, Jenn (and my ) boss Dean Linda Schadler and Dani ? a really nice videographer. <\/li>
From Generator . my friends Meg Howard the ED of Generator and Veronica Newton lead for programs and partnerships at Generator <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
It was SO fun showing the whole group\u00a0 around BETA and Genreator .. We had a great day seeign what each other were working on and figureing out how we might work together in the future.
Neil gave a great talk about some\u00a0 of the projects going on at the Center for Bits and Atoms .. and gave us a recount of wall that went on at the Haystack craft camp this summer.. It was so great !<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
After a quick tour of generator we headed down town for a quick Ramen dinner.. then I drove Neil adn Scott back to BETA and walked them out to their plane
Really fun day ! nite all , nite sam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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