...The city and its major universities now look to AS220 as a bridge between the city’s arts, technology, and academic worlds. The key is a plan AS220 announced last week to bring design and fabrication technology developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to a downtown space for public use...

... AS220 is purchasing the MIT technology, which consists of industrial-grade fabrication and electronic tools and open-source software — computer programs that can be redistributed and modified free of copyright constraints.

Full Story: AS220 will take part in MIT’s FabLab project, bringing business technology to Providence Source: Providence Journal, November 16th, 2008 Author: Philip Marcelo Added on November 17th, 2008 at 9:50 am, by Matt Mikula