The Fab Lab model was created by Professor Dr Neil Gershenfeld of The Centre for Bits and Atoms (CBA), in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It was conceived when the Professor set up the first laboratory for digital fabrication, also known as 'Fab Lab' (Fabrication Laboratory) to study computational capacities that are inherent to physical systems. As an interdisciplinary educational outreach programme, the CBA has supported the setting up abroad of a small number of similar Fab Labs, to be able to do to be able to do further research. The Fab Lab concept quickly became popular among users outside the research domain, and an international network of similar Fab Labs came into being that were all active in the areas of research, education and application of personal digital fabrication. These Fab Labs cooperate with local communities, universities and (international) governments.
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机译：Fab Lab模型是由麻省理工学院（MIT）的位和原子中心（CBA）的Neil Gershenfeld教授创建的。这是在教授建立第一个数字制造实验室（也称为“ Fab实验室”（Fabrication Laboratory））以研究物理系统固有的计算能力时想到的。作为跨学科的教育推广计划，CBA支持在国外建立少量类似的Fab Labs，以便能够做进一步的研究。 Fab Lab的概念很快在研究领域之外的用户中流行起来，并且类似Fab Labs的国际网络应运而生，它们都活跃于个人数字制造的研究，教育和应用领域。这些Fab实验室与当地社区，大学和（国际）政府合作。
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