Digital Alloys metal AM startup (Burlington, MA)

Tom's industry-advisory relationship. Sample part displayed at `§7.p2` (titanium, looks like World Trade Center, 100% dense, 1000 being made for Boeing for MMPDS qualification testing).

I actually had worked on some of these things before they were popular and had the name of additive manufacturing. I worked in manufacturing, but I didn't call it additive manufacturing. When it got to be a fad I really didn't want to have anything to do with it. A company called Digital Alloys came to me — they called me up — and said, we'd like you to be on our science advisory board. And I said, no thanks. And they said, well, can't you at least come for a visit? I said, where are you? They said, Burlington — which is all of a half an hour away, only about ten minutes from my house. I said, nope. They called me back, and in the meantime I learned that one of the — it wasn't my student, but a graduate student who used to do the IT for my lab — was working there. And I said, okay, since Sal's working for you I'll listen to your story, but you're gonna have to come to my house. I'm not going to travel to see you.