  The Cosmic Background Imager (CBI) is a 13-element interferometer designed to
image intrinsic anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) on
arcminute scales. A review of the capabilities of the instrument is presented,
together with a discussion of observations which have been taken over the past
9 months from the Atacama desert of Chile. We present preliminary
high-resolution mosaiced images of the CMB obtained from recent CBI data and
discuss topics which the CBI will address in the near future.
