The South could pay less for its electricity in 20 years than is currently projected if strong public policies are enacted to spur renewable energy production and use, according to a report released today by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Duke University.
For the third consecutive year, four Georgia Tech students will punctuate the fall semester’s academic efforts with at least two straight days of Zelda, sacrificing sleep for charity as they play.
States, not the federal government, now fund the majority of human embryonic stem cell research conducted in the United States, according to a recent study in the journal Nature Biotechnology. In addition, much of the research performed in the states could likely have been funded by the National Institutes of Health under federal guidelines established by President Bush in 2001.
The Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology (GTCMT) has hit the right chord by blending research with technology that meets industry needs while creating tools for new and memorable performances.
Walt de Heer awarded Materials Research Society Medal for "pioneering contributions to the science and technology of epitaxial graphene.”
A team led by George Biros, associate professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Computational Science & Engineering (CSE), has won the Association for Computing Machinery’s Gordon Bell Prize for the world’s fastest supercomputing application. The award was announced at the Supercomputing 2010 conference, Nov. 18 in New Orleans.
OpenStudy is a social media site hooks up students from all across the globe, making the entire world a study group.
Georgia Tech researchers have created a machine-learning model that enables the sites, like WebMD, to “learn” dialect and other medical vernacular, thereby improving their performance for users who use such language themselves.
Georgia Tech displays high performance computing issues such as sustainability, reliability and massive data computation November 13-19, 2010 at SC10 in New Orleans, LA.
Georgia Tech will host the Sickle Cell Disease Symposium bringing together researchers, policy experts and community advocates to discuss the latest research and strategies for future success in combating this complex and debilitating blood disorder. The conference runs November 4-5.
Newsgames: Journalism at Play, the latest book by Ian Bogost examines the use and potential of video games to inform the public and bring context to the news.
While it’s still hotly debated among scientists whether climate change causes a shift from the traditional form of El Nino to one known as El Nino Modoki, online in the journal Nature Geoscience, scientists now say that El Nino Modoki affects long-term changes in currents in the North Pacific Ocean.
A Georgia Tech study has shown that playing health-related video games on a mobile device can help adults learn to live more healthfully by making smart diet choices. The finding is published in the paper, “Let’s Play! Mobile Health Games for Adults,” recently presented at Ubicomp 2010 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) today announced the release of the GTISC Emerging Cyber Threats Report for 2011, outlining the top three areas of security risk and concern for consumer and business Internet and computer users.
Phishing scams are making the leap from email to the world’s voice systems, and a team of researchers in the Georgia Tech College of Computing has found a way to tag fraudulent calls with a digital “fingerprint” that will help separate legitimate calls from phone scams.
Scientists from around the world will gather next week to discuss the latest research findings at the second International Symposium on the Science and Technology of Epitaxial Graphene. It will take place September 14-17, 2010 in Amelia Island, Florida.
Students, faculty and alumni with an iPhone can now find the precise arrival time for a Tech Trolley, reserve a library book and even plan a meal down to a nutritional nugget with Georgia Tech’s new student-designed iPhone app.
The Georgia Tech College of Computing today announced that Assistant Professor Nick Feamster of the School of Computer Science has been recognized by Technology Review magazine as one of the world’s top innovators under the age of 35 for his research in computer networks.
While Arctic sea ice has been diminishing in recent decades, the Antarctic sea ice extent has been increasing slightly. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology provide an explanation for the seeming paradox of increasing Antarctic sea ice in a warming climate.
Using a new technique involving mass spectrometry of a single drop of blood serum, scientists at Georgia Tech developed a test that correctly identified women with ovarian cancer in 100 percent of the patients tested.
Participants in Atlanta's Art on the Beltine will get a chance to turn everyday sounds in to music.
A team of Georgia Tech students will be showing off their game, Vision by Proxy, at the IndieCade Showcase at E3 this week. To play the game visit Georgia Tech's Digital Lounge (details inside).
Scientists have made a breakthrough toward creating nanocircuitry on graphene. They have devised a simple, one-step process for creating nanowires, tuning the electronic properties of reduced graphene oxide and thereby allowing it to switch from being an insulating material to a conducting material.
Students travel to Scotland to take part in the Dare to Be Digital video game design competition.
The Georgia Institute of Technology announces the release of the developer preview of Kamra, the first mobile augmented reality (AR) browser for the KHARMA (KML/HTML Augmented Reality Mobile Architecture) development platform based on open Web standards. The developer preview will be released at ARE2010 - Augmented Reality Event in Santa Clara, CA June 2.
In a competition to make health data for doctors who are on call more effective, a team of Georgia Tech College of Computing graduate students finished first, second and third at the CONNECT Code-a-Thon Challenge, held April 28-29 in Miami.
Dr. Fumin Zhang, assistant electrical and computer engineering professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology Savannah campus, has been named a recipient of the 2010 Young Investigator Award given by The Office of Naval Research (ONR).
Dr. Fumin Zhang, assistant electrical and computer engineering professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology Savannah campus, has been named a recipient of the 2010 Young Investigator Award given by The Office of Naval Research (ONR).
Biologists have been able to change the brain of a developing fish embryo to resemble that of another species.
A new study on how people in India use mobile computing devices suggests that users devise new and innovative uses for them, if they have sufficient motivation.
Student creates system that makes keeping up with Congress as easy as clicking a mouse.
What if regular people had info about how their Internet connections were performing at their fingertips? A new study on Microsoft Research's Home Watcher system suggests that regular people, if given the right tools, can regulate their broadband connections.
Many egg donation agencies and private couples routinely exceed compensation recommendation limits for potential donors, a new study finds.
In the midst of unprecedented momentum among the international strategic communities for nuclear weapons disarmament, Georgia Tech’s Sam Nunn Bank of America Policy Forum will present on March 29 “The Path Toward a World Free of Nuclear Weapons: The Euro-Atlantic Challenge.”
Scientists at Georgia Tech have discovered that small molecules could have acted as “molecular midwives” in helping the building blocks of life’s genetic material form long chains and may have assisted in selecting the base pairs of the DNA double helix.
During economic downturns, staying within budget at the grocery store may be more important than ever for many shoppers, especially those with low incomes. But a new study shows that the harder shoppers try to accurately calculate the total value of items placed in their carts, the worse they do.
Most people know the rules of healthy eating, but most of us might eat a little healthier if we were reminded. Now a researcher at Georgia Tech is testing using a mobile phone to help community members steer themselves away from that chocolate cake and toward the fruits and veggies.
Researchers at Georgia Tech are using hydrogel nanoparticles to kill cancer cells.
Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have shown that by directing gold nanoparticles into the nuclei of cancer cells, they can not only prevent them from multiplying, but can kill them where they lurk.
Scientists at Georgia Tech and the Ovarian Cancer Institute have further developed a potential new treatment against cancer that uses magnetic nanoparticles to attach to cancer cells, removing them from the body. The treatment, tested in mice in 2008, has now been tested using samples from human cancer patients.
Scientists at Georgia Tech have developed a nanolithographic technique that can produce high-resolution patterns of at least three different chemicals on a single chip at writing speeds of up to one millimeter per second. The nanopatterns can be designed with any shape and are stable enough to be stored for weeks and used elsewhere.
During economic downturns, staying within budget at the grocery store may be more important than ever for many shoppers, especially those with low incomes. But a new study shows that the harder shoppers try to accurately calculate the total value of items placed in their carts, the worse they do at mentally keeping track.
Using a technique normally used for detecting weak tremors, scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology discovered that the 2004 magnitude 6 earthquake along the Parkfield section of the San Andreas fault exhibited almost 11 times more aftershocks than previously thought.
Green IT Initiative looks at power consumption from the microchip to the data center. Will use Recycled HPC system to develop sustainable power consumption.
Georgia Tech announces the creation of a new Master of Science in Information Security available online in a distance learning format, a flexible degree option for working information security professionals who want more than industry certification.
Georgia Tech, an emerging leader in high-performance computing research and education, will showcase scientific research at the technical edge at next week’s SC09, the international conference on high-performance computing, networking, storage and analysis scheduled for Nov. 14-20, 2009, in Portland, Oregon.
Because land use changes are responsible for 50 percent of warming in the U.S., policymakers need to address the influence of global deforestation and urbanization on climate change, in addition to greenhouse gas emissions.
eStadium application allows fans sitting in the stands of an athletic event to access video replays, up-to-the-second statistics, player bios, play-by-play analysis and a wealth of other information designed to enhance the thrill of the game.
David Jimison, Ph.D. candidate in the Digital Media program, is exhibiting "Too Smart City" at The Urban Center in Manhattan. The exhibit asks the question, "what happens when technology runs amok?"
The Georgia Institute of Technology today announced its receipt of a five-year, $12 million Track 2 award from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Office of Cyberinfrastructure to lead a partnership of academic, industry and government experts in the development and deployment of an innovative and experimental high-performance computing (HPC) system.
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