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LAWN Mower 1.0 (Mobile)

With LAWN Mower you can log into the Georgia Tech LAWN with a single tap. No redirects, no inexplicable connection failures, and no laborious typing. LAWN Mower gets you connected within seconds of launching it.

Tags: Mobile, Georgia Tech, Noah Witherspoon, LAWN Mower, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-06-30

Georgia Institute of Technology Increases Efficiencies and Improves Business Intelligence With Campus Recreation Software

Located in Atlanta, Georgia Tech is consistently ranked among the top ten public universities in U.S. News & World Report and stands as one of the oldest and most respected technological research universities in the U.S. When Georgia Tech decided to build the new CRC, staff members knew they needed...

Tags: Georgia Institute Of Technology, Georgia Tech, Active Network, Department, Tools & Techniques, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Operational Accounting, Databases, Enterprise Software, Management, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Finance

Case studies 2008-08-08

Polar robots to explore the Arctic

It's now almost certain that the world's ice shelves are melting. And while satellites provide lots of data about their evolution, ground-based weather stations could be even more useful. But if scientists can no longer stay on fragile and volatile ice sheets, what can they do? They can use specially...

Tags: Professor, Georgia Tech, SnoMotes, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-28

Hydrogen-powered cars with zero-carbon-emission?

Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have a bright idea -- at least at first sight. They want to create a sustainable transportation system by using hydrogen-powered cars. They would like to create an infrastructure where people could use a liquid fuel for driving while the carbon emission in...

Tags: Georgia Institute Of Technology, Georgia Tech, Hydrogen, Carbon, Carbon Emission, Transportation, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-02-14

How far can predictive health take us?

There's a big new buzzword going around my home town of Atlanta. Predictive health. The idea is to use what we know of genetics, and disease' process, to maintain good health rather than focus on fixing what goes wrong. A company...

Tags: Georgia Tech, Idea, Atlanta, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-11-28

A five-gear space rocket engine

Georgia Tech researchers have had a brilliant idea. Rocket engines used today to launch satellites run at maximum exhaust velocity until they reach orbit. For a car, this would be analog to stay all the time in first gear. So they have designed a new space rocket which works as...

Tags: Defense &, Security, Space &, Aerospace, Engineering &, Innovation

Blog posts 2007-02-23

Georgia Tech, Microsoft bring tabletop robots to CS program

One day, in the not too distant future, students may be conducting experiments with robots for lab partners. To that end, Georgia Tech and other universities have teamed up with Microsofts Institute for Personal Robots in Education IPRE to provide tabletop robots, hoping to encourge and promote computer science programs...

Tags: Computer science, Education Technology, Georgia Tech, Higher Ed, robot, Robotics

Blog posts 2007-01-31

And on drums, direct from Georgia Tech, Haile!

A Georgia Tech music tech professor and grad student have created the first robotic musician. Haile - a drummer - is truly a musician because it hears what other musicians are doing and changes beats accordingly, CNN reports. "With Haile there are two levels of musical knowledge .......

Tags: Haile

Blog posts 2006-10-03

Photo: Studying uranium-trapping microbes

Georgia Tech scientists study microbe with digestive byproducts that could ease nuclear-spill cleanups.

Tags: Georgia Tech, cleanup, scientist, photograph

Image galleries 2006-05-22

Photo: Studying uranium-trapping microbes

Georgia Tech scientists study microbe with digestive byproducts that could ease nuclear-spill cleanups.

Tags: Georgia Tech, cleanup, scientist, photograph

Image galleries 2006-05-22

Wired and wireless at the same high speed

The next generation of optical networks needed to satisfy our appetite for bandwidth is currently under development. And researchers from Georgia Tech have built a new architecture which delivers super-broadband wired and wireless service simultaneously. This hybrid system "could allow dual wired/wireless transmission up to 100 times faster than current...

Tags: Georgia Tech, network

Blog posts 2006-03-18

Additional Resources

3D football, anyone? Intel offers peek at 21st Century television

TV isn't TV anymore. It's out of the box. It's off the wall and it's not going back anytime soon. That was the opening line of the final keynote at the Intel Developer Forum, delivered by Intel exec Justin Rattner, who took to the stage to talk...

Tags: 3D, Intel Corp., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-24

Reseachers run one million virtual machines to help flight botnet problem

Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories SNL have demonstrated a supercomputer running more than one million virtual computers that will provide insight into the behavior of botnets. Botnets are networks of infected computers zombies that can be remotely controlled, and are difficult to protect against and study since...

Tags: Sandia National Laboratories, Virtual Machine, Computer, Botnets, Productivity, Internet, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-08-09

Poll: What's your dead-finger tech?

Tech does not need to be "dead finger" to be successfulI mean I could get along just fine without my G1 phone or my netbook as long as I had my laptop and a regular cell phone. But that does not mean I would go back to that. My G1...

Tags: PDAs, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Desktops, dead finger, phone, netbook, PDA

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

Via hangs tough but not a real contender

Via hangs tough but not a real contenderI use a VIA Chipset......and suffer every moment. It has patchy drivers for Windows, and it's Linux drivers are incompatible with any remotely-new distro, and even back then, they didn't properly function. The onboard GPU especially. That means everything falls on the CPU's...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Monitors & displays, ITX

Discussion threads 2009-06-10

Klipsch Image S4 earphones

Photo gallery:Klipsch Image S4 earphonesThere's nothing like good old competition to keep tech prices in check. Case in point: earphones. The headphone market is heavily saturated, and we can all thank that for the existence of many worthy earbud contenders in the sub-$100 price range. Still, despite the fact that...

Tags: Klipsch Image S4, postBody, slideshow

Product reviews 2009-05-20

OLPC drops AMD for Via chip

OLPC drops AMD for Via chipDoes anyone still really care about OLPC?Seriously.Intel/Via/AMD... first this platform... then that one.Get you s*** together decide on a platform, be it ARM or x86 or whatever, and stick to it.This is like a 3 ring circus with different generations of machines that will be...

Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, One Laptop Per Child project, chip, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

ETech: Programming future habitats

This morning at ETech, Jennifer Magnolfi, the senior integration architect for programmable environments at Herman Miller presented an approach that allows for physical buildings to dynamically evolve and support change. Herman Miller is known for creating the widely popular Aeron Chair. The initiative, Programmable Environment, is a spatial system...

Tags: Environment, Infrastructure, Programming, Programmable Environment, Georgia Tech Library, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-03-10

Gartner: PC sales to see worst fall in history

Gartner: PC sales to see worst fall in historyPeople will be looking to pay less, and especially pay less for the OS.OEMs will be driving hard bargains with MS.RE: Gartner: PC sales to see worst fall in historyPC manufacturers may have to roll out the Windows 7 upgrade coupons early....

Tags: Sales strategy, Desktops, Sales force management, Linux, PC, sales, Gartner Inc., PC sale, job

Discussion threads 2009-03-02

Peanut recall and supply chain worries

As the Peanut Corp. of America scandal rolls on, a new bit of information has thickened the plot: Chinese organic peanuts may have been the source of another Salmonella outbreak at PCA back in 2006.  Now that China is part of the story we have a full blown worst practice...

Tags: China, Supply Chain, Sourcing, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Management, Kevin O'Marah

Blog posts 2009-02-19