News & Events
Six Decades of Life, Three Decades of Problem Solving
Behind those blue eyes and that ready smile, Dick Lipton’s brain is working, ever on the lookout for problems to tackle. "I've always been willing to be a problem solver, even to solve everyday problems," Lipton says. "I really appreciate the joy of discovering something that no one else has seen or discovered, or maybe even noticed. It’s one of the things I’m known for."
Sting Racing Ends Urban Challenge Journey
The Georgia Tech-SAIC Sting Racing team is returning from the DARPA Urban Challenge in Victorville, CA with their fully autonomous vehicle entry, a Porsche Cayenne named Sting 1. As a first-time entrant, the team has done an outstanding job making it to the semi-final round of the world's most challenging robotics competition but will not be advancing to the final round on November 3rd.
RoboCup 2007 Concludes, Results Announced
The world's most renowned competition for research robotics, RoboCup 2007 Atlanta was held at Georgia Tech July 3-10. More than 300 teams from leading universities, high schools and middle schools from 37 countries competed in five different leagues: small-sized, medium-sized, simulation, humanoid, and four-legged. They participated in events ranging from four-legged and humanoid robotic soccer games to search-and-rescue competitions.
Murder, Starvation, & Catastrophe: What Easter Island Can Teach Us About 21st Century Innovation
From the premier issue of Atlanta Business Magazine: In times of rapid and unpredictable change, success usually hinges on other factors - the "soft stuff" - people, culture...those parts of the enterprise that are hardest to manage, and impossible to quantify.
Living Game Worlds III: The Game Mechanics of Reality
This year marks the third instantiation of Living Game Worlds Symposium at Georgia Tech, an annual event that explores emerging questions in design and theory in the production and critique of video games. Presented by the GVU Center and School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, Living Game Worlds III will focus on games that take on real-world topics in their various forms.
College of Computing Hosts New Face of Computing Symposium
When the College of Computing at Georgia Tech was established in 1990, the name "computing" was chosen to acknowledge the breadth of education and research at the College and reflect the highly collaborative nature of the discipline. We were the first academic program to use this new term to define our goals and mission. On March 2, we hosted a symposium to further define the mission of the college and establish direction in the discipline at large.
