Merrick
Furst

General Information

Email:
merrick@cc.gatech.edu
Phone:
404-894-3152
Location - Building:
Coda
Location - Room:
CDI 5th Floor
Roles:
Professor (any rank)
Primary Unit:
College of Computing

Details

Degrees with subject and Postdoc Experience:
Degree Type
Ph.D.
Subject
Computer Science
Year
1980
Institution
Cornell
Location
Ithaca, NY
Statement of Research Interests:

Long time interest in theoretical computer science, algorithms, complexity theory, artificial intelligence planning.  More recent interests in deliberate innovation and behavioral economics.

Statement of Teaching Interests:

I teach courses in algorithms and in innovation and startups.  My focus is on both the  academic and practical content of the subjects, and the importance of the subjects, as I understand them, to help students to succeed and flourish as the university's emissaries when they leave us.

Selection of recent research, scholarly, and creative activities:

"The Heart of Innovation: A Field Guide for Navigating to Authentic Demand", Berrett-Koehler Press & Penguin Random House (translated into Japanese and Chinese).

I am one of the three founding faculty members responsible for the creation of The Inventure Prize; that started at GT and is now spread to more than 10k high school students in Georgia, and to all the ACC schools.  I received the GT Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research Innovation for Flashpoint@GT.