The teams awarded will focus on strategic new initiatives in Artificial Intelligence.The Institute for Data Engineering and Science, in conjunction with several Interdisciplinary Research Institutes (IRIs) at Georgia Tech, have awarded seven teams of researchers from across the Institute a total of $105,000 in seed funding geared to better…
Robot Guitarist Plays With Human ExpressivityLegendary blues guitarist B.B. King famously said, “I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.” In a way, that’s exactly what researchers in the lab of Gil Weinberg are trying to do in developing their Expressive Robotic Guitarist (ERG). Headless, with mechanical “hands” plucking strings and…
A new Georgia Tech study reveals that excluding front-line workers from the design process can increase employee turnover rates, leading to higher costs and reduced efficiency for businesses implementing new automated technologies. Alyssa Sheehan has seen firsthand how companies can struggle to leverage new technologies meant to improve systems…
Funding is aimed at transformative biomedical and health breakthroughs to provide cancer solutions.The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) is a research funding agency that supports transformative biomedical and health breakthroughs — ranging from the molecular to the societal — to provide health solutions for all. ARPA-H…
As GTRI Principal Research Engineer Alan Nussbaum can tell you, the value of an education never gets old. At 72 years old, Nussbaum recently earned his Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in computer science with a minor in electrical engineering. Although the degree took him 11 years to complete, Nussbaum said…
How do you explain the physical prowess of video gamers? In mainstream sports, such as soccer or basketball, people can see the physical feats: the arc of a jump shot or the speed of the ball through a goalie's fingertips. However, at major esports competitions, viewers see the video game characters on screen rather than the player controlling…
A new kind of polymer membrane created by researchers at Georgia Tech could reshape how refineries process crude oil, dramatically reducing the energy and water required while extracting even more useful materials.The so-called DUCKY polymers — more on the unusual name in a minute — are reported Oct. 16 in Nature Materials. And they’re just the…
Sean Castillo is in the win-win business. As an industrial hygienist in the Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute (EI2), his job is to ensure that employees are safe in their workspaces, and when he does that, he simultaneously improves a company’s performance. That’s been a theme for Castillo and his colleagues in the Safety, Health,…
This is part four of the student experiences series. William Berkey, a Ph.D. candidate in chemistry shares his experience from the 2023 RBI Spring Workshop on "Innovations in Packaging and Circular Economy." Tell us about yourself.My name is William Berkey. I got my undergraduate degree in chemistry from Davidson College in North…
Charles Darwin said that evolution was constantly happening, causing animals to adapt for survival. But many of his contemporaries disagreed. If evolution is always causing things to change, they asked, then how is it that two fossils from the same species, found in the same location, can look identical despite being 50 million years apart in age?…
