Local organizations working to eradicate food deserts in Atlanta & provide fresh, affordable nutrition By Dane O’Neill, Member, The Junior League of Atlanta, Inc. With a restaurant scene worthy of mention in top national publications, it might come as a surprise that many Atlantans, particularly in the heart of the city, are living in areas with […]
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Column: Andrew Young’s love song for Atlanta, past, present and future
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Sept. 21, 2018
When former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young received Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen Jr. Prize in Social Courage on Sept. 13, he turned it into a love song for Atlanta – past, present and future.
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Georgia Tech hosting series of talks on redesigning cities to meet needs of 21st century
A series of talks on redesigning cities, their systems and policies, to meet the needs of the 21st century promises to explore topics that are on the table today in metro Atlanta. The series of six talks begin Dec. 4 and continues through April at Georgia Tech.
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Just Like the Flu Shot, Cyber Prevention Is No Sure Thing
The Metro Atlanta Chamber and Baker Donelson will be powering 2018 Atlanta Cyber Week from October 8-12 – a public-private collaboration highlighting the region’s cyber security ecosystem and solutions. Cybercon on Oct. 9 will bring together business, academic and government leaders to discuss the evolving industry landscape. Metro Atlanta is making a name for itself […]
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Could Self-Driving Shuttles be Coming to Chamblee?
By Jim Jaquish Imagine tapping an app on your phone and just a few minutes later, a car shows up to take you wherever you want to go at an affordable price. Oh right. You can already do that. Now imagine that the vehicle pulling up to your curb has no driver. The city of […]
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Georgia Tech grad to lead NASA’s testing of commercial crewed spacecraft
A Georgia Tech grad was named to the nine-member team of astronauts who are to serve aboard the first commercial crew flight tests of a spacecraft designed to transport humans to the International Space Station and other low-orbit destinations.
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Report Reveals Georgia Tech’s Strength in Diverse Engineering Talent
The American Society for Engineering Education recently compiled the latest Engineering by the Numbers report, recapping data for 2016-2017. The report reveals the continued strengths of Georgia Tech in producing diverse, skilled engineering talent. Many positive rankings were updated. Notably, Georgia Tech rose to number one for bachelor’s degrees in engineering awarded to African Americans, […]
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Tech’s future police headquarters designed to promote health of occupants
Georgia Tech’s planned police headquarters is designed to comply with a fairly new set of standards that aim to improve the health and wellness of those who spend time inside the building. In at least one instance, the standard is tighter than LEED standards.
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ARC & Georgia Tech Partner to Help Communities Outside Atlanta’s Urban Core Get ‘Smart’
Think of the phrase “smart community.” You likely envision transportation technology in the big city—self-driving cars, or vehicles like fire trucks and city buses zooming through multi-lane intersections without once hitting a red light, thanks to powerful technology connecting them to the infrastructure they travel through. But there’s a lot more to the potential of […]
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Georgia Tech’s student association awards $35,000 to Tech’s LGBTQIA Resource Center
Seven months after an LGBT student activist at Georgia Tech was shot and killed by campus police, the Student Alumni Association on Thursday presented a $35,000 gift to Tech’s LGBTQIA Resource Center for new office space and programmatic support, according to a statement from Tech.
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Honoring Rosa Parks at Geogia Tech: Sculpture unveiling slated
A sculpture honoring Rosa Parks is to be dedicated Thursday afternoon on the campus of Georgia Tech. The sculptor is Martin Dawe, who crafted the sculpture of Martin Luther King, Jr. installed last year on the grounds of the state Capitol.
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Atlanta City Hall recovering from ransomware lockdown, mum on what happened
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said it’ll be a marathon, not a sprint, to recover from a cyberattack that’s shut down some city online services and locked staff away from their files.
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Federal disaster planning funds available to hurricane-ravaged firms along Ga. coast
Georgia manufacturers located along the coast can get a boost in their disaster planning from a federal grant being administered by an affiliate of Georgia Tech. The goal is to help employers recover more quickly and help get some 23,000 workers back to work and earning paychecks.
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Georgia’s talent production edge over the Bay Area
By Tom Cunningham, chief economist, Metro Atlanta Chamber When visiting emerging tech companies as a part of the Metro Atlanta Chamber’s Backed By ATL initiative, one entrepreneur noted that he preferred locating in Atlanta over Silicon Valley because new tech leadership talent, while difficult to find anywhere, was easier to find here than there. If […]
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Apparently, while at Fort Mac, he had some time on his hands
Leonard Wood was what some people would describe as an overachiever. Born in 1860, he lived for 67 years and, from the evidence of his life, it is clear that he was, at the very least, a motivated man. Wood began his adult life as a Harvard educated surgeon and he put that education to […]
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Smart cities for whom? Leveraging technology for an inclusive and just Atlanta
By Guest Columnist ALEX KARNER, formerly of Georgia Tech and now assistant professor in the School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin, with JENNIFER HIRSCH, ROBERT ROSENBERGER, and JESSE WOO, of the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Atlanta is one of many cities across the country that is increasingly adopting “smart cities” technologies. These are usually internet-connected sensors that gather data about the environment. Common examples include traffic signals that monitor intersections for accidents, trash cans that alert sanitation workers when they’re full, or air quality monitors that send an alert when pollution levels are unsafe.
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Seeds planted at the Kendeda Fund’s Living Building launch at Georgia Tech
n lieu of a traditional ground-breaking ceremony, Georgia Tech and the Kendeda Fund planted seeds Thursday to begin construction on what will be the most environmentally sustainable building in the Southeast.
The goal is for the Living Building at Georgia Tech will follow construction guidelines so it will do little to no harm to the environment by using the greenest building materials and by being a net zero building in terms of energy and water use.
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A pressing need to learn about business
Reconstruction was the term given to the period following the Civil War during which the United States set conditions under which the rebellious Southern States would be allowed back into the Union. Coming out of Reconstruction, the City of Atlanta was experiencing growing pains but one of the more positive results of Atlanta’s emergence as an up and coming city was the founding of the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Georgia Tech had been founded in 1885 as part of a plan to build a Southern industrial economy. At its inception, the only degree it offered was one in mechanical engineering but, in the decades to come, other engineering degrees were offered.
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How the Internet of Things could save lives in disasters such as Hurricane Irma
Georgia Tech researchers are devising a way to track smart phones and other devices in ways that would enable rescue workers to locate folks who are in harm’s way even when a power outage knocks out the internet.
