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• Here's How to Demolish the Controversial Google Diversity Memo With Just 3 Words

  

  August 9, 2017

• A Googler's Would-Be Manifesto Reveals Tech's Rotten Core

  

  August 7, 2017

• The New Wave in Digital Humanities.

  

  August 2, 2017

• Georgia Tech’s EarSketch Team Receives 2017 NCWIT Engagement Excellence Award

  

  August 1, 2017

  Georgia Tech’s EarSketch project has been selected for a 2017 National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Engagement Excellence Award. The award recognizes contribution to the computer science education community and to efforts to broaden participation in computing through excellent pedagogy and curriculum.

• Selected New Books on Higher Education

  

  August 1, 2017

• Smart Cities Innovative Approaches Combining Engineering, Technology, and the Social Sciences Are Boosting the Urban IQ

  

  August 1, 2017

  Three faculty members from the Ivan Allen College were featured in an interdisciplinary article “Smart Cities Innovative Approaches Combining Engineering, Technology, and the Social Sciences Are Boosting the Urban IQ” in the Georgia Tech Research Horizons magazine.

• Why Zuckerberg and Musk Are Fighting About the Robot Future

  

  July 28, 2017

• Utz Feted by University of Bamberg during Johann von Spix Professorship

  

  July 25, 2017

  Richard Utz held the 2017 Johann von Spix Professorship at the University of Bamberg, Germany, this summer and was honored by the university for his achievements in international research in medievalism.

• ‘Game of Thrones’ Among the Medievalists

  

  July 14, 2017

• Game of Thrones Is Even Changing How Scholars Study the Real Middle Ages

  

  July 14, 2017

• Writing for Wider Audiences: Structural Challenges for Scholars

  

  July 13, 2017

• Farmer Tales: Concrete Jungle

  

  July 10, 2017

• Magerko’s AdamLab Team Receives First Place at 2017 Turing Tests in Creative Arts

  

  June 23, 2017

  Brian Magerko, an associate professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication and the AdamLab team has been awarded the first place in the DanceX Competition of the 2017 Turing Tests in the Creative Arts.

• The App That Does Nothing

  June 14, 2017

• These Georgia Tech Students Won Toyota’s Mobility Challenge For Wheelchair-Geared Taxi App

  

  June 13, 2017

• 3 Ways Augmented Reality Will Change Your View in the Future

  

  June 13, 2017

• 10 Challenges for Scholars Writing for Wider Audiences

  

  June 7, 2017

• Ethereum, Bitcoin and Litecoin: Will Investing in Cyrptocurrency Make You Rich? Here's What to Know

  

  June 5, 2017

• Cryptocurrency Might be a Path to Authoritarianism

  June 2, 2017

• Applications Open for NEH Funded Object Lessons Workshops: Current Topics for a General Readership

  

  May 31, 2017

  In 2017 - 2018, Object Lessons will host four National Endowment for the Humanities Institutes. The workshops will offer guidance and strategies for how scholars and nonfiction authors can write for broader audiences while maintaining intellectual rigor and developing their academic profiles.