{"260271":{"#nid":"260271","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Andrew Dugenske gives a big Yahoo! for Georgia Tech at the digital media giant\u0027s user interface conference","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWith such names as Deloitte, Reuters, CBS Sports, the National Football League and Zillow.com on your roster, it\u2019s easy to understand why so many attend the Yahoo! User Interface Conference and Workshops each year. This year, the event was held Nov. 5-7 in San Jose, Calif., and Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute\u2019s Andrew Dugenske, Principal Engineer, represented Georgia Tech at this important industry event.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter providing a brief overview of Georgia Tech, GTMI and his Factory Information Systems lab, Dugenske explained that GTMI and FIS use web applications to help companies reduce cycle times and decrease costs in their manufacturing operations. \u201cWe use the YUI Javascript Framework in a variety of Georgia Tech projects,\u201d he added. \u201cA few years back, FIS benchmarked Javascript frameworks and YUI came up on top.\u201d \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDugenske had plenty of opportunity to present Georgia Tech\u2019s capabilities at the event. He first spoke in the lightening demos portion of the conference and described the challenges of implementing software systems in factories and communicating with manufacturing equipment vs. \u201cthe very well-defined systems that most of the audience works with.\u201d In addition, he worked with Yahoo! engineers to analyze some of the YUI code.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAs the Internet of Things makes its way further into the manufacturing field, it is critical to continue improving human-machine and machine-to-machine interaction,\u201d said Dugenske. \u201cThis event provided a wonderful opportunity to explain how GTMI and FIS can assist manufacturers move in the right direction.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Manufacturing Institute\u0027s Andrew Dugenske discusses the challenges of implementing software systems in factories at the recent Yahoo! User Interface Conference.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute\u0027s Andrew Dugenske discusses the challenges of implementing software systems in factories at the recent Yahoo! User Interface Conference."}],"uid":"27857","created_gmt":"2013-12-11 11:46:58","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:33","author":"Tracy Heath","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-12-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2013-12-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"155831","name":"Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute (GTMI)"}],"categories":[{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"81971","name":"Andrew Dugenske"},{"id":"53731","name":"factory information systems"},{"id":"68951","name":"Internet of Things"},{"id":"215","name":"manufacturing"},{"id":"12738","name":"user interface"},{"id":"81961","name":"Yahoo!"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETracy Heath\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-5562\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tracy.heath@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etracy.heath@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tracy.heath@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}