{"264521":{"#nid":"264521","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Georgia Tech ranked 2nd most wired university by Unigo","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThese days, it\u0027s hard to imagine life on a college campus without an Internet connection. It\u0027s no longer just a matter of having a connection for students\u0027 laptops, students need something to hook up their tablets, smartphones, smart TVs, and digital TV devices. But some colleges do it better than others. In a ranking of the most wired campuses in the country by Unigo, the\u0026nbsp;Georgia Institute of Technology ranked second among all universities and was the only public university to make the top ten.\u0026nbsp;To earn the ranking, Georgia Tech\u0027s Advanced Technology Development Center helped entrepreneurs in Georgia launch and grow more than 130 technology companies, raising over a billion dollars in financing. In addition, Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Computing is spearheading what it calls the \u201cnew face of computing,\u201d which seeks to incorporate women engineers and help drive a more diversified engineering discipline.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27714","created_gmt":"2014-01-06 16:28:42","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:26:54","author":"Kyle James","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Postdoctoral Scholar","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.unigo.com\/Rankings\/RankingDetails.aspx?RankingId=26\u0026Ordinal=2\u0026Year=2013","dateline":{"date":"2014-01-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-01-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"623","name":"Technology"},{"id":"10015","name":"Wired"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}