Among more than 700 institutions and 2,600 researchers participating, Georgia Tech is a Top 10 institution with accepted research. This research includes an expansive portfolio of work that uses technology to address tough social issues, such as drug addiction and mental health problems, and builds techniques to advance human capabilities in areas including creativity, advocacy, policy, and education.

The purposed of the visit was to see firsthand the impact that Tech has in the Rome and Floyd County community, especially as it relates to the MyJourney Compass project.

MyJourney Compass is a federally funded pilot project to put healthcare information in the hands of patients through mobile technology.

Georgia Tech worked with Floyd Medical Center, Harbin Clinic, Redmond Regional Medical Center, Cancer Navigators, and the Northwest Georgia Regional Cancer Coalition to bring the project to Rome.

Tuesday he sat down with stakeholders at Redmond Regional Medical Center to discuss how the system has impacted the quality of life for cancer patients. 

Greater Rome Chamber of Commerce President Al Hodge, State Representative Katie Dempsey and State Senator Chuck Hufstetler were also in attendance for the meeting.

Georgia Tech has recently increased its presence in the community by also opening a field office at Georgia Highlands College’s Heritage Hall in Rome.

Georgia Tech is planning to build a new High Performance Computing Center on top of the fiber optic corridor that runs through Midtown. This massive data center will provide the computing power that Tech’s faculty and students need for advanced modeling and experimentation. In a bow to sustainability, the large amounts of heat generated by servers will be used for office and retail space that will be included as part of the facility.

Roboticist Alan Winfield of Bristol Robotics Laboratory in the UK recently set up an experiment to test a simplified version of Asimov's First Law. He and his team programmed a robot to prevent other automatons, acting as proxies for humans, from falling into a hole.

Fifteen years is a long time. Memories of imploding portfolio companies are being washed away by valuations frothier than Dom Perignon. Billion-dollar exits for capital-light Web startups (think Instagramand Whatsapp) have investors bellying back to the bar.

Study leader Saeideh Bakhshi, a doctoral candidate at the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, adviser Eric Gilbert, an assistant professor in the School of Interactive Computing, and David Shamma, a Yahoo research scientist, looked at 1.1 million photos on Instagram, using face detection software.

Economic development has tended to operate more in the realm of attracting investments and relocations of mature businesses. However, entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important part of the economic growth strategy of many communities, large and small.

While new businesses fill a market gap by supplying existing goods and services to a defined customer base, innovation creates wholly new markets. This leads to greater productivity growth and helps our economy keep pace with the rest of the world.

Anchored by Georgia Tech, 771 Spring St. sits on the drawing board as a 680,000-square-foot public-private development and includes a 20-story office tower, a data research center, parking, and retail and office space on the ground floor.

Based on the eventuality of computer modeling and simulation replacing experimentation as the primary tool of science, the project seeks to combine academic use and corporate research within the mixed-use setting of Tech Square.

The Georgia Tech spinoff has developed technology that sniffs out dangerous software — or malware — hiding in enterprise and telecommunications networks. This malware remotely hijacks computers to commit fraud, creating what’s referred to as “bot armies.”

Musicians from all over the world converged on Georgia Tech for the Guthman Competition.

They invent strange things that make noise -- or music. Then, theyperform in front of an audience.

11Alive Photojournalist Pete Smith invites us in to take a listen.

The service, called Fiber, operates at 100 times the speed typically delivered by cable companies today, and at a competitive price. That makes it possible to seamlessly stream HD content or download a feature-length movie in a few seconds. The more devices you’ve got running in your home, the more likely you’d be to notice a big improvement in performance with Google’s 1-gigabit-per-second service.

The Heartbleed bug affects the encryption technology used by a number of Web and email servers, making it possible for intruders to access important and sensitive data on what were supposedly secure sites. This latest scourge of the Internet went undetected for more than two years, and because attacks that exploit the Heartbleed bug leave no trace, the extent of the damage caused by the security flaw is not yet known.

G.P. “Bud” Peterson, president of Georgia Institute of Technology, joined health care practitioners, patients and politicians at Redmond Regional Medical Center on Tuesday afternoon to review the project, funded by a $1.7 million Challenge Grant from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.