{"639692":{"#nid":"639692","#data":{"type":"news","title":"AE\u0027s Marilyn Smith Talks Drones with Neil deGrasse Tyson","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIf you listen to\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ENeil deGrasse Tyson\u0026#39;s\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;StarTalk podcast, you might have heard a familiar voice, recently. Daniel Guggenheim School professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMarilyn J. Smith\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;was talking drones with Tyson and his cohosts, as well as\u0026nbsp;Drone Racing League founder\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ENicholas \u0026quot;Nick\u0026quot; Horbaczewski\u003C\/strong\u003E. They had a pretty lively talk about the past, present, and future of drone design and racing. The realistic drone racing simulations are made possible by\u0026nbsp;Smith\u0026#39;s unsteady aerodynamics drone research, which Horbaczewski calls\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;ground-breaking\u0026rdquo;. Check out this podcast now:\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.startalkradio.net\/show\/building-a-virtual-world-drone-racing-league\/\u0022 id=\u0022LPlnk935321\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.startalkradio.net\/show\/building-a-virtual-world-drone-racing-league\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Algorithms Rule"}],"field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Realistic drone racing simulations were made possible by Smith\u0027s work"}],"uid":"27836","created_gmt":"2020-09-29 15:18:00","changed_gmt":"2020-09-29 15:18:00","author":"Kathleen Moore","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-09-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-09-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"496721":{"id":"496721","type":"image","title":"Marilyn Smith","body":null,"created":"1455120000","gmt_created":"2016-02-10 16:00:00","changed":"1475895256","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:16","alt":"Marilyn Smith","file":{"fid":"204602","name":"smith-marilyn-preferred.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/smith-marilyn-preferred_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/smith-marilyn-preferred_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":116625,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/smith-marilyn-preferred_0.jpg?itok=jIUgUcNX"}}},"media_ids":["496721"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.msmith.gatech.edu\/","title":" Nonlinear Computational Aeroelasticity Lab "}],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"88761","name":"neil degrasse tyson"},{"id":"34141","name":"Drones"},{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"129861","name":"Marilyn Smith"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39521","name":"Robotics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}