Medical Device Innovation: Georgia Tech Develops Technologies to Solve Health Care Problems

Summer/Fall 2011 Research Horizons Magazine — By harnessing its engineering, scientific and computing capabilities and its entrepreneurial tradition, as well as the Atlanta medical community, Georgia Tech is advancing the field of medical device design and bringing new devices to market.

Cybersecurity Companies Boost Atlanta’s Industry Role

Winter/Spring 2011 Research Horizons Magazine — Georgia Tech cybersecurity faculty members are helping grow the cybersecurity industry by spinning off companies.

Tackling Global Cybersecurity Threats: Georgia Tech Is Developing Technologies and Strategies to Enable Cybersecurity Solutions

Winter/Spring 2011 Research Horizons Magazine — Georgia Tech cybersecurity researchers are developing technologies and security strategies to enable the global cybersecurity solutions of the future. Their efforts span the areas of threat monitoring and analysis, mobile device and telephone security, secure information sharing, and U.S. government agency security.

Statewide Support: Georgia Tech Helps Georgia Businesses Compete

Research Horizons Magazine — The Georgia Manufacturing Extension Partnership (GaMEP) was chartered in its original form in 1960 to help the state’s industry. It began its existence as the Industrial Extension Service of the Engineering Experiment Station, which is now the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). Building on that foundation, Georgia Tech now serves a broad range of companies with a goal of helping them compete better in world markets.

Extending Moore’s Law: Epitaxial Graphene Shows Promise for Replacing Silicon in High-Performance Electronics

Fall 2010 Research Horizons Magazine — Georgia Tech has become a leader in developing epitaxial graphene, a material that can be grown on large wafers and patterned for use in electronics manufacturing. In a recent paper, Georgia Tech researchers reported fabricating an array of 10,000 top-gated transistors on a 0.24 square centimeter chip.

Serving Georgia: Matching Students and Employers in Georgia

Fall 2010 Research Horizons — The Georgia Tech Division of Professional Practice (DoPP) is home to Georgia Tech’s popular undergraduate Cooperative Education (Co-op) Program, founded in 1912. It also administers the Graduate Co-op Program, the Georgia Tech Internship Program (GTIP) and the Work Abroad Program.

Teraflop Troubles: The Power of Graphics Processing Units May Threaten the World’s Password Security System

Spring 2010 Research Horizons Magazine — Georgia Tech researchers are investigating whether the calculating power of graphics processing units might change the security landscape worldwide. They’re concerned that these desktop marvels might soon compromise a critical part of the world’s cyber-security infrastructure – password protection.

Nano Defense: New Book Explores Potential Chemical and Biological Threats from Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Research Horizons Spring 2010 — A new book by a Georgia Tech professor of international affairs argues that the unique concerns raised by nanotechnology must be part of the threat scenarios considered by the U.S. defense and homeland security communities. Strategies to address the threats could include developing a better understanding of their real potential and fostering improved international cooperation.

Serious Gaming: Entertainment Technology Yields Results for Research Ranging from Defense to K-12 Education

Research Horizons Spring 2010 — Researchers from numerous Georgia Tech units are appropriating technologies, practices and even equipment from both digital and real-world games. Then they’re applying those gaming techniques to defense, industry, education, health care and more in a field of research that has come to be known as “serious gaming.”

GTRI at 75: The Georgia Tech Research Institute Celebrates 75 Years of Problem-Solving – and Looks Ahead to the Next 75 Years

Research Horizons Winter 2010 — In 2009, the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), Georgia Tech’s applied research organization, celebrated 75 years of solving difficult research problems for government and industry. From humble beginnings as Georgia’s engineering experiment station, GTRI has grown into a $200-million enterprise with nearly 1,500 faculty and staff.