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Digital edition
Volume 89,
No. 2, 2013The uses of failure, the art of invention, the hugeness of nanotech—and more.
ON THE BLOG
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The Secret Life of the Alumni Magazine‘s “Secret Life of Ideas” Cover
The theme of the new edition of the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine is “The Secret Life of Ideas”—so it seems appropriate to offer a glimpse into the “secret life” of the issue’s cover. It all started back in February, when Alumni Magazine editor-in-chief Van Jensen and I were planning out the next issue’s feature stories and more
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Weekly News Roundup (May 12-18)
• Senior biology major Kristen Jolley pits her school-sweatered intellect against that of students from Georgetown and MIT in tonight’s Jeopardy! College Championship final. [Atlanta Business Chronicle] • What do you think of Georgia Tech’s plan to offer an online master’s in Computer Science for less than $7,000? [College of Computing] • Atlanta-based startup Techturized has won the more
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President Peterson Embarks on Georgia Tour
When G. P. “Bud” Peterson arrived as president of Georgia Tech, he went on a tour of Georgia to learn more about his new home state. He so enjoyed the face-to-face meetings with the people of Georgia that he’s gone every summer since. This June will mark the fifth President’s Tour, which is held in more
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Tech Student Talks Cake-Baking, Small-Business-Owning with Bloomberg Businessweek
In the August 2011 issue of the Alumni Magazine, we introduced you to Georgia Tech’s Class of 2015, including Christine Proctor, a freshman business administration major from Atlanta. Proctor came to Tech with some entrepreneurial experience under her belt: Christine’s Cakes, the one-woman cake baking-and-decorating business she founded at age 14. But if you expected more
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Georgia Tech Offers MOOC-based Degree Program
Already at the forefront of online education, Georgia Tech now is offering the first accredited online master’s of computer science degree program in a just-announced partnership with Udacity and AT&T. Students will be able to complete the degree entirely through massive open online courses (MOOCs), and the program will cost a fraction of the cost more









