Vol. 89, No. 4

  • Stanley Elected Chancellor of AIA College of Fellows

    Stanley Elected Chancellor of AIA College of Fellows

    William J. Stanley III, Arch 72, was elected chancellor of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects. He will be inaugurated in December at a black-tie dinner in Washington, DC. Stanley previously served as bursar and vice-chancellor of the college. “Being elected by my peers to the highest office of the most more

  • Tech Alumni Brewing Up a New Business

    Tech Alumni Brewing Up a New Business

    Last spring, Smith Mathews, Mgt 09, and Carly Wiggins, Mgt 10, ID 10, opened their Savannah, Ga.-based Southbound Brewing Company with three beers: Scattered Sun Belgian Wit, Iron Lion Pale Ale and Hoplin’ IPA. After learning the trade at a Charleston, S.C., brewery, Mathews had decided the time was right to strike out on his more

  • Tim Ma, EE 00: Engineering a Great Meal

    Amid a successful engineering career in the Washington, D.C., area, Tim Ma, EE 00, decided to make a big change into the world of food. He uprooted to attend culinary school in New York City and gained experience in kitchens in New York and the Virgin Islands. Ma returned to the D.C. area in 2009 more

  • Ramblin’ Roll, Vol. 89 No. 4

    Ramblin’ Roll, Vol. 89 No. 4

    1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s Weddings | Births 1950s Marvin Mixon, MS AE 51, published a novel, Chrysanthemum, which follows a business executive framed for murder. Ray Pettit, EE 54, MS EE 59, published a memoir, Mill-Village Boy, which includes passages on his time at Georgia Tech. 1960s Norman Askins, Arch 66, received the A. Hays Town Award from more

  • The Big Deal About Big Data

    The amount of raw data in the world is expanding exponentially. Not just words and numbers in databases, but YouTube videos, MP3 audio files and metadata—data about the data itself. The world’s data pile has now reached the zettabyte scale (trillions of gigabytes), and there are no signs of stopping. The challenge for researchers and more