Vol. 89, No. 3

  • Head in the Books

    Head in the Books

    To borrow a line from Walt Whitman: Karen Head contains multitudes. The assistant professor in the School of Literature, Media and Communication is also director of the Institute’s Communication Center and a thrice-published poet—plus, she spent the past year developing, implementing and analyzing one of the first freshman composition MOOCs. For a while, she had more

  • Lights, Camera… Addition!

    Lucas Parker and Walter Seals sat across from one another while a friend spun a wheeled office chair with a camera on a tripod mounted to it. For six hours, the Georgia Tech students struggled to get the timing right as the camera’s rotation sped up and slowed down to capture their brief conversation. With more

  • New Adventures in Hi-Fi

    In 1998, when Richard Guthman, IE 56, established a music competition at Georgia Tech, he likely never expected that one April night, 15 years later, he would sit in on the finals of the contest that bears his name and watch a man coax otherworldly sounds out of a gleaming brass trumpet connected to an more

  • Tech Offers First-of-its-Kind MOOC-based Degree

    In partnership with AT&T and online education leader Udacity, Georgia Tech’s College of Computing is offering the first professional master’s of science degree in computer science that can be earned through the “massive open online” format. All content will be delivered via the MOOC course format, with enhanced support services for students enrolled in the more

  • Dollars & Sense: Pat Moriarty

    The career of Pat Moriarty, IM 77, has come full circle: He went from playing pro football with the Cleveland Browns to working in the banking industry for Society Management Services Company, only to end up back in the NFL. As senior vice president of football administration for the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens—and one of more