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Researchers at MIT and the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a way to automate the process of finding and recording information from neurons in the living brain. Gaining access to the inner workings of a neuron in the living brain offers a wealth of useful information: its patterns of electrical activity, its shape, even a profile of which genes are turned on at a given moment.

The U.S. Department of Education awarded the $37,462 grant to the College of Coastal Georgia, Georgia Institute of Technology's Savannah campus and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Gray's Reef Marine Sanctuary. Up to 12 science teachers from third through 12th grades will be selected to participate in the program July 5-7.

The objective of this workshop is to bring together leading researchers/developers from industry with leading researchers from academia to discuss challenges, opportunities and new trends in logistics, material handling, optimization, and related algorithms.
ORGANIZERS:
   Prof. Prasad Tetali (Director of ARC, GaTech)
   Prof. Henrik I. Christensen (Director of RIM, GaTech)
Agenda
08:45-09:15 Registration
09:15-10:45 Logistics

Georgia Tech and RIM Director Professor Henrik Christensen recently were recognized by Boeing for outstanding performance through the company's Supplier of the Year Awards. The Institute was one of 16 organizations to receive the award from a pool of more than 17,500 Boeing suppliers in more than 50 countries.

Daniel Goldman, an Assistant Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Physics, has been named a recipient of a 2012 DARPA Young Faculty Award for his proposal "Towards a terramechanics of heterogeneous granular media". The DARPA Young Faculty Award program identifies and engages rising research stars in junior faculty positions at U.S. academic institutions and exposes them to Department of Defense needs as well as DARPA’s program development process.

Science fiction often inspires children to dream of accomplishing great feats. Ayanna Howard is no exception. At age 11 she discovered the TV show Bionic Woman, in which a badly injured athlete is given artificial limbs that grant her superhero-like abilities.

The Georgia Institute of Technology opened its doors to more than 400 middle school and high school students on Wednesday for the third annual Robotics Open House. Georgia Tech masters students and Ph.D. candidates demonstrated more than 20 projects around campus, marking the Institute’s participation in National Robotics Week.
Students saw a variety of projects, including an autonomous race car, robotic submarines and Simon (click here for a video of the day’s events).

Researchers at Georgia Tech’s Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (RIM) are trying to help create an easy-to-use human-robot interaction. They have recently identified the types of questions a robot can ask to get more information from a human so that they can learn a new task. Such questions need to be in line with something a human can first understand, and then respond to.One of the study’s authors, Maya Cakmak from the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech is quoted in a press release:

Hamid Marvi, a graduate of mechanical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, is taking a closer look at a snake’s use of friction in order to create more effective ‘rescue’ robot designs. Without friction, snakes find it difficult to move efficiently.

For over 10 years, an itch on his nose had been annoying Henry Evans. Many take such basic functions for granted, but not Evans. When he was 40, a stroke left him paralysed and mute. He can only move his head and partially move one finger. Evans could finally scratch that itch last year, and what's more, even shave, with the help of PR2, his personal robotic helper.