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3 unusual facts about Georgia Institute of Technology


James Henry Deese

He attended Georgia Institute of Technology and the U.S. Naval Academy from 1931 to 1935, where he studied Electrical and Civil Engineering.

Mini Lisa

It was created in 2013 by Keith Carroll, a Georgia Institute of Technology PhD candidate, in order to demonstrate a technique called thermochemical nanolithography (TCNL) that was invented at the university.

SpaceWorks Enterprises

SEI was founded in 2000 by Dr. John R. Olds, then a tenured professor in the School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.


Arkansas Razorbacks football, 1950–59

In Frank Broyles' second season as head coach, Arkansas defeated his alma mater in the Gator Bowl, 14–7.

Bernard Cywinski

His works include the Liberty Bell Center at Independence National Historical Park and the G. Wayne Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Briny Baird

He originally attended Georgia Tech before transferring to Valdosta State University where he won the NCAA Division II individual golf championship in 1994 and 1995.

Brook Byers

He was formerly a Director of the Entrepreneurs Foundation, the California Healthcare Institute, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Stanford University Graduate School of Business Advisory Council, UCSF's That Man May See Vision Research Foundation (Chairman), and the Georgia Tech Advisory Board, and was a founder of TechNet.

C. S. Kiang

Trained in Physics at National Taiwan University and Georgia Institute of Technology, after four years at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Dr. Kiang returned to Georgia Tech in 1978 to develop the Atmospheric Sciences program within the School of Geophysical Sciences and then served as Director of the School from 1981 to 1988.

C4 Engine

These universities include MIT, Georgia Tech, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), McMaster University, and the University of Kempten.

Chris Huffins

After spending some time as an assistant coach for Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia, Huffins was hired at his alma mater, the University of California, to coach his old team, The Golden Bears.

Computational journalism

The field emerged at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2006 where a course in the subject was taught by professor Irfan Essa.

Frank Dellaert

Frank Dellaert is an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Georgia Institute of Technology School of Computer Science

The School of Computer Science is an academic unit located within the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).

Georgia Rail Passenger Program

The Athens route will connect nine of Georgia's colleges and universities, including Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia State University, Emory University, Georgia Gwinnett College, and the University of Georgia.

Graphene antenna

A research team at the Georgia Institute of Technology's Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory (led by Ian F. Akyildiz) and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (principal investigators Albert Cabellos and Eduard Alarcón) developed a method to create an antenna that would be shaped into graphene strips from 10 to 100 nanometers wide and one micrometer long.

Henry Kirke Brown

Henry Brown's children include Harold Bush-Brown, a longtime director of Georgia Tech's architecture school, and James Bush-Brown, landscape architect and co-author of America's Garden Book.

Irfan Essa

Irfan Essa is a professor and the Director of Off-Campus Initiatives in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).

Jay Payton

Selected by the Mets in the first round (29th pick) of the 1994 amateur draft, Payton hadn't fulfilled the great expectations he projected Georgia Tech when he was drafted in the first round with fellow All Americans and Teammates Nomar Garciaparra and Jason Varitek, due in large part to four surgeries while in the minor leagues.

Joe Guyon

He played college football at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School from 1912 to 1913 and Georgia Institute of Technology from 1917 to 1918 and with a number of professional clubs from 1919 to 1927.

John A. White

He succeeded Daniel Ferritor in 1997 after previously serving as the dean of Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Engineering.

White left his job as dean of Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Engineering in order to become chancellor at his alma mater, the University of Arkansas in 1997.

John Stasko

John Thomas Stasko III (born August 28, 1961) is a Professor in and the Associate Chair of the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at the Georgia Tech, where he joined the faculty in 1989.

In 2007 Stasko was appointed Associate Chair of the newly created School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech.

Michael Arad

Arad received a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College, and a master's degree from Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Architecture.

Nader Tehrani

Tehrani has also taught at Harvard Graduate School of Design, Rhode Island School of Design, Georgia Institute of Technology where he served as the Thomas W. Ventulett III Distinguished Chair in Architectural Design, and University of Toronto as the Frank O. Gehry International Visiting Chair at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design.

Having won the commissions of three Schools of Architecture, Tehrani has completed the Hinman Research Building at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and is currently working on completion of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, and the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto.

Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps

Sixty Naval Reserve Freshmen were accepted at each of the original units at the University of California, Berkeley, Northwestern University, University of Washington, Harvard University, Yale University, and Georgia Institute of Technology.

Ponce de Leon Avenue

Ponce de Leon Avenue begins at Spring Street at the south edge of Midtown Atlanta, though it may have originally started a block further west at Williams Street (across from Georgia Tech, one block east of Bobby Dodd Stadium) prior to the construction of the Downtown Connector.

Red Barron

During the Cocking affair, Eugene Talmadge attempted to place Barron in a new position as vice president of his alma mater, Georgia Tech; the move was widely criticized by Georgia Tech alumni, and Barron subsequently declined to accept the position.

Roger Lyndon

After a brief teaching stint at the Georgia Institute of Technology, he returned to Harvard for the third time in 1942 and while there taught navigation as part of the V-12 Navy College Training Program while earning his Ph.D.

Roger Wartell

Roger Wartell is the former Chair of the School of Biology, part of the College of Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Sony Toshiba IBM Center of Competence for the Cell Processor

The center is part of the Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Computing and is headed by David A. Bader.

South Dragons

It was believed the team was looking to sign Luke Schenscher – a member of the 2004 Georgia Tech team which went to the NCAA championship game against the University of Connecticut, and at the time an NBA Development League player – as its first marquee player.

Stanley Mulaik

Stanley A. Mulaik (born April 9, 1935 in Edinburg, Texas) is Professor Emeritus (retired) at the School of Psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology, as well as the head of the Societate American pro Interlingua.

Sugar Bowl Regatta

The 2006 Sugar Bowl football classic was moved to Atlanta, Georgia and the regatta committee held the intercollegiate races on Lake Lanier in the Atlanta-area thanks to the Lake Lanier Sailing Club and the Georgia Tech sailing team.

Thermochemical nanolithography

In 2013, the Georgia Institute of Technology group used TCNL to create a nano-scale replica of the Mona Lisa.

Tom Luginbill

He then transferred to Georgia Tech and won the starting quarterback position in 1994 from Donnie Davis, who had started all eleven games the previous year.

Winecoff Hotel

Arnold Hardy, a 26-year-old graduate student at Georgia Tech, became the first amateur to win a Pulitzer Prize in photography for his snapshot of a woman in mid-air after jumping from the 11th floor of the hotel during the fire.


see also

'Nique

The Technique, Georgia Institute of Technology's student newspaper.

George Griffin

George C. Griffin (1897 - 1990), served in various positions at the Georgia Institute of Technology

Gisele Bennett

Bennett holds a 1987 B.S. and a 1989 M.S. from the College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida and a 1995 Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, all in electrical engineering.

M. Graham Clark

Clark, who was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, attended the Georgia Institute of Technology and held five doctoral degrees.

Steve Cross

Stephen E. Cross, Executive Vice President for Research at the Georgia Institute of Technology