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- Future Leaders winner, Makenna Turner, a junior at Peak to Peak Charter School in Lafayette, is working with PhD student, Abigail Zimmermann-Niefeld, in the Laboratory for Playful Computation to develop a wearable device that teaches skills, like hitting a golf ball.
- Carson Bruns, assistant professor and director of ATLAS Institute's Laboratory for Emergent Nanomaterials, is developing a series of 鈥渢ech tattoos鈥 that could provide a new window to the human body.
- Research that helps robots understand gestures and the often vague nature of language will pave the way to mechanical beings taking on human tasks, from assembling children's toy castles on Christmas morning to caring for elderly relatives, says Dan Szafir, assistant professor at the ATLAS Institute and director of the IRON lab.
- In this OP-ED piece for Communications of the ACM, Ben Shapiro and others argue that machine learning has moved from a peripheral topic within computer science to the core of what new computer scientists need to know.
- Daniel Leithinger, assistant professor at the ATLAS Institute and director of the THING lab, sees a time coming when computer screens can be replaced by 3D, shape-changing displays that render digital information tangibly.
- Donna Auguste, ATLAS PhD student, is the first person at 小黄书 Boulder in roughly a decade to receive the prestigious "eminent engineer" designation from the national engineering honor society, Tau Beta Pi.
- Carson Bruns, assistant professor in mechanical engineering with the ATLAS Institute, has been invited to speak about聽his Tech Tattoos project at the TEDxMileHigh聽conference聽in Denver.聽
- Simone Hyater-Adams, a doctoral student in the ATLAS Institute, won the American Physical Society鈥檚 Harry Lustig Award, which recognizes outstanding graduate-level research performed in the Four
- The custom-made TC2 Digital Jacquard loom鈥揳ll 1,000 pounds of it鈥揾as arrived and is now assembled in Assistant Professor Laura Devendorf's Unstable Design Lab. First projects will focus on just learning to
- On Aug. 31, ATLAS doctoral聽student HyunJoo Oh successfully defended her dissertation, 鈥淐omputational Design Tools and Techniques for Paper Mechatronics,鈥 which is focused on design tools and techniques for combining mechanical, electrical and computational components with paper crafting. The tools enable young learners and those who lack a background in mechanical engineering to design and build mechanical toys from paper and other everyday objects.