More from “the Clough”

A few panoramas taken with my iPhone. Click any of the images to embiggen. And, for those of you who don't know Wayne Clough, he pronounces his name "Cluff"... There is actually green space at the center of Georgia Tech's campus! This is taken from the rooftop garden of the Clough building. More green space. The roads don't go here, … [Read more...]

Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons

Walking through the new undergraduate classroom building at Georgia Tech. The Grand Staircase Skiles Walkway Connected to the Library … [Read more...]

My Talks at Dragon*Con 2011

Once again, I'm honored to have been asked to speak in the Space and Science tracks at Dragon*Con. Dragon takes over downtown Atlanta during Labor Day weekend. It's enormous. All the public reports of attendance are wrong... they admit to "40,000+" but that's low-balled to avoid fire code problems. But for those of you who don't know, there … [Read more...]

Midtown Atlanta Apple Store

Putting the final touches on Midtown Atlanta's new Apple store (Spring Street and Armstead Place). … [Read more...]

Tom Sawyer’s Fence

There is an old Vulcan proverb: Only Nixon could go to China. --Spock, Star Trek VI When I took over EI2 two years ago, one of the first things I did was merge ATDC and VentureLab. It was the right thing to do at the time... but times have changed. Nina Sawczuk has been director of Startup Services for almost a year and has ambitious growth … [Read more...]

Immigration and the Startup Visa

A few weeks ago, I was at a Georgia Tech student event, the Convergence Innovation Competition. I was incredibly impressed by the quality of the student entrepreneurs. They were mostly Master's candidates in Computing or Electrical Engineering, While still at the competition, I tweeted: Of the first 28 student entrepreneurs I've met in … [Read more...]

Tim Draper of DFJ to speak to students at Georgia Tech

Tim Draper, managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, will be in Atlanta next week. ATDC and the Tech Entrepreneurs Society have arranged for him to speak to students only on Wednesday, 13 April, at 2:30 pm on the Georgia Tech campus. His topic will be "Future Technology Growth Areas and Opportunities." This is open to any currently enrolled … [Read more...]

Georgia Tech Branding Failure

Georgia Tech's colors are white and gold. It says so in both our fight songs (yes, we have two). Our mascot, the Rambling Wreck, is painted in white and gold. If you look on the official Communications & Marketing website, our gold is Pantone 124. We went through a few confused years when we hooked up with navy blue, but that ménage à trois was … [Read more...]

GT Legislative Priorities

Georgia Tech's legislative priorities for 2011. … [Read more...]

Redistributing the Future

"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed." – William Gibson, science fiction writer Those of us who grew up on The Jetsons may feel cheated. It's the 21st century, and we don't have flying cars, or Moon vacations, or Rosie the Robot cooking our meals. … [Read more...]