ATLAS Institute is a place where artists write code and robots read body language; where the norm is the unexpected and creativity is currency. We wear many hats—artist, engineer, technologist, humanitarian, designer—and together we form a lively interdisciplinary research and learning community driven by insatiable curiosity and a little mischief.
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A New Way to Measure Time: Arielle Hein at TEDxMileHigh
Technology, Arts and Media Instructor Arielle Hein was one of three CU affiliates to speak at TEDxMileHigh 2017: Point of Departure in Denver on July 7-8. The full video of her talk was recently released.
Design researcher Ellen Do joins ATLAS faculty
Designer and computer scientist Ellen Yi-Luen Do joins CU Boulder’s ATLAS Institute and the Computer Science Department as a full professor this fall.
Do’s research interests span human-computer interaction, creativity and design cognition, computing for health, tangible and embedded interaction, and computer-aided architectural design.
‘Sticks & Stones’: Art show explores the divisive language of today’s political discourse
ATLAS Assistant Professor Joel Swanson’s newest solo art exhibition Sticks & Stones is an exploration of the divisive language dominating contemporary political discourse.
Paper robots teach kids basic engineering principles
After winning an NSF grant for her Paper Mechatronics project, ATLAS PhD student HyunJoo Oh discusses how the work helps more students discover a passion for STEM fields.
Oh held a two-day workshop at the Boulder Public Library, during which high school students designed and assembled their own robots out of cardboard and paper.