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New ATLAS festival highlights games that make you say "Whaaat!?"
Sample experimental tabletop and electronic games, visit a large vintage arcade from the 1970s and 80s and learn about the art form of game design through speakers, panels and workshops at an ATLAS event for anyone who want to be “surprised, maybe confused and hopefully delighted.”
Award recognizes ATLAS professor for engaging teaching, making a difference
"His teaching methods are innovative, iterative and easy to understand, and he cares about his students." This is just one of the comments used to nominate Ben Shapiro for the 2018 Sullivan-Carlson Innovation in Education Award.
IRON Lab researcher wins Outstanding Research Excellence award
Hooman Hedayati, a computer science PhD student in the ATLAS Institute’s IRON Lab, was awarded Outstanding Research Award by CU Boulder’s Department of Computer Science.
Augmented Reality Makes Robots Better Coworkers
Research in human-robot interaction by Assistant Professor Dan Szafir and his IRON Lab researchers, Michael Walker, Jennifer Lee and Hooman Hedayati, was published in this month's IEEE Spectrum.
Weaving smart textiles
Assistant Professor Laura Devendorf researches smart textiles, one of the most promising and least explored frontiers for information technology.
Graduation numbers multiply eightfold as popularity of TAM major soars
Twenty-four BS TAM students graduated this spring—eight times the number who walked one year ago.
Triple major Emma Wu is ready for a little down time
Emma Wu is graduating on time having completed three majors in three different colleges, a minor and working two jobs.
Augmented Reality Enhances Robot Collaboration
IRON Lab researchers were awarded best paper and runner-up best paper in ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction’s Design category, paving the way for more seamless integration of robots in modern life.