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Subversion by design: Danny Rankin's TEDxMileHigh talk
"To the powerful, to anyone who hides behind a brand, be warned: We know what fonts you use. We've read your brand guidelines. And if you won't tell the truth, we'll steal your voice and tell it for you." These are the words ATLAS Instructor Danny Rankin ended his TEDxMileHigh...
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Ruhan Yang and teammates win first place at Georgia Tech's Moog Hackathon
ATLAS CTD master's student Ruhan Yang and two teammates won first place for their project, "e-Trombone," at Georgia Tech's annual Moog Hackathon, beating 11 teams, taking home $3,000, and securing a place in GT's prestigious Guthman Musical Instrument Competition. Read more
ATLAS workshops forge alliances between performers and technologists
Due to the circumstances of COVID-19, this series has been postponed. We hope to continue offering these and similar opportunities in the fall semester. A series of free workshops designed to help musicians and technologists collaborate are being offered by CU Boulder’s ATLAS Institute, connecting those interested in music technology with faculty and students from ATLAS, CMCI and the College of Music as well as with others with specialized skills in music technology. Read more
T9Hacks 2020 winners announced
More than 150 people attended the fifth annual T9Hacks on February 7–8, 2020, at the ATLAS Institute. Eighteen projects were submitted and eight winners selected by a panel of judges that included ATLAS faculty members Sheiva Rezvani, Sharri Zamore and Camilla Friedman-Gerlicz; TAM alumnae Andrea Devore and Laney Winkler; and engineers from sponsors Strava, Splunk and Twitter. Read more
"Suddenly Silent": Coloradan interview with TAM student Michelle Galetti
Michelle Galetti had good reason to leave college. She chose to stay. Read more
LiftTiles: Actuator-based building blocks for shape-changing interfaces
CU Boulder PhD candidate and ATLAS THING Lab member Ryo Suzuki recently developed LiftTiles—room-scale, actuator-based building blocks that pave the way for a new generation of shape-changing interfaces. Read more
T9Hacks announces new early childhood track
Two new tracks will be introduced this year for ATLAS Institute's fifth annual T9Hacks, a 24-hour invention marathon designed to promote interest in creative technologies, coding, design and making among college women and non-binary individuals—groups that are vastly underrepresented at mainstream hackathons. Read more