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INTRODUCING THE GVU CENTER AT GEORGIA TECH

The GVU Center is headquartered in the Technology Square Research Building, located on Fifth Street at the edge of the Georgia Tech campus in Midtown Atlanta.

The GVU Center at Georgia Tech is an interdisciplinary research facility affiliated with the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. The research center addresses a host of issues, each dedicated to unlocking human potential through technological innovation. Computer technology is becoming as fundamental to society as electricity and the automobile. Our work has a global impact in that it centers on innovating technologies that support basic human needs. We strive to continuously push boundaries, thus bridging the gap between ideas and reality.

Interdisciplinary Structure is Key

The GVU Center's education programs and research projects are conducted by Georgia Tech faculty drawn from each of Tech's six colleges: Computing, Engineering, Management, Sciences, Architecture and the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. Likewise, our students represent all walks of life, all academic interests and career ambitions.

At the GVU Center, "interdisciplinary" is not simply a trendy buzzword, it is essential to what we do and more important, how we do it.

At the GVU Center, interdisciplinary means:

• Bringing talented people together to solve problems.
• Seeding new ideas from the ground up, not from the top down.
• Fostering collaboration through shared facilities, discussions and programs.
• Providing a compelling vision for our common goals and objectives.

Following a Problem-Oriented Philosophy

Our approach to research is consistent with our mission of unlocking human potential through technological innovation. We are singularly dedicated to solving problems of every kind that impact the human condition. That means we are results-driven, practical and cognizant of how our work can be applied in a real-world context.

About GVU

www.gvu.gatech.edu

The GVU Center at Georgia Tech, an interdisciplinary research center at Georgia Tech, fosters collaborations in computing technology research among more than sixty Georgia Tech faculty and hundreds of affiliated students.

GVU's research portfolio enables unprecedented research and innovations in:

• Home—Researchers are inventing future technologies for the home that support individual activities and family pursuits.
• Health—New possibilities in healthcare are emerging, ranging from visualization tools for surgery planning to diagnosing and treating autism.
• Arts and Entertainment—With technology as their palette, researchers at the GVU Center are developing new approaches to the creative process.
• Gaming—Many sophisticated techniques in animation, human-computer interaction, augmented reality and other areas are provided a basis for new technologies for learning, simulation and, of course, games.
• Security and Privacy—The GVU Center at Georgia Tech is dedicated to investigating new ways of maintaining network security while preserving and even enhancing usability.
• Collaborative Work—By designing the physical and digital architecture of the information workplace, researchers are making work-life more effective, creative and energizing.
• Learning—Researchers are devising computational models that motivate, educate, advise and connect to help people of all ages improve their learning skills.

Since its founding in 1992, GVU has gained international recognition in the research areas of graphics, animation, virtual reality, human-computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, augmented reality, wearable computing, 3-D compression, robotics, perception, collaborative web spaces, and online communities.

For more information, please contact:
Vivian Chandler
External Relations Director
phone: 404.385.1252
e-mail: chandler@cc.gatech.edu

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