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Georgia Tech has helped meet the need for mission-critical defense and security research since the 1950s. Today, Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) experts, collaborating with other Georgia Tech research and academic units, apply scientific, engineering, and policy know-how to help solve some of the toughest problems of the modern battlefield.

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Connected New World

Posted: March 8, 2018

The internet of things will soon account for more than half of the world’s connected devices. Georgia Tech researchers are working to ensure IOT security, fuse large IOT data streams, and provide necessary connectivity.

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Illustration of a glowing, elevated room of machines with data streaming in and out, and humans outside the room watching

The Minds of the New Machines

Posted: January 25, 2018

New theories and innovative algorithms support computer learning for improved prediction and decision-making

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Georgia Tech and GTRI Researchers developing AI Psychiatry in Support of National Security

GTRI, Georgia Tech Develop AI Psychiatry to Advance National Security

Posted: August 27, 2021

A group of researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and Georgia Institute of Technology have teamed up under the inaugural GTRI Graduate Student Fellowship Program to develop a revolutionary cyber forensics technique called AI Psychiatry.

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Georgia Tech Joins the U.S. National Science Foundation to Advance AI Research and Education

Posted: July 29, 2021

Today, Georgia Tech received two National Science Foundation Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes awards, totaling $40 million.

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Control System Helps Several Drones Team Up to Deliver Heavy Packages

Posted: March 22, 2021

Researchers have developed a control system that will enable teams of drones to carry heavy packages.

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Georgia Tech and SRNL

Georgia Tech Will Help Manage DOE’s Savannah River Laboratory

Posted: December 28, 2020

Georgia Tech is part of a team that has been selected to manage the DOE's Savannah River National Laboratory

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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Georgia Tech and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Strengthen Research Ties

Posted: October 26, 2020

Georgia Tech and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will expand interactions, collaborations and joint scientific output.

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Hijacked oven

Baking and Boiling Botnets Could Drive Energy Market Swings and Damage

Posted: August 4, 2020

Evil armies of internet-connected appliances could be hijacked to slightly manipulate energy demand, potentially driving price swings.

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Coping with COVID

Georgia Tech Produces Key Components for Governor’s Coronavirus Test Initiative

Posted: April 22, 2020

Volunteer Georgia Tech researchers burn midnight oil to produce important enzymes that make coronavirus test kits work.

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New Smartphone App Will Record Interactions

Will Smartphones Help Us Keep COVID-19 Under Control?

Posted: April 14, 2020

Smartphones could provide a critical service of automating contact tracing to control future COVID-19 outbreaks.

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