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Safecracking class teaches engineering skills, ethical hacking

Dec. 17, 2018

Students in a new ATLAS class are stretching their technological and design skills by taking on a challenge straight from a heist movie.

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Carson Bruns shares Tech Tattoos project on CBS4

Dec. 13, 2018

Carson Bruns discusses health and expressive potential for tattoo inks that change color in response to different stimuli.

Four hot swappable inputs for the game, including a knob, a joystick, an analog button and a clicky button.

Student-developed, multi-input game accepted to 2019 Game Developers Conference

Dec. 12, 2018

Clement Zheng and Peter Gyory have been selected to present their game, "Hot Swap: All Hands on Deck," in San Francisco at the 2019 Game Developers Conference, the world's largest professional game industry event.

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CPR Interview: A New Tattoo Prototype From A Ƶ Engineer Goes More Than Skin Deep

Dec. 12, 2018

Listen to CPR News' interview with Carson Bruns about his Tech Tattoos research project.

Makenna Turner

Laboratory for Playful Computation teen researcher wins CBS4 award

Dec. 10, 2018

Future Leaders winner, Makenna Turner, a junior at Peak to Peak Charter School in Lafayette, is working with PhD student, Abigail Zimmermann-Niefeld, in the Laboratory for Playful Computation to develop a wearable device that teaches skills, like hitting a golf ball.

Carson Bruns, holds his gloved hands forward and holds a wooden Ƶ logo in his left hand and a piece of pig's skin with the Ƶ logo on it outlined by a square of blue ink

Chameleon tattoos change color, may help diagnose illness

Dec. 4, 2018

Carson Bruns, assistant professor and director of ATLAS Institute's Laboratory for Emergent Nanomaterials, is developing a series of “tech tattoos” that could provide a new window to the human body.

Fetch, a four-foot-tall robot is shown to attendees of the ATLAS Research Showcase.

A robotic helping hand

Nov. 14, 2018

Research that helps robots understand gestures and the often vague nature of language will pave the way to mechanical beings taking on human tasks, from assembling children's toy castles on Christmas morning to caring for elderly relatives, says Dan Szafir, assistant professor at the ATLAS Institute and director of the IRON lab.

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Ben Shapiro: How Machine Learning Impacts the Undergraduate Computing Curriculum

Nov. 12, 2018

In this OP-ED piece for Communications of the ACM, Ben Shapiro and others argue that machine learning has moved from a peripheral topic within computer science to the core of what new computer scientists need to know.

Daniel Leithinger looks from an iPad.

Convergence of the Physical and Digital Worlds (Signal magazine)

Nov. 7, 2018

Daniel Leithinger, assistant professor at the ATLAS Institute and director of the THING lab, sees a time coming when computer screens can be replaced by 3D, shape-changing displays that render digital information tangibly.

Auguste uses a Markes Micro-chamber to extract volatile organic compounds from a sample.

Donna Auguste honored by Tau Beta Pi with ‘eminent engineer’ title

Oct. 22, 2018

Donna Auguste, ATLAS PhD student, is the first person at Ƶ Boulder in roughly a decade to receive the prestigious "eminent engineer" designation from the national engineering honor society, Tau Beta Pi.

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