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At the 2014, InternationalConference on Intelligence Robotand
Systems, Tech PhD gradu-ate Dr. Travis Deyle, ProfessorCharlie Kemp
and University of
Washington Professor Matthew
Reynolds presented a new RadioFrequency Identi cation
(RFID)based search algorithm for locat-ing objects in a 3D
environment
with the help of robots.T e research was implemented
on a PR2 robot and it can locateobjects correctly with the help
ofRFID tags.
In robotics, one of the hardestchallenges is to know the
identityof objects, said Feyle. It is easyfor a person to walk into
a roomand locate stuff , but in robotics it
is one of the toughest questionsout there.
An RFID tag on an object cangive the robot the information
itneeds to identify and locate theobject in a room.
Long range R FID, implement-ed by Deyle and his team, can beused
to great eff ect in a room.
It works when objects are outof sight also, Feyle said. If
anobject is inside a cabinet or a be-hind the sofa, the robot can
locateit using long range RFID. Also,there can be multiple objects
inthe room from 100 to a 1000 andthe robot will be able to locate
theprecise object.
Using RFID and tags we canonly locate a rough area of wherethe
object is located in the envi-ronment, Deyle saud. For pre-cise
object location we will have to
use some diff erent technology likecameras or laser.T e tag
could beused to determine its precise loca-tion.
While working on the proj-ect, Deyle and his team imple-mented
radar techniques from the1950s for localizing and pin
pointsearching.
We looked up stuff
in 1950sradar literature which holds upeven today and if we had
betterhardware we wouldve been ableto implement more stuff from
thatliterature for even better localiza-tion, Deyle sajd. A lot of
peoplethink RF is a black box but it re-ally isnt. T ere are simple
things
which builds this foundationOne of the possible application
for advances like these is medica-tion delivery and for robotics
inhome care.
RFID used for object recognition
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2015 Georgia TechStartup Competition$40,000 total prize pool
Edison Prize awarded to the winner
Open to current grad students & 2014 graduates
Final Info Session/Team Mixer:Mon, Oct. 6 from 7:45-9pm in
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Gone Girl beats odds, revitalizes mystery genre
target than a sociopathic husband whose wife has gone
missing?Oh, but wait theres more: nan-cial issues, life insurance
trouble,angry neighbors and even a notein Amys diary noting that
Nickmight kill her.
Viewers are left to ponder: areall of these clues red herrings,
ordo they actually point to Nick, atypical thirty-something
Ameri-can male who owns a bar andplays video games? To say
any-thing more about the plot wouldbe a crime; for those who have
read
viewers to look closer into Amyand Nicks crumbling marriage;as
their stories collide, we donot know whom to trust, whichmakes the
viewing experience ex-haustingly exciting.
Gone Girl s dark, biting humorallows for more realism and
con-nectivity as well. Fincher is knownto complement his actors
cold,intelligent expressions with the
lms muted, unsaturated look. Without a doubt, this lm pres-ents
a beautiful cinematographicproduction.
T e smart, witty dialogue doesnot come off as forcefully hip
ei-ther. As we watch Amy and Nicksromantic past, we can
comfortablylaugh and smirk over two writersexchanging playful
sarcasm.T erelationship between the actors(and their characters) is
supportedthrough strong chemistry, which
makes the crumbling love thatmuch more real and painful forthe
audience.
While Fincher exposes an ar-ray of suspenseful homages fromthe
50s and 70s, this modern
lm is unique in its examinationof manipulative relationships,
theeconomy and idiocy in the media.
Aside from the darkly funnyand disturbingly sick themes,Gone
Girl revels in the perfor-mance of Pike. She serves as theprimary
driver for the grippingquality the movie permeates.
While A ffleck, Neil PatrickHarris (Desi, Amys ex-boy-friend),
Carrie Coon (Nicks twinsister) and Tyler Perry (Nicks law-yer)
expertly mold themselves asrelatable people in a nightmarish
world, Pike easily takes the trophyfor the strongest
performance.
T ankfully, Finchers ode tothe arguably dying suspense genreis
revitalizing.T is is a high-endB movie that shouldnt show Os-car
season worthiness, and yetit does. T is is a story that is
sotrashy, pulpy and messed up, thatit seems ridiculous to call it
intel-ligent or mesmerizing, and yet itis. Gone Girl is a must-see
for anycinematic thrill-seeker.
Gillian Flynns novel, there shouldbe no worries. T e lm, while
itdoes reveal several missteps, is anear awless adaptation. To
makematters better, Flynn also wrotethe masterful screenplay.
T is movie spans a lengthy twoand a half hours, and at times
itfeels much longer. Luckily, bor-ing or drawn out do not
ac-curately characterize the pacingand tone of the movie. Gone Girl
slowly, but elegantly, reveals a dis-turbingly intense story.
Countlessplot twists and surprises invite
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Even though he is known forhaving a knack for lming twistedand
maniacal deeds, director Da-vid Fincher has managed to makea movie
that is at the same timeluxurious, dreamy and discom-forting.
Carrying over from his earlier works such as Se7en, Fight Club
and Zodiac , Fincher has growninto one of the most maturemodern
directors working today.
While Gone Girl may not be hisbest lm to date, it surely is an
ex-cellent example of what a Hitch-cockian movie would look andfeel
like during the iGeneration.
On the gloomy morning oftheir anniversary, Nick and AmyDunne
(Ben A ffleck and Rosa-mund Pike) nd themselves introuble when Amy
ends up miss-ing. After calling the police andhiding several truths
about Amy,Nick quickly becomes the pri-mary suspect. Who is an
easier
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New Weezer album feels repetitive to release two episodes of
Arrow each week.
Setting up this distinction went well for the rst episode ofthe
new series. It reiterated brie ythe backstory presented in Arrow
,re ning the details, introducingimportant characters and
posingseveral questions like any good be-ginning to a story. T e
show evenencountered its rst minor bad
guy, a man who supposedly diedonly to return with the ability
tocontrol the weather.
T e Flash was well on its wayto cementing its image as a
uniqueshow, worthy of interest for itsown sake, when it decided it
hadnot given enough credit to Arrow ,and Allen ran 600 miles to ask
asimple question of Queen becausephones are for smart people.
T e rst episode of T e Flashsets up a superhero whose solegoal
(so far at least) is to nd hismothers real murderer, and ifhe
happens to solve other crimesalong the way, so be it. In fact,
Al-len was contemplating this prob-lem when he was struck by
light-ning, which caused him to be in acoma for nine months.
When he wakes up, Allen issurprised to nd that he now haspowers.
Allen is not, however, sur-prised that he woke up in a
giantout-of-business facility (mannedby only three people) that
inex-plicably appears to be fully op-erational minus one blown
upparticle accelerator and a random,conveniently labeled cage with
itsdoor pried open.
In a more critical sense, whileT e Flash has released only a
fewepisodes, and could very easilychange course, it appears to
befraught with stilted dialog andstrange resolutions to easy
prob-lems. Overall, the show can best
be described as cheesy. While itcould be enjoyed for its plot or
itscomic book focus, it is fa r easier toimagine viewers being
entertainedby its lack of believability.
broken relationship between adaughter and her father. Evenhere,
though, theres an irrepress-ible energy which always pulls themusic
up, showing Weezer to be aband more concerned with uplift-ing than
re ecting, a fact which isput on bold display in the exorbi-tant
three-part closer collectivelycalled T e Futurescope Trilogy.
Ultimately, the albums majorproblem is its familiarity theresa
de nite feeling of repetitive-ness listening through the
wholething, and, on a larger scale, itsnot a record that strikes
out toofar from fami liar Weezer territory.
But while it imitates the bandsdebut without reaching the
sameheights, its still a welcome stepback towards that same level
ofquality.
ally break out into memorable so-los. T e album as a whole has
thefeel of the upbeat ending of a teenmovie, with a similar power
tosweep you up and add a little posi-tive feeling to your day if
youre
willing to not think too hard.T eres a de nite air of youth-
fulness about the album T eBritish Are Coming sounds likeit
could be an elementary schoolinterpretation of the Revolution-ary
War, were it not for the mildobscenity tossed at those
redcoatstrying to run the show. T e lyricstend to be clear and
easily com-prehensible with frequent use of
careless slant rhymes.T
e subjectmatter of these lyrics is generallylight, with the
exception of Fool-ish Father, a song dealing withthe subject of
forgiveness and a
of those original fans;Everythingwill be Alright in the End s
rstsingle Back to the Shack prom-ises there will be rockin out
likeits 94, a nod to the release yearof their rst album.
Its an appropriate compari-son, because the album, with
itssunshine-infused sound and uidsongwriting, de nitely recallsthat
brilliant debut. T eres de -nitely evidence that theres beenmore
thought and considerationgone into this work, with plentyof
well-executed transitions and
well-crafted songs. T eres hall-marks of Weezer all over,
with
plenty of catchy hooks (especiallyon the tracks Eulogy for a
RockBand and Ive Had It Up toHere), a strong sense of melody,and
punchy guitars that occasion-
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wanna be mass consumed, Imnot a happy meal; so sings Riv-ers
Cuomo in Ive Had It Up ToHere, one of the songs on Wee-zers latest
release,Everything WillBe Alright in the End . Its a boldstatement,
given how often accu-sations of selling out are levelledagainst the
band.
In the 90s, Weezer releasedtwo albums which, at least
retro-spectively, are considered criticaldarlings their self-titled
debut
with its brash, joyous power popand Pinkertons memorably
emo-tional tirades. But after a hiatusfollowing the initial poor
responseto Pinkerton, their next release,a second self-titled album
com-monly called T e Green Album,saw the band moving in a
moreconventional, less ambitious di-rection. T eyve made attemptsto
push their sound in new di-rections since then, but theyvechurned
out a good deal of blandpop as well, and critical appraisaltends to
place their rst two al-
bums head and shoulders abovethe rest, and many of their
fansdeclared themselves betrayed.
Now, the band is making a de-liberate attempt to win the
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Halfway into this cross coun-try season, Techs Jeremy Green-
wald has nished ahead of everycollegiate runner he has racedand
is helping to propel his teamto new heights. T e season be-
gan over a month ago in Athens, where Greenwald and the
Jacketsdefeated both Georgia and Mercerat the UGA Invitational.
Two weeks later at the FloridaMountain Dew Invitational,
hepulled away from the pack andcrossed the nish line in a
career-best 24:17, giving Tech the rstplace nish over 11 other
teams.Greenwald followed that with a
rst place time of 24:58, 10 sec-onds ahead of the next nisher,
atthe Upstate Invitational to helpthe Jackets take second place
inthe event.
Greenwald feels that based onthe amount of training and
dedi-cation he has put into improvingas a runner, the success that
he hasachieved so far is fully expected.However, he does not feel
thatthese wins have put a lot of extrapressure on him.
People kind of expect me to win, I guess, Greenwald said.But as
we get into these biggerraces, I understand that Im notgoing to go
undefeated through-out the whole season, so I dontreally pay
attention to any pres-sure that anyone else puts on me.Its all
about the pressure I put onmyself.
From here, Greenwald believesthat the team has the potential
tocompete for a top spot at region-als and earn a spot at
nationals. Atthe very least, he hopes to make it
to nationals as an individual andrepresent the team should
theynot qualify.
We have a good group ofyoung guys, and they are pretty
inexperienced in those types ofraces, so getting the experience
atthe regional race is going to be aplus for us, Greenwald said.
If
we dont make nationals this year, we can always come back
nextyear, and well have that experi-ence under our belts, and it
willhelp us.
Greenwald competes for the Jackets in all three seasons:
crosscountry and indoor and outdoortrack. He feels he has grown as
arunner over the past three years,both mentally and physically.
I came in as kind of hard-nosed, hot-headed, whateveryou want to
say, Ive heard all ofthem, Greenwald said. I wasntvery disciplined
with training orracing, and it got me injured a fewtimes and I
usually didnt race tomy potential. I think [cross coun-try head]
coach [Alan] Drosky hashelped a lot with that, and Im justmore
mature as a runner overall,and Im reaping the bene ts of it.
He attributes his success as across country runner to his
aerobic
tness, which becomes strength-ened through long runs with
theteam on Sunday mornings.
He rarely ran over 10 miles ata time in high school but is
nowrunning 16 to 18 miles every
weekend at a considerably fasterpace. He ran a total of about
85miles a week ago, which he says
was the most all season. To putthat into context, some
NCAApowerhouses run upwards of 100miles every week.
We kind of stick to the low-mileage plan, because we are abunch
of middle-distance runnersbasically, just a lot of track guysthat
run cross country, Green-
wald said. Well start tapering
here soon; well get down to 50miles in the next few
weeks.Greenwald puts the big-
gest emphasis on running track,though success in cross country
is
also important to him.Greenwald prides himself on
excelling in a wide range of races,from the 800m in the
outdoorseason to 10 km races in the fall.
I dont want to be a one-racetype of guy. I enjoy track a
lotmore, but I love doing all of theseasons, Greenwald said.
Since he is a track runner rstand foremost, he must run a
pa-tient race in order to not tire him-self out too soon.
He does not push the pace, asthe best pure cross country
run-ners will be able to maintain thatpace and win on stamina at
theend. Instead, he stays near the leadpack for the majority of the
race,and uses his mile speed down thehome stretch to hopefully
pullahead at the nish line.
With a lot of young, inexperi-enced runners on the roster,
Gre-enwald has an important leader-ship role on the team. He leads
byexample, doing exactly what hiscoaches tell him to do and
takingcare of himself properly outside ofpractice.
When they see the successthat I have, maybe it fuels themand
motivates them to do thesame types of things, Greenwaldsaid. Its
great to be a part of theteam and to have those guys andthat
camaraderie. Its very excitingto see the success of your team asa
whole and get to share that withyour teammates.
Greenwald says that his biggestmotivator is the fear of having
re-gret later in life and that it pusheshim to achieve as much as
he canin the present.
I dont want to regret not get-ting the most out of myself, so
Ipush myself as hard as I can,
Greenwald said. I want to get to where I feel like I have given
it myall and reached my potential, anduntil I do that, Im not going
tostop running. I want to achieve
great things, and that motivatesme, and I dont want to regret
any-thing when Im done running.
No matter how the rest of hiscollegiate career at Tech playsout,
Greenwald plans on runningcompetitively long after gradua-tion.
T is is what I love to do, andIm blessed to be able to do it
asmy passion, Greenwald said. If I
can join a club or something aftercollege, whether Im getting
paidor not, Im going to keep runningand trying to get the most out
ofmyself.
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