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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Please join the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute (GTMI) for a Conversation with Jon Gertner, author of a critically acclaimed book, The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation.
As GTMI pursues drastically reducing the time required today to move from basic research to realizing new products or product improvements in the market, Gertner – an editor at large at Fast Company magazine – brings to us insight from what the Economist magazine called “a wonderful history of the most influential corporate-research lab the world has seen.”
As we consider new models of collaboration between industry and the academy, Bell Labs’ story of its “ivory tower with a factory downstairs” is highly relevant at Georgia Tech, where one of the university’s two original buildings featured a workshop with a foundry in which students would produce goods to sell.
