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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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You know you’re making an impact when President Barack Obama retweets your work to none other than Bill Gates. In this case, the work was an interactive infographic co-developed and designed by Blacki Li Rudi Migliozzi, Math 09, MS CS 12, which peeled back the layers of data compiled by NASA on the causes of global warming—from volcanoes and the earth’s orbit to greenhouse gases and deforestation. Tens of thousands of other people retweeted it, Facebooked and otherwise shared this compelling piece of data journalism published by Bloomberg News.
Read the full article here: http://www.gtalumni.org/s/1481/alumni/magazine.aspx?sid=1481&gid=21&pgid=6665
