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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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Atlanta, GA | Posted: October 28, 2019
In the summer, Seymour Goodman, a regents’ professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, visited Alaska and western Canada for three weeks. His visit was a follow-up of his 2000 effort to follow the global diffusion of the internet. The research funded by a grant from the Alaska Science Foundation was one of his first projects at the Nunn School.
Through this research project, Seymour Goodman studied the spread of the internet to small, isolated villages in Alaska and the Yukon. Among the products of the effort was an email greeting to members of the faculty of the Nunn School from Old Crow, Yukon (where he obtained the caribou antlers in his office). There was also an article in the Communications of the ACM. The recent trip was highlighted by a four-day reunion of the 2000 team.