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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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Last month, an improvisational jazz musician named Shimon hooked up to jam online with some iPhone-wielding Japanese through an application called ZoozBeat. Shimon, by the way, is a robot. He's programmed to improvise in the style of jazz great Thelonious Monk, says creator Gil Weinberg, adjunct associate professor in Interactive Computing. Source: NPR.org
