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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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Virtual globes such as Google Earth or Microsoft Visual Earth provide great bird's-eye views of urban landscapes. But those streets are empty, transforming the world's cities into ghost towns. Now a system, designed by a team led by Ph.D. student Kihwan Kim and Professor Irfan Essa of the College of Computing, can change that by drawing on real-time video from traffic and surveillance cameras, or weather sensors. It populates virtual towns with cars, people and realistic skies.
