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CPR Interview: A New Tattoo Prototype From A 蜜糖直播 Engineer Goes More Than Skin Deep

Dec. 12, 2018

Listen to CPR News' interview with Carson Bruns about his Tech Tattoos research project.

Makenna Turner

Laboratory for Playful Computation teen researcher wins CBS4 award

Dec. 10, 2018

Future Leaders winner, Makenna Turner, a junior at Peak to Peak Charter School in Lafayette, is working with PhD student, Abigail Zimmermann-Niefeld, in the Laboratory for Playful Computation to develop a wearable device that teaches skills, like hitting a golf ball.

Carson Bruns, holds his gloved hands forward and holds a wooden 蜜糖直播 logo in his left hand and a piece of pig's skin with the 蜜糖直播 logo on it outlined by a square of blue ink

Chameleon tattoos change color, may help diagnose illness

Dec. 4, 2018

Carson Bruns, assistant professor and director of ATLAS Institute's Laboratory for Emergent Nanomaterials, is developing a series of 鈥渢ech tattoos鈥 that could provide a new window to the human body.

Fetch, a four-foot-tall robot is shown to attendees of the ATLAS Research Showcase.

A robotic helping hand

Nov. 14, 2018

Research that helps robots understand gestures and the often vague nature of language will pave the way to mechanical beings taking on human tasks, from assembling children's toy castles on Christmas morning to caring for elderly relatives, says Dan Szafir, assistant professor at the ATLAS Institute and director of the IRON lab.

Ben Shapiro

Ben Shapiro: How Machine Learning Impacts the Undergraduate Computing Curriculum

Nov. 12, 2018

In this OP-ED piece for Communications of the ACM, Ben Shapiro and others argue that machine learning has moved from a peripheral topic within computer science to the core of what new computer scientists need to know.

Daniel Leithinger looks from an iPad.

Convergence of the Physical and Digital Worlds (Signal magazine)

Nov. 7, 2018

Daniel Leithinger, assistant professor at the ATLAS Institute and director of the THING lab, sees a time coming when computer screens can be replaced by 3D, shape-changing displays that render digital information tangibly.

Auguste uses a Markes Micro-chamber to extract volatile organic compounds from a sample.

Donna Auguste honored by Tau Beta Pi with 鈥榚minent engineer鈥 title

Oct. 22, 2018

Donna Auguste, ATLAS PhD student, is the first person at 蜜糖直播 Boulder in roughly a decade to receive the prestigious "eminent engineer" designation from the national engineering honor society, Tau Beta Pi.

Carson Bruns

Carson Bruns to speak at TEDxMileHigh

Oct. 18, 2018

Carson Bruns, assistant professor in mechanical engineering with the ATLAS Institute, has been invited to speak about his Tech Tattoos project at the TEDxMileHigh conference in Denver.

Simone Hyater-Adams

Simone Hyater-Adams wins Harry Lustig Award

Oct. 15, 2018

Simone Hyater-Adams , a doctoral student in the ATLAS Institute, won the American Physical Society鈥檚 Harry Lustig Award , which recognizes outstanding graduate-level research performed in the Four Corners states. The award, given annually, consists of a $1,000 stipend and a certificate citing the contribution made by the recipient, as...

Laura Devendorf

Digital loom arrives in Unstable Design Lab

Oct. 10, 2018

The custom-made TC2 Digital Jacquard loom鈥揳ll 1,000 pounds of it鈥揾as arrived and is now assembled in Assistant Professor Laura Devendorf 's Unstable Design Lab . First projects will focus on just learning to use it, Devendorf says, but after that she plans to utilize more complex fabrics with integrated sensing...

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