With exams and projects now out of the way, I decided to attend TIG Week, a three day lecture series on engineering technical interest groups such as electromagnetics, digital signal processing, systems and control, power systems, and electronic design and application. There are a total of ten technical interest groups here at Georgia Tech.

Today, Bruno Frazier from Bioengineering, Stephen Ralph from Optics, and Jim McClellan from Digital Signal Processing spoke with us about the current technologies and innovations in their respective fields. Particularly interesting technologies included holographic data storage, compressed video editing, and the use optics in the terrahertz range for network communications. Mark Smith, from Hewlett-Packard Research, also came to demo and talk about their latest technologies from a corporate perspective.