Imagine RIT 2009

A New Way to Look at Your Heart

Written by Ali Schofield on Sat 05/02/2009 at 8:50 am

How often do you think about your heart? Daily? Weekly? Well, the truth is that you probably don’t, and assuming that it’s healthy and doing everything that it’s supposed to do, you have no need to think about it — out of sight, out of mind.

RIT Printers and Designers Win Prestigious Award

Written by Micah Stupak on Sat 05/02/2009 at 1:04 am

The Technical Association of the Graphic Arts is the only global professional technical association for the graphic arts industries. TAGA supports student chapters as well, and most compete on a yearly basis for various awards at the annual TAGA conference.

Computer Science House Gives a New Kind of Tour

Written by Ali Schofield on Sat 05/02/2009 at 12:48 am

Imagine you had a robot, but not just any robot. What if this robot could identify you? And not only that, but what if it could interact with you both verbally and physically? Seems pretty cool, right? A little futuristic perhaps, but still cool nonetheless.

RIT Administrators Survived the Dorms!

Written by Matthew Danna on Sat 05/02/2009 at 12:47 am

Innovation happens not only with projects and in classes, but can also happen with various student clubs and activities. This past winter, administrators of Rochester Institute of Technology gained a "youthful" perspective regarding the student experience on campus.

Habitat for Humanity & RIT Build Sustainable Housing

Written by Kaity Werner on Sat 05/02/2009 at 12:38 am

RIT's Habitat for Humanity club and Engineers for a Sustainable World are teaming together with RIT President, Bill Destler, and Flower City Habitat for Humanity (FCHH) to build the first RIT-sponsored Habitat for Humanity home.

Meetü: Social Networking With Real People

Written by Katelyn Moser on Sat 05/02/2009 at 12:34 am

The Social Networking Game was first launched at last year's Imagine RIT festival, and has since gone through some major changes. Abdul Matash, a researcher at the Open Publishing lab is excited at the direction the project has taken, exclaiming that, "the Social Networking Game takes social networking to a whole new level".

School of Print Media Blogs to Prospective Students

Written by Sean Conklin on Sat 05/02/2009 at 12:26 am

SPMetc (http://spmetc.cias.rit.edu) is a student run website designed to connect prospective and current students, faculty and staff, and alumni with what is going on in the School of Print Media. The site offers users the chance to preview our organizations, guest speakers and presentations, and activities that go on at RIT.

The PC VS. the Common Cold

Written by Jamie Frumusa on Fri 05/01/2009 at 11:49 pm

A hacker has mysteriously infiltrated your computer and inflicted it with sickness. Now it’s running slow, advertisements are popping up all over the screen, and you can’t get any work done. Many of us have experienced the aggravation and stress of this scenario. The common virus and worm infections of our beloved computers seem to be a sickness with no cure.

Gazing Through The Internet

Written by Jamie Frumusa on Fri 05/01/2009 at 11:47 pm

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to move about the internet using only your eyes? Well, researchers here at Rochester Institute of Technology have transformed that thought into a more plausible idea, which will one day allow people to do just that.

Haptic Interface for Micro-Robotic Medical Applications

Written by Sam Saeva on Fri 05/01/2009 at 11:14 pm

The haptic interfaces project allows a user to be able to "touch" a virtual object through the use of haptic actuators and interact with that object in the virtual environment.