Who's Following the Aerial Robotics Competition?
Robert Michelson and Alan Alda discuss aerial robotics on the campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1995 International Aerial Robotics Competition
The media has covered the ultimate collegiate challenge since its
inception. Each year inquiries from the electronic and tabloid media
flood the desk of the competition's organizer, Rob Michelson. The
following is an abbreviated list of media sources that have covered
the event:
TELEVISION
- Scientific American Frontiers
- Discovery Channel: "Next Step"
- Discovery Channel: "World of Wonder"
- Cable Network News
- CNN's "Technology Week"
- CNN "Futurewatch"
- BBC's "Tomorrow's World"
- AM Canada (Syndicated)
- First Look (Syndicated)
- Various independent, and ABC-CBS-NBC-FOX affiliates**
RADIO
- National Public Radio "Technovation" (uplinked via Galaxy 6 satellite)
- Armed Forces Radio (400 stations reaching 127 countries)
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (Radio Syndicate)
- Various independent and national affiliates
PRINT
MEDIA
- Business Week
- Popular Mechanics
- Scientific American
- Discover
- Mechanica Popular (Latin America)
- London Daily Telegraph
- Computer World
- Omni Magazine
- The Australian
- The Sciences
- IEEE Computer Society "Expert Systems Magazine"
- IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine
- Chronicle of Higher Education
- Design News
- PC Novice
- Military & Aerospace Electronics
- Engineering Horizons Magazine
- Government Product News
- Unmanned Systems
- Military Robotics Magazine
- The Futurist
- Washington Technology News
- AHS Magazine
- Model Airplane News
- Engineering Times
- Various regional and city newspapers such as
the Atlanta Journal, Chicago Tribune, and the Edmonton Journal
INTERNET MEDIA
- Popular Mechanics Zone
- Scientific American Frontiers "Ask the Scientists" (AOL)
- Hot Wired
**(for example, in 1993 the competition was seen by an estimated
audience of 3,080,000 viewers as compiled from information provided
by the Georgia Tech Research Communications Office, Nielsen SIGMA
electronic encoding, Burrelle's monitoring reports, a random callback
survey conducted by N/BN, and hard copy recieved from individuals
around the world. It is suspected that this audience has increased
since 1993, but detailed statistics have not been computed.)
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Principal Research Engineer Emeritus
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Adj. Associate Professor (ret)
Georgia Institute of Technology
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