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For Immediate Release
July 3, 1996

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Georgia Tech Unveils New World Wide Web Home Page in Time for the 1996 Games
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Atlanta--Georgia Tech's World Wide Web home page has a new look
<http://www.gatech.edu>. The Office of Information Technology, in
coordination with the Georgia Tech Office of External Affairs, redesigned
the University's home page to capture the Olympic spirit.

The new Tech home page takes full advantage of the World Wide Web to
educate the world about Georgia Tech and its role as the home of the 1996
Olympic Village. In addition, it extols Tech's role in creating behind-the
scenes technology aimed at enhancing a world class athlete's performance.

The new design includes the University's new logo, and the Georgia Tech
designed Olympic Torch.

The Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) tapped Georgia Tech's
Dr. Sam Shelton, a professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, to
transform an artistic torch design into a working instrument. Georgia Tech
Mechanical Engineering Professor Lee Durbetaki, Industrial Design Professor
Lee Payne and graduate students Kevin Berry, David Craig and Andy Delano
all helped design the three-and-a-half pound torch that can burn 45 minutes
without refueling.

Tech's redesigned home page helps tell the world its story, and further
improvements to the home page following the Games will continue to show the
world that the Georgia Institute of Technology is a university on the rise.

With the Games as a catalyst, Tech has been able to leverage resources-
otherwise unavailable--to improve the physical and academic infrastructure
and advance the University's mission to become the premier technological
university of the 21st century.

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MILLS,TONI L. (Program Coordinator II-Public Relations) (404) 894-8997
Office of Information Technology - Resource Management
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332-0700 
Internet: toni.mills@oit.gatech.edu          Have a great day! :-)