Message from the Executive Director

Recently, GCATT completed 10 years in its role as a virtual cluster of academic centers of excellence in advanced communications, broadly defined.

During that time, GCATT has served to represent and support an exciting and inclusive array of initiatives in technology, policy and commercialization, guided by the overarching concurrent themes of research excellence, industry impact and economic development.

The GCATT centers have benefited individually and collectively from investments by the Georgia Research Alliance, particularly in the form of research testbeds. These facilities have contributed greatly to the education program, to industry partnerships, creation of new companies and to the procurement of federal research funding. Leveraging of seed funding from the state has been demonstrated in quantitative terms.

GCATT moved its headquarters to the vibrant environs of Technology Square in Midtown Atlanta late in 2005. It continues to serve as a place of intersection for academic initiatives in communications, computing and content, and as a friendly bridge to our strategic partners in Industry.

I invite you to visit the multiple venues of this website, and invite you to offer comment on its content, and to help us enhance the value and impact of this unique academic enterprise.

Nikil Jayant