{"139991":{"#nid":"139991","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Linda Milor Featured in \u0022Science of the Summer Olympics: Measuring a Champion\u0022","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETiming is everything, especially at the 2012 Summer Olympics where even a millisecond could mean the difference between victory and defeat. In the video, \u0022Measuring a Champion,\u0022 Linda Milor, a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, explains why Olympic timekeeping technology must be able to measure an athlete\u0027s performance with both accuracy and precision. \u0022Science of the Summer Olympics: Engineering In Sports\u0022 is a 10-part video series produced in partnership with NBC Learn, NBC Sports, and the National Science Foundation Directorate of Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Measuring a Champion\u0022 (all with runtimes of 5:34) may be viewed at the web sites for the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/news\/special_reports\/summer_olympics\/measuring_champion.jsp\u0022\u003ENational Science Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/science360.gov\/obj\/tkn-video\/e3e1825e-5bef-4a23-b282-54c10459560c\/measuring-champion\u0022\u003EScience 360: The Knowledge Network\u003C\/a\u003E, \u0026amp; \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nbclearn.com\/portal\/site\/learn\/science-of-the-summer-olympics\u0022\u003ENBC Learn\u003C\/a\u003E. Shorter versions of all of the videos will be broadcast during the 2012 Summer Olympics, which will be held in London July 27-August 12. Lesson plans for K-12 teachers will be available online in August 2012.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENBC Learn and NBC Sports, in partnership with the National Science Foundation, explore the engineering and technology helping athletes maximize their performance at the 2012 London Games in the 10-part video series, \u0022Science of the Summer Olympics: Engineering in Sports.\u0022 ECE Professor Linda Milor is featured in \u0022Measuring a Champion.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"NBC Learn and NBC Sports, in partnership with the National Science Foundation, explore the engineering and technology helping athletes maximize the performance at the 2012 London Games."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2012-07-13 16:14:21","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:29","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-07-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-07-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"140061":{"id":"140061","type":"image","title":"Linda Milor","body":null,"created":"1449178710","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:38:30","changed":"1475894771","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:11","alt":"Linda Milor","file":{"fid":"194911","name":"linda_milor.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/linda_milor_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/linda_milor_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1928952,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/linda_milor_0.jpg?itok=Od-auc0P"}}},"media_ids":["140061"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.nbclearn.com\/portal\/site\/learn\/science-of-the-summer-olympics","title":"Science of the Summer Olympics: Engineering in Sports (NBC Learn)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/news\/special_reports\/summer_olympics\/measuring_champion.jsp","title":"Science of the Summer Olympics: Measuring a Champion (NSF)"},{"url":"http:\/\/science360.gov\/obj\/tkn-video\/e3e1825e-5bef-4a23-b282-54c10459560c\/measuring-champion","title":"Science of the Summer Olympics: Engineering in Sports (Science360: The Knowledge Network, sponsored by NSF)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=72","title":"Linda Milor"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}