• Student wearing a virtual reality headset sitting next to a faculty member at a desk.

    Lab Pioneers New Frontiers for Computer-assisted Accessibility

    If computing opened the door to assistive communication, artificial intelligence has now kicked the door wide open, turning slow, character-by-character typing into fast, fluent text prediction. But critical gaps remain. At Michigan Tech, Keith Vertanen, the Dave House Professor . . .

2026 Gateway Magazine cover image

On the cover: College of Computing student Adyn Skowronski expands gaming’s frontiers through Husky Game Development Enterprise and varsity esports while trailblazing assistive computing research—an example of our people-centered work advancing meaningful impacts in the age of AI.


Gateway Magazine, published by the Michigan Tech College of Computing.

Fall 2026

  • Executive Editor: Dennis Livesay
  • Managing Editor: Cyndi Perkins
  • Contributors: Nate Bustos, Coby-Dillon English
  • Production Manager: Will Schuett
  • Copy Editor: Jessie Tobias
  • Design: Jack King
  • Comments to the editor:cmperkin@mtu.edu