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PopSign: Teaching American Sign Language Using Mobile Games

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CopyCat and PopSign are two games that help deaf children and their parents acquire language skills in American Sign Language. 95% of deaf children are born to hearing parents, and most of those parents never learn enough sign language to teach their children. As short term memory skills are learned from acquiring a language, many deaf children enter school with short term memory of less than 3 items, much less than hearing children of hearing parents or Deaf children of Deaf parents. Our systems address this problem directly.

Intelligent Biologically Inspired Design

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Design & Intelligence Laboratory

Engineers are interested in solving some practical problem, such as capturing water vapor in arid regions. They intend to use biological analogs as a source of inspiration. Doing so, however, raises several problems. First, the biological literature is immense, and keyword-based search produces voluminous hits, but most of the retrieved documents are of no use. That is, there is a high recall but low precision. The second problem is that even when a document looks like it might be relevant, it is still burdensome for the engineer to make a determination.

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Research Network Operations Center (RNOC)

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GVU Center Brown Bag: Emma Brunskill "Human-Focused Reinforcement Learning"

This talk will discuss the excitement about reinforcement learning.
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IPaT Thursday Think Tank: Small Bets Seed Grant Workshop

Join us for the IPaT Thursday Think Tank on February 27 to meet potential Small Bets collaborators and explore project ideas.
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Predicting Psychosis and Neurogenerative Diseases from Speech: A Machine Learning Approach

Dr. Phillip Wolff (Professor of Psychology at Emory University) uses machine learning to predict a person's mental health status from the speech and text that they produce.

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Changing the Conversation: Georgia Tech Researchers Provide New Approach to Automated Story Generation

Research from Georgia Tech’s School of Interactive Computing provides a novel approach that improves the combination of automated story generation with natural language.
Jill Watson Team Reaches Semifinals in IBM AI XPrize Competition

Jill Watson – Georgia Tech’s AI designed explicitly for answering student questions about specific courses - was named as one of 10 semifinalists in IBM’s AI XPrize competition.
Why asking an AI to explain itself can make things worse

MIT Technology Review, Jan 30, 2020