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Sweet Auburn Digital Media Initiative

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Can locative media (Augmented and Mixed Reality, web applications, and social networking) serve as a platform for preservation of cultural heritage, informal education, and civic engagement? This is the question at the heart of the Auburn Avenue Research Project, a project that brings together researchers from a variety of disciplines – including media theory, design studies, and human-computer interaction – to engage the above question in theory and practice.

Influences of Barriers on Computer Science in GPHS

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Contextualized Support for Learning

Educational policy at the state-level plays a critical role in increasing access to Computer Science (CS) in an equitable way through increasing the adoption of CS by public schools. In order to reach all students with computer science access and opportunities, we need to understand what is preventing students, teachers, schools, districts, and states from adopting CS education. Once we understand these barriers, we can better design and implement policy and curricula to provide computer science for all.

Getting it Right the First Time: Guarantees of Robot Behavior

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Mobile Robot Laboratory

Robotics has been considered as one of the five key technology areas for defense against attacks with weapons of mass destruction (WMD). However, due to the mass impact nature of WMD, failures of counter-WMD (C-WMD) missions can have catastrophic consequences. To ensure robots' success in carrying out C-WMD missions, we have developed a novel verification framework in providing performance guarantees for behavior-based and probabilistic robot algorithms in complex real-world environments. We cannot assume the luxury of a do-over; we must get it right the first time.

Upcoming Events

Mar 26

IC Faculty Candidate Seminar - Sehoon Ha, Google Brain

Sehoon Ha provides a talk on research in animation and robotics.
Mar 28

GVU Center Brown Bag: Karen Holtzblatt, "The @Work Experience Framework Key Success Factors to Retain Women in Tech"

This talk introduces the @Work Experience Framework and shares some of the findings from the research.
Mar 29

GA Smart Community Growth Workshop

The workshop will address how Smart Cities can drive economic growth and development.

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GVU News

Meet IC: Atlanta Native Matthew Guzdial Merges Passions for Machine Learning and Creativity

Meet Matthew Guzdial, a machine learning and creativity researcher under advisor Mark Riedl who has already gained plenty of attention for his work on artificial intelligence in video games.
3 IC Faculty Members Awarded Promotions

Devi Parikh and Dhruv Batra were awarded tenure and elevated to associate professor, while Karen Liu was elevated to full professor.
Michael Best to Speak at U.N. for Release of Report on Digital Gender Equality

Michael Best will speak at the United Nations next week during the formal release of a research report by the EQUALS Global Partnership, a coalition of more than 90 partners from government, industry, and academia that he helped found in 2015.