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Two Ph.D. Students Recognized as 2021 Apple Scholars – A First for Georgia Tech

GT Computing, Apr 16, 2021

Assistant Professor Earns 2020 Salesforce AI Research Grant

March 29, 2021

Yang’s research, which is being led by her Ph.D. student Jiaao Chen, aims to alleviate dependence of supervised models on labeled data via data augmentation approaches.

Creating the Next Generation

GT Computing, Feb 19, 2021

Ph.D. Student Earns 2021 Focus Fellowship from Georgia Tech's Office of Minority Educational Development

February 17, 2021

The award recognizes participants in the Focus Program who have demonstrated academic excellence, community leadership, and been granted admittance to a graduate program.

How to Have a Meaningful Chat ... With Your Dog

WIRED, Feb 17, 2021

Has the pandemic separated you from your four-legged friend? These tips will help you stay in touch. IC Associate Professor Melody Jackson is included in this feature about communicating with your furry friend via video.

Lonely, Angry, Eager to Make History: Online Mobs are Likely to Remain a Dangerous Reality

The Washington Post, Feb 17, 2021

The chaos of WallStreetBets and the QAnon-fueled storming of the U.S. Capitol showcased the reality-shaping power of Internet communities. Who’s supposed to stop them when they go too far? School of Interactive Computing Professor Amy Bruckman contributes to the conversation in this piece by The Washington Post.

Inventors of World’s Smallest Lavalier Microphone Tapped for Technical Achievement Award

February 3, 2021

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has given a Technical Achievement Award to Chris Countryman and Omer T. Inan for the engineering of the subminiature high-performance Countryman Associates lavalier microphones.

Georgia Tech Research Highlights Premier Artificial Intelligence Conference

January 29, 2021

Eighteen members of the Georgia Tech community contributed to eight papers that will be presented virtually at AAAI 2021, while two longtime contributors will join the ranks of the prestigious AAAI Fellows program.

IC Professors Howard, Goel Named 2021 AAAI Fellows

January 22, 2021

The AAAI Fellows program recognizes individuals who have made significant, sustained contributions to the field of artificial intelligence (AI).

IC Associate Professor Wins 2021 ACM-W Rising Star Award

January 21, 2021

The award recognizes a woman whose early-career research has had a significant impact on the computing discipline.

Assistant Professor Named to IEEE’s AI’s 10 to Watch List

ML@GT News, Jan 14, 2021

ML@GT Awards First-Ever Doctorate in Machine Learning from Georgia Tech

ML@GT News, Dec 17, 2020

Sehoon Ha Part of $500k Grant to Make Safer, More Deployable Robots

December 15, 2020

Researchers at Georgia Tech, in collaboration with UCLA and the University of Southern California, are working to develop a new class of locomotion systems that could enable buoyancy-assisted robots to become a larger part of our daily lives.

Q&A: De'Aira Bryant Discusses Her Experience Programming a Robot for the Movie Superintelligence

December 15, 2020

De'Aira Bryant programmed a robot for a scene in the movie Superintelligence. She discusses her experience in this Q&A.

Isbell to Present Keynote at Premier Neural Processing Conference

GT Computing, Dec 2, 2020

New Grant Helps Researchers Bring Cybersecurity into the Physical World

November 19, 2020

A new project out of Georgia Tech’s School of Interactive Computing (IC) aims to connect the abstract world of cybersecurity and privacy with concrete physical environments to promote better security behavior.

Find the Right Lab for You at ML@GT’s Lab Lightning Talks

ML@GT News, Nov 19, 2020

Need a Note Taker? This AI Can Help.

November 17, 2020

A new AI tool that summarizes unstructured conversational language could help future digital assistants ease fears of ever missing a meeting again.

ML@GT Further Establishes Itself in Natural Language Processing Community

GT Computing, Nov 11, 2020

Thought Leaders to Address How Bias and Lack of Diversity Impact Data, Software, and Institutions

GT Computing, Nov 5, 2020

Georgia Tech Researchers Contribute 13 Papers to Premier Visualization Conference

October 30, 2020

IEEE VIS highlights research from universities, government, and industry around the world.

Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and the College of Computing Launch New Ethics Center

October 13, 2020

The new Center will advance ethics-in-technology-centered research, education, and engagement at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

New Podcast and Video Series Seeks to Highlight AI Researchers Stories Over Stats

GT Computing, Oct 13, 2020

NYT R&D Team to Discuss Technology’s Impact on Journalism in Live, Virtual Event

GT Computing, Oct 7, 2020

Georgia Tech Students Play Key Role in IndieCade’s Global Covid-19 ‘Game Jam’

September 22, 2020

Students working in the Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center created two video games as part of a major independent game design event to help stem the spread of Covid-19.

Georgia Tech Receives Google Grant to Study Impact of Pandemic Information Seeking on Vulnerable Populations

September 14, 2020

Populations including older adults, low-income households, and Black and Hispanic adults have disproportionately high fatality rates, as well as less access to critical pandemic information.

Georgia Tech Part of $5 Million Grant to Develop AI Tech Supporting Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Workplace