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Pitch Perfect: GT Computing Undergrads Provide Automated Training Upgrade for Softball Team

April 1, 2020

A group of undergraduate students at Georgia Tech are working with the softball team to provide an automated upgrade to players’ training.

Passing the Torch: Georgia Tech Roboticists Lead Future Generation of Women in the Field

March 25, 2020

Ph.D. Student De'Aira Bryant uses the leadership of adviser Ayanna Howard to help guide her and future generations of women in robotics.

Georgia Tech Professor Uses Virtual Reality to Move Major Conference Online

March 24, 2020

For the first time in its 26-year history, IEEE VR will meet in an all-virtual environment.

Georgia Tech Kicks Off Atlanta's Biggest STEM Party March 6-7

February 27, 2020

The two-week Atlanta Science Festival will launch at Georgia Tech and bring diverse STEM programming to campus and metro area.

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

February 4, 2020

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

January 30, 2020

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

Jill Watson, an AI Pioneer in Education, Turns 4

January 24, 2020

Georgia Tech’s most well-known artificially intelligent teaching assistant, Jill Watson, turns four years old this January.

ML@GT Adds Six New Associate Directors to Leadership Team

January 6, 2020

The Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech enters the new year with an expanded leadership team.

ML@GT Displays Diverse Research Interests at NeurIPS

November 25, 2019

Georgia Tech will present 30 papers at one of the hottest conferences in artificial intelligence.

Georgia Tech Researchers Explore New Ways to Give Navigation Directions to Robots

November 22, 2019

The latest work from Georgia Tech researchers finds a way to give better directions to robots.

Amazon and Georgia Tech Team Up with Ciara to Inspire Students to Code through Competition to Remix the Singer/Songwriter’s Song “SET”

November 20, 2019

Amazon and Georgia Tech have announced a music remix competition using coding.

FairVis is Helping Data Scientists Discover Societal Biases in their Machine Learning Models

November 6, 2019

Researchers present FairVis - a visual analytics system that enables discovery of user subgroups to discover bias in machine learning models.

Keep Forgetting Your Password? Try This Novel Virtual Authentication Technique

October 31, 2019

This first-person virtual maze offers more memorable, harder-to-break passwords for infrequent authentication.

Opportunities for Impact: Startup Zyrobotics Helped Ayanna Howard Reach More People

October 31, 2019

For the past six years, Zyrobotics has developed personalized technologies that stimulate social, cognitive, and motor skill development using fun and educational applications.

Restoring Data's Sense of Place

October 23, 2019

Assistant Professor Yanni Loukissas brings an architect's sense of place to data, arguing that "data aren't placeless."

Georgia Tech Researchers Share 13 Publications at Premier Visualization Conference

The School of Interactive Computing, Oct 21, 2019

A host of Georgia Tech faculty and students are attending the annual IEEE VIS conference in Vancouver, B.C., Canada this week, presenting a total of 13 publication. IEEE VIS is the premier visualization event, spanning three co-located conferences: Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), Information Visualization (InfoVis), and Scientific Visualization (SciVis). Explore Georgia Tech's research and hear an episode of the Interaction Hour podcast, featuring School of Interactive Computing Assistant Professor Alex Endert, at the link. 

AI Agent Breaks Down Social Barriers in Online Education

October 16, 2019

To directly address social barriers in virtual classes, an artificially intelligent system from Georgia Tech has been designed to connect online students quickly to their peers.

Jill Watson Now Fielding Questions on New AI-enabled Research Tool

October 14, 2019

A new AI-enabled research tool powered by the Smithsonian debuted in an undergraduate biology class at Georgia Tech this semester.

Premier Computer Vision Conference Accepts 10 Georgia Tech Papers

October 10, 2019

The Machine Learning Center will make a splash at the International Conference on Computer Vision later this month.

New $1.2 Million NSF Grant Aims to Improve Treatment for PTSD Patients

October 2, 2019

The grant -- which includes Georgia Tech, Emory, and the University of Rochester -- will fund the development of a computational assessment toolkit for patients and clinicians.

Cleaning Up the Community: Shagun Jhaver Explores Impact of Content Moderation Practices on Social Media

September 30, 2019

Online communities, once thought to be a place everyone had a voice, has instead become a Wild West. Understanding the impact of content moderation on user behavior could improve the free flow of ideas.

Tech Unbound Podcast EP8: Don’t Get Burned. Understanding Tech Adoption Among Firefighters

GVU Center at Georgia Tech, Sep 23, 2019

As far as first responder work goes, the firefighter profession tops the danger list. So can wearable computing tech help firefighters stay safer at emergency scenes or rescue the occasional cat in a tree? Researchers in the Participatory Publics Lab were able to provide an answer after studying two Georgia fire departments and their personnels’ use of a new commercial biometric device that measures vital signs while working.

Lead researcher Alyssa Rumsey shares details about firefighter culture, their use of technology, and how, before breathing apparatuses, firefighters used their beards as filters when at a fire scene.

Startup Connects Job Seekers with Autism to New Opportunities

September 5, 2019

Mentra pairs autistic people with students not on the spectrum to help them navigate the job hunt.

The Google Internship That Almost Wasn’t

MS-HCI Student Lands at the Search Giant and Learns That Only the Best Product Ideas Survive

September 5, 2019

Sam Harvey, MS student in human-computer interaction, is working on Google Flights and making sure his design decisions don't ruin your travel plans, or those for a million or so grandmothers.

Tech Unbound Podcast EP7: AIs and People Create Something Beautiful

GVU Center at Georgia Tech, Aug 27, 2019

A Georgia Tech group called the Expressive Machinery Lab is tackling a specific challenge in the artificial intelligence landscape - they have developed public exhibitions where the AI agents are front-and-center and people are able to create with them. 

Duri Long, PhD student in Human Centered Computing, joins the Tech Unbound podcast to talk about this research, and she shares some wild anecdotes from her time as a show runner and curator of some of these AI-powered exhibits. 

Firefighters Have Mixed Response to Wearable Tech for Emergency Work

August 27, 2019

A new study from Georgia Tech shows how advanced computing tech worn by firefighters impacts the nature of work for emergency responders, and how front-line firefighters and their commanders view its usefulness.

While You Were Away: GT Computing 2019 Summer Highlights

College of Computing, Aug 21, 2019

Whether you were interning, traveling, building Star Wars sand sculptures, or binge-watching Black Mirror, chances are you weren't fully tuned into the College this summer.

Not to worry. We're here to catch you up on all the big stories you may have missed.

Researchers Use Social Media to Help Measure Outcomes of Psychiatric Medication

August 21, 2019

This research exists as a proof of concept to show levels of a specific condition – before and after medication use – using digital data.

Researchers Use Social Media to Help Measure Outcomes of Psychiatric Medication

August 14, 2019

This research exists as a proof of concept to show levels of a specific condition – before and after medication use – using digital data.