<![CDATA[Andris Appointed to National Geospatial Advisory Committee]]>

<![CDATA[Andris Appointed to National Geospatial Advisory Committee]]> 27592

Clio Andris, assistant professor of City and Regional Planning and Interactive Computing, is one of nine people appointed to the Department of the Interior’s new National Geospatial Advisory Committee. As a committee member, Andris will make recommendations for national geospatial policy and help develop the National Spatial Data Infrastructure.

]]> Joshua Preston 1 1649362576 2022-04-07 20:16:16 1649362576 2022-04-07 20:16:16 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2022-03-11T00:00:00-05:00 2022-03-11T00:00:00-05:00 2022-03-11T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Two Ph.D. Students Recognized as 2021 Apple Scholars – A First for Georgia Tech]]> 34773

ablinder6 1 1618579295 2021-04-16 13:21:35 1618579673 2021-04-16 13:27:53 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2021-04-16T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-16T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-16T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[Creating the Next Generation]]> 34773

ablinder6 1 1613750799 2021-02-19 16:06:39 1613750799 2021-02-19 16:06:39 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2021-02-19T00:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T00:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Lonely, Angry, Eager to Make History: Online Mobs are Likely to Remain a Dangerous Reality]]> 33939

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.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1613579889 2021-02-17 16:38:09 1613579889 2021-02-17 16:38:09 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2021-02-17T00:00:00-05:00 2021-02-17T00:00:00-05:00 2021-02-17T00:00:00-05:00 644378 image <![CDATA[Amy Bruckman]]> image/jpeg 1613579858 2021-02-17 16:37:38 1613579858 2021-02-17 16:37:38 <![CDATA[How to Have a Meaningful Chat ... With Your Dog]]> 33939

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.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1613579454 2021-02-17 16:30:54 1613579454 2021-02-17 16:30:54 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2021-02-17T00:00:00-05:00 2021-02-17T00:00:00-05:00 2021-02-17T00:00:00-05:00 366271 image <![CDATA[Melody Jackson and FIDO Project - NPR Feature]]> image/jpeg 1449245817 2015-12-04 16:16:57 1475895103 2016-10-08 02:51:43 <![CDATA[Assistant Professor Named to IEEE’s AI’s 10 to Watch List]]> 34773

ablinder6 1 1610650734 2021-01-14 18:58:54 1610650734 2021-01-14 18:58:54 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2021-01-14T00:00:00-05:00 2021-01-14T00:00:00-05:00 2021-01-14T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[ML@GT Awards First-Ever Doctorate in Machine Learning from Georgia Tech]]> 34773

ablinder6 1 1608224451 2020-12-17 17:00:51 1608224451 2020-12-17 17:00:51 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2020-12-17T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-17T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-17T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Isbell to Present Keynote at Premier Neural Processing Conference]]> 34773

ablinder6 1 1606918565 2020-12-02 14:16:05 1606918565 2020-12-02 14:16:05 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2020-12-02T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Find the Right Lab for You at ML@GT’s Lab Lightning Talks]]> 34773

ablinder6 1 1605828959 2020-11-19 23:35:59 1605828959 2020-11-19 23:35:59 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2020-11-19T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[ML@GT Further Establishes Itself in Natural Language Processing Community]]> 34773

ablinder6 1 1605122882 2020-11-11 19:28:02 1605122882 2020-11-11 19:28:02 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2020-11-11T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Thought Leaders to Address How Bias and Lack of Diversity Impact Data, Software, and Institutions]]> 34773

ablinder6 1 1604586995 2020-11-05 14:36:35 1604586995 2020-11-05 14:36:35 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2020-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[New Podcast and Video Series Seeks to Highlight AI Researchers Stories Over Stats]]> 34773

ablinder6 1 1602604383 2020-10-13 15:53:03 1602604383 2020-10-13 15:53:03 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2020-10-13T00:00:00-04:00 2020-10-13T00:00:00-04:00 2020-10-13T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[NYT R&D Team to Discuss Technology’s Impact on Journalism in Live, Virtual Event]]> 34773

ablinder6 1 1602077994 2020-10-07 13:39:54 1602078018 2020-10-07 13:40:18 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2020-10-07T00:00:00-04:00 2020-10-07T00:00:00-04:00 2020-10-07T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[ML@GT Makes a Strong Showing at Premier European Computer Vision Conference]]> 34773

ablinder6 1 1597675707 2020-08-17 14:48:27 1597675707 2020-08-17 14:48:27 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2020-08-17T00:00:00-04:00 2020-08-17T00:00:00-04:00 2020-08-17T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[Dellaert Wins Test of Time Award for a Second Time This Year]]> 34773

ablinder6 1 1594309593 2020-07-09 15:46:33 1594309593 2020-07-09 15:46:33 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2020-07-09T00:00:00-04:00 2020-07-09T00:00:00-04:00 2020-07-09T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[ML@GT to Present Nine Papers at Competitive Machine Learning Conference]]> 34773

ablinder6 1 1594221385 2020-07-08 15:16:25 1594221385 2020-07-08 15:16:25 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2020-07-08T00:00:00-04:00 2020-07-08T00:00:00-04:00 2020-07-08T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[Meet ML@GT: Lara J. Martin Trains AI Agents to Become Storytellers]]> 34773

ablinder6 1 1587044801 2020-04-16 13:46:41 1587044801 2020-04-16 13:46:41 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2020-04-16T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-16T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-16T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[Georgia Tech Researchers Presenting Work Virtually at Top AI Conference Due to COVID-19]]> 34773

ablinder6 1 1586783990 2020-04-13 13:19:50 1586783990 2020-04-13 13:19:50 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2020-04-13T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-13T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-13T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[Why asking an AI to explain itself can make things worse]]> 34773

ablinder6 1 1580416438 2020-01-30 20:33:58 1580416438 2020-01-30 20:33:58 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2020-01-30T00:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T00:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Georgia Tech Researchers Share 13 Publications at Premier Visualization Conference]]> 33939

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.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1571690681 2019-10-21 20:44:41 1571690681 2019-10-21 20:44:41 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2019-10-21T00:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T00:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T00:00:00-04:00 627860 image <![CDATA[IEEE VIS 2019]]> image/png 1571690510 2019-10-21 20:41:50 1571690510 2019-10-21 20:41:50 <![CDATA[Tech Unbound Podcast EP8: Don’t Get Burned. Understanding Tech Adoption Among Firefighters]]> 27592

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.

]]> Joshua Preston 1 1570211427 2019-10-04 17:50:27 1570212763 2019-10-04 18:12:43 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2019-09-23T00:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T00:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T00:00:00-04:00 627190 image <![CDATA[Tech Unbound EP8 - Alyssa Rumsey quote]]> image/png 1570211679 2019-10-04 17:54:39 1570212809 2019-10-04 18:13:29 <![CDATA[Tech Unbound Podcast EP7: AIs and People Create Something Beautiful]]> 27592

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.

]]> Joshua Preston 1 1566923699 2019-08-27 16:34:59 1566923874 2019-08-27 16:37:54 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2019-08-27T00:00:00-04:00 2019-08-27T00:00:00-04:00 2019-08-27T00:00:00-04:00 625216 image <![CDATA[Tech Unbound Podcast EP7: Duri Long]]> image/png 1566923766 2019-08-27 16:36:06 1566923766 2019-08-27 16:36:06 <![CDATA[Tech Unbound Podcast EP6: Video Game Developers React in Wildly Different Ways to AI-Enabled Software]]> 27592

People are going to have a wide variety of reactions to artificially intelligent systems when we start working with them regularly. In this episode of Tech Unbound, we discuss a new AI-enabled software system for video game developers and the reaction gamedevs had to the AI creative partner.

We are joined by Matthew Guzdial, a newly minted Georgia Tech graduate with a Ph.D. in Computer Science. He shares part of his journey in computational creativity, details about some of the AI systems he’s created, and what an AI-enabled future might look like for people looking to get creative.

Check out Matthew's Ph.D. journey in one 'interactive' picture.

]]> Joshua Preston 1 1564668233 2019-08-01 14:03:53 1566923414 2019-08-27 16:30:14 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2019-07-29T00:00:00-04:00 2019-07-29T00:00:00-04:00 2019-07-29T00:00:00-04:00 623884 image <![CDATA[Tech Unbound EP6 - Matthew Guzdial]]> image/png 1564668290 2019-08-01 14:04:50 1564668290 2019-08-01 14:04:50 <![CDATA[While You Were Away: GT Computing 2019 Summer Highlights]]> 33939

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.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1566406090 2019-08-21 16:48:10 1566406090 2019-08-21 16:48:10 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2019-08-21T00:00:00-04:00 2019-08-21T00:00:00-04:00 2019-08-21T00:00:00-04:00 624894 image <![CDATA[Sand R2D2]]> image/jpeg 1566406064 2019-08-21 16:47:44 1566406064 2019-08-21 16:47:44 <![CDATA[Tech Tuesday Takeover! Salt, the Humanoid Robot, Joins Christine and Cara]]> 33939

School of Interactive Computing Ph.D. student De'Aira Bryant and her robot, Salt, from the Human-Automation Systems Lab at Georgia Tech joined Atlanta & Company for a demonstration and and explanation for how emotion detection can improve human-robot interaction.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1565123696 2019-08-06 20:34:56 1565123696 2019-08-06 20:34:56 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2019-08-06T00:00:00-04:00 2019-08-06T00:00:00-04:00 2019-08-06T00:00:00-04:00 622962 image <![CDATA[De'Aira Bryant]]> image/jpeg 1562099179 2019-07-02 20:26:19 1562099179 2019-07-02 20:26:19 <![CDATA[Tech Unbound Podcast EP4: Smart Dog Toys Help Save Time and Money to Train Service Dogs]]> 27592

How do dogs get jobs? Well first they have to go to dog school, but not every dog makes the grade. Finding out if canines have the right temperament to become service animals or train for other jobs takes time and money.

On this episode of Tech Unbound, Ceara Byrne, Ph.D. student in computer science, shares how her team can predict the suitability of service animals by using smart dog toys. Yes, that’s right, dogs are getting their own smart devices to help them get ready for the job market. The research is poised to save millions of dollars in training costs.

]]> Joshua Preston 1 1563395151 2019-07-17 20:25:51 1564678071 2019-08-01 16:47:51 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2019-06-17T00:00:00-04:00 2019-06-17T00:00:00-04:00 2019-06-17T00:00:00-04:00 621150 image <![CDATA[Tech Unbound Podcast with the GVU Center]]> image/png 1556667347 2019-04-30 23:35:47 1556667347 2019-04-30 23:35:47 <![CDATA[Tech Unbound Podcast EP5: Robot Able to Instantly Identify Household Materials Without Touching Objects]]> 27592

Georgia Tech researchers have developed a scalable and cost-effective way robots can identify materials of objects in the home without touching the objects. PhD robotics student Zackory Erickson, advised by Charlie Kemp, joins the Tech Unbound Podcast to share how it works.

Using near-infrared light, similar to what’s used in TV remotes, the robot can identify common materials used in household objects to better inform its actions. This might allow intelligent machines to understand, for example, the right bowl (paper versus metal) to put in a microwave or how hard to grasp a cup made of glass versus plastic.

]]> Joshua Preston 1 1561639308 2019-06-27 12:41:48 1563394881 2019-07-17 20:21:21 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2019-07-17T00:00:00-04:00 2019-07-17T00:00:00-04:00 2019-07-17T00:00:00-04:00 621150 image <![CDATA[Tech Unbound Podcast with the GVU Center]]> image/png 1556667347 2019-04-30 23:35:47 1556667347 2019-04-30 23:35:47 <![CDATA[Is Our AI On the Way to Becoming Control?]]> 33939

The powerful computer easily took control on 'Discovery.' Associate Professor Mark Riedl contributes to this discussion on whether or not that popular portrayal is a realistic representation of artificial intelligence.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1562089785 2019-07-02 17:49:45 1562089785 2019-07-02 17:49:45 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2019-07-02T00:00:00-04:00 2019-07-02T00:00:00-04:00 2019-07-02T00:00:00-04:00 499531 image <![CDATA[Mark Riedl portrait]]> image/jpeg 1455332400 2016-02-13 03:00:00 1475895258 2016-10-08 02:54:18 <![CDATA[The Interaction Hour: Zvi Galil and the Online Revolution at Georgia Tech]]> 33939

When Zvi Galil, the outgoing John P. Imlay Jr. Dean of Computing, came to Georgia Tech in 2010, there was no such thing as OMSCS. True online degree programs were still a dream, AI teaching assistants unnecessary, and the College of Computing, while excellent, in many ways mirrored its peers in higher education. Over nearly a decade that he has led the College, however, it has experienced dramatic growth both in size and reputation. As he prepares for the final month of his deanship at the College of Computing, we chat with Dean Galil about what brought him to Georgia Tech, his mission and how he fulfilled it, and, of course, the world-renowned online degree program for which he will be most remembered.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1560542287 2019-06-14 19:58:07 1560542287 2019-06-14 19:58:07 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2019-06-14T00:00:00-04:00 2019-06-14T00:00:00-04:00 2019-06-14T00:00:00-04:00 439481 image <![CDATA[Dean Zvi Galil]]> image/jpeg 1449256175 2015-12-04 19:09:35 1475895176 2016-10-08 02:52:56 <![CDATA[She Designs High-Tech Responses to Human Health Problems]]> 33939

Like other computer scientists, Elizabeth Mynatt uses cutting-edge tech. What sets her apart is her holistic, humanistic approach. “I always say I’m designing for both sides of the equation,” she says. “And the people side is always the hardest.” Read More.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1560542025 2019-06-14 19:53:45 1560542025 2019-06-14 19:53:45 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2019-06-14T00:00:00-04:00 2019-06-14T00:00:00-04:00 2019-06-14T00:00:00-04:00 617956 image <![CDATA[Elizabeth Mynatt with MyPath application (vertical image2)]]> image/jpeg 1550355671 2019-02-16 22:21:11 1550355671 2019-02-16 22:21:11 <![CDATA[Tech Unbound Podcast EP3: Battling Bias and Making Better Decisions Using Visual Data Interactions]]> 27592

May 28, 2019 - We lean on data a lot - in catching bad guys to making hiring decisions and even planning the weekly grocery list. But we’re biased creatures, and sometimes we get it wrong.

Host Joshua Preston talks with Emily Wall, Ph.D. student in computer science, about how technology can allow us to better understand how we interact with visual data and use that understanding to make better decisions.

]]> Joshua Preston 1 1559235434 2019-05-30 16:57:14 1559317719 2019-05-31 15:48:39 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2019-05-28T00:00:00-04:00 2019-05-28T00:00:00-04:00 2019-05-28T00:00:00-04:00 622090 image <![CDATA[Tech Unbound EP3: Battling Bias]]> image/png 1559235536 2019-05-30 16:58:56 1559235536 2019-05-30 16:58:56 <![CDATA[The Interaction Hour: Exploring Social Media's Role in Opioid Addiction Recovery]]> 33939

In the late 1990s, the United States saw a sharp increase in the number of opioid overdose deaths – rising by nearly 600 percent between 1999 and 2017, according to data provided by the CDC. It has, appropriately, been labeled an epidemic, and in 2018 the country’s life expectancy dropped for the third consecutive year, reflecting the ongoing drug crisis and rising suicide rates. As researchers and clinicians continue to examine the quality of different approaches to treatment, many seeking recovery have taken matters into their own hands. Our guest, School of Interactive Computing Ph.D. student Stevie Chancellor, will present a paper on this subject next week at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Glasgow, Scotland. What exactly do these addiction support communities entail? What alternative strategies are people pursuing in recovery, and why? How can we ensure that clinicians are well-informed about the types of self-treatments being used outside of their care?

]]> David Mitchell 1 1559248395 2019-05-30 20:33:15 1559248395 2019-05-30 20:33:15 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2019-05-30T00:00:00-04:00 2019-05-30T00:00:00-04:00 2019-05-30T00:00:00-04:00 622107 image <![CDATA[Stevie Chancellor podcast]]> image/jpeg 1559248208 2019-05-30 20:30:08 1559248208 2019-05-30 20:30:08 <![CDATA[Tech Unbound Podcast EP2: Computers Dissect Every Minute of HBO's Game of Thrones to Reveal the Show's Dominant Colors and Dialogue]]> 27592

May 13, 2019 - Winter has arrived. The end of a pop culture era is here with the final episode of HBO’s Game of Thrones airing on Sunday. Fans of the show express their fandom in many different ways, but none quite like those at Georgia Tech.

On today’s show, we discuss an interactive data visualization that analyzes the color and dialogue in every single minute of every single episode of the first six seasons of the hugely popular television fantasy show based on the book series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin.

Host Joshua Preston talks with Fred Hohman, Ph.D. student in computational science and engineering and computer science, one of the creators of the data visualization that is aptly named "A Viz and Ice and Fire."

Explore "A Viz of Ice and Fire - Summarizing Entertainment Video Using Color and Dialogue."

Also check out more Georgia Tech love for Game of Thrones.

]]> Joshua Preston 1 1557832292 2019-05-14 11:11:32 1557832532 2019-05-14 11:15:32 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2019-05-13T00:00:00-04:00 2019-05-13T00:00:00-04:00 2019-05-13T00:00:00-04:00 621150 image <![CDATA[Tech Unbound Podcast with the GVU Center]]> image/png 1556667347 2019-04-30 23:35:47 1556667347 2019-04-30 23:35:47 <![CDATA[Tech Unbound Podcast EP1: A.I. Agent Plays Frogger and Convinces Spectators It Knows What It’s Doing]]> 27592

Why did the frog cross the road? Georgia Tech’s newest artificial intelligence (AI) system plays the video game Frogger and can offer up explanations to human spectators about why it makes each move.

Upol Ehsan, Ph.D. student in computer science at Georgia Tech, talks about the AI system.

The work takes a formative step towards understanding the role of natural language AI explanations and how humans perceive them. It’s a human-centered approach to developing AI agents, one that Upol says is needed in order to make black-boxed AI systems explainable to everyday users.

]]> Joshua Preston 1 1556667250 2019-04-30 23:34:10 1556667479 2019-04-30 23:37:59 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2019-04-30T00:00:00-04:00 2019-04-30T00:00:00-04:00 2019-04-30T00:00:00-04:00 621150 image <![CDATA[Tech Unbound Podcast with the GVU Center]]> image/png 1556667347 2019-04-30 23:35:47 1556667347 2019-04-30 23:35:47 <![CDATA[CHI 2019: Georgia Tech Research Integrates Human Capabilities with Machine Advances for Positive Impact in Society]]> 27592

Georgia Tech faculty and students from across the Institute are bringing their broad interdisciplinary research approach and expertise to the Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019), May 4-9 in Glasgow, UK.

Among more than 700 institutions and 2,600 researchers participating, Georgia Tech is a Top 10 institution with accepted research. This research includes an expansive portfolio of work that uses technology to address tough social issues, such as drug addiction and mental health problems, and builds techniques to advance human capabilities in areas including creativity, advocacy, policy, and education.

]]> Joshua Preston 1 1556666402 2019-04-30 23:20:02 1556666468 2019-04-30 23:21:08 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2019-04-30T00:00:00-04:00 2019-04-30T00:00:00-04:00 2019-04-30T00:00:00-04:00 621148 image <![CDATA[CHI 2019]]> image/png 1556666447 2019-04-30 23:20:47 1556666447 2019-04-30 23:20:47 <![CDATA[The Interaction Hour podcast: Autism and Computing]]> 33939

In the late 1990s, Professor Gregory Abowd of Georgia Tech’s School of Interactive Computing developed a tool to allow people to collect and reflect upon memories over a long period of time. Motivated by his father’s collection of 30 years worth of videos, Gregory wanted to create something that assisted in annotating and searching videos to create short memories. Around 2002, he began using this for his own family memories and made a discovery while watching one of the videos. His oldest son, who was then 5 years old and already diagnosed with autism, demonstrated stark differences in behavior and communication between videos at 18 months and others at 26 months. Amazed by what he saw in the videos, Gregory began to consider other more serious applications of this memory-capturing tool. In the coming years, it would become a key research initiative for Gregory and others at Georgia Tech.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1556033526 2019-04-23 15:32:06 1556033526 2019-04-23 15:32:06 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2019-04-23T00:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T00:00:00-04:00 2019-04-23T00:00:00-04:00 620801 image <![CDATA[The Interaction Hour]]> image/jpeg 1556033417 2019-04-23 15:30:17 1556033417 2019-04-23 15:30:17 <![CDATA[In The News: Will Artificial Intelligence Replace the Military?]]> 33939

School of Interactive Computing Professor Ron Arkin offers some insight on the question of lethal autonomous weapons. What are the pros and cons of utilizing artificial intelligence in the military?

]]> David Mitchell 1 1554840238 2019-04-09 20:03:58 1555610343 2019-04-18 17:59:03 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2019-04-09T00:00:00-04:00 2019-04-09T00:00:00-04:00 2019-04-09T00:00:00-04:00 350021 image <![CDATA[Ron Arkin compressed]]> image/jpeg 1449245702 2015-12-04 16:15:02 1475895075 2016-10-08 02:51:15 <![CDATA[New 'Realities' Coming to a Browser Near You]]> 34961

A historical moment for technology not dissimilar to the advent of motion films or the creation of the Internet is coming, and Georgia Tech’s Blair MacIntyre is helping lead the way. But this time around, the experience won’t be limited to a simple screen.

The movement centers on rapidly maturing 3-D technologies needed to create virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) experiences.

]]> anguyen328 1 1554738186 2019-04-08 15:43:06 1554738284 2019-04-08 15:44:44 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2019-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[The Streets Were Never Free. Congestion Pricing Finally Makes That Plain]]> 34961

Congestion pricing has the potential to significantly change how traffic flows through Manhattan streets, how commuters get around the city, how companies like Uber and Lyft operate. But most radically, if the policy spreads it could challenge a deeply embedded cultural idea, requiring people to pay for something Americans have long demanded — and largely believe they’ve gotten — free of charge. Congestion pricing is premised instead on the notion that public roads are a valuable and scarce resource. And we should pay in some places to use it not primarily to gin up revenue, but to help manage access for everyone. “It’s a huge departure from how we’ve culturally thought about this over the years,” said Kari Watkins, a professor at Georgia Tech’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

]]> anguyen328 1 1554526313 2019-04-06 04:51:53 1554526333 2019-04-06 04:52:13 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2019-04-04T00:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T00:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[Engineering Georgia Names Four Tech Women Most Influential]]> 34961

Georgia Tech faculty claimed four spots in Engineering Georgia’s second annual listing of Top 100 Influential Women in Georgia. They are Ellen Dunham-Jones, Lauren Stewart, Christine Valle, and Kari Edison Watkins.

The women were recommended and reviewed by their peers, industry leaders, and members of the Engineering Georgia editorial board. The top 100 were selected for the positive influence they have made and continue to make on the transportation systems, utilities, buildings, parks, trails, and communities that Georgia citizens interact with every day.

Kari Edison Watkins (No. 94) - the Frederick Law Olmsted Associate Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Her research includes multi-modal transportation planning and the use of technology in transportation. She won numerous awards for the OneBusAway program, which she co-created for greater Seattle-Tacoma. Mass Transit magazine named her to the Top 40 under 40 in 2013, and the Council of University Transportation Centers awarded her the New Faculty Award in 2017.

]]> anguyen328 1 1553530442 2019-03-25 16:14:02 1553530442 2019-03-25 16:14:02 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2019-03-21T00:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T00:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T00:00:00-04:00 281011 image <![CDATA[Kari Watkins]]> image/jpeg 1449244184 2015-12-04 15:49:44 1475894973 2016-10-08 02:49:33 <![CDATA[Metro Atlanta Transit Pitch: Flying Pods, Lots of Questions]]> 34961

Five metro Atlanta governments bit on entrepreneur Mike Stanley’s idea for what some thought might be too good to be true. His Boston-area company Transit X proposed developing affordable transit using flying pods that would hang from overhead monorails and be entirely privately funded and owned. Officials in Henry County and several southside cities agreed in recent months to negotiate access to public rights of way along roads for a future system. Some mentioned being impressed by Stanley’s background as an MIT graduate. Kari Watkins, a Georgia Tech professor who focuses on transportation systems, questioned whether a Transit X system would have enough capacity to meet needs. And she suggested some communities might not want its visual impact along streets. She cautioned communities about selling one private company broad access to land along roads: “Don’t tie yourself to some sort of technology that is not yet proven.” So far, Stanley’s only example of Transit X pods hanging from a rail is on a 40-foot-long test section inside a building in Leominster, Mass. He said he is trying to raise private funding for an outdoor test track that could be operational later this year in Ohio.

]]> anguyen328 1 1553530107 2019-03-25 16:08:27 1553530107 2019-03-25 16:08:27 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2019-03-15T00:00:00-04:00 2019-03-15T00:00:00-04:00 2019-03-15T00:00:00-04:00 225981 image <![CDATA[Kari Watkins]]> image/jpeg 1449243566 2015-12-04 15:39:26 1475894899 2016-10-08 02:48:19 <![CDATA[Body Surrogate Robot Helps People with Motor Impairments Care for Themselves]]> 34961

Robots might be coming for your job, but they can do tremendous good in the world as well. Assistive technologies can benefit people with disabilities by giving them greater independence and control over their lives, like the assistant robot developed by a team at Georgia Tech to help people who have severe motor impairments. “Our goal is to give people with limited use of their own bodies access to robotic bodies so they can interact with the world in new ways,” Professor Charlie Kemp from the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech said in a statement. The system they came up with is based on a robot called a PR2 mobile manipulator manufactured by Willow Garage. It is a wheeled robot with two arms and a head, and it can manipulate objects like water bottles, washcloths, hairbrushes, or an electric shaver.

]]> anguyen328 1 1553529642 2019-03-25 16:00:42 1553529882 2019-03-25 16:04:42 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2019-03-18T00:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T00:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T00:00:00-04:00 601195 image <![CDATA[Charlie Kemp, associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory]]> image/jpeg 1516722652 2018-01-23 15:50:52 1516722682 2018-01-23 15:51:22 619312 image <![CDATA[Henry Evans shaving with the robot]]> image/png 1552673119 2019-03-15 18:05:19 1552673119 2019-03-15 18:05:19 619311 image <![CDATA[Retrieving a cup with the robot]]> image/png 1552672973 2019-03-15 18:02:53 1552672973 2019-03-15 18:02:53 <![CDATA[Celebrating International Women's Day 2019 -- GVU style]]> 27592

Of more than 100 faculty advancing human-centered technology research through the GVU Center at Georgia Tech, a full third are women. To celebrate International Women's Day and the release of Captain Marvel on March 8, the center created a data visualization using an image of actress Brie Larson, who plays Captain Marvel. The movie of the same name is the first major MCU film starring a woman. Georgia Tech projects from more than 900 researchers through the years are mapped to the image of Larson and can be searched for more details on the center's work.

GVU also celebrated the day - and hopes to continue the conversation through the year - through a data graphic highlighting some of the women that have inspired its community.

]]> Joshua Preston 1 1552071446 2019-03-08 18:57:26 1553529742 2019-03-25 16:02:22 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2019-03-08T00:00:00-05:00 2019-03-08T00:00:00-05:00 2019-03-08T00:00:00-05:00 619010 image <![CDATA['Captain Marvel' visualization]]> image/png 1552072847 2019-03-08 19:20:47 1552072847 2019-03-08 19:20:47 <![CDATA[Dream Makers: How the Women in AI Are Shaping Our Future]]> 33939

School of Interactive Computing Assistant Professor Devi Parikh was featured in a Vogue magazine story highlighting the contributions of women in artificial intelligence. This was part of a larger campaign where they highlight American women who are doing inspiring work.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1551897887 2019-03-06 18:44:47 1551897887 2019-03-06 18:44:47 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2019-03-06T00:00:00-05:00 2019-03-06T00:00:00-05:00 2019-03-06T00:00:00-05:00 586462 image <![CDATA[Devi Parikh]]> image/jpeg 1485377735 2017-01-25 20:55:35 1485377735 2017-01-25 20:55:35 <![CDATA[The Interaction Hour: How Virtual Reality Could Transform Education]]> 33939

Over the years, virtual reality has become a mythical new medium with promises of immersive gaming and enriched experiences. Novels and movies like Ready Player One have teased the potential – and raised the expectations. In many ways, though, the technology is a largely untapped resource for reasons varying from the usability of the equipment to the premium cost.

In this episode, however, we’ll hear from former Georgia Tech student Aditya Vishwanath and current Georgia Tech assistant professor Neha Kumar who are examining the potential for virtual reality in education and instruction. What are the affordances of the technology inside of a classroom, and how can issues of cost and access be overcome to ensure it is a truly democratized medium?

]]> David Mitchell 1 1551720066 2019-03-04 17:21:06 1551720066 2019-03-04 17:21:06 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2019-03-04T00:00:00-05:00 2019-03-04T00:00:00-05:00 2019-03-04T00:00:00-05:00 618749 image <![CDATA[The Interaction Hour Neha and Aditya]]> image/jpeg 1551720026 2019-03-04 17:20:26 1551720026 2019-03-04 17:20:26 <![CDATA[Women and Girls in Science Podcast Series: Roboticist Dr. Ayanna Howard]]> 33939

Listen to UNAI’s interview with S chool of Interactive Computing Chair Ayanna Howard to learn about how a popular TV show piqued her interest in robotics when she was young, why she thinks artificial intelligence could level the playing field in education, the importance of inclusion of persons with disabilities in STEM fields, and the value of role models and mentorship in increasing the number of women in STEM.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1551293088 2019-02-27 18:44:48 1551293088 2019-02-27 18:44:48 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2019-02-27T00:00:00-05:00 2019-02-27T00:00:00-05:00 2019-02-27T00:00:00-05:00 599486 image <![CDATA[Ayanna Howard headshot]]> image/jpeg 1512405411 2017-12-04 16:36:51 1512405411 2017-12-04 16:36:51 <![CDATA[Georgia Tech a Leading Contributor to Computer Science Education Symposium]]> 27592

Improving computer science (CS) education for K-12 and college students in the United States is a priority, but several challenges and unanswered questions remain. Georgia Tech researchers have been working to address many of these challenges and questions and are set to share results from their latest research at the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) annual technical symposium in Minneapolis, Minn., from Feb. 27 to March 2.

]]> Joshua Preston 1 1551110877 2019-02-25 16:07:57 1551189866 2019-02-26 14:04:26 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2019-02-22T00:00:00-05:00 2019-02-22T00:00:00-05:00 2019-02-22T00:00:00-05:00 618399 image <![CDATA[GT@SIGCSE2019]]> image/png 1551111302 2019-02-25 16:15:02 1551111302 2019-02-25 16:15:02 <![CDATA[Pictionary-Playing AI Sketches the Future of Human-Machine Collaborations]]> 33939

School of Interactive Computing Associate Professor Mark Riedl offers opinion and analysis in this piece about an AI-human collaborative game called Iconary. A simplified version of Pictionary, the game offers some potential for AI systems that can transfer skills in common sense reasoning from games to the real world.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1549563391 2019-02-07 18:16:31 1549563391 2019-02-07 18:16:31 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2019-02-07T00:00:00-05:00 2019-02-07T00:00:00-05:00 2019-02-07T00:00:00-05:00 617489 image <![CDATA[Iconary]]> image/png 1549563214 2019-02-07 18:13:34 1549563214 2019-02-07 18:13:34 <![CDATA[Wearable Medical Tech is About to Become Crucial for Staying Alive]]> 33939

School of Interactive Computing Ph.D. student Caitlyn Seim is mentioned in this article for her research into tech that could help improve in rehabilitation after a stroke.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1547665580 2019-01-16 19:06:20 1547665580 2019-01-16 19:06:20 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2019-01-16T00:00:00-05:00 2019-01-16T00:00:00-05:00 2019-01-16T00:00:00-05:00 611755 image <![CDATA[Caitlyn Seim - PHL]]> image/jpeg 1537470856 2018-09-20 19:14:16 1537470856 2018-09-20 19:14:16 <![CDATA[Forbes Releases 2018 US List of Top 50 Women in Tech]]> 33939

On the heels of its inaugural European edition, Forbes announced its U.S. list of the Top Women in Technology which shines a light on 50 incredible women from across the United States who are breaking through glass ceilings in their sectors and the tech industry overall. Among those included are School of Interactive Computing Chair Ayanna Howard and College of Computing alum Joy Buolamwini.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1544640321 2018-12-12 18:45:21 1544640321 2018-12-12 18:45:21 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2018-12-12T00:00:00-05:00 2018-12-12T00:00:00-05:00 2018-12-12T00:00:00-05:00 599491 image <![CDATA[Ayanna Howard]]> image/jpeg 1512406963 2017-12-04 17:02:43 1512406963 2017-12-04 17:02:43 <![CDATA[Fifteen Grants to Support Computing Research for Undergraduate Women]]> 33939

School of Interactive Computing Professor and Chair Ayanna Howard is one of 15 individuals awarded exploreCSR (Computer Science Research) grants to support universities running computer science research-focused workshops for undergraduate women. Howard was awarded based on a workshop titled Improving the Academic Matriculation of Undergraduate Women in Graduate Computing (I.AM.GradComputing) Workshop.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1535131254 2018-08-24 17:20:54 1535131254 2018-08-24 17:20:54 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2018-08-24T00:00:00-04:00 2018-08-24T00:00:00-04:00 2018-08-24T00:00:00-04:00 599486 image <![CDATA[Ayanna Howard headshot]]> image/jpeg 1512405411 2017-12-04 16:36:51 1512405411 2017-12-04 16:36:51 <![CDATA[This Helpful Robot is Teaching Itself to Dress People]]> 33939

"Not all robots are aiming to be better than humans," this article says about recent robotics research from Georgia Tech. "Some just want to give us a hand. A team of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have a robot that's learning how to put hospital gowns on humans... gently." Read more about the research in this CNET article.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1527094390 2018-05-23 16:53:10 1527094390 2018-05-23 16:53:10 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2018-05-23T00:00:00-04:00 2018-05-23T00:00:00-04:00 2018-05-23T00:00:00-04:00 606068 image <![CDATA[Robot Dressing Person]]> image/jpeg 1525976341 2018-05-10 18:19:01 1525976341 2018-05-10 18:19:01 <![CDATA[Ring, Wristband Combo Could Make Texting Really Subtle]]> 33939

FingerPing, a ring-to-wristband combo that involves acoustic chirps to recognize micro hand gestures, is featured in this Futurity article. A video demonstration of the technology shows how, at a high rate of accuracy, the system can recognize hand poses using the 12 bones of the fingers and digits 1 through 10 in American Sign Language.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1527094114 2018-05-23 16:48:34 1527094114 2018-05-23 16:48:34 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2018-05-23T00:00:00-04:00 2018-05-23T00:00:00-04:00 2018-05-23T00:00:00-04:00 606096 image <![CDATA[FingerPing 1]]> image/png 1526058685 2018-05-11 17:11:25 1526058685 2018-05-11 17:11:25 <![CDATA[Augmented Reality Glasses Help Kids With Autism Relate to Others]]> 33939

School of Interactive Computing Professor Jim Rehg recently appeared in a New Scientist article on the progress of technology in providing support for individuals with developmental conditions.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1524768633 2018-04-26 18:50:33 1524768633 2018-04-26 18:50:33 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2018-04-26T00:00:00-04:00 2018-04-26T00:00:00-04:00 2018-04-26T00:00:00-04:00 592632 image <![CDATA[Rehg-Jim]]> image/jpeg 1497298524 2017-06-12 20:15:24 1497298713 2017-06-12 20:18:33 <![CDATA[The Trailblazing Roboticist Tackling Diversity and Bias in Artificial Intelligence]]> 33939

School of Interactive Computing Chair Ayanna Howard is profiled in this Vanity Fair article highlighting her trailblazing robotics career as a woman who is changing long-held socially constructed narratives.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1524668121 2018-04-25 14:55:21 1524678044 2018-04-25 17:40:44 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2018-04-25T00:00:00-04:00 2018-04-25T00:00:00-04:00 2018-04-25T00:00:00-04:00 599491 image <![CDATA[Ayanna Howard]]> image/jpeg 1512406963 2017-12-04 17:02:43 1512406963 2017-12-04 17:02:43 <![CDATA[The Future of College Looks Like the Future of Retail]]> 27998

Similar to e-commerce firms, online-degree programs are beginning to incorporate elements of an older-school, brick-and-mortar model.

]]> Brittany Aiello 1 1523978026 2018-04-17 15:13:46 1523978026 2018-04-17 15:13:46 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2018-04-16T00:00:00-04:00 2018-04-16T00:00:00-04:00 2018-04-16T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[Bigger, Brighter, Simpler: A Tablet for the Mature User]]> 33939

Social media is designed by the young, for the young. As sight and motor skills weaken, all that pinching and tapping on smartphones gets harder, cutting people off from social media at a time when they can be more vulnerable to loneliness. School of Interactive Computing Professor Beth Mynatt offers some tips for building a tablet suitable for an aging population.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1522700672 2018-04-02 20:24:32 1522700672 2018-04-02 20:24:32 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2018-04-02T00:00:00-04:00 2018-04-02T00:00:00-04:00 2018-04-02T00:00:00-04:00 571561 image <![CDATA[Beth Mynatt Distinguished Professor]]> image/jpeg 1472735541 2016-09-01 13:12:21 1475895379 2016-10-08 02:56:19 <![CDATA[WebVR is becoming WebXR to make a simple, unified framework for all devices]]> 28466

“AR and VR share many technologies, from spatial trackers to head-worn displays to interaction devices; from a purely technical standpoint, combining device support into one API will hopefully simplify both the implementation and the use of the API.” Blair MacIntyre, the principle research scientist in the emerging technologies group at Mozilla, told me.

Read the full article here: https://venturebeat.com/2018/02/01/webvr-is-becoming-webxr-to-make-a-simple-unified-framework-for-all-devices/

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1518453116 2018-02-12 16:31:56 1518453116 2018-02-12 16:31:56 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2018-02-01T00:00:00-05:00 2018-02-01T00:00:00-05:00 2018-02-01T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Wanna motivate staff to be more secure? Don't bother bribing 'em]]> 28466

"Reminding family about security techniques can be very effective in changing behavior, Das said. "But it has limitations – warn people too often and you're seen as a nag."

Read the full article here: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/17/staff_security_training/

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1517949847 2018-02-06 20:44:07 1517949847 2018-02-06 20:44:07 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2018-01-17T00:00:00-05:00 2018-01-17T00:00:00-05:00 2018-01-17T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[We Are DCSD Magazine Winter 2018 Cover]]> 28466

Georgia's third largest school district is using coding and music with EarSketch to advance computer science in school curriculums. Led by carnivores of creativity, Jason Freeman (Music) and Brian Magerko (Digital Media).

Read the full article here: http://www.dekalbschoolsga.org/magazine/

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1517949768 2018-02-06 20:42:48 1517949768 2018-02-06 20:42:48 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2018-01-01T00:00:00-05:00 2018-01-01T00:00:00-05:00 2018-01-01T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[All Followers Are Fake Followers]]> 28466

Ian Bogost, a contributing editor at The Atlantic, discusses how Twitter followers can be seen as fake and created for the purposes of spam or resale.

Read the full article here: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/all-followers-are-fake-followers/551789/?utm_source=feed

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1517949686 2018-02-06 20:41:26 1517949686 2018-02-06 20:41:26 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2018-01-30T00:00:00-05:00 2018-01-30T00:00:00-05:00 2018-01-30T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Amazon already has huge amounts of our data. What happens when you add health care to the mix?]]> 28466

“The law covers traditional health insurance and provider health care, but it doesn’t cover many of the other sources of health-related data that today’s technology generates,” said Peter Swire, a professor of law at Georgia Tech and White House coordinator for HIPAA under President Clinton. “It doesn’t cover, for example, the books you buy about health care or the many fitness and health care apps you may have on your phone.”

Read the full article here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/01/30/amazon-already-has-huge-amounts-of-our-data-what-happens-when-you-add-healthcare-to-the-mix/?utm_term=.825a701017fb

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1517949589 2018-02-06 20:39:49 1517949589 2018-02-06 20:39:49 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2018-01-30T00:00:00-05:00 2018-01-30T00:00:00-05:00 2018-01-30T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Trust Me, I'm a Robot]]> 28466

PCMag discussed this recently with robotics expert Dr. Ayanna Howard after her keynote at the first IEEE Multi-Robot Systems (MRS) conference.

Read the rest of the article here: https://www.pcmag.com/news/358641/trust-me-im-a-robot

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1517949491 2018-02-06 20:38:11 1517949491 2018-02-06 20:38:11 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2018-01-22T00:00:00-05:00 2018-01-22T00:00:00-05:00 2018-01-22T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[ROBOTS CAN NOW READ BETTER THAN HUMANS, PUTTING MILLIONS OF JOBS AT RISK]]> 28466

“The collected stories of different cultures teach children how to behave in socially acceptable ways with examples of proper and improper behavior in fables, novels and other literature,” said Mark Riedl, one of the researchers involved in the study.

Read the rest of the article here: http://www.newsweek.com/robots-can-now-read-better-humans-putting-millions-jobs-risk-781393

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1517949400 2018-02-06 20:36:40 1517949400 2018-02-06 20:36:40 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2018-01-15T00:00:00-05:00 2018-01-15T00:00:00-05:00 2018-01-15T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[For AI to Get Creative, It Must Learn the Rules -- Then How to Break ‘Em]]> 33939

In this Scientific American article, School of Interactive Computing Associate Professor Mark Riedl says that creativity in AI will be essential in developing highly automated systems that can respond appropriately to human life.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1517438606 2018-01-31 22:43:26 1517438606 2018-01-31 22:43:26 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2018-01-31T00:00:00-05:00 2018-01-31T00:00:00-05:00 2018-01-31T00:00:00-05:00 443661 image <![CDATA[Mark Riedl]]> image/jpeg 1449256205 2015-12-04 19:10:05 1475895182 2016-10-08 02:53:02 <![CDATA[Computing Researchers Make the Case for Intelligent Infrastructure at Congressional Briefing]]> 33939

Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of the GT Institute for People and Technology Elizabeth Mynatt co-organized and presented at a U.S. congressional briefing on intelligent infrastructure on January 30th. The briefing was sponsored by the CRA. As the closing speaker, Mynatt described three key gaps that stand to prevent communities from reaping the economic rewards of infrastructure investments: productive access to broadband capabilities, innovative systems for effective training and job creation, and forward-looking data platforms and policies to spur open innovation.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1517422702 2018-01-31 18:18:22 1517422702 2018-01-31 18:18:22 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2018-01-31T00:00:00-05:00 2018-01-31T00:00:00-05:00 2018-01-31T00:00:00-05:00 355861 image <![CDATA[Elizabeth Mynatt - Compressed]]> image/jpeg 1449245756 2015-12-04 16:15:56 1475895087 2016-10-08 02:51:27 <![CDATA[Sorry, Alexa Is Not a Feminist]]> 28466

Ian Bogost, a contributing editor at The Atlantic, writes about as waves of sexual-harassment allegations crash against the shores of work culture, now is a good time to support women—even robots with female personas like Alexa.

Read the full article here: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/sorry-alexa-is-not-a-feminist/551291/

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1516995009 2018-01-26 19:30:09 1516995009 2018-01-26 19:30:09 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2018-01-24T00:00:00-05:00 2018-01-24T00:00:00-05:00 2018-01-24T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[For AI to Get Creative, It Must Learn the Rules—Then How to Break ‘Em]]> 28466

AI with a creative streak will be essential in developing highly automated systems that can respond appropriately to human life, says Mark Riedl, an associate professor at Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Interactive Computing. “The fact is, we do lots of little bits of creativity every single day; lots of problem-solving goes on,” Riedl says. “If my son gets a toy stuck under the couch, I have to devise a tool out of a hanger [to retrieve it].”

Read the article here: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/for-ai-to-get-creative-it-must-learn-the-rules-mdash-then-how-to-break-lsquo-em/

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1516994945 2018-01-26 19:29:05 1516994945 2018-01-26 19:29:05 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2018-01-25T00:00:00-05:00 2018-01-25T00:00:00-05:00 2018-01-25T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Apollo astronauts often fell behind schedule on the Moon]]> 28466

“If you’re sending someone all the way to Mars, you want to get every last ounce of science and understanding out of it as you possibly can,” study co-author Karen Feigh, an associate professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, tells The Verge. “You do want to pack the mission, but also send up tools that allow you to be robust when things happen and still accomplish as much as you can.”

Read the article here: https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/18/16892594/nasa-apollo-moon-landings-space-suits-late-schedules#comments

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1516994834 2018-01-26 19:27:14 1516994834 2018-01-26 19:27:14 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2018-01-18T00:00:00-05:00 2018-01-18T00:00:00-05:00 2018-01-18T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Facebook's AI Suicide Prevention Tool Can Save Lives, But The Company Won't Say How It Works]]> 33939

School of Interactive Computing Assistant Professor Munmun De Choudhury commended Facebook for focusing on suicide prevention in this article by Mashable, but noted that she would like the social media company to be more transparent about its algorithms. Transparency is vital to instilling trust, she said.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1511972321 2017-11-29 16:18:41 1511972321 2017-11-29 16:18:41 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-11-29T00:00:00-05:00 2017-11-29T00:00:00-05:00 2017-11-29T00:00:00-05:00 485901 image <![CDATA[Munmun De Choudhury 2015]]> image/jpeg 1452902401 2016-01-16 00:00:01 1475895239 2016-10-08 02:53:59 <![CDATA[80 Years of the Georgia Tech Research Corporation]]> 33939

A number of College of Computing associates and programs were recognized at a celebration earlier this month at the Historic Academy of Medicine. Among them: Professor Ashok Goel earned an award for innovation and impact in computer and cognitive science, the Online Master of Science in Computer Science pogram was recognized for its sustained impact in education, and Professor Mustaque Ahamad earned the Made in Georgia Award.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1511818510 2017-11-27 21:35:10 1511818510 2017-11-27 21:35:10 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-11-27T00:00:00-05:00 2017-11-27T00:00:00-05:00 2017-11-27T00:00:00-05:00 359871 image <![CDATA[Ashok Goel in the Cloud]]> image/jpeg 1449245782 2015-12-04 16:16:22 1475895096 2016-10-08 02:51:36 <![CDATA[GVU Center Celebrates 25 Years of Imagining and Inventing the Future]]> 27592

On Oct. 18 and 19, the GVU Center celebrated its 25th anniversary, recognizing the work and people on which the foundation for a better future is being built and setting new goals to aspire to in advancing the human condition through technological innovation.

Computing technology is at the center of everyday living in many parts of the world, a fact that has fundamentally changed our relationship with technology and one that GVU has embraced. The center now focuses on 23 core research areas as well as other domains that are being advanced by computing. GVU brings together teams from across Georgia Tech that are able to envision and prototype technology innovations that help to improve communities and conditions for human development.

]]> Joshua Preston 1 1510233674 2017-11-09 13:21:14 1510233893 2017-11-09 13:24:53 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-11-09T00:00:00-05:00 2017-11-09T00:00:00-05:00 2017-11-09T00:00:00-05:00 598578 image <![CDATA[GVU25 timeline pic]]> image/jpeg 1510233869 2017-11-09 13:24:29 1510233869 2017-11-09 13:24:29 <![CDATA[Are Smart Robots Going to Steal Jobs from Your Children or Can They Be Taught to Master the Machines?]]> 33939

School of Interactive Computing Professor Ron Arkin discusses the potential futures for humanity in an increasingly automated world.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1508425113 2017-10-19 14:58:33 1508425113 2017-10-19 14:58:33 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-10-19T00:00:00-04:00 2017-10-19T00:00:00-04:00 2017-10-19T00:00:00-04:00 350021 image <![CDATA[Ron Arkin compressed]]> image/jpeg 1449245702 2015-12-04 16:15:02 1475895075 2016-10-08 02:51:15 <![CDATA[25 Women in Robotics You Need to Know About 2017]]> 33939

School of Interactive Computing Assistant Professor Sonia Chernova is included among Robohub's 2017 list of the 25 women in robotics you need to know about.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1507741649 2017-10-11 17:07:29 1507741649 2017-10-11 17:07:29 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-10-11T00:00:00-04:00 2017-10-11T00:00:00-04:00 2017-10-11T00:00:00-04:00 590892 image <![CDATA[Sonia Chernova]]> image/jpeg 1493135717 2017-04-25 15:55:17 1493135717 2017-04-25 15:55:17 <![CDATA[These Concept Smart Glasses Let You Control Your Phone By Scratching Your Nose]]> 33939

Using a phone or smartwatch when you’re supposed to be talking to someone has become an accepted rudeness in the 21st century. So, a group of researchers, including School of Interactive Computing Professor Thad Starner, among others, have a possible solution to this minor societal ill: prototype smart glasses that let you control a computer just by rubbing your nose.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1507052898 2017-10-03 17:48:18 1507052898 2017-10-03 17:48:18 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-10-03T00:00:00-04:00 2017-10-03T00:00:00-04:00 2017-10-03T00:00:00-04:00 416531 image <![CDATA[Thad Starner]]> image/jpeg 1449254258 2015-12-04 18:37:38 1475895155 2016-10-08 02:52:35 <![CDATA[PBS NewsHour Explores Future of Higher Education During Month of “Rethinking College” Reports]]> 32045

Executive Associate Dean Charles Isbell is set to discuss Georgia Tech's innovatve OMS CS program, Sept. 5, as part of a month-long look at "Rethinking College" on PBS' NewsHour.

]]> Ben Snedeker 1 1503673878 2017-08-25 15:11:18 1506538594 2017-09-27 18:56:34 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-08-23T00:00:00-04:00 2017-08-23T00:00:00-04:00 2017-08-23T00:00:00-04:00 581919 image <![CDATA[Charles Isbell_video capture]]> image/png 1475178341 2016-09-29 19:45:41 1475178341 2016-09-29 19:45:41 <![CDATA[Using Technology to Help Older Adults Keep Their Independence]]> 33939

School of Interactive Computing Professor Beth Mynatt discusses how devices of the future will understand more about individuals -- likes, dislikes, habits, and routines -- in order to provide more personalized care for aging adults.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1506526950 2017-09-27 15:42:30 1506526950 2017-09-27 15:42:30 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-09-27T00:00:00-04:00 2017-09-27T00:00:00-04:00 2017-09-27T00:00:00-04:00 571561 image <![CDATA[Beth Mynatt Distinguished Professor]]> image/jpeg 1472735541 2016-09-01 13:12:21 1475895379 2016-10-08 02:56:19 <![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence Is Learning How To Develop Games]]> 33939

Researchers in the School of Interactive Computing are developing an AI that can recreate a game engine simply by watching gameplay. Associate Professor Mark Riedl, one of the researchers, tells Rolling Stone, however, that developers need not fear for their job security.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1505930980 2017-09-20 18:09:40 1505930980 2017-09-20 18:09:40 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-09-20T00:00:00-04:00 2017-09-20T00:00:00-04:00 2017-09-20T00:00:00-04:00 595803 image <![CDATA[Super Mario Bros.]]> image/gif 1505147296 2017-09-11 16:28:16 1505147296 2017-09-11 16:28:16 <![CDATA[AI Learns to Re-Create Super Mario Bros. By Watching Someone Else Play It]]> 33939

A group of Georgia Tech researchers, including Associate Professor Mark Riedl and current Ph.D. student Matthew Guzdial, have gotten an AI to re-create the game engine of titles like Super Mario Bros. simply by watching it being played.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1505147359 2017-09-11 16:29:19 1505147359 2017-09-11 16:29:19 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-09-11T00:00:00-04:00 2017-09-11T00:00:00-04:00 2017-09-11T00:00:00-04:00 595803 image <![CDATA[Super Mario Bros.]]> image/gif 1505147296 2017-09-11 16:28:16 1505147296 2017-09-11 16:28:16 <![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence Uses Less Than Two Minutes of Videogame Footage to Recreate Game Engine]]> 27592

Game studios and enthusiasts may soon have a new tool at their disposal to speed up game development and experiment with different styles of play. Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed a new approach using an artificial intelligence to learn a complete game engine, the basic software of a game that governs everything from character movement to rendering graphics.

The research was presented at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Aug. 19-25, 2017, in Melbourne, Australia. The paper, “Game Engine Learning from Video,” was authored by Matthew Guzdial, Boyang Li, and Mark Riedl.

]]> Joshua Preston 1 1504881263 2017-09-08 14:34:23 1504888788 2017-09-08 16:39:48 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-09-07T00:00:00-04:00 2017-09-07T00:00:00-04:00 2017-09-07T00:00:00-04:00 595503 image <![CDATA[test-megaman]]> image/gif 1504635196 2017-09-05 18:13:16 1504635196 2017-09-05 18:13:16 <![CDATA[The Smartphone's Future: It's All About the Camera]]> 33939

In this New York Times article, School of Interactive Computing Professor Blair MacIntyre comments on the potential of augmented reality as it matures. He envisions, the article states, people being able to take a tour of a natural-history museum, point their smartphone cameras at an exhibit, and bring a dinosaur back to life.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1504275046 2017-09-01 14:10:46 1504275046 2017-09-01 14:10:46 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-09-01T00:00:00-04:00 2017-09-01T00:00:00-04:00 2017-09-01T00:00:00-04:00 349381 image <![CDATA[Blair MacIntyre compressed]]> image/jpeg 1449245696 2015-12-04 16:14:56 1475895073 2016-10-08 02:51:13 <![CDATA[AI Is So Hot Right Now Researchers Are Posing for Yves Saint Laurent]]> 33939

School of Interactive Computing Mark Riedl is mentioned in this story in The Verge about how AI and machine learning are beginning to "creep into broader cultural awareness."

]]> David Mitchell 1 1504274828 2017-09-01 14:07:08 1504274828 2017-09-01 14:07:08 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-09-01T00:00:00-04:00 2017-09-01T00:00:00-04:00 2017-09-01T00:00:00-04:00 499531 image <![CDATA[Mark Riedl portrait]]> image/jpeg 1455332400 2016-02-13 03:00:00 1475895258 2016-10-08 02:54:18 <![CDATA[Ambient Music Made With Eclipse Data is Out of This World]]> 33939

College of Computing Professor Bruce Walker, who is also director of the Georgia Tech Sonification Lab, comments on the collaborative effort with AT&T to develop a "soundtrack" for the eclipse in support of Aira, a device that helps translate the physical world into sound.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1503512249 2017-08-23 18:17:29 1503512249 2017-08-23 18:17:29 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-08-23T00:00:00-04:00 2017-08-23T00:00:00-04:00 2017-08-23T00:00:00-04:00 506831 image <![CDATA[Dr. Bruce Walker, DIAGRAM Center General Advisory Committee and Technical Format Review Advisory Committee member]]> image/jpeg 1456765200 2016-02-29 17:00:00 1475895268 2016-10-08 02:54:28 <![CDATA[Facebook AI Researcher Slams 'Irresponsible' Reports About Smart Bot Experiment]]> 33939

School of Interactive Computing Associate Professor Dhruv Batra weighs in on a Facebook post, shared here by CNBC, to assuage fears of an AI agent that "invented its own language." Batra called the sensational coverage irresponsible in his post, and noted that there was nothing alarming taking place in their research.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1501781777 2017-08-03 17:36:17 1501781777 2017-08-03 17:36:17 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-08-03T00:00:00-04:00 2017-08-03T00:00:00-04:00 2017-08-03T00:00:00-04:00 586461 image <![CDATA[Dhruv Batra]]> image/jpeg 1485377710 2017-01-25 20:55:10 1485377710 2017-01-25 20:55:10 <![CDATA[AI Invents Internal Language Humans Don’t Understand]]> 33939

School of Interactive Computing Assistant Professor Dhruv Batra, a visiting research scientist at Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR), is quoted in this article about a Facebook report that revealed an "internal language" between two "dialog agents" developed to negotiate.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1501181931 2017-07-27 18:58:51 1501181931 2017-07-27 18:58:51 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-07-27T00:00:00-04:00 2017-07-27T00:00:00-04:00 2017-07-27T00:00:00-04:00 586461 image <![CDATA[Dhruv Batra]]> image/jpeg 1485377710 2017-01-25 20:55:10 1485377710 2017-01-25 20:55:10 <![CDATA[Energy-Recycling Stairs Could Replace Stairlifts]]> 33939

Research from School of Interactive Computing Associate Professor Karen Liu is featured in this Yahoo! News article. The research introduces a method that uses spring-loaded stairs to recycle energy to assist the mobility-impaired climb.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1501181616 2017-07-27 18:53:36 1501181616 2017-07-27 18:53:36 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-07-27T00:00:00-04:00 2017-07-27T00:00:00-04:00 2017-07-27T00:00:00-04:00 588222 image <![CDATA[Karen Liu new]]> image/jpeg 1488558126 2017-03-03 16:22:06 1488558126 2017-03-03 16:22:06 <![CDATA[Your Dog Could Call 911 in an Emergency. Here's How.]]> 33939

A team of researchers, including School of Interactive Computing Associate Professor Melody Jackson, has tested a touchscreen that dogs can use to call or text. Dogs could be trained to activate the device in the event of an emergency.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1499366501 2017-07-06 18:41:41 1499366501 2017-07-06 18:41:41 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-07-06T00:00:00-04:00 2017-07-06T00:00:00-04:00 2017-07-06T00:00:00-04:00 50586 image <![CDATA[Melody Jackson]]> image/jpeg 1449175392 2015-12-03 20:43:12 1475894458 2016-10-08 02:40:58 <![CDATA[Facebook Teaches Chatbots to Negotiate For You]]> 33939

School of Interactive Computing Assistant Professor Dhruv Batra, who is currently a visiting research scientist at Facebook, offers insight into new research from the Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) lab that produced a technique allowing chatbots to charry out negotiations with other chatbots and humans.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1498152590 2017-06-22 17:29:50 1498152590 2017-06-22 17:29:50 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-06-22T00:00:00-04:00 2017-06-22T00:00:00-04:00 2017-06-22T00:00:00-04:00 586461 image <![CDATA[Dhruv Batra]]> image/jpeg 1485377710 2017-01-25 20:55:10 1485377710 2017-01-25 20:55:10 <![CDATA[Farming in the Fourth Dimension]]> 33939

Ag Web highlights a new computer vision-based method of autonomously monitoring agricultural crops that may lower costs, improve harvest yields, and ultimately provide more food to starving people around the world. The study was led by College of Computing Professor Frank Dellaert and Ph.D. student Jing Dong.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1498144866 2017-06-22 15:21:06 1498144866 2017-06-22 15:21:06 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-06-22T00:00:00-04:00 2017-06-22T00:00:00-04:00 2017-06-22T00:00:00-04:00 592698 image <![CDATA[4D image 1]]> image/png 1497450060 2017-06-14 14:21:00 1497450060 2017-06-14 14:21:00 <![CDATA[Meet These Incredible Women Advancing A.I. Research]]> 33939

School of Interactive Computing Assistant Professor Devi Parikh is featured among other top women in artificial intelligence research in this Forbes piece. Her work in Visual Question Answering is highlighted.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1495637293 2017-05-24 14:48:13 1495637293 2017-05-24 14:48:13 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-05-24T00:00:00-04:00 2017-05-24T00:00:00-04:00 2017-05-24T00:00:00-04:00 470111 image <![CDATA[Devi Parikh]]> image/jpeg 1449257160 2015-12-04 19:26:00 1475895218 2016-10-08 02:53:38 <![CDATA[Teaching Robots Right From Wrong]]> 33939

Regents' Professor Ron Arkin and Associate Professor Mark Riedl from the School of Interactive Computing contribute to this article on individuals trying to teach ethics to computers.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1495035576 2017-05-17 15:39:36 1495035576 2017-05-17 15:39:36 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-05-17T00:00:00-04:00 2017-05-17T00:00:00-04:00 2017-05-17T00:00:00-04:00 350021 image <![CDATA[Ron Arkin compressed]]> image/jpeg 1449245702 2015-12-04 16:15:02 1475895075 2016-10-08 02:51:15 443661 image <![CDATA[Mark Riedl]]> image/jpeg 1449256205 2015-12-04 19:10:05 1475895182 2016-10-08 02:53:02 <![CDATA[AI Detective Analyses Police Data to Learn How to Crack Cases]]> 33939

In a story about how police are trialling a computer system that can piece together what may have happened at a crime scene, School of Interactive Computing Associate Professor Mark Riedl cautions that, while machine learning can help police, it will also introduce new biases.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1494509732 2017-05-11 13:35:32 1494509732 2017-05-11 13:35:32 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-05-11T00:00:00-04:00 2017-05-11T00:00:00-04:00 2017-05-11T00:00:00-04:00 443661 image <![CDATA[Mark Riedl]]> image/jpeg 1449256205 2015-12-04 19:10:05 1475895182 2016-10-08 02:53:02 <![CDATA[Research Examines a Government Mandate for Panic Buttons in Mobile Devices and the Need for a Better Answer]]> 27592

Georgia Institute of Technology researchers interviewed and surveyed women and men in New Delhi and other parts of India to understand how effective a new government mandate for panic buttons in mobile devices might be. They found that several interconnecting factors influence people’s personal sense of safety and that the panic button might ultimately be ineffective.

]]> Joshua Preston 1 1494507341 2017-05-11 12:55:41 1494507395 2017-05-11 12:56:35 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-05-10T00:00:00-04:00 2017-05-10T00:00:00-04:00 2017-05-10T00:00:00-04:00 507851 image <![CDATA[Neha Kumar]]> image/jpeg 1457114400 2016-03-04 18:00:00 1475895270 2016-10-08 02:54:30 <![CDATA[Intuitive Point-and-Click Interface Lets Students Control Robotic Arm]]> 33939

Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed a new, intuitive method for controlling a robotic arm: Point and click. Robotics doctoral student David Kent and Assistant Professor Sonia Chernova contribute to this project.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1493907274 2017-05-04 14:14:34 1493907274 2017-05-04 14:14:34 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-05-04T00:00:00-04:00 2017-05-04T00:00:00-04:00 2017-05-04T00:00:00-04:00 571471 image <![CDATA[Sonia Chernova]]> image/jpeg 1472676847 2016-08-31 20:54:07 1475895379 2016-10-08 02:56:19 <![CDATA[The Hidden Laborers Training AI to Keep Ads Off Hateful YouTube Videos]]> 28466

Wired quoted Mark Riedl on methods laborers are training AI to keep ads off YouTube videos. “It perpetuates an attitude that crowd workers are machines when instead we need to recognize that crowd workers are humans, for whom we have an ethical and moral responsibility to design tasks that recognize the dignity of the worker,” he says.

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1493400419 2017-04-28 17:26:59 1493400419 2017-04-28 17:26:59 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-04-21T00:00:00-04:00 2017-04-21T00:00:00-04:00 2017-04-21T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[Atlanta's tough commute gets even tougher after the collapse of a freeway bridge]]> 28466

The Los Angeles Times talked to Kari Watkins about the collapse of Atlanta's freeway Interstate 85. “This is Atlanta’s chance to show that it can be more than a car-dominated city,” said Kari Watkins, a professor at Georgia Institute of Technology’s school of civil and environmental engineering. “The question is whether there will be permanent change, or if we will just adapt for the moment and then switch back to old habits.”

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1493400347 2017-04-28 17:25:47 1493400347 2017-04-28 17:25:47 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-04-05T00:00:00-04:00 2017-04-05T00:00:00-04:00 2017-04-05T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[The automated university: bots and drones amid the dreaming spires]]> 28466

The Guardian writes about how Georgia Tech's Ashok Goel's decision to introduce a new staff member, Jill Watson. She would answer students’ (often repetitive) queries quickly and accurately. She was a virtual assistant.

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1493400284 2017-04-28 17:24:44 1493400284 2017-04-28 17:24:44 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-04-04T00:00:00-04:00 2017-04-04T00:00:00-04:00 2017-04-04T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[Learning to Think Like a Computer]]> 28466

New York Times quotes Mark Guzdial. "That there is no reliable research showing that computing makes one more creative or more able to problem-solve. It won’t make you better at something unless that something is explicitly taught, said Mark Guzdial, a professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech who studies computing in education. “You can’t prove a negative,” he said, but in decades of research no one has found that skills automatically transfer.

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1493400212 2017-04-28 17:23:32 1493400212 2017-04-28 17:23:32 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-04-04T00:00:00-04:00 2017-04-04T00:00:00-04:00 2017-04-04T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[The MARTA Army wants you!]]> 28466

Atlanta Magazine talks about how MARTA Army’s core team is comprised of Georgia Tech students and alumni, lawyers, accountants, designers, developers, and even teenagers who lend their skills to serve the overall objective: making MARTA a more efficient and appealing option in a city angling to become a pro-transit powerhouse.

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1493400140 2017-04-28 17:22:20 1493400140 2017-04-28 17:22:20 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-04-01T00:00:00-04:00 2017-04-01T00:00:00-04:00 2017-04-01T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[Tech Start-Ups Have Become Conceptual Art]]> 28466

Ian Bogost writes an article for The Atlantic about how tech start-ups have become conceptual art, and what that means.

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1493400085 2017-04-28 17:21:25 1493400085 2017-04-28 17:21:25 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-03-17T00:00:00-04:00 2017-03-17T00:00:00-04:00 2017-03-17T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[Wearable tech has to be really good or really wearable]]> 28466

The Verge talked about how Thad Starner, a Georgia Tech professor and a pioneer in wearable tech, was speaking to a big crowd at SXSW about the inspirational uses of wearable tech. “You don’t really think about your eyeglasses. You see through them. It’s fluid,” Starner said at one point during his SXSW presentation. “So can we actually make wearable computers that are more like eyeglasses than binoculars?”

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1493400006 2017-04-28 17:20:06 1493400006 2017-04-28 17:20:06 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-03-16T00:00:00-04:00 2017-03-16T00:00:00-04:00 2017-03-16T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[Point-and-Click Method Makes Robot Grasping Control Less Tedious]]> 28466

IEEE Spectrum talked about how between the full manual and point-and-click grasping approaches shown in the above video, the researchers, from Georgia Tech’s Robot Autonomy and Interactive Learning (RAIL) lab, led by Professor Sonia Chernova, also implemented a middle ground “constrained positioning” method, which intelligently limits the amount of degrees of freedom that a user needs to position. Instead, the user needs to select only a grasp point, approach angle, and grasp depth.

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1493399868 2017-04-28 17:17:48 1493399868 2017-04-28 17:17:48 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-03-16T00:00:00-04:00 2017-03-16T00:00:00-04:00 2017-03-16T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[Five takeaways from SXSW 2017]]> 28466

Campaign mentions Thad Starner's research at SXSW 2017. Thad Starner – the tech professor and mastermind behind Google Glass –stole the show when he previewed some new advanced wearable gloves that teach your muscles how to play the piano in half an hour and sensors that allow search and rescue dogs to communicate with their handlers. As Thad says, "bringing tech closer to the body gets it out the way".

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1493399777 2017-04-28 17:16:17 1493399777 2017-04-28 17:16:17 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-03-14T00:00:00-04:00 2017-03-14T00:00:00-04:00 2017-03-14T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[Bringing Technology Closer to the Body Helps Get It Out of the Way]]> 28466

IEEE interviews director and founder of Georgia Tech's Contextual Computing Group's Thad Starner how bringing technology closer to the body makes it less invasive. He says, "Wearable computing, when created carefully, helps get technology out of the way."

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1493399706 2017-04-28 17:15:06 1493399706 2017-04-28 17:15:06 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-03-06T00:00:00-05:00 2017-03-06T00:00:00-05:00 2017-03-06T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[The Wisdom of Nokia's Dumbphone]]> 28466

The Atlantic published an article by Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in media studies and a professor of interactive computing Ian Bogost. He discusses how "Nokia has announced an updated edition of one of its most popular phones of the early aughts."

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1493399628 2017-04-28 17:13:48 1493399628 2017-04-28 17:13:48 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-02-28T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-28T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-28T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Here's how successful dieters leverage social media to successfully lose weight]]> 28466

Men's Fitness talks about a study led by Assistant Professor Munmun De Choudhury that examined how social media reflects the likelihood of dieting success was profiled in a number of national publications.

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1493399548 2017-04-28 17:12:28 1493399548 2017-04-28 17:12:28 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-02-23T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-23T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-23T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[What You Should Post On Social Media If You Want to Lose Weight]]> 28466

Shape talks about a study led by Assistant Professor Munmun De Choudhury that examined how social media reflects the likelihood of dieting success was profiled in a number of national publications.

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1493399483 2017-04-28 17:11:23 1493399483 2017-04-28 17:11:23 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-02-23T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-23T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-23T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[You are what you tweet: Researchers predict dieting success from social media traits]]> 28466

Yahoo Finance talks about a study led by Assistant Professor Munmun De Choudhury that examined how social media reflects the likelihood of dieting success was profiled in a number of national publications.

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1493399420 2017-04-28 17:10:20 1493399420 2017-04-28 17:10:20 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-02-23T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-23T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-23T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Aging under a high-tech eye]]> 28466

Los Angeles Times talked to Beth Mynatt about different monitoring systems like assisted living and GrandCare System for people with disorders like seizure disorders. "Both of these devices are designed to make the senior who is living alone feel less isolated and reassure their children that they're OK," says Elizabeth D. Mynatt, a computer scientist at Georgia Tech who helped develop the tools.

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1493399271 2017-04-28 17:07:51 1493399271 2017-04-28 17:07:51 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-02-22T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-22T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-22T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Smartphones Are Revolutionizing Medicine]]> 28466

Professor Beth Mynatt and former College of Computing student Shwetak Patel (Ph.D. CS '08) offer their expertise in this Yahoo! Finance article about how smartphones are revolutionizing the diagnosis and treatment of illnesses, thanks to add-ons and apps that make their ubiquitous small screens into medical devices.

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1493399197 2017-04-28 17:06:37 1493399197 2017-04-28 17:06:37 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-02-18T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-18T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-18T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[How Instagram Users Share Their #Depression Stories]]> 28466

Vocativ discusses Georgia Tech alumna Andrea Forte's research on social media and mental wellness.

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1493399132 2017-04-28 17:05:32 1493399132 2017-04-28 17:05:32 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-02-20T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-20T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-20T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Technical challenges in machine ethics]]> 28466

RoboHub invited Prof. Ronald C. Arkin to share his insights on robot ethics, with a focus on its technical aspects.

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1493399065 2017-04-28 17:04:25 1493399065 2017-04-28 17:04:25 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-02-08T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-08T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-08T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[US data safeguards equivalent to EU rules, Facebook court told]]> 28466

The Irish Times talks about the report by Prof Swire, professor of law and ethics at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, and a member of former US president Barack Obama’s review group on intelligence and communications technology, was referred to late on Thursday by Michael Collins SC in his continuing opening of the action by the Data Protection Commissioner concerning SCCs.

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1493398949 2017-04-28 17:02:29 1493398949 2017-04-28 17:02:29 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-02-09T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-09T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-09T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Swire: US safeguards for EU citizens are sufficient]]> 28466

IAPP News talks about Georgia Institute of Technology professor of law and ethics Peter Swire, CIPP/US. Presenting a report for the Facebook-Schrems privacy case, he states the safeguards created by the U.S. for EU citizens are equal to, or even greater than those provided by the EU itself, The Irish Times reports.

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1493398731 2017-04-28 16:58:51 1493398888 2017-04-28 17:01:28 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-02-10T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-10T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-10T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Tools help identify fake news]]> 28466

The Gazetter talks about Tanushree Mitra, a doctoral student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, who began a project three years ago to see how misinformation and fake news spread through Twitter.

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1493398825 2017-04-28 17:00:25 1493398866 2017-04-28 17:01:06 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-02-12T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-12T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-12T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[The secret world of vulnerability hunters]]> 28466

The Christian Monitor quoted Peter Swire in an article about how the current web structure is flawed. “Selling software itself is not generally a crime,” says Peter Swire, a professor of law and ethics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Still, he says, “hacking into a protected computer is a crime.”

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1493398662 2017-04-28 16:57:42 1493398662 2017-04-28 16:57:42 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-02-10T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-10T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-10T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Incubation's Unintended Consequences]]> 28466

Economic development is an important part of many university incubators, according to Keith McGreggor, director of Georgia Tech’s VentureLab start-up incubator. “The economic development angle, which is at least a part of the university spinning things out, is predicated on jobs created and tax bases for revenue generated by the companies that try to spin out and stay local in the state,” McGreggor said. “And that’s not the same thing as measuring the impact of patents that are created.” McGreggor also wondered about equating income from patents to patent quality.

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1493398578 2017-04-28 16:56:18 1493398578 2017-04-28 16:56:18 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-02-06T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-06T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-06T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[In Facebook's Future, You Live Through Your Phone]]> 33939

In a discussion about how augmented reality could define our future, School of Interactive Computing Professor Blair MacIntyre provides valuable insight.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1493306023 2017-04-27 15:13:43 1493306023 2017-04-27 15:13:43 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-04-27T00:00:00-04:00 2017-04-27T00:00:00-04:00 2017-04-27T00:00:00-04:00 50559 image <![CDATA[Blair MacIntyre]]> image/jpeg 1449175408 2015-12-03 20:43:28 1475894463 2016-10-08 02:41:03 <![CDATA[SIGCSE 2017 Preview: Ebooks, GP, EarSketch, CS for All, and More From Georgia Tech]]> 33939

School of Interactive Computing Professor Mark Guzdial shares a detailed look at some of the workshops, panels, and papers being presented this week at SIGCSE 2017 in Seattle, Wash.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1489091375 2017-03-09 20:29:35 1489091375 2017-03-09 20:29:35 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-03-09T00:00:00-05:00 2017-03-09T00:00:00-05:00 2017-03-09T00:00:00-05:00 356751 image <![CDATA[Mark Guzdial compressed]]> image/jpeg 1449245762 2015-12-04 16:16:02 1475895089 2016-10-08 02:51:29 <![CDATA[Revamped Turing Test Expects Computers to Show Imagination]]> 33939

In hopes of establishing a better method to determine if an AI possesses human levels of intelligence, School of Interactive Computing Associate Professor Mark Riedl has proposed a new test called Lovelace 2.0.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1489073305 2017-03-09 15:28:25 1489073305 2017-03-09 15:28:25 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-03-09T00:00:00-05:00 2017-03-09T00:00:00-05:00 2017-03-09T00:00:00-05:00 499531 image <![CDATA[Mark Riedl portrait]]> image/jpeg 1455332400 2016-02-13 03:00:00 1475895258 2016-10-08 02:54:18 <![CDATA[Bringing Technology Closer to the Body Helps Get It Out of the Way]]> 33939

In a Q&A, School of Interactive Computing Professor Thad Starner discusses wearable technology, from service dogs to passive learning.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1488990333 2017-03-08 16:25:33 1488990333 2017-03-08 16:25:33 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-03-08T00:00:00-05:00 2017-03-08T00:00:00-05:00 2017-03-08T00:00:00-05:00 416531 image <![CDATA[Thad Starner]]> image/jpeg 1449254258 2015-12-04 18:37:38 1475895155 2016-10-08 02:52:35 <![CDATA[Robotic Nudging' Might Make Us Happier and Less Embarrassed]]> 33939

Robots are going to start pushing you to be nicer to people through a technique known as "robotic nudging," according to School of Interactive Computing Regents' Professor Ron Arkin.

]]> David Mitchell 1 1488990108 2017-03-08 16:21:48 1488990108 2017-03-08 16:21:48 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-03-08T00:00:00-05:00 2017-03-08T00:00:00-05:00 2017-03-08T00:00:00-05:00 350021 image <![CDATA[Ron Arkin compressed]]> image/jpeg 1449245702 2015-12-04 16:15:02 1475895075 2016-10-08 02:51:15 <![CDATA[‘Artificial Intelligence’ Has Become Meaningless]]> 33939

In some cases, School of Interactive Computing Professor Ian Bogost writes, the designation "artificial intelligence" might be warranted. But in most, the systems making claims to AI are just software. Bogost and Senior Associate Dean and Professor Charles Isbell address the question: What exactly is AI?

]]> David Mitchell 1 1488897764 2017-03-07 14:42:44 1488897779 2017-03-07 14:42:59 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-03-07T00:00:00-05:00 2017-03-07T00:00:00-05:00 2017-03-07T00:00:00-05:00 581919 image <![CDATA[Charles Isbell_video capture]]> image/png 1475178341 2016-09-29 19:45:41 1475178341 2016-09-29 19:45:41 <![CDATA[Not All Of This Ga. Tech Professor’s TAs Are Human]]> 28466

WABE talked to Ashok Goel about the new avators on Jill Watson. “Artificial intelligence looks at human intelligence and builds machines that work in the same way as human intelligence and then it looks at artificial intelligence, intelligent machines and uses that to understand human intelligence,” said Georgia Tech computer science professor Ashok Goel.

Read the rest of the article here: http://news.wabe.org/post/not-all-ga-tech-professor-s-tas-are-human

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1486604007 2017-02-09 01:33:27 1486604007 2017-02-09 01:33:27 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-01-13T00:00:00-05:00 2017-01-13T00:00:00-05:00 2017-01-13T00:00:00-05:00 587197 image <![CDATA[WABE-Ashok_0208]]> image/jpeg 1486600977 2017-02-09 00:42:57 1486600977 2017-02-09 00:42:57 <![CDATA[This AI translates its internal monologue for humans to understand—and plays Frogger]]> 28466

Quartz talked to researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, about how they trained an AI to translate its decision-making process into plain English while playing Frogger. The AI isn’t directly saying what it’s doing, but instead predicting how humans would describe its situation, according to Georgia Tech associate professor Mark Riedl, who led the project.

Read the rest of the article here: https://qz.com/888529/this-ai-translates-its-internal-monologue-for-humans-to-understand-and-plays-frogger/

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1486603899 2017-02-09 01:31:39 1486603899 2017-02-09 01:31:39 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-01-19T00:00:00-05:00 2017-01-19T00:00:00-05:00 2017-01-19T00:00:00-05:00 587193 image <![CDATA[Quartz_0208]]> image/jpeg 1486600851 2017-02-09 00:40:51 1486600851 2017-02-09 00:40:51 <![CDATA[Kristen Stewart co-authored a paper on style transfer and the AI community lost its mind]]> 28466

Mark Riedl made some remarks about a paper co-authored by Kristen Stewart (of Twilight fame), and his tweets were being quoted in an article by TechCrunch. Riedl tweets "I used to tell Twilight jokes in my Intro to AI class. I take it all back."

Read the rest of the article here: https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/19/kristen-stewart-co-authored-a-paper-on-style-transfer-and-the-ai-community-lost-its-mind/

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1486603838 2017-02-09 01:30:38 1486603838 2017-02-09 01:30:38 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-01-19T00:00:00-05:00 2017-01-19T00:00:00-05:00 2017-01-19T00:00:00-05:00 587195 image <![CDATA[TechCrunch-Kristen_0208]]> image/png 1486600912 2017-02-09 00:41:52 1486600912 2017-02-09 00:41:52 <![CDATA[Kristen Stewart (yes, that Kristen Stewart) has co-authored a paper on AI]]> 28466

Digital Trends talked to Mark Riedl, an associate professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Interactive Computing, whose work has explored the question of whether machines can be creative, about why he was interested in the challenges a paper on artificial intelligence co-authored by Kristen Stewart.
“The takeaway from the Joshi et al. paper is that using neural net-based computational creativity algorithms for practical, real-world problems is harder than it appears,” he said. “This is especially true when the human user has a specific result in mind that needs to be met. The algorithms are finicky and require a lot of tuning and experimentation to get the desired results. The paper talks about the steps they took to make it work for them. But the most important thing about this paper is that it highlights the gap in our understanding about deploying creativity algorithms in the real world.”

Read the rest of the article here: http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/kristen-stewart-ai-project/

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1486603744 2017-02-09 01:29:04 1486603744 2017-02-09 01:29:04 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-01-20T00:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T00:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T00:00:00-05:00 587186 image <![CDATA[DigitalTrends-Kristen_0208]]> image/jpeg 1486600429 2017-02-09 00:33:49 1486600429 2017-02-09 00:33:49 <![CDATA[Kristen Stewart has co-authored a paper on artificial intelligence]]> 28466

The Verge quoted tweets Mark Riedl wrote about a paper co-authored by Kristen Stewart. "Trying again: Bella Swan, once seduced by vampires, writes an arXiv paper" writes Riedl.

Read the rest of the article here: http://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/1/20/14334242/kristen-stewart-machine-learning-paper-ai

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1486603643 2017-02-09 01:27:23 1486603643 2017-02-09 01:27:23 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-01-20T00:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T00:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T00:00:00-05:00 587196 image <![CDATA[Verge-Kristen_0208]]> image/jpeg 1486600935 2017-02-09 00:42:15 1486600935 2017-02-09 00:42:15 <![CDATA[One Nation, Divided by a Common Language]]> 28466

In an illuminating study published in September in The Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Informatics, several linguists from Microsoft, Columbia University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology examined millions of North American tweets and tracked the spread of slang words like jawn, hella, and ctfuu (look 'em up). Using methods from epidemiology, they found that such coinages tore through populations like infectious diseases, with single and then multiple contacts occurring fast and furious in the close, unsanitary quarters of Twitter. Join a heap of snotty, fevered preschoolers—a useful analog for Twitter—and you're going to wake up with strep. It’s hella inevitable.

Read the rest of the article here: https://www.fastcompany.com/3066747/signs-and-symbols/one-nation-divided-by-a-common-language

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1486603565 2017-02-09 01:26:05 1486603565 2017-02-09 01:26:05 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-01-20T00:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T00:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T00:00:00-05:00 587189 image <![CDATA[FastCompany-Jacob_0208]]> image/jpeg 1486600549 2017-02-09 00:35:49 1486600549 2017-02-09 00:35:49 <![CDATA[Kristen Stewart (yes, that Kristen Stewart) has co-authored a paper on AI]]> 28466

Read the rest of the article here: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/better-love-story-twilight-kristen-235038702.html

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1486603422 2017-02-09 01:23:42 1486603422 2017-02-09 01:23:42 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-01-20T00:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T00:00:00-05:00 2017-01-20T00:00:00-05:00 587186 image <![CDATA[DigitalTrends-Kristen_0208]]> image/jpeg 1486600429 2017-02-09 00:33:49 1486600429 2017-02-09 00:33:49 <![CDATA[Company seeking drivers to use accident-notification app]]> 28466

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette talks about howAgero Inc., a Medford, Mass., company, wants drivers to voluntarily share information about where they drive by downloading a free app called MileUp on their iPhone or Android devices. Peter Swire, a privacy expert and Huang Professor of Law and Ethics in the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology, said motorists shouldn’t be concerned about giving information about their location to an organization such as Agero. He’s more concerned about how that information might be used by insurers.

Read the rest of the article here: http://www.post-gazette.com/news/transportation/2017/01/22/Company-seeking-drivers-to-use-accident-notification-app/stories/201701190060

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1486603271 2017-02-09 01:21:11 1486603271 2017-02-09 01:21:11 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-01-22T00:00:00-05:00 2017-01-22T00:00:00-05:00 2017-01-22T00:00:00-05:00 587192 image <![CDATA[PittPostGazette_0208]]> image/jpeg 1486600818 2017-02-09 00:40:18 1486600818 2017-02-09 00:40:18 <![CDATA[The Future of Photography is About Computation ]]> 28466

Fast Company interviewed Irfan Essa, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, who heads the school's Interdisciplinary Research Center for Machine Learning. He says that an ever-stronger connection among those areas "has grown into more object-centric thinking." Computational photography moves beyond just capturing pixels, he says, into capturing light, which allows it to extract the geometry of a scene. "If you know where the object is and what surface it's on, you can do more with it," he says.

Read the rest of the article here: https://www.fastcompany.com/3067252/the-future-of-photography-is-about-computation

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1486603054 2017-02-09 01:17:34 1486603163 2017-02-09 01:19:23 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-01-24T00:00:00-05:00 2017-01-24T00:00:00-05:00 2017-01-24T00:00:00-05:00 587188 image <![CDATA[FastCompany_0208]]> image/jpeg 1486600523 2017-02-09 00:35:23 1486600523 2017-02-09 00:35:23 <![CDATA[‘Sip’ info from your smartwatch, ‘whoosh’ it to your phone]]> 28466

Futurity mentions Cheng Zhang, a PhD student at Georgia Institute of Technology, who oversaw WatchOut, an interaction technique that uses taps and scrolling gestures on the case and watchband, “outside” the watch screen. They’re possible because of the watch’s gyroscope and accelerometer sensors.

Read the rest of the article here: http://www.futurity.org/smartwatches-1342272-2/

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1486603135 2017-02-09 01:18:55 1486603135 2017-02-09 01:18:55 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-01-24T00:00:00-05:00 2017-01-24T00:00:00-05:00 2017-01-24T00:00:00-05:00 587190 image <![CDATA[Futurity_0208]]> image/jpeg 1486600629 2017-02-09 00:37:09 1486600629 2017-02-09 00:37:09 <![CDATA[Digital Survivalist Andy Quitmeyer is HACKING THE WILD in New Science Channel Series Premiering 2/15]]> 28466

In Science Channel's all-new series HACKING THE WILD, "Digital Survivalist" Andy Quitmeyer, a Georgia Tech alumnus, goes deep into some of the most remote parts of the world armed with nothing but everyday technology and Science to survive the wilderness.

Read the rest of the article here: http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/Digital-Survivalist-Andy-Quitmeyer-is-HACKING-THE-WILD-in-New-Science-Channel-Series-Premiering-215-20170125

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1486602978 2017-02-09 01:16:18 1486602978 2017-02-09 01:16:18 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-01-25T00:00:00-05:00 2017-01-25T00:00:00-05:00 2017-01-25T00:00:00-05:00 587184 image <![CDATA[BroadwayWorld_0208]]> image/jpeg 1486600367 2017-02-09 00:32:47 1486600367 2017-02-09 00:32:47 <![CDATA[Closer Look: Diversity In Coding; Ga. Tornadoes; And More ]]> 28466

Wednesday on "Closer Look with Rose Scott and Jim Burress": 2:06: Barbara Ericson, director of computer outreach and senior research scientist at Georgia Tech, and Donna Bowman, non-tech lead and event and volunteer lead for Black Girls Code Atlanta, talk about the small percentage of African-American students in Georgia taking the AP Computer Science Exam and increasing diversity in the STEM fields.

Read the rest of the article here: http://news.wabe.org/post/closer-look-diversity-coding-ga-tornadoes-and-more

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1486602782 2017-02-09 01:13:02 1486602782 2017-02-09 01:13:02 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-01-26T00:00:00-05:00 2017-01-26T00:00:00-05:00 2017-01-26T00:00:00-05:00 587198 image <![CDATA[WABE_0208]]> image/jpeg 1486601004 2017-02-09 00:43:24 1486601004 2017-02-09 00:43:24 <![CDATA[Breathe in, breathe out: New technique controls smartwatch using breath and skin]]> 28466

Digital Trends talks about interactive features developed by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology intended to give smartwatch wearers more control over their device. “We are all aware that the input on smartwatches can be improved,” Cheng Zhang, a Ph.D. student and lead researcher behind Georgia Tech’s WatchOut application, told Digital Trends. WatchOut lets wearers interact with their smartwatch through contact with the bevel and watchband.

Read the rest of the article here: http://www.digitaltrends.com/wearables/watchout-whoosh-smartphone-input/

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1486602653 2017-02-09 01:10:53 1486602672 2017-02-09 01:11:12 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-01-27T00:00:00-05:00 2017-01-27T00:00:00-05:00 2017-01-27T00:00:00-05:00 587185 image <![CDATA[DigitalTrends-Swoosh_0208]]> image/png 1486600396 2017-02-09 00:33:16 1486600396 2017-02-09 00:33:16 <![CDATA[Smartwatch Innovation: Get Ready to Give or Take Breath for Calls]]> 28466

In a Mobile Mag article about smart watches Georgia Institute of Technology shed some light on the concerns of the many. Cheng Zhang, the Lead researcher of Georgia Tech’s WatchOut application said that, “We are all aware that the input on smartwatches can be improved”.

Read the rest of the article here: http://www.mobilemag.com/2017/02/06/smartwatch-innovation/

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1486599207 2017-02-09 00:13:27 1486602571 2017-02-09 01:09:31 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-02-06T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-06T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-06T00:00:00-05:00 587191 image <![CDATA[MobileMag_0208]]> image/png 1486600776 2017-02-09 00:39:36 1486600776 2017-02-09 00:39:36 <![CDATA[Scientists have developed tech that lets you control your smartwatch with just your breath]]> 28466

Daily News & Analysis mentions researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology in the US who created Whoosh, a technique that allows a person to control the watch by blowing, exhaling, shushing, sipping or puffing on the screen. Another new interaction technique WatchOut uses taps and scrolling gestures on the case and watchband, outside the watch screen. "Other techniques that improve control of smartwatches have included 3D gestures above the screen, bigger screens or adding an extra armband," said Cheng Zhang, a PhD student at Georgia Tech. "We wanted to show it could be done with existing technology already common on today's devices," said Zhang.

Read the rest of the article here: http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report-new-tech-lets-you-control-smartwatches-with-just-your-breath-2298488

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1486602363 2017-02-09 01:06:03 1486602418 2017-02-09 01:06:58 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-01-30T00:00:00-05:00 2017-01-30T00:00:00-05:00 2017-01-30T00:00:00-05:00 587187 image <![CDATA[DNA_0208]]> image/jpeg 1486600486 2017-02-09 00:34:46 1486600486 2017-02-09 00:34:46 <![CDATA[Making the Grade: Tech professor blends music, computer coding]]> 28466

The AJC interviewed Jacon Freeman who said, “Music is something that has a connection to the real things students care about. It’s kind of a magical way to get them engaged, and that’s a huge challenge in STEAM education. But with EarSketch, they can interact with music through code, and they can do things they could never do with a traditional music platform. We’re able to create interactive applications that ask users about the kind of music they want - pop, gospel, hip hop and so on – using a library of about 4,000 sounds as a starting point. Students can even record their own sounds, too.”

Read the rest of the article here: http://www.ajc.com/news/local/making-the-grade-tech-professor-blends-music-computer-coding/5sQNw6jhE3AI4oLlVlNWPI/

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1486602223 2017-02-09 01:03:43 1486602223 2017-02-09 01:03:43 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-02-08T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-08T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-08T00:00:00-05:00 587183 image <![CDATA[AJC_0208]]> image/jpeg 1486600336 2017-02-09 00:32:16 1486600336 2017-02-09 00:32:16 <![CDATA[How to Learn Morse Code—Semiconsciously]]> 28466

Scientific American talked to computer science professor Thad Starner of the Georgia Institute of Technology about tinkering with haptics, the integration of vibrations or other tactile cues with computing gadgets. The work shows that “it is possible to teach a system of typing without the user paying much attention to it,” Starner says.

Read the rest of the article here: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-learn-morse-code-mdash-semiconsciously/

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1486602133 2017-02-09 01:02:13 1486602133 2017-02-09 01:02:13 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-02-01T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-01T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-01T00:00:00-05:00 587194 image <![CDATA[ScientificAmerican_0208]]> image/jpeg 1486600885 2017-02-09 00:41:25 1486600885 2017-02-09 00:41:25 <![CDATA[Fighting Fake News Isn't Just up to Facebook and Google]]> 28466

ABC News interviewed Tanushree Mitra, a doctoral student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, who began a project three years ago to see how misinformation and fake news spread through Twitter. At the time, she says, "companies like Facebook and Twitter were not paying much attention."

Read the rest of article: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/fighting-fake-news-facebook-google-45308858

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1486601872 2017-02-09 00:57:52 1486601872 2017-02-09 00:57:52 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-02-06T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-06T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-06T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Fighting Fake News Isn't Just up to Facebook and Google]]> 28466

The New York Times mentioned Tanushree Mitra, a doctoral student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, who began a project three years ago to see how misinformation and fake news spread through Twitter. At the time, she says, "companies like Facebook and Twitter were not paying much attention."

Read the rest of the article here: https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/02/06/technology/ap-us-tec-fake-news-creative-countermeasures.html

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1486601681 2017-02-09 00:54:41 1486601681 2017-02-09 00:54:41 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-02-06T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-06T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-06T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Fighting Fake News Isn't Just up to Facebook and Google]]> 28466

The Washington Post mentioned Tanushree Mitra, a doctoral student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, who began a project three years ago to see how misinformation and fake news spread through Twitter. At the time, she says, "companies like Facebook and Twitter were not paying much attention."

Read the rest of the article here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/fighting-fake-news-isnt-just-up-to-facebook-and-google/2017/02/06/4bbc4d7a-ecd3-11e6-a100-fdaaf400369a_story.html?utm_term=.48404e11e3dd

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1486601438 2017-02-09 00:50:38 1486601591 2017-02-09 00:53:11 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2017-02-06T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-06T00:00:00-05:00 2017-02-06T00:00:00-05:00 587199 image <![CDATA[WashingtonPost_0208]]> image/jpeg 1486601031 2017-02-09 00:43:51 1486601031 2017-02-09 00:43:51 <![CDATA[A History of Violence]]> 28466

The Ringer interviewed Ian Bogost for an article about video games and violence. “In some ways, what makes genre fiction good is [when] it’s the same as other genre fiction,” says Ian Bogost, a professor of interactive computing at Georgia Tech and a game designer and writer. “And I feel like that’s what the FPS is. It’s the ultimate genre fiction of games. The ultimately self-sustaining genre. You get these little twists and changes that respond to current trends.”

Read the rest of the article here: https://theringer.com/first-person-shooter-video-game-evolution-overwatch-e0cc38ff633d#.qkx8sxj1w

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1479158836 2016-11-14 21:27:16 1479158836 2016-11-14 21:27:16 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-08-02T00:00:00-04:00 2016-08-02T00:00:00-04:00 2016-08-02T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[How Apple Sells its Controlling Ways as Futurism]]> 28466

Ian Bogost discusses Apple's controversial design choices make it hard to imagine the alternatives they preclude.

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1479158685 2016-11-14 21:24:45 1479158698 2016-11-14 21:24:58 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-09-08T00:00:00-04:00 2016-09-08T00:00:00-04:00 2016-09-08T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[Did the Patriot Act Change US Attitudes on Surveillance?]]> 28466

"The Patriot Act went far beyond technological updating and I think it was passed in the heat of the moment and went too far," said Peter Swire, a professor of law and ethics at the Georgia Institute of Technology who served as part of President Obama's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology, in an article with NBC News concerning the Patriot Act

Read the rest of the article here: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/did-patriot-act-change-us-attitudes-surveillance-n641586

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1479158586 2016-11-14 21:23:06 1479158586 2016-11-14 21:23:06 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-09-08T00:00:00-04:00 2016-09-08T00:00:00-04:00 2016-09-08T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[Swarms of Robots Manage to Not Run Into Each Other]]> 28466

IEEE talked about how Li Wang and professors Aaron D. Ames and Magnus Egerstedt from Georgia Tech have been developing ways to allow infinitely large teams of mobile robots to move around each other without colliding, and also without getting in each other’s way.

Read the rest of the article here: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/swarms-of-robots-manage-to-not-run-into-each-other

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1479158453 2016-11-14 21:20:53 1479158453 2016-11-14 21:20:53 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-09-08T00:00:00-04:00 2016-09-08T00:00:00-04:00 2016-09-08T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[Virtual Classrooms Can Be as Unequal as Real Ones]]> 28466

The publication The Atlantic interviewed Betsy DiSalvo on how parents’ outsize roles in their children’s learning patterns are apparent in even younger kids, too. Betsy DiSalvo, a professor and researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology, studied families with elementary- and middle-school children. She found that parents in lower-income families were less likely to use the internet to find learning resources for their kids, or to find information about how to help them with school.

Read the rest of the article here: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/09/inequaity-in-the-virtual-classroom/501311/

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1479158280 2016-11-14 21:18:00 1479158280 2016-11-14 21:18:00 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-09-26T00:00:00-04:00 2016-09-26T00:00:00-04:00 2016-09-26T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[Video games where people matter? The strange future of emotional AI]]> 28466

The Guardian talks about Mark Riedl, an associate professor at Georgia Tech and director of the university’s Entertainment Intelligence Lab. He’s currently working on a project named Quixote, an AI system designed to make it easier for non-specialist programmers to create intelligent ‘virtual agents’. Quixote allows AI agents to learn social rules and behaviours through reading stories sourced online; right now Riedl uses Amazon’s online crowdsourcing marketplace Mechanical Turk to commission people to write short stories around set themes. To demonstrate the concept, Riedl developed a game called Robbery World in which an AI agent has to rob a bank: it studies a series of bank robbery stories submitted on Mechanical Turk; learns the common elements (travel to bank, go to counter, pull out gun, demand cash) and is then rewarded for carrying out any action that advances the plot.

Read the rest of the article here: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/12/video-game-characters-emotional-ai-developers

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1479149085 2016-11-14 18:44:45 1479149085 2016-11-14 18:44:45 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-10-12T00:00:00-04:00 2016-10-12T00:00:00-04:00 2016-10-12T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[When the Teaching Assistant Is a Robot]]> 28466

Last spring, Ashok K. Goel pulled off one of the great pranks in the history of artificial intelligence. In an online course, Mr. Goel, a computer-science professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, relied on nine teaching assistants, including one named Jill Watson, to handle questions from the 300 students. Near the end of the term, Mr. Goel revealed to students that Jill was in fact a computerized assistant, powered by IBM’s Watson technology, which is designed to answer questions. A few students had suspicions about Jill along the way, but one thought Mr. Goel might be a computer, too.

Read the rest of the article here: http://www.chronicle.com/article/When-the-Teaching-Assistant-Is/238114

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1477680488 2016-10-28 18:48:08 1477680637 2016-10-28 18:50:37 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-10-23T00:00:00-04:00 2016-10-23T00:00:00-04:00 2016-10-23T00:00:00-04:00 583272 image <![CDATA[When the Teaching Assistant Is a Robot]]> image/jpeg 1477680584 2016-10-28 18:49:44 1477680584 2016-10-28 18:49:44 <![CDATA[IN THE WORLD: LET'S GET VISUAL]]> 28466

You know you’re making an impact when President Barack Obama retweets your work to none other than Bill Gates. In this case, the work was an interactive infographic co-developed and designed by Blacki Li Rudi Migliozzi, Math 09, MS CS 12, which peeled back the layers of data compiled by NASA on the causes of global warming—from volcanoes and the earth’s orbit to greenhouse gases and deforestation. Tens of thousands of other people retweeted it, Facebooked and otherwise shared this compelling piece of data journalism published by Bloomberg News.

Read the full article here: http://www.gtalumni.org/s/1481/alumni/magazine.aspx?sid=1481&gid=21&pgid=6665

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1473674840 2016-09-12 10:07:20 1476980024 2016-10-20 16:13:44 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-08-19T00:00:00-04:00 2016-08-19T00:00:00-04:00 2016-08-19T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[Robocar Teaches Itself to Powerslide]]> 30267

Georgia Tech researchers at the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machine have unleashed their new toy -- a self-driving “Robocar”-- that is testing algorithms that may teach future autonomous vehicles how to respond in aggressive driving situations.

]]> Devin Young 1 1463662166 2016-05-19 12:49:26 1475893690 2016-10-08 02:28:10 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-05-20T00:00:00-04:00 2016-05-20T00:00:00-04:00 2016-05-20T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[Should Robots Decide Who Lives or Dies?]]> 30267

Artificial intelligence advances in military robots is redefining the meaning of warfare. As part of this article, Professor Ron Arkin addresses whether robotic weapons can discern the value of human life in the fog of war, and what rules will guide their decision-making process.

]]> Devin Young 1 1464774965 2016-06-01 09:56:05 1475893690 2016-10-08 02:28:10 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-06-01T00:00:00-04:00 2016-06-01T00:00:00-04:00 2016-06-01T00:00:00-04:00 350021 image <![CDATA[Ron Arkin compressed]]> image/jpeg 1449245702 2015-12-04 16:15:02 1475895075 2016-10-08 02:51:15 <![CDATA[From a Single Observation, Autism Research Blooms @ GT Computing]]> 27174

Autism work at Georgia Tech now runs the gamut from helping clinicians diagnose and manage the disorder to informing research in artificial intelligence.

]]> Mike Terrazas 1 1461234090 2016-04-21 10:21:30 1475893687 2016-10-08 02:28:07 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-04-20T00:00:00-04:00 2016-04-20T00:00:00-04:00 2016-04-20T00:00:00-04:00 156681 image <![CDATA[Child Study Lab image]]> image/jpeg 1449178872 2015-12-03 21:41:12 1475894792 2016-10-08 02:46:32 <![CDATA[Behind a Computer’s Surprise Victory, Hints of Global Economic Upheaval]]> 28466

The Chronicle of Higher Education wrote about Mark O. Riedl, an associate professor of interactive computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology and his suspicions. The AlphaGo victory may reflect improvements in computer processing speeds as much as software innovation, Mr. Riedl said, and once-rapid advances in the operating speed of computer chips have slowed over the past decade.

Read the full article here: http://chronicle.com/article/Behind-a-Computer-s-Surprise/235687/

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1458153282 2016-03-16 18:34:42 1475893684 2016-10-08 02:28:04 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-03-14T00:00:00-04:00 2016-03-14T00:00:00-04:00 2016-03-14T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[VR(R)EVOLUTION]]> 28466

The Canadian Film Centre wrote about Janet Murray (Georgia Tech) who is understandably wary of VR over-hype among the film folk. “All this opens up a large palette but people can draw on the wrong parts of it,” she says. “We don’t have a viewer now – we have an interactor. And since the interactor is bringing all that movie sophistication to the table because of the highly elaborated visual vocabulary and storytelling we’ve experienced in film, that raises our level of expectation.”

Read the full article here: http://cfccreates.com/news/vr-revolution

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1458153396 2016-03-16 18:36:36 1475893684 2016-10-08 02:28:04 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-03-04T00:00:00-05:00 2016-03-04T00:00:00-05:00 2016-03-04T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[A Look Inside the World’s Weirdest Musical Instrument Competition]]> 28466

Gil Weinberg, the director of the center for music technology, and the event's primary organizer, tells THUMP, "After a couple of years, we looked in the mirror and said do we look like a piano competition—and it looked much more like a competition about design, engineering and musicality of new instruments."

Read the full article here: https://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/a-look-inside-the-worlds-weirdest-musical-instrument-competition

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1458153563 2016-03-16 18:39:23 1475893684 2016-10-08 02:28:04 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-03-14T00:00:00-04:00 2016-03-14T00:00:00-04:00 2016-03-14T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[Atlanta Institute of Music and Media shifts as film explodes in Georgia]]> 28466

The Atlanta Business Chronicle wrote an article about how Georgia Tech will launch a four-year bachelor’s of science program to develop the next generation of designers, developers, and entrepreneurs in music technology. “For us, music technology is not just about learning how to use music technology, audio engineering, and recording and production,” said Jason Freeman, who helped craft the proposal, which was approved by the University System of Georgia Board of Regents Jan. 6. “It’s about making the next generation of software and hardware production and services that can transform the music industry."

Read the full article here: http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2016/02/18/atlanta-institute-of-music-and-media-shifts-as.html

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1458148828 2016-03-16 17:20:28 1475893681 2016-10-08 02:28:01 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-02-18T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-18T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-18T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Apple v. Justice Department: a battle over an iPhone]]> 28466

Marketplace wrote an article on Peter Swire, a computer-privacy expert at the Scheller College of Business at Georgia Tech who served on the Obama Administration's NSA review panel. Swire said that if such a commission were to be established and recommend legislation, the process could succeed — in spite of partisan divisions and lack of progress on many issues in Congress.

Read the full article here: http://www.marketplace.org/2016/02/22/world/apple-v-justice-department-battle-over-iphone

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1458149087 2016-03-16 17:24:47 1475893681 2016-10-08 02:28:01 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-02-22T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-22T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-22T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Survivors of Sexual Abuse Find Support in Online 'Anonymity']]> 28466

Science Newsline wrote about a study led by Drexel University researchers which suggests that survivors of sexual abuse who seek guidance and support in online forums may be doing so because they find comfort in the relative anonymity the forums provide, which allows them to speak candidly about their experience and be direct in asking for help. The team, which also included Oliver Haimson, a doctoral candidate at the University of California - Irvine, and Munmun De Choudhry, an assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, looked at publicly available posts on the social networking/news website Reddit in three abuse-related forums, called subreddits.

Read the full article here: http://www.sciencenewsline.com/news/2016022316120005.html

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1458149393 2016-03-16 17:29:53 1475893681 2016-10-08 02:28:01 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-02-23T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-23T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-23T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Ga. Tech Scientists, Don Quixote Teach Robots Human Values]]> 28466

For a robot waiting in line to pay for its owner's medication, the fastest and most efficient method of getting the medication might be to steal the pills and leave the store without paying. But as humans, Mark Riedl says, we've decided that's not the right way. Riedl is an associate professor in the Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing and director of the Entertainment Intelligence Lab.

Hear the full interview here: http://news.wabe.org/post/ga-tech-scientists-don-quixote-teach-robots-human-values

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1458149556 2016-03-16 17:32:36 1475893681 2016-10-08 02:28:01 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-02-23T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-23T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-23T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Georgia Tech researchers create 3-armed drummer]]> 28466

WSB-TV inter viewed Gil Weinberg and how two years ago him and other researchers at Georgia Tech created a robotic arm for an amputee drummer. Now they're taking it up a notch. "Music is awesome. People are still studying why evolution led us to like music so much,” Professor Gil Weinberg said.

Watch the full interview here: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/georgia-tech-researchers-create-three-armed-drumme/nqYDs/

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1458149794 2016-03-16 17:36:34 1475893681 2016-10-08 02:28:01 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-02-25T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-25T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-25T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[This Incredibly Stupid Game Is Devouring My Mind]]> 28466

TIME discussed Adventure Capitalist, available for PCs and mobile devices, came out of nowhere a year ago, part of the so-called “clicker” fad. It means just what it sounds like: games where you click (or tap) stuff as fast as you can. Others you may have heard of include Cookie Clicker, Candy Box and of course critic and academic Ian Bogost’s (Georgia Tech) delightfully subversive Cow Clicker.

Read the full article here: http://time.com/4201838/adventure-capitalist/

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1458149929 2016-03-16 17:38:49 1475893681 2016-10-08 02:28:01 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-02-25T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-25T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-25T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[The Instagrams of Food Deserts]]> 28466

The Atlantic interviewed Munmun De Choudhary on food deserts, or places where people have limited access to fresh food, are usually measured by the distance people have to travel to get to a large grocery store. To do so, researchers typically have to rely on surveys, which “obviously do not record every single meal, or the frequency of what people are eating,” says Munmun De Choudhury, an assistant professor of interactive computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. “Maybe [the surveys] happen every six months, or once a year … that’s a very aggregated sense of what people are eating.”

Read the full article here: https://news.yahoo.com/instagrams-food-deserts-130000491.html

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1458150084 2016-03-16 17:41:24 1475893681 2016-10-08 02:28:01 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-03-01T00:00:00-05:00 2016-03-01T00:00:00-05:00 2016-03-01T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[How Much Does Your ISP Know About You? Less Than You Might Think.]]> 28466

MSN.com wrote an article about how your Internet service provider doesn’t know as much about you as you might think. ISPs have limited access to consumer data — often, less than other online players do — according to a new study from noted privacy and cyber security expert Peter Swire, a law professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology who worked as chief privacy counsel in the Clinton White House.

Read the full article here: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/connectedworld/how-much-does-your-isp-know-about-you-less-than-you-might-think/ar-BBqa8Lo

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1458150250 2016-03-16 17:44:10 1475893681 2016-10-08 02:28:01 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-03-01T00:00:00-05:00 2016-03-01T00:00:00-05:00 2016-03-01T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Study: ISPs Aren't All-Seeing Privacy Monitors]]> 28466

Broadcasting & Cable wrote about a study by Peter Swire makes no recommendations about what rules should be applied to ISPs, or other players in the Internet ecosystem, but said whatever the public policy is, it should be based on accurate information and understanding… The paper was funded by Broadband for America (BIA) (ISPs, in turn, back that group), the Institute for Information Security and Privacy at Georgia Tech, and the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business.

Read the full article here: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/washington/study-isps-arent-all-seeing-privacy-monitors/154195

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1458150435 2016-03-16 17:47:15 1475893681 2016-10-08 02:28:01 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-02-29T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-29T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-29T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Report Finds Internet Providers See Far Less Personal Data Than the FCC Thinks]]> 28466

Inside Sources wrote about how Peter Swire and other researchers at Georgia Tech released a report Monday finding ISPs have far less visibility of customers’ web browsing habits than previously thought.

Read the full article here: http://www.insidesources.com/report-isp-personal-data/

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1458150583 2016-03-16 17:49:43 1475893681 2016-10-08 02:28:01 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-02-29T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-29T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-29T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Proximity to Grocery Store May Influence Your Eating Habits, Study Reveals]]> 28466

A new US study has identified a link between a person’s proximity to a grocery store and their food choices. A team of researchers, including Munmun Choudhury, from the Georgia Institute of Technology in US, ascertained the link after analysing a massive dietary database consisted of the food choices and nutritional profiles of American people living in different communities.

Read the full article here: http://www.healthnewsline.net/proximity-to-grocery-store-may-influence-your-eating-habits-study-reveals/2534806/

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1458150721 2016-03-16 17:52:01 1475893681 2016-10-08 02:28:01 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-02-29T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-29T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-29T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Georgia Tech contest perfect for musical mad scientists]]> 28466

Gil Weinberg, the founding director of the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, has nursed the Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition, a yearly contest that draws aspiring musical mad scientists from around the world showcasing their mutant devices at a free concert, into an international phenomenon, but serving as a judge one year was harder work than he expected — comparing devices that could hardly be recognized as creatures from the same species.

Read the full article here: http://www.accessatlanta.com/news/entertainment/music/georgia-tech-contest-perfect-for-musical-mad-scien/nqZ5Z/

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1458150852 2016-03-16 17:54:12 1475893681 2016-10-08 02:28:01 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-02-29T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-29T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-29T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Two arms good...three arms better?]]> 28466

Marketplace intervied Gil Weinberg, who oversaw the research project that created a wearable robotic arm that can lend a hand while playing the drums. “I really wanted to push the improvisation...that will really push your understanding of music and how you interact with music,” said Weinberg, the director of the Center for Music Technology at Georgia Tech.

Read the full here article: http://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/marketplace-tech-wednesday-march-2-2016

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1458151014 2016-03-16 17:56:54 1475893681 2016-10-08 02:28:01 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-03-02T00:00:00-05:00 2016-03-02T00:00:00-05:00 2016-03-02T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Banning Pro-Eating Disorder Words On Instagram Doesn't Work]]> 28466

Shape wrote an article about Georgia Tech's Munmun de Choudhury and her team that looked at 2.5 million pro-eating disorder posts on Instagram between 2011 and 2014. They found that instead of the ban squashing the activity of pro-eating disorder communities—which exist to share content that encourages eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia—it actually ended up forcing members to become more engaged.

Read the full article here: http://www.shape.com/lifestyle/mind-and-body/banning-pro-eating-disorder-words-instagram-doesnt-work

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1458151274 2016-03-16 18:01:14 1475893681 2016-10-08 02:28:01 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-03-10T00:00:00-05:00 2016-03-10T00:00:00-05:00 2016-03-10T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[This Is What Happened When Instagram Banned Certain Pro-Anorexia Words]]> 28466

Gizmodo wrote an article about Munmun de Choudhury and the other group of Georgia Tech researchers who decided to study if banning such words helped the communities using them. Instead, they found that it may make matters worse.

Read the full article here: http://gizmodo.com/this-is-what-happened-when-instagram-banned-certain-pro-1763902003?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_twitter&utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1458151439 2016-03-16 18:03:59 1475893681 2016-10-08 02:28:01 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-03-09T00:00:00-05:00 2016-03-09T00:00:00-05:00 2016-03-09T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Pro-eating disorder communities modify hashtag terms to perpetuate the movement]]> 28466

The Daily Dot wrote about Munmun De Choudhury and the other researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology spent the last few months doing a first-of-its-kind analysis of hashtags used by people boasting and encouraging eating disorders.

Read the full article here: http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/instagram-pro-eating-disorder/

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1458151609 2016-03-16 18:06:49 1475893681 2016-10-08 02:28:01 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-03-11T00:00:00-05:00 2016-03-11T00:00:00-05:00 2016-03-11T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Georgia Tech professor: Why are guns unsafe for dorms, but allowed in classrooms?]]> 28466

Ellen Zegura, a Computer Science professor at Georgia Tech, wrote an article to the Atlanta Journal Constitution opposing the bill to allow guns on Georgia Tech's campus.

Read the full article here: http://getschooled.blog.myajc.com/2016/03/11/georgia-tech-professor-why-are-guns-unsafe-for-dorms-but-allowed-in-classrooms/

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1458152102 2016-03-16 18:15:02 1475893681 2016-10-08 02:28:01 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-03-11T00:00:00-05:00 2016-03-11T00:00:00-05:00 2016-03-11T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Could this turn your vacation videos into masterpieces? Software sifts through footage to pick out holiday highlights]]> 28466

The Daily Mail wrote an article about Irfan Essa's research project and his students. 'It's the brainchild of Daniel Castro and Vinay Bettadapura, two PhD candidates at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta… 'The data was essentially useless because there was just too much of it,' said Mr Bettadapura, who is currently working as a Google software engineer.

Read the full article here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3487926/Could-turn-vacation-videos-masterpieces-Software-sifts-footage-pick-holiday-highlights.html

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1458152333 2016-03-16 18:18:53 1475893681 2016-10-08 02:28:01 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-03-14T00:00:00-04:00 2016-03-14T00:00:00-04:00 2016-03-14T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[Early exposure to signing helps deaf kids on mental task]]> 28466

Science News wrote an article about Jenny Singleton of Georgia Institute of Technology who examined classrooms of deaf children, some exposed to signing from birth and some who learned to sign later. This result “shows that it’s something that’s still there in adulthood,” says psychologist and language expert Singleton.

Read the full article here: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/early-exposure-signing-helps-deaf-kids-mental-task

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1458152565 2016-03-16 18:22:45 1475893681 2016-10-08 02:28:01 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-02-13T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-13T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-13T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Instagram's pro-anorexia ban made the problem worse]]> 28466

According to the Georgia Tech team, which included Munmun de Choudhury, banning negative terms didn't stop young people searching for them -- they simply worked around the ban by creating variants. Some of these terms had even further reach than those they were designed to replace, spreading to other sites such as Tumblr and Twitter.

Read the full article here: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2016-03/14/instagram-pro-anorexia-search-terms

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1458152740 2016-03-16 18:25:40 1475893681 2016-10-08 02:28:01 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-03-14T00:00:00-04:00 2016-03-14T00:00:00-04:00 2016-03-14T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[Banning Words on Instagram Totally Backfired]]> 28466

Futurity wrote an article about Instagram’s decision to ban certain words commonly used by pro-eating disorder (pro-ED) communities has produced an unintended effect, a new study finds. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, including Munmun de Choudhury, found that these communities are still very active and thriving despite Instagram’s efforts to moderate discussion of the dangerous lifestyle

Read the full article here: http://www.futurity.org/instagram-ban-words-1119732-2/

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1458152885 2016-03-16 18:28:05 1475893681 2016-10-08 02:28:01 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-03-14T00:00:00-04:00 2016-03-14T00:00:00-04:00 2016-03-14T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[Robots could learn human values by reading stories, research suggests]]> 28466

The Guardian wrote an article about Mark Riedl and Brent Harrison from the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. They have just unveiled Quixote, a prototype system that is able to learn social conventions from simple stories.

Read the full article here: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/18/robots-could-learn-human-values-by-reading-stories-research-suggests

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1458152991 2016-03-16 18:29:51 1475893681 2016-10-08 02:28:01 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-02-18T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-18T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-18T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Everything You Know About Artificial Intelligence is Wrong]]> 28466

Gizmodo wrote about Mark Riedl and researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology who naively suggested that AI could learn human values and social conventions by reading simple stories. It will likely be far more complicated than that.

Read the full article here: http://gizmodo.com/everything-you-know-about-artificial-intelligence-is-wr-1764020220

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1458153133 2016-03-16 18:32:13 1475893681 2016-10-08 02:28:01 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-03-14T00:00:00-04:00 2016-03-14T00:00:00-04:00 2016-03-14T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[Apple’s risky bet on protecting a terrorist’s iPhone]]> 28466

The Washington Post wrote an article on Apple's iPhone protection and quoted a Georgia Tech professor. “Apple doesn’t want to look unpatriotic to American customers. Yet Apple also wants to signal strong security for its users globally,” said Peter Swire, a professor of law and ethics. “So it’s high-stakes marketing in both directions.”

Read the full article here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/02/17/apples-risky-bet-on-protecting-a-terrorists-iphone/

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1458148107 2016-03-16 17:08:27 1475893681 2016-10-08 02:28:01 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-02-27T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-27T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-27T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Scientists created a three-armed cyborg to play the drums like no human can]]> 28466

The Washington post wrote about Georgia Tech researchers have built a robotic arm that attaches to a drummer’s shoulder and plays along. This allows drummers — now equipped with three arms — to play sequences that two-armed humans can’t even attempt. “It’s a richer and more sophisticated rhythm because you can hit one more thing,” said Gil Weinberg, director of the Center for Music Technology at Georgia Tech.

Read the full article here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/02/18/scientists-created-a-three-armed-cyborg-to-play-the-drums-like-no-human-can/

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1458148248 2016-03-16 17:10:48 1475893681 2016-10-08 02:28:01 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-02-18T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-18T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-18T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Robotic arm gives drummers an extra hand to thrash with]]> 28466

Engadget writse an article about how researchers at Georgia Tech developed a robotic arm that gives drummers an extra arm to help boost those skills. The project from the university's Center for Music Technology aims to push the limits of what humans can do with a hand, er, arm from smart robotics.

Read the full article here: http://www.engadget.com/2016/02/18/robotic-arm-for-drummers-ga-tech/

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1458148406 2016-03-16 17:13:26 1475893681 2016-10-08 02:28:01 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-02-18T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-18T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-18T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[How Can We Teach Morals to Robots? By Telling Them Stories]]> 28466

Popular Science wrote an article about the quixotic idea behind Quixote, a technique developed by Mark Riedl, director of the Entertainment Intelligence Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Read the full article here: http://www.popsci.com/how-to-teach-morals-to-robots-by-telling-stories

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1458148612 2016-03-16 17:16:52 1475893681 2016-10-08 02:28:01 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-02-17T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-17T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-17T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[This Is the Most Popular Instagram Filter in the U.S.]]> 28466

According to a study published last May by Yahoo! Labs and Georgia Tech, “filtered photos are 21% more likely to be viewed and 45% more likely to be commented on” by your followers.

Read the full article here: http://www.teenvogue.com/story/instagram-filters-by-state-most-liked

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1455713244 2016-02-17 12:47:24 1475893678 2016-10-08 02:27:58 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2016-02-12T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-12T00:00:00-05:00 2016-02-12T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Head tracker knows what you’re doing and helps you multitask]]> 28466

Gathering patterns of data that describe humans doing different tasks has more potential than just helping us work more efficiently. Thad Starner at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta wants to use the data from wearables to train artificial intelligences. By digesting the data generated by wearables on millions of humans doing simple tasks, robots and AI can get a better understanding of our lives, and that might let them learn to open doors and climb stairs as well as we do.

Read the full interview here: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28560-head-tracker-knows-what-youre-doing-and-helps-you-multitask/

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1455713571 2016-02-17 12:52:51 1475893678 2016-10-08 02:27:58 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2015-11-26T00:00:00-05:00 2015-11-26T00:00:00-05:00 2015-11-26T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA['Fallout 4' Is a Niche Video Game]]> 28466

Somebody spent a lot of money making a lot of money, a game on the same register as a Hollywood motion picture ... that's what 'AAA' wants to mean," Ian Bogost, a game designer, researcher at Georgia Tech, and author of How to Talk About Video Games told me. "It's [supposed to be] a giant, global entertainment production. But you think about it, and that's not what those games do. They don't reach those numbers of people, they sell a lot of dollars worth of games primarily because those games cost a lot of money."

Read the full article here: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/fallout-4-is-a-niche-video-game

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1455713801 2016-02-17 12:56:41 1475893678 2016-10-08 02:27:58 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2015-11-13T00:00:00-05:00 2015-11-13T00:00:00-05:00 2015-11-13T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[The Lion King Musical in VR is an Incredible Experience]]> 28466

Georgia Tech associate dean and professor Janet Murray, author of Hamlet on the Holodeck and an expert on digital storytelling, says she thinks a project like this is an important evolutionary step for VR. But it’s just a baby step, and further evolution will need to wait for technology and creative vision to catch up. In a way, she thinks it’s too open-ended.

Read the full article here: http://www.wired.com/2015/11/lion-king-vr-video/

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1455714001 2016-02-17 13:00:01 1475893678 2016-10-08 02:27:58 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2015-11-18T00:00:00-05:00 2015-11-18T00:00:00-05:00 2015-11-18T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[IBM’s Watson shown to enhance human-computer co-creativity, support biologically inspired design]]> 28466

Ashok Goel, a professor at Georgia Tech’s School of Interactive Computing who conducts research on computational creativity. In an experiment, he used this version of Watson as an “intelligent research assistant” to support teaching about biologically inspired design and computational creativity in the Georgia Tech CS4803/8803 class on Computational Creativity in Spring 2015.

Read the full article here: http://www.kurzweilai.net/ibms-watson-shown-to-enhance-human-computer-co-creativity-support-biologically-inspired-design

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1455714146 2016-02-17 13:02:26 1475893678 2016-10-08 02:27:58 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2015-11-13T00:00:00-05:00 2015-11-13T00:00:00-05:00 2015-11-13T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Суперкомпьютер Watson предложил студентам креативные решения проблем человечества]]> 28466

Ashok Goel's work with Watson has been picked up in Russia.

Read the full article here: http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=2687904

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1455714438 2016-02-17 13:07:18 1475893678 2016-10-08 02:27:58 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2015-11-17T00:00:00-05:00 2015-11-17T00:00:00-05:00 2015-11-17T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Reality of a more digital future]]> 28466

On the horizon is an age of truly ubiquitous technology, when computation and networking are woven throughout the very fabric of life, from the clothes on our bodies to the walls of our buildings. At Georgia Tech, we recently convened leading experts to peer into this technological future and examine how it will affect us.

Read the full article here: http://www.myajc.com/news/news/opinion/reality-of-a-more-digital-future/npKdN/

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1455714595 2016-02-17 13:09:55 1475893678 2016-10-08 02:27:58 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2015-11-10T00:00:00-05:00 2015-11-10T00:00:00-05:00 2015-11-10T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA["Games are far too obsessed with technical innovation" - Bogost]]> 28466

The medium of video games has come a long way in its (relatively) short history, and there are more people playing games in various forms than ever before, but if you ask Ian Bogost, game designer and professor of interactive computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the industry has yet to truly reach an inflection point where it's accepted without question across the globe in the way that film is.

Read the full article here: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2015-11-04-games-are-far-too-obsessed-with-technical-innovation-bogost

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1455714739 2016-02-17 13:12:19 1475893678 2016-10-08 02:27:58 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2015-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 2015-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 2015-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[How Computers Learned to Play Nintendo]]> 28466

One group sponsored an annual Mario AI competition, Jordan Pearson reports for Motherboard, and a pair of Georgia Tech computer scientists named Mark Riedl and Matthew Guzdial have even built an AI that can design Super Mario Bros. levels from scratch. "It is a bit more fast-paced and dynamic than the Atari games that many are currently using to test AI," Riedl and Guzdial tell Pearson. "The side-scrolling nature of the game means a lot of the game is unobservable to the AI, whereas many simpler arcade games have all information on screen at once."

Read the full article here: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-computers-learned-to-play-nintendo-180957125/?no-ist

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1455714873 2016-02-17 13:14:33 1475893678 2016-10-08 02:27:58 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2015-11-03T00:00:00-05:00 2015-11-03T00:00:00-05:00 2015-11-03T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Forget Siri: Here's a New Way for Robots to Talk]]> 28466

Because robots should know proper coffeehouse etiquette. Andrea Thomaz (Interactive Computing) helps create a social robot that can have a human-like conversation, "uh huhs" and all.

Read the full article here: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/teach-robots-talk-more-like-we-do

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1455714981 2016-02-17 13:16:21 1475893678 2016-10-08 02:27:58 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2015-10-29T00:00:00-04:00 2015-10-29T00:00:00-04:00 2015-10-29T00:00:00-04:00 <![CDATA[Georgia Tech gets NSF grant for Internet security research]]> 28466

Georgia Tech researchers are developing tools that allow internet service providers (ISPs) to better verify the owner of a network and legitimate traffic paths. As part of a multi-year project funded with a $300,000 National Science Foundation grant, researchers will address the Internet identity problem with new protocols such as RPKI (Resource Public Key Infrastructure.) “We know it’s easy to lie on the Internet,” Russ Clark, a senior research scientist in the School of Computer Science at Georgia Tech, said in the statement. “It happens because of a weakness in the trust relationship between routing protocols. Those protocols were not designed to recognize imposters and especially not fake ISPs.”

Read the full article here: http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2015/11/06/redbird-capital-backs-growing-tech-sales-marketing.html

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1455715097 2016-02-17 13:18:17 1475893678 2016-10-08 02:27:58 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2015-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 2015-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 2015-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Still No African-Americans Taking the AP Computer Science Exam in Nine States]]> 28466

The pool of test-takers for the Advanced Placement computer science exam is still overwhelmingly white and male, according to data from the College Board, which administers the AP tests. The number of students taking the AP computer science exam increased by about 24 percent from last year, up to 46,000 U.S. students, according to numbers released this fall. That's less growth than the exam showed the year before (it was up about 26 percent then), but still more growth than any other AP course except physics. Maryland was the state with the most test-takers overall by population… The College Board recently released even more detailed demographic data about test-takers in each state. Barbara Ericson, the director of computing outreach and a senior research scientist at Georgia Tech, went through the data, as she does every year, to see among other things, how girls and African-Americans are faring in computer science across the states.

Read the full article here: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2015/11/no_african-american_students_2015_AP_computer_science_exam_nine_states.html

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1455715210 2016-02-17 13:20:10 1475893678 2016-10-08 02:27:58 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2015-11-03T00:00:00-05:00 2015-11-03T00:00:00-05:00 2015-11-03T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Five cool future ideas from Georgia Tech gathering on computers]]> 28466

Georgia Tech, where plenty of cool tech ideas are hatched, celebrated the 25th anniversary of its College of Computing with sessions on how computing power will change our world even more. Here are just a few of the ideas I heard from people at the event: Clothing and social media devices that can sense and project our emotions. A cardigan that glows an angry red? It riffs on the idea that we’ll find new ways to wire up our brain to outside devices. Harnessing tiny microbes to build stuff, like new perfume fragrances. No more being color blind? A representative of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency talked about building immunities or fixes to genetic diseases and disorders.

Read the full article here: http://business.blog.myajc.com/2015/11/04/five-cool-future-ideas-from-georgia-tech-symposium/

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1455715316 2016-02-17 13:21:56 1475893678 2016-10-08 02:27:58 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2015-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 2015-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 2015-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Here Comes Everything!]]> 28466

Dinah Lenney and Arne De Boever Interview Christopher Schaberg and Ian Bogost (Georgia Tech) THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL: elegant paperbacks, the quality kind, with front and back flaps, not quite pocket-sized but easily transportable, each coming in at under 200 pages, each inspired by an object and titled in lower case like so: phone booth; waste; refrigerator; hotel; glass; silence; dust; driver’s license; golf ball; remote control. Billed as books about “the hidden lives of ordinary things,” there are 10 so far, and every one a curiosity; not just an object, but a world in and of itself. We asked the editors to tell us more about the conception and ongoing life of Object Lessons.

Read the full article here: https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/here-comes-everything

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1455715440 2016-02-17 13:24:00 1475893678 2016-10-08 02:27:58 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2015-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 2015-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 2015-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[The Logic Behind the Sky-High Candy Crush Deal]]> 28466

Written by Ian Bogost, writer, game designer, and contributing editor at The Atlantic. He is the Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in media studies and a professor of interactive computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The fact that Activision Blizzard bought Candy Crush creator King Digital startled people less than the sheer size of the deal: $5.9 billion. As many noted, that’s almost $2 billion more than Disney paid for either Marvel or Lucasfilm. It’s more than twice the $2.5 billion Microsoft paid for Minecraft maker Mojang, a property that feels like it has more long-term staying power than Candy Crush. And it’s about nine times the $650 million Electronic Arts paid for PopCap, creators of Bejeweled, the game whose underlying behavior lies at the heart of Candy Crush.

Read the full article here: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/11/candy-crush-six-billion-deal/414217/

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1455715674 2016-02-17 13:27:54 1475893678 2016-10-08 02:27:58 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2015-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 2015-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 2015-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 <![CDATA[Programmers: Stop Calling Yourselves Engineers]]> 28466

Written by Ian Bogost, Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in media studies and a professor of interactive computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. I’m commiserating with a friend who recently left the technology industry to return to entertainment. “I’m not a programmer,” he begins, explaining some of the frustrations of his former workplace, before correcting himself, “—oh, engineer, in tech-bro speak. Though to me, engineers are people who build bridges and follow pretty rigid processes for a reason.”

]]> Meghana Melkote 1 1455715755 2016-02-17 13:29:15 1475893678 2016-10-08 02:27:58 0 0 hgTechInTheNews 2015-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 2015-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 2015-11-05T00:00:00-05:00