{"41139":{"#nid":"41139","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Literature, Communication and Culture Professor Jay Bolter to give Summer Commencement Address","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Jay David Bolter, co-director of the Wesley New Media Center and the Wesley Chair of New Media in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at Georgia Tech\u0027s Ivan Allen College, will deliver the commencement address at Georgia Tech\u0027s 213th commencement ceremony on Friday, August 2, 2002.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe ceremony will take place at 9:00 a.m. at the Alexander Memorial Coliseum. Approximately 922 students are expected to graduate.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn April, Bolter received Georgia Tech\u0027s Distinguished Professor Award. The prize, which includes the honor of delivering the summer commencement address, is the most prestigious award bestowed upon Tech faculty members. The recipient is chosen for his or her outstanding commitment to teaching, research and service and is selected by the Faculty Honors Committee. Bolter is the first Ivan Allen College faculty member to achieve this distinction.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nPart of Bolter\u0027s research is exploring the ways technology can be used as a tool to improve education and society. One such project is exploring how augmented reality (AR) systems can enhance the way people absorb and use information. Augmented reality works by overlaying a computer-generated image on top of an image of the real world, giving the user access to a vast array of information about an object at a glance.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022In AR, you put on the headset and you can still see the visual world, but the computer adds its own views. Along with Blair MacIntyre in the College of Computing, we\u0027re designing a system that you could use in a museum where visitors are accompanied by a virtual character who is a historical figure. As you walk through the exhibit, she talks to you about her history,\u0022 Bolter explained.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAnother use for AR might involve having airplane mechanics wear goggles, which the computer would use to overlay their view of an airplane engine with schematics or a step-by-step illustration on which parts need to be adjusted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFuture applications include shirts for parental use to monitor babies and for military use to provide a trapped soldier\u0027s exact location and give triage units details about wounds.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn his speech to the graduates, Bolter said he will emphasize to them how they can use their technological skills to change the world.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022I want to make the point that digital information and the Word Wide Web isn\u0027t just about existing in some amorphous cyberspace, but has real and important consequences for our physical world and our social world,\u0022 he said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIt\u0027s a point Bolter has made time and time again in his research and in the three books he has authored, Remediation: Understanding New Media with Richard Grusin in 1999, Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext and the History of Writing in 1991 and Turing\u0027s Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age in 1984.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBolter came to Georgia Tech from the University of North Carolina in 1991. He holds a doctorate in the classics and a master\u0027s in computer science from UNC. He received his bachelor\u0027s in Greek from Trinity College in Toronto in 1973.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Dr. Jay David Bolter, co-director of the Wesley New Media Center and the Wesley Chair of New Media in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at Georgia Tech\u0027s Ivan Allen College, will deliver the commencement address at Georgia Tech","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2002-09-05 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:15","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2002-07-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2002-07-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"41140":{"id":"41140","type":"image","title":"Jay Bolter","body":null,"created":"1449174275","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:24:35","changed":"1475894364","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:24","alt":"Jay Bolter","file":{"fid":"100852","name":"i15daf6e44a8ce28977fa4cfa6a67da6ba1031263764.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/i15daf6e44a8ce28977fa4cfa6a67da6ba1031263764_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/i15daf6e44a8ce28977fa4cfa6a67da6ba1031263764_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":6253,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/i15daf6e44a8ce28977fa4cfa6a67da6ba1031263764_0.jpg?itok=bhlBkuET"}}},"media_ids":["41140"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/commencement\/","title":"Commencement Information"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.newmedia.gatech.edu\/","title":"Wesley New Media Center"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/","title":"Ivan Allen College"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}