{"69485":{"#nid":"69485","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Science Fiction Book Talk\/Signing by Dr. Anthony Francis","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETech alum and author Dr. Anthony Francis will give a talk and sign copies of his two science fiction novels,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EFrost Moon\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eand\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EBlood Rock,\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;the first two installments of The Skindancer Series. One attendee will win a pass to this year\u0027s Dragon*Con, Sept. 2-5 in Atlanta, where Francis will also be in attendance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2011,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EFrost Moon\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;received an\u0026nbsp;EPIC award for Fantasy\/Paranormal Fiction from the Electronic Publishing Industry Coalition, the oldest competition honoring eBooks and the ePublishing industry. EPIC is a premier event for authors and publishing houses.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Francis\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy day, Dr. Anthony G. Francis, Jr., studies human and other minds to help build intelligent machines and emotional robots; by night, he writes science fiction and draws comic books at the intersection of science fiction and pure fantasy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis research explores how memory and context interact with each other to enable agents to focus on the things most important to their current situations. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech in 2000 for research on context sensitive memory for planning, reading and information retrieval.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis professional work on information retrieval began with an Emory search spinoff, continued at the Georgia Tech spinoff, Enkia, which he founded with his thesis advisor and another graduate student, and is ongoing at the Search Engine That Starts With A G, where he has worked on ranking, custom search and robots.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis work with robotics also began at Tech, where he participated in a project to develop a robot pet. This sparked an interest in artificial intelligence for games and on the relationship of memory and emotion, work he continues at the Search Engine That Starts With A G through its Cloud Robotics initiative.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnthony has been writing for over 30 years. His first published story was the science fiction short \u0022Sibling Rivalry\u0022; more recently he has focused on urban fantasy in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.dakotafrost.com\u0022\u003EDakota Frost series\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and branched out into steampunk for the upcoming anthology \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.site.spencerhillpress.com\/uploads\/UnCONventional_flyer.pdf\u0022\u003EUnCONventional\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(pdf).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnthony began drawing around when he began writing, and he\u0027s been reading comics for the entire time. His webcomic, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.fanufiku.com\u0022\u003Ef@nu fiku\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is on temporary hiatus while he\u0027s finishing the first Dakota Frost trilogy, but he also participates in 24 Hour Comics Day every year and is trying to help people succeed at it through the website \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.blitzcomics.com\u0022\u003EBlitzComics\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYou can keep up with the latest from Anthony at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/\u0022\u003Ehis blog\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;where he explores the intersection of artificial intelligence, physics, genetics, nanotechnology, fandom, and life.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGT alumnus, science fiction author and winner of a 2011 EPIC award, Dr. Anthony Francis will give a talk and sign copies of his most recent novels\u003Cem\u003E, Frost Moon \u003C\/em\u003Eand \u003Cem\u003EBlood Rock.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Alumnus and author Dr. Anthony Francis will give a talk and sign copies of his two science fiction novels: Frost Moon and Blood Rock."}],"uid":"27508","created_gmt":"2011-08-22 11:34:51","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:55:26","author":"Tearanny Street","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2011-09-01T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2011-09-01T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2011-09-01T12:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2011-09-01 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2011-09-01 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2011-09-01 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"hg_media":{"69490":{"id":"69490","type":"image","title":"Frost Moon\/Blood Rock Book Talk and Signing with Dr. Anthony Francis","body":null,"created":"1449177252","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:14:12","changed":"1475894609","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:29","alt":"Frost Moon\/Blood Rock Book Talk and Signing with Dr. Anthony Francis","file":{"fid":"193411","name":"frost_moon.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/frost_moon_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/frost_moon_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":146616,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/frost_moon_0.jpg?itok=TKmYrCCL"}},"69491":{"id":"69491","type":"image","title":"Frost Moon\/Blood Rock Book Talk Poster","body":null,"created":"1449177252","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:14:12","changed":"1475894609","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:29","alt":"Frost Moon\/Blood Rock Book Talk Poster","file":{"fid":"193412","name":"frost_moonposter.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/frost_moonposter_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/frost_moonposter_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1347285,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/frost_moonposter_0.jpg?itok=P4fkjJsu"}}},"media_ids":["69490","69491"],"groups":[{"id":"47240","name":"Georgia Tech Library"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"14063","name":"anthony francis"},{"id":"14065","name":"blood rock"},{"id":"10524","name":"book talk"},{"id":"14066","name":"dakota frost"},{"id":"14064","name":"frost moon"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:crystal.renfro@library.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECrystal Renfro\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:crystal.renfro@library.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ecrystal.renfro@library.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}