Events
We offer a number of events including weekly Brown Bags, plus other events that feature GVU research or enhance the GVU social community.
GVU Brown Bag: The Social Life of Spacecraft: Robotic Systems in Organizational Context
Thu, Feb 23
TSRB Banquet Hall
Speaker: Janet Vertesi
HCI as a discipline exhorts us to be aware of the "cultural" assumptions or context of a technological system that might lend nuance to its design, implementation and maintenance. But how does organizational context affect a system's deployment and use? In this talk, I present...
[more] TEDxGeorgiaTechLive
Wed, Feb 29
Location: Georgia Tech Library - Library East Commons
Time:: 11:15am - 9:00 pm
TEDxGeorgiaTechLive is the simulcast (live telecast) of TED2012.
This event is free and open to anyone that wants to attend. This event is taking place at the Library East Commons at the Georgia Tech Library.
Session 4: The Lab (11:30 AM - 1:15 PM ATLANTA TIME)
-Henrik Schärfe, Roboticist
-Regina...
[more] GVU Brown Bag: To Be Announced
Thu, Mar 29
TSRB Banquet Hall
Speaker: Kurt Luther & Zhicheng Liu
[more] GVU Brown Bag: Dealing with your Digital 'Stuff'
Thu, 02/16/2012
Speaker: Steven Drucker
George Carlin once famously talked about 'stuff'...
That's all I want, that's all you need in life, is a little place for your stuff, ya know? I can see it on your table, everybody's got a little place for their stuff. This is my stuff, that's your stuff, that'll be his stuff over there...
[more] GVU Brown Bag: Updates and Latest News
Thu, 02/09/2012
Speaker: Innovation Grant Awardees
2011 Research and Engagement Grants
New Media Nollywood
The Nigerian film industry, colloquially known as Nollywood, is the world’s most prolific movie maker. The industry produces 40 new movies a week, perhaps five times as many as come from Hollywood, creating one of Africa’s most...
[more] GVU Brown Bag: The Beauty of a Motion: Mathematical Definition, Robust Implementation and Applications to Design and Animation
Thu, 02/02/2012
Speaker: Jarek Rossignac
We propose to measure the beauty of an affine motion by the inverse of its steadiness, which we define as its Average Relative Acceleration (ARA). Steady affine motions, for which ARA=0, include translations, rotations, rigid body screws, and the golden spiral. To facilitate the design of...
[more] GVU Brown Bag: Crowd-Powered Systems
Thu, 01/26/2012
Speaker: Michael Bernstein
By combining machine and crowd intelligence, we can open up a broad new class of software systems that solve problems neither approach could solve alone. However, while crowds are increasingly adept at straightforward parallel tasks, they struggle with complex work because participants vary in...
[more] GVU Brown Bag: Health IT in the Cloud: Smooth Sailing or Stormy Weather Ahead?
Thu, 01/19/2012
Speaker: Mark Braunstein
The massive federal investment in health IT deployment has had an important side benefit -- an explosion in entrepreneurial activity that is rapidly moving the field from archaic, expensive non-interoperable client-server technology to modern, light, inexpensive cloud technologies. This talk will...
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