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Meet ML@GT: Lara J. Martin Trains AI Agents to Become Storytellers
Memos from ML@GT, Apr 16, 2020
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IC Ph.D. Students Named 2020 Members of NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
April 15, 2020
The NSF GRFP provides financial support for three years, comprised of a $34,000 stipend per 12-month fellowship year, as well as a direct payment of $12,000 to Georgia Tech toward the cost of education for each of the three years of fellowship funding.
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Machine Learning Technique Helps Wearable Devices Get Better at Diagnosing Sleep Disorders and Quality
April 15, 2020
ML@GT researchers are improving the accuracy and efficiency of devices used to track sleeping using machine learning techniques.
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Georgia Tech Researchers Presenting Work Virtually at Top AI Conference Due to COVID-19
GT Computing, Apr 13, 2020
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Lab Manager Lends Expertise to Help 3D Print Prototype Mask
April 10, 2020
A College of Computing staff members contributed his 3D printing expertise to ensure the success of a vital project.
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Four Machine Learning Faculty Members Earn Promotions and Tenure
April 8, 2020
Four faculty members at the Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech have received promotions or been granted tenure.
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Looking for Activities at Home? Try These Interactive Tools from IC Researchers
April 3, 2020
These are just a couple of the tools you can interact with online, giving you opportunities from learning how to code to creating art.
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Pitch Perfect: GT Computing Undergrads Provide Automated Training Upgrade for Softball Team
April 1, 2020
A group of undergraduate students at Georgia Tech are working with the softball team to provide an automated upgrade to players’ training.
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Passing the Torch: Georgia Tech Roboticists Lead Future Generation of Women in the Field
March 25, 2020
Ph.D. Student De'Aira Bryant uses the leadership of adviser Ayanna Howard to help guide her and future generations of women in robotics.
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Georgia Tech Professor Uses Virtual Reality to Move Major Conference Online
March 24, 2020
For the first time in its 26-year history, IEEE VR will meet in an all-virtual environment.
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Georgia Tech Kicks Off Atlanta's Biggest STEM Party March 6-7
February 27, 2020
The two-week Atlanta Science Festival will launch at Georgia Tech and bring diverse STEM programming to campus and metro area.
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Changing the Conversation: Georgia Tech Researchers Provide New Approach to Automated Story Generation
February 4, 2020
Research from Georgia Tech’s School of Interactive Computing provides a novel approach that improves the combination of automated story generation with natural language.
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Jill Watson Team Reaches Semifinals in IBM AI XPrize Competition
January 30, 2020
Jill Watson – Georgia Tech’s AI designed explicitly for answering student questions about specific courses - was named as one of 10 semifinalists in IBM’s AI XPrize competition.
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Why asking an AI to explain itself can make things worse
MIT Technology Review, Jan 30, 2020
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Jill Watson, an AI Pioneer in Education, Turns 4
January 24, 2020
Georgia Tech’s most well-known artificially intelligent teaching assistant, Jill Watson, turns four years old this January.
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ML@GT Adds Six New Associate Directors to Leadership Team
January 6, 2020
The Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech enters the new year with an expanded leadership team.
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ML@GT Displays Diverse Research Interests at NeurIPS
November 25, 2019
Georgia Tech will present 30 papers at one of the hottest conferences in artificial intelligence.
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Georgia Tech Researchers Explore New Ways to Give Navigation Directions to Robots
November 22, 2019
The latest work from Georgia Tech researchers finds a way to give better directions to robots.
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Amazon and Georgia Tech Team Up with Ciara to Inspire Students to Code through Competition to Remix the Singer/Songwriter’s Song “SET”
November 20, 2019
Amazon and Georgia Tech have announced a music remix competition using coding.
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FairVis is Helping Data Scientists Discover Societal Biases in their Machine Learning Models
November 6, 2019
Researchers present FairVis - a visual analytics system that enables discovery of user subgroups to discover bias in machine learning models.
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Opportunities for Impact: Startup Zyrobotics Helped Ayanna Howard Reach More People
October 31, 2019
For the past six years, Zyrobotics has developed personalized technologies that stimulate social, cognitive, and motor skill development using fun and educational applications.
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Keep Forgetting Your Password? Try This Novel Virtual Authentication Technique
October 31, 2019
This first-person virtual maze offers more memorable, harder-to-break passwords for infrequent authentication.
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Restoring Data's Sense of Place
October 23, 2019
Assistant Professor Yanni Loukissas brings an architect's sense of place to data, arguing that "data aren't placeless."
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Georgia Tech Researchers Share 13 Publications at Premier Visualization Conference
The School of Interactive Computing, Oct 21, 2019
A host of Georgia Tech faculty and students are attending the annual IEEE VIS conference in Vancouver, B.C., Canada this week, presenting a total of 13 publication. IEEE VIS is the premier visualization event, spanning three co-located conferences: Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), Information Visualization (InfoVis), and Scientific Visualization (SciVis). Explore Georgia Tech's research and hear an episode of the Interaction Hour podcast, featuring School of Interactive Computing Assistant Professor Alex Endert, at the link.
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AI Agent Breaks Down Social Barriers in Online Education
October 16, 2019
To directly address social barriers in virtual classes, an artificially intelligent system from Georgia Tech has been designed to connect online students quickly to their peers.
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Jill Watson Now Fielding Questions on New AI-enabled Research Tool
October 14, 2019
A new AI-enabled research tool powered by the Smithsonian debuted in an undergraduate biology class at Georgia Tech this semester.
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Premier Computer Vision Conference Accepts 10 Georgia Tech Papers
October 10, 2019
The Machine Learning Center will make a splash at the International Conference on Computer Vision later this month.
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New $1.2 Million NSF Grant Aims to Improve Treatment for PTSD Patients
October 2, 2019
The grant -- which includes Georgia Tech, Emory, and the University of Rochester -- will fund the development of a computational assessment toolkit for patients and clinicians.
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Cleaning Up the Community: Shagun Jhaver Explores Impact of Content Moderation Practices on Social Media
September 30, 2019
Online communities, once thought to be a place everyone had a voice, has instead become a Wild West. Understanding the impact of content moderation on user behavior could improve the free flow of ideas.
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Tech Unbound Podcast EP8: Don’t Get Burned. Understanding Tech Adoption Among Firefighters
GVU Center at Georgia Tech, Sep 23, 2019
As far as first responder work goes, the firefighter profession tops the danger list. So can wearable computing tech help firefighters stay safer at emergency scenes or rescue the occasional cat in a tree? Researchers in the Participatory Publics Lab were able to provide an answer after studying two Georgia fire departments and their personnels’ use of a new commercial biometric device that measures vital signs while working.
Lead researcher Alyssa Rumsey shares details about firefighter culture, their use of technology, and how, before breathing apparatuses, firefighters used their beards as filters when at a fire scene.
