Digital Life
Georgia Tech Launches Experimental Green IT Initiative
Atlanta (November 20, 2009) — Green IT Initiative looks at power consumption from the microchip to the data center.
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Petascale Tools Could Provide Deeper Insight into Genomic Evolution
Atlanta (November 17, 2009) — Research recently funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 aims to develop computational tools that will utilize next-generation petascale computers to understand genomic evolution.
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Georgia Tech Creates Online Master's Degree in Information Security
Atlanta (November 16, 2009) — New online degree offers a flexible option for those already in the workforce
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Georgia Tech Focuses on Future Systems, CompSci at SC09
Atlanta (November 11, 2009) — Georgia Tech showcases at SC09 Nov. 14-20, 2009, in Portland.
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Georgia Tech Wins NSF Award for Next-Gen Supercomputing
Atlanta (October 21, 2009) — The Georgia Institute of Technology announced its receipt of a five-year, $12 million Track 2 award from the National Science Foundation to develop and deploy an innovative and experimental high-performance computing (HPC) system.
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Older Adults Want Robots That Do More Than Vacuum, Researchers Find
Atlanta (October 21, 2009) — Researchers at Georgia Tech have discovered that, contrary to previous assumptions, older adults are more amenable than younger ones to having a robot "perform critical monitoring tasks that would require little interaction between the robot and the human.
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Is My Robot Happy to See Me?
Atlanta (October 19, 2009) — Scientists at Georgia Tech decided to test our ability to interpret a robot’s “emotion” by reading its expression to see if there were any differences between the ages. They found that older adults showed some unexpected differences in the way they read a robot’s face from the way younger adults performed.
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Conference Launches Initiative to Shape Georgia's Role in Future Media
Atlanta (September 30, 2009) — The FutureMedia Initiative will kick off October 15 with a day-long conference aimed at encouraging dialogue about what Georgia needs to do to create an open innovation ecosystem for developing media of the future.
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Motorola Veteran Joins Georgia Tech to Head FutureMedia Initiative
Atlanta (September 21, 2009) — Renu Kulkarni, formerly vice president for technology partnerships at the Motorola Corp., has been named to head Georgia Tech's new FutureMedia Initiative.
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Sun Dial Uses Mobile Phones to Alert Muslims to Prayer
Atlanta (April 6, 2009) — Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a mobile application known as Sun Dial, which alerts Muslim users when it's time to perform the five daily prayers known as salat.
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Making Aquariums and Museums More Accessible
Atlanta (November 7, 2008) — Georgia Tech researchers are using music to aid the visually impaired in understanding the movements and displays featured in aquariums, zoos, museums and other dynamic facilities.
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Faculty
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Associate Professor
School of Interactive Computing, College of ComputingAreas of Expertise:
Educational Technology, Social Networking/Online Communities, Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, Internet Research Ethics, Human Computer Interaction, Human Computer Interaction for Kids -
Assistant Professor
School of Literature, Communication and Culture, Ivan Allen College of Liberal ArtsAreas of Expertise:
Participatory Design, Critical Design, Design Studies, Robotics and Sensing in Art and Community Settings -
Associate Professor
School of Interactive Computing, College of ComputingAreas of Expertise:
Social Impacts of Technology, Home Network Security, Home Networking, Human-Computer Interaction -
Professor
School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of EngineeringAreas of Expertise:
Computational Video, Computational Photography, Computational Journalism, Computational Media, Computational Perception -
Associate Professor
School of Interactive Computing, College of ComputingAreas of Expertise:
Societal Impacts of Technology, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Cooperative Work -
Assistant Professor
School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing
School of Literature Communication and Culture, Ivan Allen College of Liberal ArtsAreas of Expertise:
Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Mobile Games, Social Games, Augmented Reality Games, Video Game Design, Video Game Architecture -
Assistant Professor
School of Literature, Communication and Culture, Ivan Allen College of Liberal ArtsAreas of Expertise:
Tangible Interfaces, Experimental Media, Media Arts, Interaction Design, Emerging Technologies -
Professor and Director of Graduate Program in Digital Media
School of Literature, Communication and Culture, Ivan Allen College of Liberal ArtsAreas of Expertise:
Game Design, Interactive Narrative, Interactive Television, Media Convergence, Information Design, Digital Media and Education -
Director, GVU Center
Professor, School of Interactive Computing
Associate Dean for Strategic Planning and Initiatives
College of ComputingAreas of Expertise:
Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Centered Computing, Health Informatics, Ubiquitous Computing, Assistive Technologies -
Associate Professor
School of Psychology, College of Sciences School of Interactive Computing, College of ComputingAreas of Expertise:
Interactive Music, Mobile Music, Human-Computer Interaction, Auditory Perception, Psychology