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While STEM fields possess the capacity to analyze the technical and organizational properties of digital interfaces, services, and their associated user practices, they are underequipped to evaluate…
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André Brock biography
André Brock is an associate professor of media studies at Georgia Tech. His scholarship examines racial representations in videogames, black women and weblogs, whiteness, blackness, and digital technoculture, as well as innovative and groundbreaking research on Black Twitter. His forthcoming book titled *Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures* will be published with NYU Press in February 2020, offering an innovative approach to understanding Black everyday lives mediated by digital technologies Date
October 22nd, 2020
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The web enables people to interact with one another and shape opinion at
an unprecedented speed and scale. However, the prevalence of
disinformation and malicious users makes the web unsafe and…
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Srijan Kumar email
srijan@gatech.edu biography
Srijan Kumar is an Assistant Professor of Computing at Georgia Tech. His research develops data science solutions to address the high-stakes challenges on the web and in the society. He has pioneered the development of user models and network science tools to enhance the well-being and safety of users. His methods to predict malicious users and false information have been widely adopted in practice (being used in production at Flipkart and Wikipedia) and taught at graduate level courses worldwide. He has received several awards including the Facebook Faculty Award, Adobe Faculty Award, ACM SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award runner-up 2018, Larry S. Davis Doctoral Dissertation Award 2018, and 'best of' awards from WWW and ICDM. His research has been the subject of a documentary and covered in popular press, including CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, and New York Magazine. He completed his postdoctoral training at Stanford University, received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Maryland, College Park, and B.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Date
September 17th, 2020
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The GVU Center and the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT), with additional support from GTRI support two separate types of grant proposals. Research Grants provide seed funding for new…
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Brooke Bosely, Susana Morris, Lelia Glass, Laura Levy, Andrew Partridge, Sean Mulvanity, Jon Sanford, Thomas Ploetz, Anne Sullivan, Mark Riedl, Emily Weigel, Adam Beteul, David Anderson, Mattew Swarts Date
March 5th, 2020
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There is increasing excitement about reinforcement learning--a subarea of machine learning for enabling an agent to learn to make good decisions. Yet numerous questions and challenges remain for…
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Emma Brunskill Date
February 27th, 2020
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Imagine a 1D curve, then use it to fill a 2D manifold that covers an arbitrary 3D object – this computationally intensive materials challenge has been realized in the ancient technology known…
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Elisabetta Matsumoto Date
February 20th, 2020
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Georgia Tech has been at the forefront of sustainability since its inception in the 1880's. This is evidenced by the fact that the original brick buildings on campus were made from indigenous…
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Howard Wertheimer Date
February 13th, 2020
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Rico is a publicly available dataset of user interfaces from 9.7k Android apps produced in a collaboration between Google and UIUC. The dataset contains screenshots, user interface hierarchies, and…
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Jeffrey Nichols Date
February 6th, 2020
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Science journalist Eva Wolfangel has specialized in investigating the effects of future technologies on society - by accompanying people who already make intensive use of these technologies today.…
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Eva Wolfangel Date
January 30th, 2020
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Abstracts:Matthew Hong: Personalizing Health Management Through Human-Centered Data AugmentationDuring complex chronic treatment, adolescent patients (ages 10-19) must communicate all illness needs…
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Matthew Hong, Lara Martin, Emily Wall Date
January 23rd, 2020
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Games are an important form of play. While games are played by all age groups, for children, play and games are fundamental to learning and, for them, all play is serious. Serious games, which have…
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Krystina Madej Date
January 16th, 2020
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Come for a lively talk and discussion about computing, ethics, and the public interest. The talk will range from ethics and responsibility in computer science, to honoring expertise across…
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Kathy Pham Date
November 21st, 2019
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The built environment in today’s hybrid cities is changing radically. The pervasiveness of networked mobile and embedded devices has transformed a predominantly stable background for human…
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Kristian Kloeckl Date
November 14th, 2019
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As industrial design continues to embrace digital manufacturing, we are in constant danger of losing the culturally indicative crafts that express individual cultures. As global wealth inequality…
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Lisa Marks Date
November 7th, 2019
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Look around at some of the familiar objects and materials in your surroundings. These things can be transformed. By combining everyday materials with computing, we can extend and reimagine their…
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HyunJoo Oh Date
October 31st, 2019
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Walt Disney is described variously as an American entrepreneur, a film producer, a pioneer of the American animation industry, the founder of the theme park industry. Public perception of him is of a…
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Krystina Madej Date
October 24th, 2019
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In our data-driven society, it is too easy to assume the transparency of data. Instead, Yanni Loukissas argues in All Data Are Local, we should approach data sets with an awareness that data are…
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Yanni Loukissas Date
October 17th, 2019
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