People and Technology | Research News Center

April 12, 2024

Researcher to Advise WHO on Addressing Loneliness and Social Isolation

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a new initiative to raise global awareness of loneliness and social isolation and to reduce their impact.

Michael Best with professor Andri Andriyana, director, International Relations Centre at the Universiti Malaya.

April 4, 2024

Convergence Innovation Competition Expanding to Asia

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The Convergence Innovation Competition (CIC), one of Georgia Tech’s oldest and most storied innovation competitions, is expanding to five Asian countries.

Georgia high school computer science teachers participating in the Georgia Tech Rural Computer Science Initiative

March 29, 2024

IPaT Hosts High School Computer Science Teachers

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On March 25-26, the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) hosted the spring gathering of rural Georgia high school computer science teachers participating in a state funded program to help high schoolers learn computer programming.

March 19, 2024

Researchers Reveal Roadmap for AI Innovation in Brain and Language Learning

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A new study co-led by Anna (Anya) Ivanova highlights how human neuroscience is paving the way for AI innovation — and what AI can teach us about ourselves.

March 14, 2024

Faculty is First from Georgia Tech to Receive New Fellowship for Artificial Intelligence Research

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Schmidt Sciences has selected Kai Wang as one of 19 researchers to receive this year’s AI2050 Early Career Fellowship. In doing so, Wang becomes the first AI2050 fellow to represent Georgia Tech.

March 14, 2024

Video Illustrates Interactive Tech Created to Help Understand Dolphin Communication

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Computers and dolphins don’t typically occupy the same space. However, Georgia Tech researchers and marine biologists from the Wild Dolphin Project have been swimming with the two for more than a decade.

March 1, 2024

NSF Award to Launch Study of How Older Adults Interact With Robots

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With the number of older adults in the U.S. population rising and straining the systems in place to take care of them, Matthew Gombolay sees a solution — robots.

Pictured left-to-right: Georgia Tech President Ángel Cabrera, Daniel Nkemelu, and Carter Center CEO Paige Alexander.

February 23, 2024

Carter Center and Georgia Institute of Technology Commemorate New Joint Fellowship

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The Carter Center and Georgia Institute of Technology today commemorated the new joint Governance and Technology Fellowship.

February 13, 2024

Interactivity@GT Offers Networking Opportunities for MS-HCI/IPaT Students

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Through the Master’s Program in Human-Computer Interaction (MS-HCI) at Georgia Tech, students like Rajath Pai don’t have to wait long to gain first-hand industry experience.

February 12, 2024

Georgia Tech, University of Waterloo Forge Partnership to Advance AI Initiatives

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Georgia Tech and Waterloo collaborate to enhance academic and research partnerships, with a focus on areas such as AI, faculty exchanges, and joint research projects.

Tim Trent with 3D Systems Projet 2500 Plus

January 30, 2024

Craft Lab Installs New Ultra-High-Definition 3D Printer

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The Craft Lab has a new industrial 3D printer, a 3D Systems Projet 2500 Plus.

January 22, 2024

New Robot Musician

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The robot medusai knows where you are. It must—because it plays music with you.

January 11, 2024

The Challenges of Regulating Artificial Intelligence

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As innovation surrounding artificial intelligence continues, Georgia Tech experts offer their thoughts on the scope of the recent executive order and the challenges ahead in regulating AI.

January 10, 2024

Wenjing Liao to Address American Mathematical Society Meeting

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Liao, associate professor in the School of Mathematics, will lecture on machine learning and deep learning at the American Mathematical Society (AMS) Southeastern Sectional Meeting on March 23-24, 2024, at Florida State University in Tallahassee.

January 9, 2024

Researchers Earn $1.8M to Increase Air Pollution Data Literacy

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Atlanta residents will soon have easy access to air pollution data that enables them to make data-driven decisions that positively impact their local environment.

Carl DiSalvo, Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing professor

January 5, 2024

Atlanta Researchers Use Mellon Grant to Launch New AI Ethics Network

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Atlanta communities most vulnerable to bias and inequity in artificial intelligence (AI) are the focus of a new Atlanta-based ethics initiative being funded by a $1.3 million Mellon Foundation grant.

Georgia Tech Team at Supercomputing 2023

January 5, 2024

Georgia Tech HPC Community Joins the Global HPC Community

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Interdiciplinary Team Participates in the 2023 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analytics

AI-generated graphic of complex CFD simulations

January 3, 2024

GTRI, Georgia Tech Use Quantum Computing to Optimize CFD Applications

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The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) are exploring how the powerful processing capabilities of quantum computers could streamline efficiencies and reduce costs across numerous industries.

Winners of the EGHI/GT Hackathon stand together at Tech Square ATL Social

December 7, 2023

Team iManhole Wins Fall 2023 EGHI/GT Global Health Hackathon

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Students tackled climate change in the Fall 2023 Emory Global Health Institute (EGHI) /Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) Global Health Hackathon, Nov. 11, at Tech Square ATL Social.

December 5, 2023

CEAR Hub Hosts International Seminar on Community Resilience

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The CEAR Hub recently partnered with the U.S. Forest Service to host a two-week international seminar on community resilience.