News for the GT Computing Community
September 15, 2017
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McKenzie Atwood is Finding Her Voice On and Off Campus
When third-year computational media student McKenzie Atwood began posting fan videos for her favorite show, Steven Universe, she had no idea where they would lead. Relatively unknown creations on Tumblr became YouTube sensations, and Atwood catapulted from just another fan to the de facto voice of one of Cartoon Network’s most popular shows. “I was just posting this stuff online. And then,” she says, “it became a thing.”
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 Student News

Students Can Win Up to $125,000 for Cybersecurity Research or Commercialization 
  • IISP Demo Day
  • Open to all students
  • Register by Sept. 20
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 Research News

Rogues Gallery Wants to Bring the Weirdest Hardware to Campus
  • CRNCH spearheading effort to collect unique computing machines
  • Sept. 7
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 #GTComputing in the News

How to Fix Identity-Theft Issues Posed by the Equifax Hack
  • Annie Antón offers insights into recent cyber breach
  • New York Times
  • Sept. 13
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How IoT could save lives in disasters such as Hurricane Irma
  • School of CS fog computing research
  • Saporta Report
  • Sept. 12
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AI Recreates Super Mario Bros. By Watching Someone Play It
  • Coverage of work by Mark Riedl & Matthew Guzdial
  • Verge
  • Sept. 11
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Study Finds Reddit's Controversial Ban Actually Worked
  • School of IC research presented at CSCW 2017
  • TechCrunch
  • Sept. 11
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 Bits & Bytes

• It's time to press your suit and shine your shoes! The College of Computing Fall 2017 Career Fair takes place in the Klaus Atrium, Sept. 26 - 29. More information is available by downloading the Careers by Symplicity app and following the instructions.



Please send your contributions for Bits & Bytes to Albert Snedeker at albert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu.

 Events

Sept. 16
College of Computing 5K
8 a.m. 
Klaus Bldg. Binary Bridge
Sept. 22
IDEaS Seminar Series
Two speakers followed by reception 
2 - 5 p.m. 
TSRB Auditorium
Sept. 26-29
College of Computing Career Fair
9 a.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Klaus Bldg. Atrium
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