News for the GT Computing Community
April 7, 2017
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National Robotics Week Kicks Off with Vivian Chu in Spotlight
Tomorrow marks the start of this year's National Robotics Week. To celebrate, the College of Computing and others across campus are highlighting all things robotic at Georgia Tech, with stories, videos, and other content about the people and the technology behind some of the most innovative and exciting robots in the country. Kicking things off is Ph.D. student Vivian Chu, who is working to provide robots with basic building blocks needed for cognition.

 News

Computing Professor Pushes Beyond the 'Persona of Teacher'
  • Dana Randall shares insights for students & new faculty
  • April 5
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GT Students Develop Common App For Internships
  • GTComputing's Nathan Dass & engineering student Murtaza Bambot blitz internships
  • NPR.org
  • April 5
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The Automated University: Bots and Drones Amid the Dreaming Spires
  • Jill Watson leads off discussion about technology in the classroom
  • The Guardian
  • April 4
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Learning to Think Like a Computer
  • Mark Guzdial details importance of understanding computing in our lives
  • The New York Times
  • April 4
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Tech Launches Big IDEaS in Data Science
  • Institute for Data Engineering and Science
  • Dozens attend inaugural event
  • April 3
Read More

 Bits & Bytes

• The College of Computing is pleased to welcome two new members to its Advisory Board. Mark Bell, managing principal at the investment management firm Diversified Trust, and Patrick Taylor, chief executive officer of the software firm Oversight Systems Inc., have joined the Advisory Board for three-year terms.

• The deadline to apply for the next round of startup support with Flashpoint is April 17. Since 2011, Flashpoint startups have raised more than $300 million from top-tier venture firms.

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

 Events

April 11
School of CS Recruitment Seminar
Yufei Ding, N.C. State Univ.
High-Level Program Optimizations for Data Analytics
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Klaus Bldg., Rm. 1116W
April 13
School of CS Recruitment Seminar
Ron Rothblum, MIT
How to Prove the Correctness of Computations
11 a.m. - noon
Klaus Bldg., Rm. 1447
April 13
GVU Center & Digital Media Research Showcase
2 p.m. - 5 p.m.
TSRB
April 13
IISP Demo Day Finale
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Klaus Bldg., Rm. 1116
April 14
Cybersecurity Lecture
Brandon Eames, Sandia Nat'l Labs
On Trust Analysis for Microelectronics-Based Systems
Noon - 1 p.m.
Klaus Bldg., Rm. 1116W
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