News for the GT Computing Community
June 2, 2017
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Georgia Tech Among Top Participating Institutions at ICRA 2017 
Singapore welcomed researchers from around the world this week for the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2017). Among attendees was a hearty Georgia Tech contingent. ICRA is a premier international conference covering advances in robotics. Sixty faculty members and graduate students represented Georgia Tech by presenting 23 papers, leading several topic-area sessions, and delivering a keynote address. Read more

 News

Paper Earns Accolades from Security and Privacy Research Community
  • IEEE Symposium bestows distinguished practical paper honor 
  • June 2
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Study Identifies Mental Health Culture at Top-Ranked Campuses
  • Munmun De Choudhury using transfer learning to scan online conversations 
  • Recently presented at CHI 2017
  • June 1
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Cloak & Dagger is a Newly-Discovered Android Exploit
  • Vulnerability lets hackers hide activity
  • TechCrunch
  • May 26
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Meet These Incredible Women Advancing A.I. Research
  • Devi Parikh pushing forward in visual question answering
  • Forbes
  • May 18
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 Bits & Bytes

• School of Interactive Computing Assistant Professor Devi Parikh won the 2017 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Organization Computers and Thought Award. She was recognized for her contributions in the field of visual question answering. The award is presented at IJCAI conferences to outstanding young scientists in artificial intelligence.

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

 Events

June 7
Special Robotics Seminar​
Jeremy Fishel - SynTouch Inc.
The Future of Machine Touch
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Whitaker Bldg., Rm. 3115
June 9 - 10
Microsoft HoloHack Atlanta
11 a.m. Fri. to 5 p.m. Sat.
Microsoft Innovation Center
84 Peachtree St NW, Atlanta, GA 30303

 
June 19 - 20
Final Exams - Early Summer Session
8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
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