News for the GT Computing Community
June 16, 2017
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Georgia Tech Announces Machine Learning Ph.D. Program
Eight Georgia Tech schools are partnering to offer an advanced degree in the emerging field of machine learning. In a unanimous vote, the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia approved Georgia Tech’s request to establish a Doctor of Philosophy in Machine Learning. “The field of machine learning is now ubiquitous in everything we do. It impacts everything from robotics and cybersecurity to data analytics – all topics of extraordinary interest to Georgia Tech,” said Rafael L. Bras, Georgia Tech provost and executive vice president for academic affairs. Read more

 News

Autonomous Monitoring Approach Gives Farmers Detailed 4D Look at Crops
  • Algorithm offers low-cost solution to image alignment challenges
  • Presented at ICRA 2017
  • June 14
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Autonomous Driving Research Collaboration Gets a Boost from Qualcomm
  • Jim Rehg co-leading team recently awarded a $100,000 fellowship 
  • June 13
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Two Selected For ACM Future of Computing Academy
  • Lauren Wilcox & Neha Kumar selected to inaugural class
  • June 14
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Computing's Isbell Named Faculty Athletics Representative
  • Support for student-athletes extends beyond the stands
  • June 6
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 Bits & Bytes

• If you can imagine the future of mobility 50 to 100 years from now and beyond, BMWi and TED want to hear from you. BMWi and TED are seeking innovators, change-makers, dreamers, and future-thinkers to reimagine the future of mobility – to explore how we might move in 50 to 100 years from now and beyond. The deadline for submissions is July 17. Go to www.nextvisionaries.com for more information.

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

 Events

June 19
Commercialization Resources for the Georgia Tech Researcher
9 a.m. - noon
Global Learning Ctr., Rm. 334
84 5th St NW, Atlanta 30308
June 19 - 20
Final Exams - Early Summer Session
8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
June 21
First Day of Class - Late Short Summer 2017
 
June 21
Robotics Mini Course by IRIM Visiting Faculty Fellow
Gregory Chirikjian, Johns Hopkins Univ.
Stochastic Methods for Robotics

1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Howey (Physics) Bldg., Rm. L3

 
June 23
Flicks at Tech: Hidden Figures
7 p.m. - 10 p.m.
GT Tech Green

 
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