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Women in Computing |
The College of Computing at Georgia Tech is defining the new face of computing, which literally means "a new face." The computing discipline cannot be fully successful without more women. Diversity of thought is integral to the field of... Read more |
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Avatars With Swagger |
One day, the avatars now inhabiting the virtual worlds of interactive computer games will look as old-fashioned as the herky-jerky rhythm of a Charlie Chaplin film. In fact, that day is fast approaching—thanks to research under way in Karen Liu's... Read more |
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Go Go Social Robot |
The possibilities for social robots -- defined as robots that interact with people -- are enormous. They could serve as helpmates and companions for elderly or disabled people, or work behind store counters."[These are] environments that people are... Read more |
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Bringing Society to Cyberspace |
Amy Bruckman is an associate professor in the School of Interactive Computing. Which makes perfect sense since she was admitted to graduate school in art history. Which also made sense since she majored in physics as an undergrad. All of which, of... Read more |
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Like Reality But Better |
With its scattering of high-end digital video equipment and sophisticated microprocessors, Blair MacIntyre's lab looks like many other university research workspaces around the world.Except for the zombies.MacIntyre conducts pioneering research in... Read more |
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An Internet for Everyone |
Helping kids get the most out of the Internet, particularly while researching for school assignments, is one goal of a project conducted by the College of Computing's Guy Lebanon.An assistant professor in the College's Computational Science and... Read more |
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Understanding Genomic Evolution |
Technological advances in high-throughput DNA sequencing have opened up the possibility of determining how living things are related by analyzing the ways in which their genes have been rearranged on chromosomes. However, inferring such evolutionary... Read more |
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Instant Upgrade |
Rich Vuduc uses a familiar routine to introduce his students to the concept of parallel programming. On the first day of class, the assistant professor hands a pile of papers to a student. That student takes one and passes the bundle to the next... Read more |
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Finding a Quasar in a Haystack |
The datasets Alex Gray works with are truly astronomical—in every sense of the word. Analogous to Moore's Law, which holds that computer speeds double every 18 months, is the even faster growth of the sizes of data collections in all fields—from... Read more |
