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Georgia Tech researchers have developed a computational model that can predict video game players’ in-game performance and provide a corresponding challenge they can beat, leading to quicker mastery of new skills. The researchers used a method called collaborative filtering, a popular technique employed by Netflix and Amazon in product ratings and recommendations. While Netflix recommends movies, the gaming model recommends the next challenge for players, adjusting game difficulty by computationally forecasting in-game performance.
The autism center, which is funding the app development with a $2.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, is collaborating with Behavior Imaging Solutions, a Boise, Idaho, medical-technology company, and the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Source: USA Today
Rosa Arriaga talks to CNN en Español about the evolution of the cell phone (interview in Spanish). Source: CNN en Español
Annie Antón talks with CNN about about the battle to secure cyberspace. Source: CNN Radio
Henrik Christensen and Andrea Thomaz discuss gentler industrial robots, designed to work and play well with others, that are coming out from behind their protective fences to work shoulder-to-shoulder with people. Source: The New York Times
"Some of those 'phone books' are open for anybody to use," says Paul Royal. "Unfortunately that means that attackers can abuse those 'phone books' by asking a question in a way that generates a very large response and targets a victim of their choice." Source: Marketplace
During a keynote speech to kick off the trade show, Henrik Christensen outlined a vision of a near future when we'll see robots and autonomous devices everywhere, working side by side with humans and taking on a surprisingly diverse set of roles. Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
It's important to be aware of the threats to enterprise security that are coming over the horizon and heading this way. It's a question the Georgia Institute of Technology addresses in its Emerging Cyber Threat Report 2013, in which researchers identify at least six threats that all security professionals should know about. Source: E-Security Planet
Ron Arkin (Interactive Comp) that automation can also make war more humane. Robots may lack compassion, but they also lack the emotions that lead to calamitous mistakes, atrocities and genocides: vengefulness, panic, tribal animosity. Source: The New York Times
Annie Antón (Interactive Comp) is among some of the people who are actively working to bring more women into computing. She describes why she chose to spend her time and energy on this effort in “Facing Challenges and Having Fun." Source: Today's Engineer
Most of those on track to graduate from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta have job offers two months before May, when they leave, said Jasmine Lawrence, 21, a computer science major who has been hired by Microsoft Corp., where she had an internship last summer. Source: Bloomberg
On Monday, March 4, Nobel Laureate Ken Arrow delivered the College of Computing’s Distinguished Lecture titled “Health and Wealth.” Addressing a standing-room-only crowd, Arrow discussed longevity and other aspects of health as commodities, as well as their trade-off with more usual goods as important measures of the well being of nations.
Henrik Christensen (Interactive Comp) and Ron Arkin talk to the BBC about the new era of robot wars. Source: BBC News
Annie Antón discusses the importance of gender diversity in computing with Alfred C. Weaver, director of the University of Virginia's Applied Research Institute. Source: IEEE Computer Society.
In some ways, MOOCs are not that different from a large lecture course, where a professor might give presentations to a class of 300 students, said Tucker Balch (Interactive Comp). Source: Athens Banner-Herald
Researchers Wei Meng and Ruian Duan, working under the supervision of Wenke Lee, studied the botnet's remediation efforts, which began early last year, and found that phone contact, billing notices, and redirecting infected users to special Web pages are the best ways to alert them to their infections. Source: Dark Reading
Cedric Stallworth, along with other computer science professionals, discusses why it is imperative for the field to embrace a diversity of perspectives to address today's global challenges. Source: National Science Foundation
Scientists have boilde down half a million tweets to a few simple rules for gaining a following on Twitter. C.J. Hutto, advised by Eric Gilbert (Interactive Comp), examined the content and retweeting fate of tweets sent by 500 non-celebrities over a 15-month period. Source: New Scientist
Nick Feamster (Comp Sci) discusses data caps and tiered broadband pricing. Source: BroadbandBreakfast
This spring, Georgia Tech will offer a comprehensive free, 6-week online course about software-defined networking, one of the hottest topics in enterprise IT. The MOOC (massive open online course) is being offered via Coursera and is being led by Nick Feamster (Comp Sci). Source: Computerworld
Sixty-six Georgia high school girls were honored for computing-related achievements at the 2012-13 NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Awards, held Feb. 24 in Atlanta and cosponsored by the College of Computing and the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT).
Researchers Wei Meng and Ruian Duan, working under the supervision of Wenke Lee, announced Tuesday the results of a study based on the industry’s response to the DNS Changer Trojan and shared recommendations to help curb future malware outbreaks at a presentation during the M3AAWG 27th General Meeting in San Francisco. Source: MAAWG
Nick Feamster (Comp Sci) discussed his own personal tests on data cap usage, noting differences in the capacity of a home router and a mobile router. Source: BroadbandBreakfast
