Research

John Stasko is a professor in the School of Interactive Computing.

Nearly a year after U.S. Special Forces killed Osama bin Laden, the events of May 1, 2011 remain one of the busiest traffic periods in Twitter history. More than 5,000 tweets were sent per second when Twitter became the first source with news of bin Laden’s death. But how did the news break and quickly spread across the Twittersphere?

ATLANTA – Feb. 14, 2012 – Members of the modern workforce might be surprised to learn that if they use the word “weekend” in a workplace email, chances are they’re sending the message up the org chart. Likewise the words “voicemail,” “driving,” “okay”—and even a choice four-letter word that rhymes with “hit.” However a new study by Georgia Tech’s Eric Gilbert shows that certain words and phrases indeed are reliable indicators of whether workplace emails are sent to someone higher or lower in the corporate hierarchy.

Binding of difloro-proflavine to a segment of DNA.

Creating new, improved pharmaceuticals is sometimes very
similar to cracking the code of a combination lock. If you have the wrong
numbers, the lock won’t open. Even worse, you don’t know if your numbers are
close to the actual code or way off the mark. The only solution is to simply
guess a new combination and try again.

Patrick Traynor, assistant professor in the School of Computer Science, and colleagues have programmed smartphones to use their accelerometers to detect and decipher strokes on nearby keyboards with up to 80 percent accuracy.

ATLANTA – Oct. 18, 2011 – It’s a pattern that no doubt repeats itself daily in hundreds of millions of offices around the world: People sit down, turn on their computers, set their mobile phones on their desks and begin to work. What if a hacker could use that phone to track what the person was typing on the keyboard just inches away?

From October 4-7, 2010, the Georgia Institute of Technology will host the first FutureMedia Fest, an interactive “mash-up” to explore and enable new paradigms in how content is created, distributed and consumed in a converging media world.