News for the GT Computing Community
April 27, 2018
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Awards Highlight GT Computing Community Achievements   

Each spring, the College recognizes the achievements of its students, faculty, and staff with an awards celebration. This year is no exception. Nearly 200 students, faculty, and staff members gathered April 26 in the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center Atrium for the 27th Annual College of Computing Awards Celebration. Family and friends of the award winners also attended the event.  Full Story  

 Research News
Researchers Highlight Design Implications as Venezuelans Turn to Facebook for Barter, Exchange

Full Story
Research Into Cuban 'Offline Internet' Could Inform Future Definitions of Connectivity

Full Story
The Future of Programming Education May Lie in Augmented Reality

Full Story

 Faculty News
Peter Swire Named Andrew Carnegie Fellow

Full Story
Cryptography Expert Vlad Kolesnikov Joins the School of Computer Science
Full Story

 GT Computing in the News
Augmented Reality Glasses Help Kids With Autism Relate to Others

New Scientist Full Story
The Trailblazing Roboticist Tackling Diversity and Bias in Artificial Intelligence
Vanity Fair Full Story

 Bits & Bytes
• Time is running out to submit your design for a new T-shirt for the School of Interactive Computing community. The winning entry will win a $200 Amazone gift card. The deadline is May 4.

• This week, faculty and students from GT Computing were in Montreal for the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. As in years past, the GVU Center has created a website that details Georgia Tech's presence at the prestigious event.



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

 Events
April 30 – May 1
School of CSE 2018 Strategic Partnership Summit
Reception Clough Rooftop, 4/30, 6 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Summit, Klaus Rm. 1116, 5/1, 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.
May 1
School of CS Recruiting Seminar
Joe Izraelevitz, IMDEA Software Institute
Practical and Formal Infrastructure for Nonvolatile Memory
11 a.m. - noon
Klaus Bldg., Rm. 2443
May 3
Spring 2018 Dean's New Graduate Alumni Celebration
5 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Historic Academy of Medicine
875 West Peachtree St., NW
Atlanta, GA 30309
May 4
Spring 2018 Dean's New Alumni Celebration
Noon - 3 p.m.
Klaus Bldg. Atrium
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