News for the GT Computing Community
January 31, 2020
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Team Moves Closer to Winning IBM AI Xprize

The GT Computing research team behind the world’s first artificially intelligent (AI) teaching assistant is one step closer to winning the $5 million IBM Watson AI XPRIZE competition. Led by College of Computing Professor Ashok Goel, team Emprize is among 10 semifinalists announced this week remaining in the global competition. The teams are vying for a top prize of $3 million.

  

 What's New?

CRNCH Summit Attracts Researchers Across Computing
Computing Professors Among New IEEE Fellows

 GT Computing in the News

Why Asking an AI to Explain Itself Can Make Things Worse

MIT Technology Review
The Risk of Increase in Social Cyber Security in 2020

Infosecurity

 Bits & Bytes

  • ICYMI: The College recently moved its career fair to Mercedes-Benz Stadium. More than 1,000 students and nearly 200 companies took the field on Jan. 17. Check out all of the photos in our Flickr album for the event.
 

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February 4
School of CS Recruiting Seminar
Krzysztof Onak, IBM Research
Algorithmic Challenges of Modern Distributed Data
11 a.m. - noon
Klaus Bldg., Rm. 1116W
February 4
School of CSE Seminar
John Feo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Data Analytics at Scale: Systems, Platforms, and Applications
3 - 4 p.m.
Coda Bldg., C230
February 6
School of CS Recruiting Seminar
Noah Stephens-Davidowitz
Foundations of Lattice-Based Cryptography
11 a.m. - noon
Klaus Bldg., Rm. 1116W
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