News for the GT Computing Community
March 1, 2019
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Aditi Shah Can Code Anything 

At 11, Aditi Shah, a student in the Master of Science in Cybersecurity program, was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative eye condition that left her blind by age 15. However, her visual impairment has not gotten in the way of studying computer science. In fact, as long as she has a computer with a screen reader on it, Shah believes she can code anything. “It doesn’t matter if you can see or not, what matters is that your code works well,” she said.  Read More


  

 What's New

Researchers Plumb Reddit to Reveal New Insights into Stress Following Campus Violence 

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New Packet Scheduling Tool is Scalable, Improves Network Speeds

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Deep Learning Helps Robot Find its Voice

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Novel App Uses AI to Guide, Support Cancer Patients

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Issac Earns Best Paper Prize, Live Streaming of His Presentation

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 GT Computing in the News

Noise Around AR, VR, MR Hits New Peak

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Georgia Tech Growing Data Center Presence In Georgia

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CVPR 2019 Accepts Record 1300 Papers

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 Bits & Bytes

• Can virtual reality (VR) really improve learning outcomes and transform education? Find out during a lively discussion on the latest edition of The Interactive Hour Podcast with host and School of Interactive Computing Chair Ayanna Howard. ​


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

 Events

March 4
State Farm Day on Campus
11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
CCB Student Commons
6:30 - 8 p.m.
CCB Room 016
March 5
ConocoPhillips Day on Campus
11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
CCB Student Commons
6:30 - 8 p.m.
Klaus Bldg. Room 1116
March 5
School of CS Recruiting Seminar
James Bornholt, Univ. of Washington
Optimizing the Automated Programming Stack
11 a.m. - noon
Klaus Bldg. Room 1116W
March 5
School of CSE Seminar
Longqi Yang, Cornell Univ.
User-centric Recommendation Models and Systems
11 a.m. - noon
Klaus Bldg. Room 1116E
March 5
School of IC Faculty Candidate Talk
Eunsol Choi, Univ. of Washington
Learning to Understand Entities In Text
11 a.m. - noon
TSRB, GVU Cafe
March 6
The Home Depot Day in the Lobby
11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
CCB Student Commons
March 7
School of CS Recruiting Seminar
Behnaz Arzani, Microsoft Research
Toward Networks that Manage Themselves
11 a.m. - noon
Klaus Bldg. Room 1116W
March 7
School of CSE Seminar
Qiwei Zhan, Duke University
Developing an Adaptive Multi-scale and Multi-physics 3D Simulator
11 a.m. - noon
Klaus Bldg. Room 1116W
March 7
Career Services Workshop
Global Internships
11 a.m. - noon
CCB Room 101
March 7
School of IC Faculty Candidate Talk
Mark Yatskar, Univ. of Washington
Natural Language Procession
11 a.m. - noon
Marcus Nanotech Bldg., Rm. 1116/18
March 8
ML@GT Spring Seminar
Dipendra Misra, Cornell University
Situated Natural Language Understanding
2 - 3 p.m.
Parker H. Petit Bldg. Auditorium
March 8
School of CSE Seminar
Fred Kjolstad, MIT
The Sparse Tensor Algebra Compiler
2 - 3 p.m.
Klaus Bldg. Room 1116E
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