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GVU Founder Reflects on 50 Years of SIGGRAPH

Jim Foley, professor emeritus, stepped off the train in Los Angeles, ready to receive one of the biggest honors of his career. He was accepting the Steven Anson Coons Award for lifetime contribution in front of 48,000 people.

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Lifelong Health and Well-Being

Promoting and enabling vibrant and lifelong physical and mental health

Smart Cities and Inclusive Innovation

Creating sustainable cities with research that thinks globally while acting locally

Shaping the Human-Technology Frontier

Shaping the human-technology frontier by augmenting human capabilities at every level

Platforms & Services for Socio-Technical Systems

Merging physical and digital worlds with complex data analytic and communication capabilities

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Smart Solutions on the Georgia Coast

The Smart Sea Level Sensors project is a partnership between Chatham Emergency Management Agency officials, City of Savannah officials, and Georgia Tech scientists and engineers who are working together to install a network of internet-enabled sea level sensors across Chatham County. The real-time data on coastal flooding will be used for emergency planning and response.

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CopyCat: Helping Young Deaf Children Acquire Language Skills Using Sign Language Recognition

CopyCat and PopSign are two games that help deaf children and their parents acquire language skills in American Sign Language. 95% of deaf children are born to hearing parents, and most of those parents never learn enough sign language to teach...

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Project Aether: A tool to support communication between brain tumor patients and healthcare providers

Project Aether focuses on bridging the knowledge gap brain tumor and peak anxiety brain tumor patients experience after their initial diagnosis. As a tablet application, it comprises a patient workspace for consolidating information relating to...

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