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University of Liberia President Dr. Layli Maparyan is pictured with students starting the Georgia Tech Online Master Program in Computer Science this fall 2025.

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In a landmark achievement for higher education and international collaboration, 12 faculty and staff from the University of Liberia have been accepted into the Georgia Institute of Technology’s…

Georgia Tech’s Jill Watson Outperforms ChatGPT in Real Classrooms

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Georgia Tech’s Jill Watson, now powered by ChatGPT, is the first documented chatbot to enhance teaching presence in online learning, outperforming OpenAI’s own assistant in accuracy, safety, and…
A doctor on a computer working with an AI-powered health device

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Georgia Tech researchers warn that AI reshapes healthcare around an “ideal user,” overlooking people who need medical intervention the most.
IPaT-GTRI 2025-2026 Seed Grant Winners

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The Institute for People and Technology at Georgia Tech (IPaT) and the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) co-sponsored more than $55,000 in seed grant awards to four research projects.
Scott Gilliland

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Scott Gilliland’s winding path led to breakthroughs in wearable tech that solve challenges for people with Parkinson’s and help us understand dolphin communication.
Image of people on social media posing

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Experts at Georgia Tech say the surge in AI hyperrealism — content that mimics human emotion, speech, and appearance with uncanny precision — is both a technological marvel and a societal challenge.
Andrea Parker

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Through a $1.25 million NSF Grant, Georgia Tech, Northeastern University, and MIT are empowering youth from underserved Atlanta and Boston communities to lead community transformation and bolster…
The seed grants will fund projects focused on enhancing wheelchair seating surfaces, supporting stroke patients as they transition home from rehabilitation, assessing lower limb exoskeleton technologies, and exploring the use of AI in remote rehab settings. Photo: Shepherd Center.

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Grants include projects on improving seating surfaces for wheelchair users, easing the transition home after stroke rehabilitation, evaluating lower limb exoskeletons, and using AI in remote…
Aware Home cooking

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A new partnership between Georgia Tech’s Aware Home Research Initiative and the Georgia Tech EXCEL program is helping students with intellectual and developmental disabilities gain essential life…
A man with tan skin and dark hair, wearing a mint-green shirt, is seated at a table and looking at the CardioTag device.

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Record-breaking numbers from the Office of Commercialization drive meaningful inventions, IP, and industry partnerships.
Xingyu Li and Alexandra Teixeira Riggs stand in front of a screen showing an emotion AI analysis of Li's facial expression.

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Georgia Tech researcher Noura Howell and her team held community workshops in July to raise awareness about emotion AI — a type of artificial intelligence that analyzes facial expressions and other…
AI Teacher Training

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Eighty teachers from four states recently completed intensive training on how to teach artificial intelligence (AI) to middle schoolers, part of a growing initiative to make AI education more…
Taiwanese Delegation

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The Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) at Georgia Tech recently welcomed a Taiwanese delegation for a multi-day visit aimed at fostering international collaboration in technology, innovation…
AfriMed-QA

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A new dataset, AfriMed-QA, was created by researchers at Georgia Tech and Google to improve health chatbots like Google's MedGemma, making them more aware of African healthcare realities.
Image of the Hive Gateway

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The National Science Foundation has awarded Georgia Tech and its partners $20 million to build a powerful new supercomputer that will use artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific…

 

 


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