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Voting

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As nearly half of the world’s voting population heads to the polls this year, technology’s impact on elections will be front and center.
Munmun De Choudhury

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a new initiative to raise global awareness of loneliness and social isolation and to reduce their impact.
A dog in Chad is tethered to prevent the spread of Guinea worm disease. The number of human and animal cases of the disease in Chad dropped by 27% from 2021 to 2022. [Courtesy of Carter Center]

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Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) researchers have teamed up with The Carter Center to support dracunculiasis eradication efforts, using mathematical modeling and analytics.
Michael Best with professor Andri Andriyana, director, International Relations Centre at the Universiti Malaya.

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The Convergence Innovation Competition (CIC), one of Georgia Tech’s oldest and most storied innovation competitions, is expanding to five Asian countries.
Georgia high school computer science teachers participating in the Georgia Tech Rural Computer Science Initiative

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On March 25-26, the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) hosted the spring gathering of rural Georgia high school computer science teachers participating in a state funded program to help high…
AAAI: AI Magazine 2024 Volume 45 Issue 1 Cover

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Latest AI Magazine highlights work of NSF and USDA-NIFA-funded AI Research Institutes, including AI-ALOE, AI4OPT, and AI-CARING, focusing on their contributions to AI for societal good and future…
Developed at Georgia Tech for the Wild Dolphin Project, CHAT emits dolphin-like whistle sounds made up to represent objects divers handle in the water.

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A new video from Georgia Tech's College of Computing highlights Professor Thad Starner's collaboration with the Wild Dolphin Project.
Matthew Gombolay

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With the number of older adults in the U.S. population rising and straining the systems in place to take care of them, Matthew Gombolay sees a solution — robots.
Pictured left-to-right: Georgia Tech President Ángel Cabrera, Daniel Nkemelu, and Carter Center CEO Paige Alexander.

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The Carter Center and Georgia Institute of Technology today commemorated the new joint Governance and Technology Fellowship.
Maribeth Gandy Coleman headshot

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Rajath Pai

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Through the Master’s Program in Human-Computer Interaction (MS-HCI) at Georgia Tech, students like Rajath Pai don’t have to wait long to gain first-hand industry experience.
Tim Trent with 3D Systems Projet 2500 Plus

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The Craft Lab has a new industrial 3D printer, a 3D Systems Projet 2500 Plus.
Robot Musician

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The robot medusai knows where you are. It must—because it plays music with you.
Air Quality Index (AQI) data

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Atlanta residents will soon have easy access to air pollution data that enables them to make data-driven decisions that positively impact their local environment.
Carl DiSalvo, Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing professor

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Atlanta communities most vulnerable to bias and inequity in artificial intelligence (AI) are the focus of a new Atlanta-based ethics initiative being funded by a $1.3 million Mellon Foundation grant.

 

 


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