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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.
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...
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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Six students were hired for the 2022 summer research internship program created by the Institute of People and Technology (IPaT). This summer…
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has identified the “Future of Work at the Human-…
IDEaS is one of Georgia Tech's 10 interdisciplinary research institutes within the Georgia Tech Research enterprise.
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Team VirusTrack was named the winner of the Georgia Tech Convergence Innovation Competition (CIC) for spring 2022. The winning team members are…
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Researchers in the News
Social Media Offers a Trove of Information for Medical Researchers
Wall Street Journal, April 10, 2022
3 possibilities for our climate-ravaged future—and the solutions that could prevent the worst
Fast Company, Feb. 23, 2022
The price of a pre-pandemic lifestyle
Harvard Gazette, April 1, 2022
A New Trick Lets Artificial Intelligence See in 3D
Wired, Feb. 7, 2022
Simulation study predicts COVID-19 deaths will rebound sooner or later when all restrictions are lifted
Massachusetts General Hospital, April 1, 2022
Frictionless UX Isn’t Always Better
BuiltIn, March 22, 2022
How TikTok's design helps turn ordinary people into villains
CBC Radio, March 4, 2022
Senate passes legislation to make daylight saving time permanent
The Southerner, April 18, 2022
Georgia Tech's music competition invites innovators to build one-of-a-kind instruments
WABE, March 9, 2022
Interest in post-grad computer science programs spiked during pandemic
ZDNet, March 31, 2022
Evaluating scenarios for school reopening under COVID19
BMC Public Health, March 14, 2022
The rise of citational justice: how scholars are making references fairer
Nature, March 22, 2022
This horse-riding astronaut is a milestone in AI’s journey to make sense of the world
MIT Technology Review, April 6, 2022
Nashville pop trio Coin (and a robot) make debut on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live'
The Tennessean, March 23, 2022