The accounts and stories we now share play a crucial role in helping us all to commit to the promise of remembrance.
Exploring the Role of Gender in Scholarly Authorship Disputes
A new paper co-authored by Georgia Tech’s Cassidy Sugimoto found that women — as compared to their male counterparts — receive less credit for the work they put into academic publications, more frequently experience disagreements over authorship, and often end up losing out on opportunities for future collaboration as a result.
Teaching AI to Dance
Brian Magerko, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, has received a $573,561-grant from the National Science Foundation to further his work at the intersection of cognition, performance, and artificial intelligence.
The grant (NSF 2123597) will fund “research to develop a computational architecture (called PACE) to model embodied and co-creative behavior between humans and embodied intelligent machines,” according to the NSF award.
Thinking about engineering? Think Georgia Tech, of course. There are scores of reasons why America’s No. 8 public university always figures into the top recommendations for engineering schools — and why our College of Engineering's undergraduate program ranks fourth in U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 edition of America’s Best Colleges.
As we remember the contributions of Black students, faculty, and staff at Georgia Tech, we also remember the significance of the spaces and places they occupied along this journey.
The communities in and around Atlanta have played a pivotal part in the advancement of civil rights and racial justice. There are sites right here on Georgia Tech’s campus – and many more nearby – that represent milestones from a continued path toward greater equity and inclusion. Here’s a look at a few of the sites you can visit for some inspiration during Black History Month.
In keeping with Georgia Tech’s mission of developing leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition, we recognize the many ways our Black students, faculty, and staff represent, support, and celebrate their rich culture and storied impact at the Institute and beyond. Their stories and voices tell of bold dreams and remind us that change does not happen by chance. It happens through courage, conviction, and diverse and inclusive action. Their initiatives, leadership, and vision are a defining part of our past and a critical part of our future.
Dynamic Duo Leads Tech Wreck Summer Camp
Abby Harvey and Darrin Wolfe jokingly call themselves partners in crime. The duo runs the Tech Wreck Summer Camp, an 8-week day camp for children (ages 6 to 13) of full-time Georgia Tech faculty, staff, and students. Harvey is the camp director and Wolfe is the co-camp director.
Georgia Tech Study Finds More SNAP Retailers in Rural Areas Lowers Rates of Child Maltreatment
It turns out that in some rural areas, at least, the neighborhood market can be more than a great place to pick up a gallon of milk. It could also be a tool to help fight child maltreatment, according to a new study by Georgia Tech researchers Lindsey Bullinger and Kelley Fong.
Aaron Santesso's The Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood
The book, which was co-authored with David Rosen (Trinity College), looks at the conflict between surveillance and privacy rights over the last four centuries – and at how this conflict has shaped modern liberalism.
Innovation Ecosystem Draws AT&T, Other Corporations to Georgia Tech and Midtown Atlanta
AT&T Inc. officially opened its Foundry product development center at Technology Square on the Georgia Tech campus Aug. 27. The move gives AT&T a prominent place in a company-support system acknowledged as a leader in fostering both technology and business innovation.