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>> Harvey one it's my great pleasure to welcome you to today's brown bag days because really doesn't need any entered action to those of us who know him but I'll say just a few quick words anyway Gregory bound is a racist professor and Jay z. dang cheer in the school of erotic computing where he's been on the faculty at Georgia Tech for over 26 years is that right.

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He's a prolific author inventor he supervised many many students that are many faculty how many are how many Ph d. students you supervise Gregory I mean to look this up and I ran through 8 and 30 and there are 9 left so Gregory as you can tell runs a higher clock speed than than most faculty do but we're very happy to have him here to give this retrospective on his time at Georgia Tech this is a very bittersweet talk because Gregory has done a number of brown bags over the years but this will be his last one on the faculty at Georgia Tech because as of March 1st he will be joining orthe Eastern University in Boston as the exhibit shearing.

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Hope it's not your last brown bag we would love to have you come back at some point in the future even though you're not on the faculty check and with that I'll turn it over to Gregory. Thanks Stephen thanks everyone for joining and that actually thought as you will see in this talk I hold the g. view brown bag near and dear to my heart so I will be happy if I have anything interesting to say I would be happy to come and share it so let me quickly just get into what I want to talk about today thanks to everyone who's there I can't see the list I looked a little bit before but there are quite a few people.

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Who have joined that really warms my heart to have you join me for this special retrospective on my career and I thought the way I would go about doing this Anyone who's seen me talk over the last few years know that I have talked frequently about generations of technology ships in interactive computing so I thought I would try to take that approach in talking about my own research career at Georgia Tech and I have identified 5 general generational shift my research agenda but the real reason I'm going to talk to you about this is that it at almost every stage at the beginning of these generations of research I was entering into a area that I really had no right to be and I didn't have the right kind of background and skills but you know I've come to realize over the years that there can be a lot of advantages to being an outsider in an intellectual field it gives you a fresh perspective you it doesn't mean you should remain ignorant but it does allow you to see things differently because you don't necessarily bring the biases that the field may have had prior to your a participation so the key though to success as I hope will become blindingly obvious in my talk is that you only end up being successful when you are with the right people around you and I have a lot of people that I have that if you've benefited from as collaborators those who mentored me those I've had the opportunity to mentor who then have turned around and mentor me back and what the purpose of this talk is.

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For me to kind of celebrate those people it's not about my accomplishments it's about all the people who have really blessed my life and I want to give thanks for that and so will begin with Generation one and I'm going to try to tell little bit of a story here and the theme of the 1st generation is change though let me explain to you why I came to Georgia Tech and I'm going to explain it in terms of people.

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Though there were 2 be individuals that read your text in the early ninety's Peter Freeman the founding dean of the College of computing and one of his 1st major hires was Jim Foley who came to establish to become the founding director of the g.p.s. center and they had a lot to do with me wanting to come to Georgia Tech and I've got to be honest with you prior to about 6 months before I applied to Georgia Tech to be on the faculty I didn't know who Peter was and I barely knew who Jim Foley was but I certainly learned very quickly who they were but it wasn't their academic or intellectual reputation that really attracted me it was their warm welcoming spirit and along those lines were 3 other people that really paid a critical role in the wanting to come to Georgia Tech the column Pops was the 1st faculty member who contacted me phone interview he was on the faculty hiring committee and I was a software engineering researcher and Cowan was at the time still is a very well known software engineering researcher and requirements and Jerry I had studied a lot of this work and was kind of area excited and nervous to hear him call express interest to Shoreham a changin as the chair of the factory recruiting Committee and those of you know Kishore know that he's a very welcoming and warm individual and the weekend before I interview at Georgia Tech I had the pleasure of going to the h.c.i. consortium and meeting Mark does that for the 1st time now Mark went to high school where my uncle taught in $72.00 Troy so we had a little bit of a connection there but that was only the beginning scratching the surface and Mark has remained a close friend even though he's now moved on to Michigan but these 3 individuals played a key role in making me want feel comfortable in wanting to come to the college computer but then shortly after I arrived I would say within the 1st 6 months there were 4 other people that I got to know who maybe realized that I had made absolutely the right decision to come to Chris at this and who will talk a little bit.

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Moore was both a mentor a friend and helped was a partner in crime in my 1st foray into my change research agenda I just ask it was just a few years ahead of me. But he was my senior in the center and info is an algorithms animation expert Jessica Hodgins an animation expert became just a close confidant and friend and Ellen's a girl who joined the fact that the year before me the same time as Mark these are people that I didn't necessarily interact with intellectually but they made me feel welcome at the edge or to check.

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Now what did I do why did Georgia Tech hire me and I thought it was interesting I was going through my office last week and on the left hand side I said this is a page from my thesis that shows lots of squiggly lines in Greek and mathematics and now do the usual I don't expect you to read this I really don't and in fact I would probably discourage any by students from reading this in the future directory or not actually Screecher it right now.

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Thank you Kate that's been the whole time then to just stop Yes sorry I thought you were just talking looks but also start if you see the screen not. Well it's I'm going to show the people that I was talking about that I've already talked about them Ok thanks Keith So this is a little bit of a view of the work I did prior to when I was at Georgia Tech I had been trained in formal methods of software engineering and so I wrote lots of mathematical expressions and proved lots of theorems and think that just I just want to show you this is why they hired me this and the fact that I had applied these formalisms to human computer interaction but they were Irish particular kind of software engineer but shortly after I got to Georgia Tech I started to draw this analogy to my research and I'm not saying that my research is the product or the end product of this animal in the front but I'm actually talking about the person who follows a parade was actually picks up all the messiness and kind of puts it into a box and makes it a little cleaner for everyone to enjoy I really felt that the formalisms I was writing the mathematical representations of computing phenomena were essentially taking things that people had already know you know the person cleaning up yours at the end of the parade everyone's already seen all the floats and all the horses and animals in the parade and I came up afterwards and essentially cleaned it up and put it into a different representation to tell them all that stuff that you like years ago here's another way to think about it that's a little simpler and that's really my crass characterization of the kind of work I did but meanwhile there were lots of people that I always admired in the history of computing for Bush I didn't Sutherland had Nelson Doug Engelbart Alan Kay Mark Weiss Are these were all people that were about creating a vision of what computing could be in the future and I said it would be nice if I could do that in my career so I decided within months of becoming a faculty member at Georgia Tech that I was going to try to do that because I recognized that particularly at the undergraduate level.

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Georgia Tech was just full of creative hackers who just were not afraid of experimenting with new technologies in craved the opportunity to be able to explore it and I said Ok I'm going to explore with them because that's something that though I don't really have the training to do it that's something I want to be involved though Chris Adkison and a few years later Irrfan isa became partners in crime in creating an effort that we refer to as the future computing environments group and I'll just highlight this bottom part here that's at our idea was we wanted to create environments that were embedded with computing that we thought would be commonplace in 10 to 15 years and this is the secret I think to being having a successful career is having success early so that you build confidence that's important for anyone in any walk of life but it really helped me I had 2 projects the 1st one was an indoor tour guide that we used it for at the monthly g view demo days we would hand people small portable device with a little bit of machinery underneath and we created an indoor location system and would present a map to these people they could walk around and they could see what demonstrations were nearby to them so it was an indoor tour guide turns out it was the 1st example of an indoor tour guide and it was fun to build it was just have to gether Chris was a genius at taking things in the robotics domain and getting them to work in other domains and I was a genius and always giving in more and more for us to be able to do.

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We moved on from that to say well what might we do in another environment and of course we are all teachers and so I made the observation that at that time in the mid ninety's Georgia Tech was investing in a lot of technology to increase the capability of the teacher to present more and more information to the students Meanwhile the students were sitting there with a daily shift firehose of information and they still had very primitive tools to essentially capture a record of the experience and so they would sit with their head down and scribble feverish Lee and I said well maybe there's a way that we can use some of these new technologies and provide some value back though the classroom 2000 project was all about instrumenting a room to not only allow someone to present a rich variety of information but for to be automatically recorded and presented shortly after the event for others to review and revisit and appreciate those were 2 projects that established this idea of building living laboratories that were prototype environments of the future.

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The really important thing that came out of this experience though was the only intentionally humorous research video that I was ever associated with and it's because I wasn't involved in the creation of this I was just the subject of this and I'm going to share this with you right now if you let me know if they can't see or hear it because it was done by one of the the student who was the inventor of the class of 2000 system Jason Brotherton.

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One. Again raw and of the disease. But I'm not a gatling. Gun and this is what I'm Bonnie Bell. He's been an a. But I read. Fun as well Bonnie going. On to the. Gregory or muted I think because the video is still up and I'm picking Can You Hear Me Ok yes and I believe I'm sharing my screen now you know Ok so let's look take a look at the people who are in this particular end of the video here so this is the former Jason Brotherton who was the mastermind behind the video and was the mastermind behind the classic 2000 project we have kept Lions It was a Ph d. student of bad stars and wearable computing and now has a successful industrial research career we have strong it was a professor at University of Toronto.

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David no end who was at both Georgia Tech and u.c. Irvine and is now an entrepreneur in the Minnesota a region I haven't highlight or who's down at the bottom there but on the left top is Jennifer make off who's a chair professor at University of Washington and her husband and then de who also hold some administrative position at the University of Washington as well so that's generation one let's move on to generation 2 and this is what I will call the growing up phase and returning are coming home so.

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The Aware Home was an opportunity that Chris and I got in 1908 when the Georgia Research Alliance had some extra money left over at the end of their 1998 budget year and we said yes we will spend that money for you and here's how we will do it we will build a living laboratory that was a domestic space at the time and so a lot of effort went into designing and creating this and in May of 2000 we opened up the where home and the where home research initiative and what was really interesting to this was that this was an attempt from the beginning to involve a number of different faculty perspectives so we started with their funnies that we already had and he helped us bring a couple of other folks in the Media Lab Aaron biopic and that star a joint around this time and they were involved in the Aware Home research initiative a very central figure in the early days of the where home was Beth mine it who with our colleague in psychology Wendy Rogers started the whole aging in place effort which was about 20 years ahead of its time so Wendy and Beth really were very much looking into the future we also had a lot of success with students and I want to highlight one of them this is an undergraduate Kori kid then went on to the Media Lab to do a Ph d. and is an entrepreneur now.

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Around the world and he was the 1st manager of the Aware Home and this collection of people really energized the space and brought lots of students and opportunities to pursue both fun but also meaningful examples of uses of technology in the domestic environment. So we had lots of powerful ideas that came out of that era from the Aware Home and those powerful ideas came from some pretty powerful people the whole notion of infrastructure mediated sensing where you can put a single simple sensor on the infrastructure of the home the power line or the water line or the gas line or the heating and cooling lines and then infer all the kinds of human related activity that's connected to that particular piece of infrastructure that was the brainchild of Patel and with Matt Reynolds and myself at this time created a number of examples that show I think in Matt went on to expand both at Duke and at the University of Washington one of the 1st Masters of h.c.i. students who worked in the Aware Home as Molly Stevens who's gone on to a very successful industry career as a usability engineering expert he created the living memory box the idea that you can take physical artifacts and design away to enjoy the physical artifact of connected easily to digital memories are around the house so as both a joyful appliance but also a way to connect the physical and digital world there were a number of other ph d. students Mario Ramallah Eric studs backed Lama Yarrow shoe did a variety of interesting projects taking advantage of the Aware Home and families as a theme for the work that would be done but there were also an incredibly talented set of master students and undergrads I show here in the top picture we have Saddam's.

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Who's at Microsoft Research who became back to be a Ph d. student at Georgia Tech and then went on to Taiwan is now looking for faculty positions there my own go away who is a professor at Carnegie Mellon at the CIA and suit and underneath this Scott's opponent who was an undergrad who came to me literally the very 1st day of his undergraduate career and stayed with us at the.

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Where home for 4 years went on to do a Ph d. at University of Washington is now a senior research scientist at Microsoft Research So it was a very fertile ground and it tracked it lots of really talented people who did wonderful work in that environment and I will always remember much more the people involved in this in the Aware Home than the physical environment itself and kudos to Brian Jones who's taken over the leadership of the Aware Home and taken in many new directions since I left after directing event 2008 there was a wild time in the mid 2000 we played Wiley ball in outside Atlanta we hide in inflated these little jumpy castles rode segues and basically enjoy each other's company while also doing fun and interesting research but then those students came and went and onto generation 3 where there became a focus on health now it's a little story here part of the work I have done in the Aware Home was being able to created a repository of family videos that could be easily annotated and used a little bit of machine intelligence to accelerate the end it's a shame and allowed me very selfishly to be able to take my father's 30 year archive of 8 millimeter movies and share them with my family members in a way that allowed me to very quickly pull up things like Christmas in the 1960 s. and share with all of that so that was done for pure selfish reasons and for a lot of fun and it was a summer project I did with 2 visiting German master students at the time.

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Well many of you know that I'm very fortunate to have 2 boys and a daughter that I'm feet folks and here are my 2 sons Aiden and blaze and this is them around 20012002 I realized that the family video archive ideas could actually be used for more serious examples a.t.m. plays both developed autism and it appeared.

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Extremely as they mature for aging between the 18 months to 2 years for Blaze between 2 years to 3 years they changed in a way that became visible when you would look at it in retrospect so when I used to like the family video that jumped out at me that you can see the that developmental change and how it kind of went differently than how it was supposed to have gone or how I was told it would go and I was very fortunate to get a colleague Rose Arriaga who joined at the College of computing around this time and she is a developmental psychologist and though she never worked specifically the area of autism she was very interested in working with me to figure out how you might use these technologies to address different challenges in the arts in this field and a wide variety of extremely talented ph d. students Jillian Hayes who's now at u.c. Irvine Dewey kids is now the University of Washington Tracy Weston who now works in the d.c. area and if I told you what her job was I would have to kill you.

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But they all took this idea of being able to take technologies and provide a way to gather data and evidence of a child's behavior based on how they interacted with objects or how data was collected by therapists or clinicians in working with these individuals. That. Idea of using technology to shed light on an objective and quantitative vision of child development was then taken into a much more mature perspective by my colleague Jim Ray who along with me and one other commercial partner point the term behavior imaging and Jim created and expeditions project with a number of universities around the country and instrument of the child study lab and working with wonderful collaborators like Agatha Rosko who was another developmental psychologist who had come from u.c.l.a. and had worked in autism in and Jim created the child study lab and started to collect lots of multimedia multi sensor data Audrey Sutherland has been the head and the manager for that lab we've had students like Ping Wang who's on the upper right and we had a young impressionable post-doc who visited from Germany Thomas Plus who joined our efforts for a year and then went on to become a successful lecturer at the University of Newcastle on the commercial side I had a great friend Ron over Lightner that I accidentally met at a think tank and he took the work of Jillian that was in partnership with rose and turned that into the project the product behavior capture and then took work of a students an as needed working alongside with Agatha rose a tool that would allow a remote diagnosis of autism based on home recorded smart phone videos so there was both a kind of deep intellectual agenda but also the opportunity to put this out into practice.

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I transitioned from research to advocacy in the office and space as a result of seeing how a glance it was uniquely positioned having so many experts in different fields in the autism space around 2008 and I was lucky enough to be able to get them to come together and create something called the Atlanta autism consortium which is a nonprofit that runs to this day that provides educational services to the various stakeholder communities around Atlanta all around the topic of autism so now let's move on to generation 4 and this is kind of the midlife crisis so here I'm still chasing the tail of Mark wiser and as anyone knows I'm extremely jealous of my colleagues that Starner I'm trying to figure out my entire career basically how can I be as cool as that Starnes of Generation 4 was where I needed to address this midlife crisis I wrote a couple of articles the 1st one was about you know you become community you need to start thinking more about moving beyond Mark Wiser's this because a lot has happened since 988991 this was around 2008 I started thinking this way if I wrote an article in 2012 the 1st.

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Crumbs of those ideas were prefers percentage of you brown bag back I think in 2011 and then I wrote an article a few years later that was well what technologies were not in Wiser's vision of ubiquitous computing and could that have defined another generation of computing after ubiquitous computing.

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What was altered from that was again me going back to saying how can I be as cool as that So here is an image of sad it is hey they at the mit the leader of the wearables Mafia at the Media Lab sat on the far right here dressed in black looking just super cool and tough and I said you know it can't be that hard to play this game right well of course it is hard play this game because as much as I made fun of that he's a genius and an extremely creative one at that but here are some of the attempts we try to do we try to figure out how to co-opt a Monody smartwatch devices and extend their interaction to various places are on your body around the device this is work done by Chung John.

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We tried to add new devices to these risk form devices so that you could do this kind of interaction this is work done by Gabriel Ray s I should say Chang Jiang was covered by Homer anon in e.c. gave a raise with Keith Edwards here at g.e. center Chung is at Cornell now Gabriels at Apple research among Parnham it was co advised by Betsy the salvo and he was very interested in building programming tools to allow people to build gesture recognizes that went across a variety of devices that by the mid 2000 all had these dancing capabilities and finally and is and some of us was dead set determined to figure out a way to take commodity risk for devices and turn them into a way to automatically detect when people are eating and that launched a very long line of research in that particular area that Edison has continued at the University of Texas Edison was right Irrfan East as well and this research the mistake here at Georgia Tech as well.

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Those 4 rays were Ok but they never really scaled to the size that really was impactful we never did things that involve multitudes of people and so as we all know if it 1st you don't succeed then just go bigger so we started an effort here around 2015 called Campus Life we were trying to figure out a way you might leverage the passive sensing infrastructure that's in a digital environment like a campus and on or around the bodies of individuals with their smartphones smart watches activity trackers and how could you use that to address important and interesting questions related to the wellbeing of students on the campus and I was fortunate to have Thomas returned to Georgia Tech to become an associate professor on the faculty and moved to Choudary who joined us as a world leading expert in social media data mining and see gather the 3 of us with others try to explore this idea of how we might do studies that scale across the larger collections of people using artefacts and trails from our digital lives we have worked with a number of very talented ph d. students all of these are still currently ph d. students and I hope a year from now that at least 3 of them are no longer ph d. students at Georgia Tech they should all be graduating relatives or at least 2 of them to graduate relatively soon so thank you Jeff advance mérat and Dunkley and we move on to generation 5 where the theme here is I've made sure gotten older but I've become selfish and I've become a material guy.

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What do I mean by that well pad talk me that it's always good in research to seek inspiration from the past to look at people's ideas from the past and reinterpret them in the few in the current context and see if you could create a research agenda of that So as you all know is highly influenced by Mark wiser and so this line from his famous article the most profound technologies are those that disappear they weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they're indistinguishable from it well I wasn't an issue really poised to revisit that those 2 lines but one day pretty much out of the blue to faculty from Georgia Tech Eric Bogle from materials science and my filler from chemical engineering.

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Came to visit the saying you know Gregory we are going to be able to create. Very small scale high performance electronic devices and we think we'll be able to build them much cheaper than we can currently build computing devices today with all the integrated manufacturing complexities but we don't know why anyone would care and I said why anyone would care I gave them a copy of this article by Mark wiser I said this is why they might care and there started a what has been a continued 5 to 6 year collaboration with a number of folks in the cosmos project where we're looking at ways to create computational materials as a play on why users article the computer the 21st century we refer to this as the material of the 21st century self sustainable materials that have computational capabilities but again this is me jumping into an area that I have no right to be and so what do I do in addition to working with Mike and Eric we found collab.

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Freighters Wang material science again fad and wearables don't you all as it does feel designer Xabi Das a security and privacy expert and can explore for taste or Nando's who's an occupational photo organics and Electrical and Computer Engineering and we have produced a number of interesting prototypes of these computational materials.

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We've produced then blocks of all materials that using the technology of the zeal Wang invented 7 or 8 years ago called tribal electric nano generators you can produce then materials that use vibration like your sound the harvest energy and then you can actually wirelessly transmit that using other capabilities like a radio frequency backscatter this is the work of an event it's aura who showed me how you really learn about new things and find people in your neighborhood who have the expertise and work really hard to produce amazing work.

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Danger John another ph d. students demonstrated how you can use the very low power capabilities of photodiodes do recognize human activities in this peer is actually got something around his wrist and they can count steps based on the changing shadow patterns of your body as your arm goes across your body and in regular This is work in collaboration with Cannick a few entities and things and it's nearing the end of his Ph d. now and showing how you can actually produce these approaches using thin flexible photo again organic materials there are a number of other students that remain here at Georgia Tech to carry on this vision of Cosmos and computational materials young woke in you you who may and Chad I'm not going to be leaving you intellectually although I'll be in Boston you'll remain down here I'm hoping you're going to help me transition the work of computation materials up to Northeastern as well and show them how we can build the kind of fruitful collaborative environment that you've been able to build here at Georgia Tech So what's next.

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Well yet another leap into the unknown for me as keep mentions at the very beginning of this talk as of March 1st which is only 2 or so weeks away I'm going to become the dean of engineering at Northeastern University and talk about a square peg trying to go into a round hole or maybe around peg trying to go into a square hole not quite sure why someone who has been in a college of computing would be chosen or even be interested in becoming the dean of engineering is a really interesting question that you all probably have already asked yourself and I certainly asked myself and everyone I interviewed with asked me and my Sure answer was that I wasn't so much attracted to being the dean of engineering at Northeastern I was attracted to Northeastern and that's because the more I got to know about northeastern I've known about them for 6 or 7 years and I have a close colleague who works there in computer science but to date northeaster is very reminiscent to me of what the College of computing at Georgia Tech was in 1904 and up and coming Department this is a university and in this particular case but in 94 computer science at Georgia Tech was just on the rise of Peter Freeman and Jim Foley it hired lots of new faculty and it engages all the faculty were there and they were moving forward slowly but surely we were racing the reputation of computer science at Edge or tech and it was done because there was this very nimble approach to allow people like myself to be creative to go into areas that are exciting and new and become leaders in those particular areas and I see that same spirit of nimbleness entrepreneurial and just wanting to go gangbusters after new ideas at Northeastern and I really want to be part of that and I think I might actually be able to help it move forward so that's really the reason I'm going to Northeastern.

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But I want to wrap up here with a few concluding thoughts about how I feel 26 and a half years after having joined the faculty here in July of 9094 and the title of the talk was ignorance is bliss and I tried to show you a number of different stages in my life where I started to do something that I really wasn't prepared to do I hadn't studied to do it wasn't a logical progression from what my past education research would have predicted but you know when you are surrounded by excellent colleagues and friends and I'm very lucky to say that many of my colleagues are also my good friends there's really no need to be afraid of jumping into the know because you'll work it out together you have the passion for things that are new and exciting and you have the understanding that we're all learning this at the same time and so to me it was good that I didn't know how hard some of these things would be I just had the comfort to know that I was with a lot of people who were better than I was that most of the think we were going into and they were going to bring the along and we were going to use a great place together so I'll just wrap up here by talking a little bit about the importance of family now if you've known me for 5 minutes you know that I am one of a very large family one of 12 grew up in suburban Detroit the upper left hand corner here my parents Richard Serra Abel out who.

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I owe everything to for the kind of person I am and my loving brothers and sisters Here's a shot of us in. At a recent wedding when the last picture I have of all of my brothers and sisters before one of my older brothers was tragically killed but I also hear on the right a picture of my own family that was taken just a few weeks ago and my son 8 now 23 plays 20 and Mary Catherine 16 we extend that same idea family and I'm close to all of my extended family.

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Really helps to facilitate that but I have this question for you I've always wondered which one which family was bigger this is the most recent all together family wedding that we had in Milwaukee in 2001000 or Thanksgiving and this is most but not all of my immediate family my brothers and sisters their spouses their children so 2 generations here my family and the grandchildren that this is probably 3 quarters of them that are that's a pretty big group I want I turned 50 my students gave me this portrait that was my academic family when I was 50 and funny enough there are 50 people that were in my academic family but the lesson that we all learn is that academics families can grow a lot faster than blood families so in 2019 you see images like this of me collected with my academic family in this particular picture at the kite conference in 2900 everyone was instructed to hold up a finger indicating I was the 0 generation if you're the 1st generation 2nd generation 3rd or 4th and they're all gathered together here and there are now more people in my academic family than there are in my very large family and I'm very thankful to the g. view center that I just pressed it when I graduate in my thirty's student Chang Jiang a couple of years ago created this beautiful visualization of where all my students are a little stories about them it's a linear interactive map you can get off the g. view website but it's also off my research group and it's just a wonderful testament to what we've been able to do in Georgia Tech and growing that show wonderful intellectuals and academics industrial folks have gone off to be very impactful and it is by far the greatest accomplishment of my life professionally are the students that I had.

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Able to. Advise and work with so I just want to stop by thanking Geo in particular the Brownback it's been a very friendly host for my many musings over the years and all the different directors from Jim Follett Iyar Ross and yak to aerobatic Beth minded and to keep Edwards I want to thank you all for allowing me to spout some crazy ideas every once in a while to a very receptive audience I also want to acknowledge to other people I couldn't find John Morton's picture Chrissy Hendrix and John Morton who've been associated directly and indirectly with me and with the view center.

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This whole time you're all a family and I love you dearly and with that I'm just going to thank everyone and just point out that you may think that I've done a lot for Georgia Tech that you have given me back so much more than I ever gave to you and a very special thanks to Google for help me this morning find all these pictures though that I could bore you not with text but hopefully excite you with some images of all the people that have made this journey at Georgia Tech and geve you so wonderful and they're all and take any questions people might have thank you thank you so much good will is a wonderful talk let's see some questions in the chatter q. and a.

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Gregory let me ask one real nuts and bolts one while while people are typing so it sounds like you're going to stay your research active is. Collaborate with folks down here. But if you get to work out we'll see how it's going to work but yes I I think I'm only really energized in the university environment when I feel I'm I'm contributing intellectually and I think you can do that and be a leader as well as great you'll be a role model for for a lot of us you can do the I see something in they know by looking at the q. and a or the.

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They're not really questions they're all. That I see from that thank you for all the. There's a lot of here over the q. and a yeah and as just look at it's one about someone should take a picture of the participant less people are attending because that's been the offense has see all these people that took time out to come see I would just mention that if you have time next week Thursday f.m. where 18th at 330 we're having a little virtual sendoff party was them trivia and things a chance for me to say goodbye.

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Once again I would appreciate anyone if you have the time to come by and say hello but coming to ad today means a lot to me so I have have another one this is maybe a little personal so I've heard you many times give advice to graduate students and I've heard it many times he was vice to preach in your faculty What advice would you give to those of us who are a bit of the older crusty or side posts in your.

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About how you've organize your family life because you've gone through all these changes and evolutions throughout your career. Well everyone's different key thing for me I guess I'm the kind of person that every maybe 57 years I need something new to kind of energize me. To keep me wanting to come into work or our Learn something new I think one of the challenges when you do that is that things that you do in the past particular if they're successful it's kind of hard to give them up so sometimes you have to make tough decisions about stopping doing things although as a as a faculty member there's usually there's often an opportunity to have a natural end to something when the p.c. student let's just admit the ph d. students of the ones that make things happen when they are going to be ready to go somewhere else it's a natural transition time so that's a you know that's been helpful to me to be able to stop something you know that it may carry on a number of my students have done things like that I would just say to someone like you and me Keith is always look for opportunities to have intellectual engagement with your colleagues I think as faculty we often get wrapped up in a lot of administrative things and we have faculty meetings and talk about the business of running.

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The school or the college and we often forget that what attracted to us to this in the 1st place where the ideas and you are you know there are very few places where you can be around so many smart people and you know there's pros and cons of being around lots of smart people particularly smart people that know are smart but there's a lot of advantages to listening in engaging with people on and it'll actually level and you always have.

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Fresh new minds coming in the form of the students so it's such an invigorating environment to be and I was talking my family early this week roughly about how they say you know to do is you know when you get to the real world I say well academia has been the real world for me and I think it's the real world for for all of us and a wonderful.

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Now that's great thank you for your question any Archbold would be working with the medical industry in Boston Yeah that's the idea there is health college and health sciences at Northeastern with a lot of clinical professional researchers as well I already have have some connection with the Boston Medical.

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Field in the in the office isn't a man who have a collaborator that's there at Northeastern already but yeah bioengineering and medical related and they refer to Boston as eds in meds so it's universities and medical establishment so you'd be silly not to take advantage of the strengths where you are locally.

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Such as excuse me what is the technology that you've dreamed of or a question you really like to answer. A technology I dreamed of his a game I can play with you Santos where I would know the rules prior to playing the game it wouldn't have to rely on you excessively revealing the rules of the game that's one thing I really am though enamored of this idea of computation materials where we would be able to produce very large scale materials that can make everyday objects have some capabilities without the need to be able to worry about powering them I think there's lots of opportunities to understand human activity to greater streamlined supply chain activities and things like that but if I had the killer application to launch this I probably wouldn't be going to Northeastern I would probably be be buying North with northeastern so it's usually been the students who work with me to have a more creative ideas for what they do.

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Jennifer to mask so as a material guy do you also plan to apply this research to the office. Well never be too far from the on says immoral Jennifer as you know. Because that's part and parcel of my everyday life I just look at it with. A very skeptical eye as a parent and researcher understanding that there's a lot of research that goes on a particular technology that doesn't necessarily take into account the practical wide scale adoption and application of the technology so to the extent that I do any more research in this area I'm going to be paid very careful attention to it being able to scale and reach individuals I've done a lot to help clinicians and researchers in the field I don't think I've done a lot to help the individuals themselves so I'm going to do more as a researcher there it's going they're going to be the focus.

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Mario is on the call Mario asks how was your project to find evaluate it going. Ok so you might want to explain that's not so that's Mario Remeron Hey Mario good glad you're able to join so about 15 years ago I was asked to give a conference talk is a kind of after dinner talk and it was on a boat it was very loud boat there was no microphone so I was shouting at the top of my lungs and and the topic for this talk was out as you become really establish itself in the mindset of the everyday individual and this is the only way you can do that is you got to do what physicists have done you've got to create units of measure named after people in your field and so I speculated that there would be the a bad Sunday but then I also recognize that really to get into that accurate or you don't not only have to be a unit of measure and have to use your unit of measure a lowercase out the capital letter you really want to be a firm of you want to google or Fedex it and so we did we thought about ways you might use various names and you become a universe and as verbs but the a bow Junot was initially a measure of time for how long you needed to do a deployment of a technology for to be meaningful and it was 2 weeks and the observation that was made in the mid 2000 that was that most you become deployment experiments were merely a balance they were very short and we need to work on Mega a bout experiments but that didn't take off that didn't take hold yet so I'm still working on it Mario we have just another minute or 2 to 3 would have any more questions.

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If people perceive the link for the send off party Yes So any suggest the a batch of you how many dozen pieces I hope that my Georgia Tech lineage our career ends with at least 3 about so 3 dozen maybe 3639 to be the final number. Can't tell if it was actually typing you know we've got one more or so just Gregory you've been so helpful to new faculty get us acclimated toward the setting you just a listening session with recent rigorous reality Well I don't know I do it in a listening session with respect to cold I grew up in Detroit spent 6 years in England and then I was in Pittsburgh I understand cold weather I understand short days and things like that I Jessica I need help on the northeastern mindset by which I mean the Northeast us that the New England mindset you know I could never be good at and accents but I have a feeling that I do kind of have the hurry up and get at it kind of gruff.

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First appearance that's Northeasterners out but I'm open to any you can just walk down the down the street and give me some pointers because you know I will be commuting back and forth or at least a year and a half Thanks Jessica. That may be a good point trust in Don since we're right at 120 now let's all think Grigory fantastic thank you everyone thanks Keith take care.