Social Agents and Robots for Open-Ended Domains
Sponsor: National Science Foundation PIs: Brian Magerko (Literature, Media, and Communication), Andrea Thomaz and Mark Riedl (Interactive Computing) Additional Funding: $354,641 Total: $513,789
NET-Genesis: Network Microdynamics in Emerging Technologies
Sponsor: University of Sussex PI: Diana Hicks (Public Policy) Funding: $22,762
Curriculum Development for Energy Technology and Policy Graduate Course
Sponsor: University of Tennessee PI: Marilyn Brown (Public Policy) Co-PI: Valerie Thomas (Public Policy, Industrial and Systems Engineering) Funding: $8,415
Women Faculty in Computing
Sponsor: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation PI: Mary Frank Fox (Public Policy) Funding: $23,386
IPAWS – Inclusive Alerting
Sponsor: Department of Homeland Security/ Federal Emergency Management Agency PI: Helena Mitchell (Center for Advanced Communications Policy) Funding: $629,362
Retention of Early-Career Engineering Professional in the Georgia Department of Transportation
Sponsor: Georgia Department of Transportation PI: Juan Rogers (Public Policy) Funding: $99,968
Making Scientists for a Democratic South Africa
Sponsor: National Science Foundation PI: Anne Pollock (Literature, Media, and Communication) Additional Funding: $60,588 Total: $170,618
Research on the Broader Impacts of Basic Science: Gauging the State of the Art
Sponsor: University of North Texas PI: James Holbrook, Juan Rogers, Diana Hicks (Public Policy) Funding: $77,791
Transplanting Modernity: How International Development Remade Environments
Sponsor: National Science Foundation PI: Jenny Leigh Smith (History, Technology, and Society) Funding: $22,892
U.S. Climate Mitigation Policies
Sponsor: Duke University PI: Marilyn Brown (Public Policy) Funding: $25,369
Bogost on Agency in Video Games
“[Games like] Bioshock and The Stanley Parable…They're toying with
the idea of the act of playing the game and becoming complicit in its
directives. Both titles point to the issue of agency in games, [but]
neither game really delivers. The answer might be to make games more
literary. That means more ambiguous and writerly. More daring in their
willingness not to fill in all of the blanks.” — Ian Bogost (LMC) on Yahoo News, August 18, 2014
Clark on the Essential Economy
“One of the things we were thinking about from a policy perspective
is: how do I create more jobs? For the first time in about ten years,
instead of talking about innovation policy all the time, we are talking
about job creation again. One of the ways you do that is by [creating]
non-exportable jobs that require labor. They cannot be substituted for
technology.” — Jennifer Clark (Public Policy) on GPB Radio, August 8, 2014
Pearce on Robots in the Job Market
“...History does not bear out the myth that technology replaces
people. First, people make technology, and since technology becomes
obsolete at an increasingly accelerated pace, the need for people who
make it will only grow; second, people are required to maintain
technology; third, people are also required to assist other people in
using technology; and fourth, most technology requires new labor forms.”
— Celia Pearce (LMC) in Salon, August 6, 2014.
Telotte: Science Fiction Reflects our Anxieties
“This is what our genre films tend to do best—not detail the
realities of specific problems so that we might avoid them, but rather
represent our most pressing cultural anxieties.... While science fiction
films and novels raise awareness of scientific and technological
issues, they seldom function as primers for the solutions we need for
these very knotty problems.” — Jay Telotte (LMC) in the New York Times, July 30, 2014. Cited in Blue & Green Tomorrow, August 3, 2014
Cáceres on Canada as an Export Market
“Asian markets combined buy the bulk of Georgian exports (35
percent), but Canada has managed to hold its own despite being ‘lesser
known’.” — Diane Alleva Cáceres (Nunn School) in the Atlanta Business Chronicle, August 1, 2014.
Auslander on the Music of 1974
“The political and military events of 1974 took the wind out of the
sails of counterculture, which had been setting musical trends since the
mid-1960s. The musical paradigms [were] about to shift. The year's
anomalies wouldn't be anomalous for long.” — Philip Auslander (LMC) on CNN, July 21, 2014
Walsh Study on Startups
“Start-ups may play a disproportionate role as sources of invention
in U.S. manufacturing relative to older, larger firms, according to a
recently released analysis of survey data from researchers at Duke
University and Georgia Tech. About 14 percent of roughly 650 firms which
introduced a new product between 2007 and 2009 said they sourced the
underlying invention from a new, small firm.” — Study conducted by John Walsh (Public Policy) in Dow Jones Newswires, July 15, 2014
Colatrella on Gender Studies
“Infusing the concerns of gender studies in STEM fields can boost
placement rates for women in high-salary science and technology jobs and
lead to improved work-life balance across fields. Students value
learning about how organizational environments incorporate or exclude
individuals on the basis of gender, how stereotypes function in elite
and popular cultural forms, and how and why the political clout of women
and men varies.” — Carol Colatrella (LMC) in AAAS Science, July 10, 2014. Originally published in Academe.
Boston on Black Unemployment
“Unemployment among blacks has been particularly intractable. Yet
last month it declined by almost a full percentage point, from 11.5
percent to 10.7 percent. Employment gains among blacks have always
trailed gains of every other demographic group. So when their rate shows
improvement, rates among other groups have already recovered.” — Danny Boston (Nunn School) in SaportaReport, July 4, 2014
Levine on Conflicts of Interest
“Both the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) and
the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) have faced
the reality that you can get into situations that create concerns about
interest groups. On the whole, though, CIRM has done a good job of
awarding grants fairly.” — Aaron Levine (Public Policy) in Nature, July 2, 2014
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CACP Reports on Emergency Communication for Disabled Persons
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Researchers at the Center for Advanced Communications Policy (CACP) have released a report to the President, funded by the National Council on Disabilities, on effective communication for people with disabilities before, during, and after emergencies.
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Graduate Programs Recalibrate to Stay Ahead
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Academic life is ever-evolving, and graduate programs within the Ivan
Allen College have been created, modified, and expanded to reflect
shifting student interests, market opportunities, and innovations in
research since the College’s founding in 1990.
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Georgia Tech Named an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University
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In recognition of Georgia Tech’s commitment to economic development, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) has designated the Institute as an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University.
The designation acknowledges Tech’s work with public and private
sector partners in the state and region to support economic development
through innovation and entrepreneurship, technology transfer, workforce
development, and community development.
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Jenna Jordan Examines the Effectiveness of Targeting Terror-Group Leadership
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Jenna Jordan
was a newly-enrolled graduate student at Stanford University when she
discovered a direction for her research, on September 11, 2001. The 9-11
attacks and subsequent events surrounding them changed the framework
for how we think about international politics and guided Jordan to her
current research on the effectiveness of targeting the leaders of
terrorist organizations.
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Modern Languages Travels to Senegal to Study Wolof, Senegalese Culture
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This summer, representatives from the School of Modern Languages
joined with 11 Atlanta Public Schools teachers to embark upon a
four-week research project at the West African Research Center in Dakar,
Senegal, funded by a Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad grant.
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Helena Mitchell Named Regents' Researcher
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The University System of Georgia Board of Regents has appointed Helena Mitchell, executive director of the Center for Advanced Communications Policy and principal researcher in the School of Public Policy, to the position of Regents’ Researcher.
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AFA Names Dean Royster a 2014 Global Ambassador
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Dean Jacqueline Royster, who spearheaded the Africa Atlanta 2014 initiative, has been selected by the Alliance Française d’Atlanta
(AFA) as its 2014 Global Ambassador. The award recognizes local
community leaders that have made a significant contribution to Atlanta
through French language and culture or by being a global ambassador for
the city.
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Colatrella Named Georgia Tech Diversity Champion
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Carol Colatrella, associate dean for graduate studies and professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, has been selected as a recipient of the 2014 Georgia Tech Diversity Champion Award.
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Campus to 'Breathe Easy' with Tobacco-Free Policy
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Georgia Tech has become a tobacco-free campus, in accordance with the Tobacco- and Smoke-Free Campus Policy
passed by the Board of Regents in March. This policy bans all forms of
tobacco on all university and college campuses in the University System
of Georgia (USG).
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New Students Learn the Traditions of Tech at T-Night
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