Title:
Ignorance is Bliss: A Retrospective On My Career at Georgia Tech
Ignorance is Bliss: A Retrospective On My Career at Georgia Tech
| dc.contributor.author | Abowd, Gregory D. | |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | Georgia Institute of Technology. GVU Center | en_US |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Computing | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-02-11T20:21:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-02-11T20:21:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-02-11 | |
| dc.description | Presented online on February 11, 2021 at 12:30 p.m. | en_US |
| dc.description | Gregory D. Abowd is a Regents’ Professor and J.Z. Liang Chair in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, where he has been on the faculty since 1994. He also serves as an Associate Dean in the College of Computing. An applied computer scientist, Dr. Abowd's research interests concern how the advanced information technologies of mobile, wearable and ubiquitous computing impact our everyday lives when they are seamlessly integrated into our living spaces. | |
| dc.description | Runtime: 49:34 minutes | |
| dc.description.abstract | On July 15, 1994, I began my career on the faculty in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. Throughout my career, I have cherished the over half a dozen opportunities I have had to give GVU Brown Bag talks on various research activities. My time as full-time faculty at Georgia Tech ends at the end of February 2021, and I will begin a new chapter of my career as the Dean of Engineering at Northeastern University in Boston. I would like to reflect on the 26+ years I have spent at Georgia Tech, the College of Computing, and the GVU Center and try to explain why I think this place is so special. In thinking about a theme for this talk, I was reminded that my career has been a series of shifting research agendas, each one inspired by some life events. In all cases, I was buoyed by a bevy of talented and supportive colleagues and students who gave me the courage to jump into a research topic that I didn’t know much about. That “ignorance” has allowed me to be more fearless that I had the right to be. As I jump into my next career, for which I am also blissfully ignorant, I hope I am lucky enough to be surrounded by excellence that inspires success. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 49:34 minutes | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/64267 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | GVU Brown Bag | |
| dc.subject | Human-computer interaction | en_US |
| dc.subject | Ubicomp | en_US |
| dc.title | Ignorance is Bliss: A Retrospective On My Career at Georgia Tech | en_US |
| dc.type | Moving Image | |
| dc.type.genre | Lecture | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| local.contributor.author | Abowd, Gregory D. | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | GVU Center | |
| local.relation.ispartofseries | GVU Brown Bag Seminars | |
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