People and Technology | Research News Center

May 15, 2024

Chatbots Are Poor Multilingual Healthcare Consultants, Study Finds

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Georgia Tech researchers found that chatbots are less accurate in Spanish, Chinese, and Hindi compared to English when asked health-related questions.

This is a picture of Hong Yeo's father and mother in Korea.

May 14, 2024

Family Loss Brings About Medical Breakthrough

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Family tragedy changed Hong Yeo’s life, with his new direction leading to a new potentially lifesaving medical device.

May 2, 2024

Teaching AI to Collaborate, not Merely Create, Through Dance

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Georgia Tech and KSU faculty are putting a collaborative AI system they’ve developed to the ultimate test: the world’s first collaborative AI dance performance.

Rozell was joined by BRAIN Initiative Director John J. Ngai, clinical collaborators, and a family whose lives have been transformed by this work.

April 24, 2024

Neurotech Moonshot: Georgia Tech Researcher Shares Impact of BRAIN Initiative in Congressional Briefing

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Chris Rozell traveled to Washington, D.C. to share the impacts of the past decade of brain research funded by the NIH BRAIN Initiative with Congress — and share with local representatives how Georgia Tech is playing a key role in leading the charge.

Omar Asensio is Associate Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology and Climate Fellow, Harvard Business School

April 22, 2024

Georgia Tech Microsoft CloudHub Partnership Explores Electric Vehicle Adoption

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Business and government sectors are embracing electric vehicles, but are U.S. drivers on the same road?

Cassidy Wang interacting with a physician who is testing Ethos' needle guidance system.

April 18, 2024

L[ux] Lab Hosts Medical Device Usability Study

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Ethos Medical recently made use of the College of Design’s L[ux] Lab to conduct a usability study of its needle guidance system prototype.

April 15, 2024

Safe and Secure Elections Require Interdisciplinary Collaboration

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As nearly half of the world’s voting population heads to the polls this year, technology’s impact on elections will be front and center.

April 12, 2024

Researcher to Advise WHO on Addressing Loneliness and Social Isolation

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a new initiative to raise global awareness of loneliness and social isolation and to reduce their impact.

Michael Best with professor Andri Andriyana, director, International Relations Centre at the Universiti Malaya.

April 4, 2024

Convergence Innovation Competition Expanding to Asia

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The Convergence Innovation Competition (CIC), one of Georgia Tech’s oldest and most storied innovation competitions, is expanding to five Asian countries.

Georgia high school computer science teachers participating in the Georgia Tech Rural Computer Science Initiative

March 29, 2024

IPaT Hosts High School Computer Science Teachers

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On March 25-26, the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) hosted the spring gathering of rural Georgia high school computer science teachers participating in a state funded program to help high schoolers learn computer programming.

March 19, 2024

Researchers Reveal Roadmap for AI Innovation in Brain and Language Learning

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A new study co-led by Anna (Anya) Ivanova highlights how human neuroscience is paving the way for AI innovation — and what AI can teach us about ourselves.

March 14, 2024

Faculty is First from Georgia Tech to Receive New Fellowship for Artificial Intelligence Research

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Schmidt Sciences has selected Kai Wang as one of 19 researchers to receive this year’s AI2050 Early Career Fellowship. In doing so, Wang becomes the first AI2050 fellow to represent Georgia Tech.

March 14, 2024

Video Illustrates Interactive Tech Created to Help Understand Dolphin Communication

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Computers and dolphins don’t typically occupy the same space. However, Georgia Tech researchers and marine biologists from the Wild Dolphin Project have been swimming with the two for more than a decade.

March 1, 2024

NSF Award to Launch Study of How Older Adults Interact With Robots

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With the number of older adults in the U.S. population rising and straining the systems in place to take care of them, Matthew Gombolay sees a solution — robots.

Pictured left-to-right: Georgia Tech President Ángel Cabrera, Daniel Nkemelu, and Carter Center CEO Paige Alexander.

February 23, 2024

Carter Center and Georgia Institute of Technology Commemorate New Joint Fellowship

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The Carter Center and Georgia Institute of Technology today commemorated the new joint Governance and Technology Fellowship.

February 13, 2024

Interactivity@GT Offers Networking Opportunities for MS-HCI/IPaT Students

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Through the Master’s Program in Human-Computer Interaction (MS-HCI) at Georgia Tech, students like Rajath Pai don’t have to wait long to gain first-hand industry experience.

February 12, 2024

Georgia Tech, University of Waterloo Forge Partnership to Advance AI Initiatives

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Georgia Tech and Waterloo collaborate to enhance academic and research partnerships, with a focus on areas such as AI, faculty exchanges, and joint research projects.

Tim Trent with 3D Systems Projet 2500 Plus

January 30, 2024

Craft Lab Installs New Ultra-High-Definition 3D Printer

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The Craft Lab has a new industrial 3D printer, a 3D Systems Projet 2500 Plus.

January 22, 2024

New Robot Musician

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The robot medusai knows where you are. It must—because it plays music with you.

January 11, 2024

The Challenges of Regulating Artificial Intelligence

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As innovation surrounding artificial intelligence continues, Georgia Tech experts offer their thoughts on the scope of the recent executive order and the challenges ahead in regulating AI.