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News
Monday, June 25, 2012
Supercomputing performance is getting a new measurement with the Graph500. The latest benchmark “highlights the importance of new systems that can find the proverbial needle in the haystack of data,” said David Bader (Comp Sci). Source: Sandia National Laboratories
Monday, June 25, 2012
David A. Bader (Computer Science) discusses Google's latest project where scientists created the largest neural networks for maching learning by connecting 16,000 computer processors, which they turned loose on the Interneted to learn on its own. Source: The New York Times
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Zvi Galil, John P. Imlay Jr. Dean of Computing at Georgia Tech, was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Waterloo at the mathematics portion of its 104th Convocation ceremony, held Friday, June 15. Source: Office of Communications
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Microsoft is "revolutionizing the world," said Juan Llanes (Computer Science student), who is also interning in Redmond, Washington this summer. Llanes grew up revering Microsoft during his childhood in Cuba, where computers were effectively banned. Source: Fox Business
Monday, June 11, 2012
The IEEE Computer Society will honor 14 prominent technologists at its annual awards dinner in Seattle, including Mark Guzdial and Ling Liu (both Computer Science). Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Georgia Tech helped start the trend toward more corporate input into curricula in 2002, when the university hired Richard DeMillo (Computer Science), Hewlett-Packard Co.chief technology officer, as its dean of the College of Computing. Source: Bloomberg
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Nick Feamster (Computer Science) discovered that Twitter propagandists retweet without adding much original commentary, retweet others' content fairly quickly and coordinate with others to send duplicate or near-duplicate tweets on the same topic at the same time. Source: Huffington Post
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Now we know that people who tweet about the same things constantly, or retweet without any original thoughts, don't just suck — they might also be trying to spread biased information on Twitter, as revealed in a new study by Nick Feamster (Computer Science). Source: BuzzFeed
Friday, June 1, 2012
Decision-making by robots seems likely to increase. This might be a good thing, says Ronald Arkin (Computer Science) who is developing “ethics software” for armed robots. Source: The Economist
Thursday, May 31, 2012
A new study out of the Georgia Tech School of Computer Science identifies four characteristic behaviors of Twitter "hyperadvocates," whose actions clearly separate them from the tweeting behavior of typical users. Source: Office of Communications
