Thursday, August 7th, 2008 Posted in Computational Journalism, Nick Diakopoulos | No Comments »
Audio Puzzler Alpha (ONLINE DEMO) By Nick Diakopoulos (My PhD Student) Audio Puzzler is a new kind of puzzle game based on unauthored content found online. The audio for the puzzles is ... Read more..Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Posted in Aaron Bobick, Activity Recognition, Numerical Machine Learning, PhD, Raffay Hamid | No Comments »
M. Raffay Hamid PhD (2008), "A Computational Framework For Unsupervised Analysis of Everyday Human Activities", PhD Thesis, Georgia Institute of Techniology, College of Computing, Atlanta, GA. (Advisor: Aaron Bobick & Irfan ... Read more..Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Posted in Activity Recognition, David Minnen, PhD, Thad Starner | No Comments »
Unsupervised Discovery of Activity Primitives from Multivariate Sensor Data David Minnen PhD (2008): "Unsupervised Discovery of Activity Primitives from Multivariate Sensor Data" Georgia Institute of Techniology, College of Computing, Atlanta, GA. (Advisors: ... Read more..Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 Posted in 0205507, Face and Gesture, Funding, James Rehg, Numerical Machine Learning, PAMI/ICCV/CVPR/ECCV, Papers, Pei Yin, Thad Starner | No Comments »
Pei Yin, Irfan Essa, James Rehg, Thad Starner (2008) "Discriminative Feature Selection for Hidden Markov Models using Segmental Boosting", ICASSP 2008 - March 30 - April 4, 2008 - ... Read more..Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Posted in Computational Journalism, Funding | No Comments »
Award#0813831 - Symposium on Computation and Journalism ABSTRACT Fundamentally, journalism is aimed at collecting news information and disseminating that information with a layer of contextualization and understanding provided by journalists. Recent advances ... Read more..Monday, March 3rd, 2008 Posted in Personal | 1 Comment »
Irfan's Office Hacked My students decided to play a very nice joke on me. This morning I walked in to find my office open (and it was not!) check out ... Read more..Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 Posted in Computational Journalism, Events, Nick Diakopoulos | No Comments »
Journalism 3G: The Future of Technology in the Field (A Symposium on Computation and Journalism) was a huge success. We had over 230 registered attendees. Thanks to all ... Read more..Friday, February 15th, 2008 Posted in Events, Nick Diakopoulos | No Comments »
Working with Brad Stenger (Wired), Nick Diakopoulos (GA Tech), Sergio Goldenberg (GA Tech), we are organizing a Symposium on computation+journalism, to bring together computationalists, internet/media experts, and journalists together for ... Read more..Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in Events, Service | No Comments »
I am Co-Chairing with Drew Bagnell (CMU), Wolfram Burgard (University of Frieberg) a Special Track on Physically-Grounded AI. See AAAI-08: Twenty-Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Chicago, IL, USA. The goal ... Read more..