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First-Year Student, Aryaman Arora, Presented Paper at Prestigious Computational Linguistics Conference
Aryaman Arora (C’24) collaborated with Professor Nathan Schneider to develop a better way for machines to transcribe Hindi and Punjabi writing for pronunciation by text-to-speech software.
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Matt Blaze and Co-Authors Receive Test-of-Time Award
Matt Blaze and co-authors Joan Feigenbaum and Jack Lacy received the Test-of-Time Award for their paper Decentralized Trust Management that appeared in the 1996 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (also known as the “Oakland conference”).
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Cal Newport’s Articles Appear in New Yorker, Communications of the ACM and Wired Magazine
Cal is an author of several books, including "Digital Minimalism" and "Deep Work", that address issues at the intersection of technology and culture. His opinion pieces have appeared recently in seve
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Adrian Hertel, Minor in Computer Science, Develops Program To Let You Know When Food Delivery Slots Open Up
Adrian Hertel, a Georgetown student who minors in computer science, created a program that will automatically notify users when time slots open on Amazon Fresh or Whole Foods.
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Best Paper Award for Shaobo Wang, Wenchao Zhou and co-authors, for their 2020 EDBT paper titled “Provenance for Probabilistic Logic Programs”.
EDBT (International Conference on Extending Database Technology) is a leading international forum for database researchers, developers, and users.
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J. Smart and collaborators at Georgetown University develop COVID-2019 Symptom Tracker
Leveraging Georgetown University’s AvesTerra knowledge orchestration framework, the university has a history of developing and implementing sociotechnical systems including development of platforms that inform public health.
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Differential privacy among 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2020 named by MIT Technology Review
Prof. Kobbi Nissim is a co-inventor of differential privacy.
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Georgetown Students Win the Hack for Good Challenge at TartanHacks 2020
Georgetown team consisting Wendy Boeker, Karina Chan, Karissa Prayogo , and David Yao participated in TartanHacks 2020 at CMU and won the Microsoft Hack for Good Challenge.
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Prof. Ophir Frieder’s Explainable AI-Driven Prescription Prediction Technology Licensed by Maxeler Technologies
Using the patent-pending technology developed at Georgetown’s Information Retrieval Laboratory, Maxeler intends to work with the researchers at Georgetown to productize scalable, patient-specific, prescription selectors, reducing drug resistance, thereby improving patient care.
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Sally Matson, CS and Mathematics major, receives the prestigious Marshall Scholarship
Sally Matson (C’20), a Georgetown senior who wants to use machine learning to combat climate change, is one of two Georgetown students named a 2020 Marshall Scholarship recipient.
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