June 2010- Suparna Sinha presents a joint Rutgers-Georgia Tech paper “Appropriating Conceptual Representations: A Case of Transfer in a Middle School Science Teacher” to the Ninth International Conference of the Learning Sciences in Chicago.
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Misc. May 2010 News
May 2010- Swaroop Vattam successfully defends his thesis proposal entitled “Mediated Analogy: From Practice to Theory to Technology.” His thesis committee includes Professors Janet Kolodner, Mary Lou Maher, Nancy Nersessian and Jeannette Yen.
Maithilee Kunda presents the paper “Can the Raven’s Progressive Matrices Intelligence Test Be Solved by Thinking in Pictures?” to IMFAR-2010 in Philadelphia.
Joshua Jones graduates with a Ph.D. in Computer Science! Congratulations Josh!
Josh is now a postdoctoral research scientist with Marie des Jardins and Tim Oates at University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Adity Dokania, Shantanu Gupta, Rohan Tewari, Bryan Wiltgen and Deepak Zambre graduate with a M.S. in Computer Science! Congratulations all!
Adity is joining The MathWorks in Boston, Deepak is joining Microsoft in Seattle, and Bryan is joining the Ph.D. program at Georgia Tech in Atlanta.
Conference awarded to Georgia Tech & Ashok Goel
April 2010- ACM awards the 8th International Conference on Creativity and Cognition to Georgia Tech with Ashok Goel as the Chair.
Kunda wins Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship
April 2010- Maithilee Kunda wins the 2010 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship. Congratulations, Maithilee!
Briefly, building from Temple Grandin’s “Thinking in Pictures” hypothesis about people with autism spectrum disorders, Maithilee has identified Raven’s intelligence test as a context for understanding analogical representations of visuo-spatial knowledge. She, along with Keith McGreggor, has developed a computational model of the Raven’s test using only affine transformations over analogical representations of the input images. She has found that this novel computational technique performs about as well on the Raven’s test as a ten year old typically developing child. Way to go!
Deepak Zambre to join Microsoft Research
April 2010- Deepak Zambre to join Microsoft Research.
Li receives Honors Program Challenge Fund Scholarship
April 2010- Jing Li receives Honors Program Challenge Fund Scholarship from the Georgia Tech Honors Program.
Papers accepted to CogSci 2010
The following two papers have been accepted for publication in Proc. 2010 Cognitive Science Conference:
Ashok K. Goel, Swaroop S. Vattam, Spencer Rugaber, David Joyner, Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver, Rebecca Jordan, Sameer Honwad, Steven Gray, Suparna Sinha. Functional and Causal Abstractions of Complex Systems. To appear in Proc. 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cogntive Science Society, Portland, August 2010.
Maithilee Kunda, Keith McGreggor & Ashok Goel. Taking a Look (Literally!) at the Raven’s Intelligence Test: Two Visual Solution Strategies. To appear in Proc. 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cogntive Science Society, Portland, August 2010.
Kunda finalist for Anita Borg Google Scholarship
March 2010- Maithilee Kunda is Finalist for the Anita Borg Google Scholarship!
Gero visits DILab
March 17-18, 2010- Professor John Gero from George Mason University visits DILab.
Goel gives invited talk at Carnegie-Mellon
February 25-26, 2010- Ashok Goel visits Carnegie-Mellon University and gives an invited talk on “Design, Analogy, Creativity.”
