Professor Ashok K. Goel gave a talk at TEDxPeachtree: “Does Our Future Require Us to Go Back to Nature?” From TEDx: “Ashok Goel challenges well-worn notions of design and creativity and makes a powerful case for bio-inspired design wherein nature serves as the ultimate inspiration for design innovation and sustainability.”
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Swaroop Vattam’s dissertation selected for CoC Dissertation Award
Swaroop Vattam’s dissertation was one among the
Summer camp run by DILab at Georgia Tech
Ph.D. student David Joyner and research scientist David Majerich, with the help of undergraduates Nicolas Papin and Cherish Weiler, have successfully run a summer camp testing the DILab-developed MILA and MeTA software. In all, 16 students participated in the camp at Georgia Tech, during which time they visited Lake Clara Meer at Piedmont Park, the Georgia Aquarium, and several labs around campus.
Swaroop Vattam completes his Ph.D. defense
Swaroop Vattam successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled “Interactive Analogical Retrieval: Practice, Theory and Technology”. Congratulations, Swaroop!
Michael Helms presents at the Design Computing and Cognition conference
Michael Helms led off the conference talks with his presentation titled, “Analogical Problem Evolution in Biologically Inspired Design”.
Nicolas Papin graduates with a B.S. in computer science
Nicolas Papin graduated with a BS in CS. At DILab, Nicolas worked on the Systems Thinking project. In particular, he helped develop an interactive technology called MILA for helping middle school students learn about ecological systems. He joined Google in Los Angeles upon graduation. (Congratulations Nicolas. Way to go!)
Hmelo-Silver presents at Hawaii International Conference on Education
January 2011- Professor Cindy Hmelo-Silver presents a join Rutgers-Georgia Tech paper on “Foregrounding Behaviors and Functions to Promote Ecosystem Understanding” to the Ninth Hawaii International Conference on Education, Honolulu.
Paper accepted to Educational Technology and Society
March 31, 2010- The following paper is accepted for publication in Educational Technology and Society:
Swaroop S. Vattam, Ashok K. Goel, Spencer Rugaber, Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver, Rebecca Jordan, Steven Gray & Suparna Sinha. Understanding Complex Natural Systems by Articulating Structure-Behavior-Function Models. Accepted for Educational Technology & Society, Special Issue on Creative Design; to appear in print fall 2010.
Papers accepted to Design Theory and Methods
March 27, 2010- The following two papers are accepted for presentation to the 2010 ASME Conference on Design Theory and Methods to be held in Montreal, Canada in August 2010.
Michael Helms, Swaroop Vattam & Ashok Goel. The Effects of Functional Modeling on Understanding Complex Biological Systems. To appear in Proc. 2010 ASME Conference on Design Theory and Methods, Montreal, Canada, August 2010.
Swaroop Vattam, Michael Helms & Ashok Goel. Biologically Inspired Design: A Macrocognitive Account. To appear in Proc. 2010 ASME Conference on Design Theory and Methods, Montreal, Canada, August 2010.
Picard visits DILab
February 11, 2010- Professor Rosalind Picard from MIT Media Lab visits DILab.
