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GUEST SPEAKER: Ramesh Raskar (MIT & MERL)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

“Less is More: Coded Computational Photography”
Speaker: Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2008
Time: 2p - 3p
LOCATION: TBD (Somewhere in TSRB or in CoCB 102)
Relevant URL: http://raskar.info
Computational Photography is an emerging multi-disciplinary field that is at
the intersection of optics, signal processing, computer graphics+vision,
electronics, art, and online sharing in social networks. The field […]

Broadcast News Workshop at Grady (UGA)

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Some may be interested to learn more about broadcast news at this CNN sponsored event at the Grady College of Journalism this Saturday. Check out the flyer or the website for more details

Okkam - Semantic Web Resource

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

I saw this article about a resource the EU is building to help with entity detection / resolution called Okkam. This could be useful for anyone trying to do text processing as a component of their final project.

GUEST SPEAKER: Rasmus Lerdorf (YAHOO!)

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Rasmus Lerdorf (YAHOO!) was kind enough to come to class and give a guest lecture on class on
A quick introduction to PHP and how it can be used to collect, analyze and distribute information.
His slides for this talk are at http://talks.php.net/show/ygatech5
He covered many things including pointers to

http://developer.yahoo.com/
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
http://www.pidgets.com/

Final Projects

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Computational Journalism Final Projects
Out: March 6, 2008
Deadlines:

Project Proposal (Intention/Teaming): Thu 3/13/2008 1pm.
Project Proposal (Full Description): Thu 3/27/2008 1pm.
Project Update #1: Tue 04/01/2008 1pm.
Project Update #2: Thu 04/10/2008 1pm.
In Class Presentation: April 22, 2007 1:00pm.
Final Reports Due: May 1st (Thu) 2:00pm.

Details:
Final projects should be composed […]

Journalism Intern Needed

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

I received this request from Barbara Christopher in ISYE for any student interested in getting some experience in the field.
- Nick
Journalism Intern at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and
Systems Engineering
If you’re looking for an opportunity to work as an intern where you will
actually get to report, and work on Georgia Tech’s […]

Automated Detection of Image Manipulation

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

This blog post, entitled “Protecting Journalistic Integrity Algorithmically,” talks about a program that analyzes images in an attempt to locate cloning and other artifacts produced by image manipulation. http://lemonodor.com/archives/2008/02/protecting_journalistic_integrity_algorithmically.html 

George Polk Award for Talking Points Memo Founder

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

The founder of Talking Points Memo was awarded the first George Polk Award given to a web-only publication. (The Polk is a major award for journalism, and a major honor for the journalist receiving it.) http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/25/business/media/25marshall.html?pagewanted=all 

Advanced News Summarization

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Recommender Systems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommendation_system)
Firefly (http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1999/08/21243)
Grouplens (http://www.grouplens.org/)
NewsInEssence (http://lada.si.umich.edu:8080/clair/nie1/nie.cgi)