Make IT Matter: We Can Be Clever and Make a Difference

Gregory Abowd

Thursday, 02 Apr 2009 at 12:00 pm – Lee Liu-Alliant Energy Auditorium, Howe Hall

Gregory Abowd is Distinguished Professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is a member of the School of Interactive Computing and the GVU Center and director of the Ubiquitous Computing Research Group. His research interests lie in the intersection between software engineering and human-computer interaction. He currently serves as the interim director of the Health Systems Institute, a Georgia Tech-Emory University joint research institute investigating the impact of technologies on healthcare delivery. It is an extension of his own work over the past decade on information technologies and autism. Abowd has undergraduate degrees in mathematics and physics from the University of Notre Dame. He was a Rhodes Scholar and earned an M.Sc. and D.Phil. in computation from the University of Oxford Computing Laboratory. The Emerging Technologies Conference Keynote Speaker.

Cosponsored By:

• Human Computer Interaction Program
• Mechdyne Corporation
• Virtual Reality Applications Center
• Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)