Archive: Computer Science
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College of Arts & Sciences Professor Awarded Grant for Algorithmic Metalinguistic Analysis
The National Science Foundation has awarded Nathan Schneider a grant of more than $500,000 to develop algorithms to analyze metalinguistic text
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Wise Fools: College Students Reflect on First-Year
Last year, we took the opportunity to ask fresh faces on campus about themselves and their plans for their career at Georgetown. This year, we revisited with those students to see how things went, how this year’s going and what they’re looking forward to in the future.
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Our Class of 2025: Student Perspectives from the Newest Cohort of Hoyas
We are thrilled to welcome the newest members of the Georgetown community to campus this fall.
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Georgetown Center To Use $1 Million Dollar Grant To Expand Its Multidisciplinary Cyber Research
The Cyber SMART Research Center was selected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as an Industry University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC), awarding the center a $1 million grant to expand its capacity for multidisciplinary cyber research.
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Royden B. Davis Fellow Justin Goldstein Conducting Research to Optimize Question Answering Results
Computer science major Justin Goldstein (C’24) was selected as one of this year’s Royden B. Davis Fellows. The sophomore will use this fellowship to fund his summer research on passage retrieval for question answering (QA) at Georgetown’s InfoSense Lab.
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Computer Science Professor Named Technical Director of Program Set to Play Major Role in Advancing 6G
Eric Burger, Ph.D., MBA and professor in the Department of Computer Science, will serve as technical director for the new Technical Program Office (TPO) at the Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation (VT-ARC) for the ATIS initiative Next G Alliance. In this role, Burger will help manage and synchronize the Next G Alliance working group deliverables and engage the broader academic research community in the initiative’s primary goal of establishing North American leadership in 6G.
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New College Faculty for 2020-2021
Georgetown College is pleased to welcome 24 new full-time faculty members with primary appointments in 16 College departments and programs. This cohort will help enrich the student experience through their varied and nuanced areas of study.
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First-Year Student Presented Paper at Prestigious Computational Linguistics Conference
Even before receiving an offer of admission to Georgetown, incoming first-year student Aryaman Arora (C’24) was making waves as a budding computational linguist.
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Marshall Scholar’s Research Aims to Improve Global Modeling of Methane Emissions
Sally Matson (C’20), received the 2020 Marshall Scholars Award to continue her research and education on climate change after graduation, an interest that started at Georgetown. While at the university, Matson worked to better quantify methane emissions around the globe using mathematical modeling and satellite data.
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Dream Machine: Marshall Scholar Hopes to Use AI to Combat Climate Change
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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