{"592693":{"#nid":"592693","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Assistant Professor Devi Parikh Earns IJCAI Computers and Thought Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EDevi Parikh\u003C\/strong\u003E was named recipient of the 2017 \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ijcai.org\/awards\u0022\u003EInternational Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Computers and Thought Award\u003C\/a\u003E, which is considered to be the premier award for artificial intelligence researchers under the age of 35.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe was selected by the IJCAI-17 Awards Selection Committee for her contributions at the intersection of words, pictures, and common sense. This includes semantic image understanding, the use of visual attributes for human-machine collaboration and visual abstractions for learning common sense, and enabling humans to interact with visual content via natural language.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EParikh joins a particularly exclusive list of 27 AI visionaries who have been awarded since 1971, including Terry Winograd, David Marr and Tom Mitchell in the early days and Stuart Russell, Daphne Koller, Carlos Guestrin, and Andrew Ng more recently.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EParikh said that she is excited about the recognition that her lab\u0026rsquo;s work in visual question answering (VQA) is getting.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Through making our large datasets and systems publicly available, we have enabled research groups around the world to make significant progress on building machines that can automatically answer questions about visual content,\u0026rdquo; Parikh said. \u0026ldquo;This has applications in any scenario where it is difficult, if not impossible, for someone to sift through visual data to elicit the information they need, be it aiding visually-impaired users, users on low-bandwidth networks that cannot support visual data, or assisting analysts in making decisions based on large quantities of visual feeds.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It has been rewarding to play a role in the creation of an entirely new sub-field of scientific endeavor in artificial intelligence and witness the research community rally around VQA.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis is one of a number of awards that Parikh has earned in recent months. She earned a \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/588083\/pair-ic-assistant-professors-earn-awards-research-explainable-intelligent-systems-and\u0022\u003EGoogle Research Faculty Award\u003C\/a\u003E, an \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/586463\/amazon-research-awards-fund-computer-vision-and-machine-learning-projects\u0022\u003EAmazon Academic Research Award\u003C\/a\u003E, and was featured last week in \u003Cem\u003EForbes\u003C\/em\u003E magazine as one of a handful of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mariyayao\/2017\/05\/18\/meet-20-incredible-women-advancing-a-i-research\/2\/#cee2a6e4edee\u0022\u003Ewomen advancing artificial intelligence research\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Computers and Thought Award is considered to be the premier award for AI researchers under the age of 35."}],"uid":"33939","created_gmt":"2017-06-14 13:57:36","changed_gmt":"2017-06-14 13:57:36","author":"David Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-06-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-06-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"586462":{"id":"586462","type":"image","title":"Devi Parikh","body":null,"created":"1485377735","gmt_created":"2017-01-25 20:55:35","changed":"1485377735","gmt_changed":"2017-01-25 20:55:35","alt":"","file":{"fid":"223510","name":"Devi Parikh.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Devi%20Parikh.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Devi%20Parikh.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":62731,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Devi%20Parikh.jpg?itok=TJlsp21d"}}},"media_ids":["586462"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.ijcai.org\/awards","title":"IJCAI Computers and Thought Award"}],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[{"id":"174685","name":"computers and thought award"},{"id":"173616","name":"devi parikh"},{"id":"2556","name":"artificial intelligence"},{"id":"166848","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDavid Mitchell\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.mitchell@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}