{"619935":{"#nid":"619935","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ashok Goel to Present at the APS on A.I.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/dilab.gatech.edu\/ashok-k-goel\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAshok Goel\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s School of Interactive Computing and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sustainable.gatech.edu\/profs_fellows\u0022\u003EBBISS Fellow\u003C\/a\u003E, will be speaking at the annual meeting of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.psychologicalscience.org\/conventions\/annual\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAssociation for Psychological Science\u003C\/a\u003E in Washington, D.C. this May. He will participate in a symposium that will give an overview of the collaboration between Georgia Tech and the Smithsonian Institution\u0026rsquo;s National Museum of Natural History.\u0026nbsp;This effort integrated an artificial intelligence tool called the Virtual Ecological Research Assistant (VERA) with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/naturalhistory.si.edu\/research\/eol\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EEncyclopedia of Life\u003C\/a\u003E. Goel will highlight how the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-93846-2_6\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EVERA-EOL project\u003C\/a\u003E is an excellent example of interdisciplinary research on AI, big data, and cognitive science.\u0026nbsp;He will also talk about how the design of the VERA AI research tool has been informed by the cognitive sciences.\u0026nbsp;Sara Kiesler, from the National Science Foundation, and Fred Oswald, from Rice University, will also be speaking during the\u0026nbsp;symposium.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAshok Goel will present at the Association for Psychological Studies Annual Convention about his work with implementing an\u0026nbsp;artificial intelligence assistant for\u0026nbsp;the Encyclopedia of Life.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ashok Goel will present at the Association for Psychological Studies Annual Convention about his work with implementing an artificial intelligence assistant for the Encyclopedia of Life."}],"uid":"27338","created_gmt":"2019-04-01 22:00:48","changed_gmt":"2019-04-01 22:09:33","author":"Brent Verrill","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-04-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-04-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"355631":{"id":"355631","type":"image","title":"Ashok Goel - Compressed","body":null,"created":"1449245756","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:15:56","changed":"1475895087","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:27","alt":"Ashok Goel - Compressed","file":{"fid":"202042","name":"ashok-goel.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ashok-goel_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ashok-goel_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":13428,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ashok-goel_0.jpg?itok=CW9gVdfx"}}},"media_ids":["355631"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/dilab.gatech.edu\/ashok-k-goel\/","title":"Ashok Goel\u2019s Website"},{"url":"https:\/\/sustainable.gatech.edu\/profs_fellows","title":"BBISS Fellows"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.psychologicalscience.org\/conventions\/annual","title":"31st Annual APS Convention"},{"url":"https:\/\/naturalhistory.si.edu\/research\/eol","title":"Encyclopedia of Life Website"},{"url":"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-93846-2_6","title":"Journal Article on VERA-EOL Project"}],"groups":[{"id":"244191","name":"Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[{"id":"166870","name":"BBISS_news"},{"id":"112431","name":"ashok goel"},{"id":"6444","name":"interdisciplinary research"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:brent.verrill@sustainable.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBrent Verrill\u003C\/a\u003E, Communications Manager, BBISS\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["brent.verrill@sustainable.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}