The genetic material inside a virus is surrounded by a protein-based covering called a capsid. Searches for therapeutic treatments and vaccines are now focusing on proteins like capsids that drugs could attack, and a highly read study from a Georgia Tech research group is offering expertise to aid in efforts like these.
Jamie Gorman’s research involves the psychology of teamwork and how to get people in all kinds of industries working together in a better, more efficient manner. His two latest projects seek to understand how to do that when one of those teammates or trainers is made of software, and the other team members are people: public school students and members of the U.S. Armed Forces.
To directly address social barriers in virtual classes, the new Jill Watson Social Agent, an artificially intelligent system from the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been designed to connect online students quickly to their peers. It is being deployed in the Institute’s Online Master of Science in Computer Science program (OMSCS) as well as two campus classes.
Human resources professionals and job seekers alike may soon be able to better understand a company’s unique organizational culture thanks to a new machine learning approach. Developed by Georgia Tech researchers, it is the first of its kind to computationally model organizational culture using publicly available anonymized data sources – including Glassdoor user reviews.
If successful, the project could move researchers one step closer to the goal of accurately delivering short-term violence forecasts to policymakers.