When? Friday, December 13, at 18:00-20:00

Where? DEREE - The American College of Greece, 7th Level Auditorium

Organized by: Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (Graduate School Masterclass Series)

RSVP: To reserve your place please contact Ms. Maria Kritikou via e-mail: mkritikou@acg.edu or telephone 210 600 9800 | ext. 1210

Audience: Public / Open

Additional information:

“In 2002, I had a fortunate collision of my personal and professional lives when I realized that work in ubiquitous computing could actually have an impact on the world of autism. I am the father of two boys with autism and for the past decade I have seen many different ways that computing technology can address challenges faced by a wide variety of stakeholder communities linked with autism, from the individuals and their families, to educators, therapists, clinicians and researchers. In this talk, I want to explain how a concrete application domain, such as autism and related developmental disabilities, can present a wide variety of opportunities for computing research.”

Profile: 

Gregory D. Abowd is a Regents' and Distinguished Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he has been on the faculty since 1994. His research is in applications of mobile and ubiquitous computing in everyday settings. While he has done work in classroom and office settings, most of his work over the past 15 years has been in home and health settings. He received a BS in Mathematics (1986) from the University of Notre Dame and MSc (1987) and D.Phil. (1991) in Computation from the University of Oxford, where he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. Dr. Abowd is an ACM Fellow and a member of the ACM SIGCHI Academy. He received the 2007 ACM SIGCHI Social Impact Award and the 2009 ACM Eugene Lawler Humanitarian Award.  He has served as an Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction. He has served on numerous ACM conference program committees (CHI, CSCW, UIST, Ubicomp) and was General Chair for Ubicomp 2001 and Program (co-)chair for Ubicomp and UIST.

More information on: www.gregoryabowd.com