{"182791":{"#nid":"182791","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Brown Bag Seminar: Computational Journalism","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeakers:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPhilip Meyer, Professor Emeritus, University of North Carolina\u003Cbr \/\u003EIrfan Essa, Professor in the School of Interactive Computing of the College of Computing\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EComputation + Journalism Symposium 2013\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1967, Philip Meyer introduced the world to Precision Journalism in a Pulitzer Prize winning series about Detroit race riots that ran in the Detroit Free Press. Since then, he has been the leading light in the area of Investigative Journalism and Computer Assisted Reporting. In 2006, Irfan Essa coined the term \u201cComputational Journalism\u201d when he and Nick Diakopoulos organized the first course on the subject. followed by a Symposium at GA Tech in 2008. How did we get to this point and what\u2019s the transition from Precision to Computational Journalism? Join us as Professor Essa and Professor Emeritus Philip Meyer, engage in a dialogue to understand where Journalism is, where it is going, especially in light of recent technological changes and the needs and demands of the news consumers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBios:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPhilip Meyer\u003C\/strong\u003E is professor emeritus and former holder of the Knight Chair in Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He researches in the areas of journalism quality, precision journalism, civic journalism, polling, the newspaper industry, and communications technology. Meyer was a Nieman Fellow in 1966-1967. He blogs at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/philipmeyer.authorsxpress.com\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/philipmeyer.authorsxpress.com\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/philipmeyer.authorsxpress.com\u003C\/a\u003E. Meyer is a member of the Board of Contributors for USA TODAY\u0027s Forum Page, part of the newspaper\u2019s Opinion section. Before becoming a professor in 1981, Meyer was employed in the newspaper industry for a total of 26 years, the last 23 with Knight Ridder Inc., where he started as a reporter for the Miami Herald. In 1962, he became the Washington correspondent for the Akron Beacon Journal, then a national correspondent, and finally, from 1978-1981 the director of news research at company headquarters in Miami, where he worked on Knight Ridder\u0027s pioneering Viewtron online service. Meyer\u0027s most recent book is \u0022Paper Route: Finding My Way to Precision Journalism,\u0022 a memoir of his newspaper career. He has also written The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age, Precision Journalism,\u0022 Ethical Journalism: a Guide for Students, Practitioners and Consumers,\u0022 and \u0022The Newspaper Survival Book.\u0022 The National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting hosts annual Philip Meyer Journalism Award, which recognize \u0022recognize excellent journalism done using social science research methods\u0022.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIrfan Essa\u003C\/strong\u003E is a Professor in the School of Interactive Computing (iC) of the College of Computing (CoC), and Adjunct Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (GA Tech), in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Currently, he is also serving as the Director\/Assistant Dean of Off Campus Initiatives for the College of Computing. Professor Essa works in the areas of Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Computational Perception, Robotics and Computer Animation, Machine Learning, and Social Computing, with potential impact on Video Analysis and Production (e.g., Computational Photography \u0026amp; Video, Image-based Modeling and Rendering, etc.) Human Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Behavioral\/Social Sciences, and Computational Journalism research. He has published over 150 scholarly articles in leading journals and conference venues on these topics and several of his papers have also won best paper awards. He has been awarded the NSF CAREER and was elected to the grade of IEEE Fellow. He has held extended research consulting positions with Disney Research and Google Research and also was an Adjunct Faculty Member at Carnegie Mellon\u2019s Robotics Institute. He currently serves as the Director of Off-campus Initiative for the College of Computing at GA Tech. He is a core member of the GVU Center and in 2008 was awarded the GVU Center\u2019s 15 years of Impact Award. He joined GA Tech Faculty in 1996 after his earning his MS (1990), Ph.D. (1994), and holding research faculty position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Media Lab) [1988-1996].\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESpeakers include Philip Meyer, professor emeritus of UNC, and\u0026nbsp;Irfan Essa, Georgia Tech professor in the School of Interactive Computing of the College of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Speakers include Philip Meyer, professor emeritus of UNC, and Irfan Essa, Georgia Tech professor in the School of Interactive Computing of the College of Computing."}],"uid":"27659","created_gmt":"2013-01-11 14:42:10","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:02:00","author":"Christopher Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2013-01-31T10:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2013-01-31T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2013-01-31T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2013-01-31 15:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2013-01-31 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2013-01-31 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"groups":[],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003Egvu@gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}