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Graduate students enrolled in Ivan Allen College Liberal Arts graduate courses will present papers at the fifth annual IAC graduate student conference, scheduled for Friday, January 25, 2019, 9am-5:30pm, in Room 102 of the Stephen C. Hall Building (215 Bobby Dodd), All faculty, staff, and students at Georgia Tech and guests are welcome to attend.

Program

9:15 am: Breakfast

9:45 am: Welcome: Mario Bianchini (History and Sociology), Chair, Ivan Allen College Graduate Student Advisory Board

9:55 - 11:15 am: Technology Policies 

Chair: Kera Allen (History and Sociology)

Royce Collins (History and Sociology): Discriminatory Technologies and the Federal - Aid Highway Act of 1956

Seokbeom Kwon (Public Policy): Does Antitrust Regulation of Patent Monopoly Promote Innovation?

Camila Apablaza (Public Policy): Challenges and Policy Solutions for the Deployment of Alternative Fuels in the Freight Transportation Sector

Seokkyun Woo (Public Policy): Why Do They Stand on the “Shoulder of the Tumbling Giants"?: Empirical Analysis of Citation Patterns of Scientific Teams Based on Retracted Academic Articles

11:15 - 11:20 am: Break

11:20 am - 12:10 pm: Technical Innovations  

Chair: Talia Capozzoli (Public Policy)

Daniel Schiff (Public Policy): Out of the Laboratory and into the Classroom: The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Education

Anthony Harding (Economics): Bright Lights, Safe Nights?: The Impact of Visibility on Crime

12:10 - 1:30 pm: Lunch

1:30 - 2:30 pm: Community Problem Solvers and Rabble Rousers 

Chair: Supraja Sudharsan (Nunn School)

Garrett Bunyak (History and Sociology): “Animalizing” Others in the U.S.- Mexico Borderlands

Karl Grindal (Public Policy): Artist Collectives as the Origins of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS): The Strano Network to Electronic Disturbance Theater

Joshua Fisher (Digital Media/LMC): Uncovering Creative Affordances for Applied Storytelling with Augmented and Mixed Reality

2:45- 3:45 pm: Sports, Technology, and the Body 

Chair: Amber Johnson (History and Sociology)

Mario Bianchini (History and Sociology): Sport as Technological Consciousness in East Germany

Declan Abernethy (History and Sociology): Raising the Boom: The NFL, Rules, and Biomedicine

Li Zheng (Elise) (History and Sociology): "Self-discipline Brings me Freedom": A Critical Examination of Self-tracking Through Fitness Apps

3:45-4 pm: Break 4-5 pm: Ubiquitous Computing Applications: Unveiling the Ins and Outs

Chair: Adriana Alvarez Garcia (Digital Media/LMC)

Suon Choi (Nunn School): Drone in Bibliometrics: Its Origins and Development

Michael Bivona (History and Sociology): Blowback: Kareem Khan and the Politics of Network Reciprocity

Alyssa Rumsey (Digital Media/LMC): Clearing the Smoke: The Changing Identities and Work in Fire-fighting

5-5:30 pm: Reception