OMSCS Buzz S3E1: Thad Starner

We are excited to kick off the Fall 2024 semester with a brand new season of the OMSCS Buzz podcast! On this episode, host Tanmay Shah chats with Thad Starner. Thad is a professor at Georgia Tech and director of the Contextual Computing Group. He is a pioneer and prolific inventor in the fields of wearable computing and augmented reality with over 80 patents and 500 papers and presentations to his name. He’s the longest-serving Technical Lead on Google Glass and the recipient of numerous awards for his work on deaf education, among many other accolades. Tune in to hear about wearable computing, augmented reality, American Sign Language, and dolphins!

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Episode Notes

• PopSign—American Sign Language Learning Initiative
  https://www.popsign.org/
• CHAT work with dolphins
  https://gvu.gatech.edu/research/projects/chat-cetacean-hearing-augmentation-and-telemetry-and-uhura-unsupervised-harvesting
• Episode Editor: Nikita Burks-Hale

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