Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 Posted in CnJ, Computational Journalism, Computational Photography and Video, DVFX | No Comments »
In Spring 2012, I am teaching 2 classes. Advanced Computational Photography (CS 8803 PHO) [with Grant Schindler] This is an advanced topics class in Computational Photography, building on my intro class and ... Read more..Tuesday, November 15th, 2011 Posted in Computational Journalism, Eric Gilbert, Events | No Comments »
Computational Journalism is defined as the application of computation to the activities of journalism such as information gathering, organization, communication, and dissemination of information, while upholding values of journalism such ... Read more..Wednesday, October 6th, 2010 Posted in Computational Journalism, Events | No Comments »
Just did a session at the Future Media Fest at GA Tech on Computational Journalism. Journalism and related aspects information gathering, verification and distribution have significantly changed in recent times with ... Read more..Thursday, April 1st, 2010 Posted in CnJ, Computational Journalism, Teaching | No Comments »
Final Projects 2010 « Computation + Journalism Class at Georgia Tech. Check out the list of final projects for this term's (Spring 2010) class on Computational Journalism. Final reports expected in ... Read more..Monday, January 11th, 2010 Posted in Computational Journalism, Teaching | No Comments »
Happy 2010! In Spring Term 2010, I am teaching the following two classes. Computation + Journalism (CS 4464 / CS 6465) This class is aimed at understanding the computational and technological advancements in ... Read more..Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 Posted in Computational Journalism, Computational Photography and Video, Kihwan Kim, Modeling and Animation, Papers | No Comments »
Augmenting Aerial Earth Maps with Dynamic Information [bibtex file=IrfanEssaWS.bib key=2009-Kim-AAEMWDI] Abstract We introduce methods for augmenting aerial visualizations of Earth (from tools such as Google Earth or Microsoft Virtual Earth) with dynamic information ... Read more..Monday, June 8th, 2009 Posted in Computational Journalism, In The News, Interesting | No Comments »
Can Computer Nerds Save Journalism?, TIME Magazine, by MATT VILLANO, June 8, 2009 EXCERPT "At the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, a three-year-old program in "computational journalism" helps computer-science majors study ... Read more..Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 Posted in Computational Journalism, Computational Photography and Video, Presentations | 1 Comment »
From Computational Photography and Video to Computational Journalism Irfan Essa Georgia Institute of Technology School of Interactive Computing, GVU and RIM Centers April 21, 2009. (see the video of this presentation) Abstract Our consumption of ... Read more..Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 Posted in ACM UIST/CHI, Computational Journalism, Computational Photography and Video, Nick Diakopoulos | No Comments »
N. Diakopoulos, S. Goldenberg, I. Essa (2009). "Videolyzer: Quality Analysis of Online Informational Video for Bloggers and Journalists." ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). April, 2009. [PDF] ... Read more..Saturday, January 10th, 2009 Posted in Computational Journalism, Presentations | 2 Comments »
Talk/Presentation at Duke University, Jan 27, 2009. Hosted by James Hamilton, director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy at Duke University Computation & Journalism: The Impact of Technology on Journalism, Information Quality, ... Read more..