Prof. Ashok Goel of Georgia Tech was named among 10 individuals elevated to Fellow status by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
âAAAI is thrilled to announce the election of ten new Fellows for their lasting contributions to the breadth of #AI, including Planning, RL, Robotics, NLP, CBR and Vision The new fellows will be inducted (astrally) and felicitated (with secret hand-shake etc.) during #AAAI2021,â the association said in a tweet.
Goel is a professor of computer science and human-centered computing in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, his bio notes.
The Indian American professor received his Ph.D. in computer and information science from Ohio State University in 1989 and joined the Georgia Tech faculty the same year. At Georgia Tech, he has been a co-director of the Center for Biologically Inspired Design (2008-18) and the director of the Ph.D. program in Human-Center
Jill Watson, Chair of SustFest21
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Organisers of the St Albans Sustainability Festival have decided to go ahead with the environmental event for 2021 after last year s was cancelled due to the pandemic.
They are asking groups across St Albans, Harpenden, and local villages to organise Covid-safe events about living sustainably.
SustFest 2021 runs from Sunday May 23 to Sunday June 6. New for this year will be a flexible, online events listings allowing groups to alter arrangements as lockdown rules change.
It uses the ‘One Planet Living’ framework created by Bioregional with themes including zero waste, community, sustainable food and natural habitats.