Georgia Tech Library News

April 1, 2008
2 - 3:30 pm
Neely Lobby - GT Lobby

Speaker: Brian Stone
Assoc. Professor
City and Regional Planning Program
Georgia Tech College of Architecture

Title: Are cities warming faster than the planet as a whole?
Abstract: How rapidly are large U.S. cities like Atlanta warming and what steps can be taken to manage climate change in urban areas? This talk will explore the methods employed to measure urban and global temperature trends and document the rate of temperature change within 50 of the most populous U.S. metropolitan areas between 1950 and 2000. The distinction between the urban and global mechanisms of warming will be considered as part of a more general discussion of climate change management in cities.

This presentation is free and open to all!

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For more information, contact Lori Critz (lori.critz@library.gatech.edu; (404) 385-4392)

Tuesday Talk
March 4, 2008
12 – 1:30 pm
Neely Lobby

Speaker: Jason Freeman , D.M.A. Assistant Professor - Music Department - College of Architecture

Title:
Composer, Performer, Listener
Abstract:
Even as social networking, multi-player gaming, and collaborative content creation become increasingly important in our lives, concert musical performance continues to follow a model in which the audience remains passive, with little connection to the composer, to the performers, or to each other. This Talk will explore how technology can transform the concert experience by inviting the audience to shape the music as it is performed or by engaging audiences in personalized musical experiences online.

This presentation is free and open to all!View Poster

Tuesday Talk: Making Computer Science 101 Fun with Robots

Tuesday, November 6, 2007
2:00 - 3:30 pm
Location: Neely Lobby
Speaker: Tucker Balch; Associate Professor - Interactive and Intelligent Computing

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Abstract: “We’re trying an experiment here at Georgia Tech: We’re teaching freshmen Computer Science 101 (CS 1301 to be exact) with personal robots. Every student has her own robot to take home and work with. All the fundamentals of CS are taught in the context of programming a mobile robot with sensors, motors, a camera and a speaker. During this talk I will report on our success with this approach.”

Tuesday, October 2, 2007
2:00 - 3:00
Location: Neely Lobby
Speaker: Michael Goodisman, Assistant Professor, Biology
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Social insects, including ants, bees, wasps, and termites, are ‘among the greatest achievements of evolution’. They dominate terrestrial environments and make up a substantial part of the animal biomass. The tremendous success of social insects stems from their ability to effectively manage ecological problems through their complex social systems. In fact, the formation of the remarkable societies displayed by social insects represents one of the major transition points in evolutionary history. In this talk, I will provide an overview of the biology of social insects. I will focus on discussing the development and importance of social insect societies. I will then discuss the natural history of important social insects found locally, including fire ants and yellowjackets.

George Washington, a slave owner, did not give a second thought to staffing the President’s House with human chattel from his Virginia plantation. Working in the Executive Mansion was better than working in the field, or even as an ordinary house slave. But two ran away to freedom. [view poster]

Presented by: Eleanor Alexander, School of History, Technology and Science
When: March 27, 2:00 11 am
Where: Neely Lobby [view map]

Research for all of us!

The Georgia Tech Library is sponsoring a new lecture series featuring research by Georgia Tech faculty presented for the rest of us.

Lecturers will discuss their research in laymen’s terms. The aim of the series is to make research understandable to all of us in the Georgia Tech community.

This semester the series features the following lectures:

February 22 :: 2:00pm
Hybrots: Using Cultured Neurons to Control Robots & Study Learning
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Dr. Steve M. Potter, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

March 29 :: 2:30pm
Sensing in the Aware Home
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Dr. Irfan Essa, College of Computing

April 26 :: 2:00pm
Face to Face Discussion with Wearable Computers
Dr. Thad Starner, College of Computing

All lectures are free, and will be held in the Wilby Room of the Georgia Tech Library. Light refreshments will be provided.

For more information, please call 404-894-4530 or email:
prgroup@library.gatech.edu

To view promotional posters, video recordings, PowerPoint presentations, etc. from past Tuesday Talks visit SMARTech.

To view promotional posters, video recordings, PowerPoint presentations, etc. from past Tuesday Talks visit SMARTech.

Research for all of us!

The Georgia Tech Library is sponsoring a new lecture series featuring research by Georgia Tech faculty presented for the rest of us.

Lecturers will discuss their research in laymen’s terms. The aim of the series is to make research understandable to all of us in the Georgia Tech community.

This semester the series features the following lectures:

February 22 :: 2:00pm
Hybrots: Using Cultured Neurons to Control Robots & Study Learning
Dr. Steve M. Potter, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

March 29 :: 2:30pm
Sensing in the Aware Home
Dr. Irfan Essa, College of Computing

April 26 :: 2:00pm
Face to Face Discussion with Wearable Computers
Dr. Thad Starner, College of Computing

All lectures are free, and will be held in the Wilby Room of the Georgia Tech Library. Light refreshments will be provided.

For more information, please call 404-894-4530 or email:
prgroup@library.gatech.edu

This question has been asked a lot lately, and we’ve found a couple of web sites that describe the differences well.Types of journals — describes popular, trade, scholarly, and refereed journals.
How to tell if it’s a scholarly journal — describes scholarly, trade, new/general interest, popular, and sensational journals.

Once you know how to identify the types of journals, you probably need to find specific journals of that type. One source that can help is Ulrich’s International Dictionary of Periodicals, available at the Information Services Desk on the first floor East. It lists thousands of journals in different subjects. Look at the list of journals in your subject area, pick one you are intersted in, and look at the page and search the name of the journals to see if we have it. You can also browse the current issues of journals on the 2nd floor East to get a feel for what different kinds of journals we own.