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How AI Can Help Universities Boost Student Performance And Improve Retention

YoungUpstarts

For example, Georgia Institute of Technology deployed an AI-powered chatbot named “Jill Watson” to complete the automatable tasks of teaching assistants, including answering students’ questions on a messaging board.

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31 Great Ways Universities Are Using Google+

YoungUpstarts

Georgia Tech College of Sciences regularly shares great news about successes within the university community. At Georgia Tech, students use Google Plus Pages to promote the latest updates on their research journal. Faculty, staff, and students can collaborate and share as a group with the use of Google Plus Hangouts.

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Are You Hiding Behind Your Business Name?

YoungUpstarts

Even if you aren’t a corporation or an LLC, your state government may have rules about what business name you can use. If your name is John Smith and you run a business called Smith House Painters , then you’re using a business alias (also known as a “trade name”). Why Have a Business Name? Why Must I Register?

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Going Bananas for a Well Selected Name

Mike Michalowicz

A powerful name does wonders. Recently, I went to a Savannah Bananas baseball game in, you guessed it, Savannah, Georgia. Now, I’m not going to downplay the significance of how the event is run and all the efforts of the team, but this phenomenon was no question sparked by a powerful name. Names matter.

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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

A contract for a system named O’Malley followed. When they couldn’t find any customers they donated the ERA 1101 to Georgia Tech. What Did ERA Build For the National Security Agency (NSA)? By the end of ERA’s first year, ERA had contracts for a digital device called Alcatraz which used thousands of vacuum tubes and relays.

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Rediscovering Atlanta

Jeff Hilimire

What’s fascinating to me is all the names that, if you live in Atlanta, you hear all the time but you really don’t understand the historical context of them. Even how the name of Atlanta came to be. Originally Atlanta was named Terminus and then later changed to Marthasville (named after Governor Lumpkin’s daughter).

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Skyrocket Productivity with Xebec

Austin Startup

Another study conducted by the Georgia Institute of Technology showed that employees were able to complete tasks 2.5 Theories are great, but do scientific studies support this? Turns out, they do. This study published by Fujitsu Siemens Computers discovered three monitors increased productivity up to 35.5%.

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