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October 25, 2007 / Last updated : October 25, 2007 irfan Events

Awarded the "GVU 15 years of Impact Award"

Awarded the “GVU 15 years of Impact Award” at GVU 15 Anniversary Celebration and Symposium on October 25, 2007. Schedule Event Photos List of Recipients Book of Awards QuickTime Movie

October 30, 2003 / Last updated : October 30, 2003 irfan Aware Home

GT Research Horizons — Fall 2003

April 5, 2001 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Aware Home

NY Times Article (2001): "Smart Home, to Avoid the Nursing Home"

Anne Eisenberg (2001)“A ‘Smart’ Home, to Avoid the Nursing Home” New York Times Circuits Section, April 5, 2001 Issue Quote from the Article: “Cameras are going to rule one day at the Georgia Tech house, though, staff members there say. Dr. Irfan A. Essa, a computer science professor at Georgia Tech, is one of the […]

January 7, 1997 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Face and Gesture

NYT Science Times (1997): “Laugh and Your Computer Will Laugh With You, Someday"

Daniel Goldman (1997 “Laugh and Your Computer Will Laugh With You, Someday” Jan 7, 1997 Issue, New York Times, Science Times Quote from the article: “Emotions like fear, sadness and anger each announce themselves through a unique signature of changes in facial muscle, vocal inflection, physiological arousal, and other such cues. Building on techniques of […]

April 9, 1996 / Last updated : April 9, 1996 irfan Affective Computing

Scientific American Article (1996): "Smart Rooms; by Alex Pentland

Alex Pentland (1996), “Smart Rooms”Scientific American, April 1996 Quote from the Article: “Facial expression is almost as important as identity. A teaching program, for example, should know if its students look bored. So once our smart room has found and identified someone’s face, it analyzes the expression. Yet another computer compares the facial motion the […]

December 1, 1995 / Last updated : December 1, 1995 irfan Affective Computing

Discover Magazine Article (1995) "A Face of Ones Own Memory, Emotions, Decisions"

Evan I. Schwartz (1995) “A Face of One’s Own | Memory, Emotions, & Decisions”, DISCOVER MagazineDecember 1, 1995. Quote from the Article: “Chief among the members of his staff working on the problem is computer scientist Irfan Essa. To get computers to read facial expressions such as happiness or anger, Essa has designed three-dimensional animated […]