| Name | Picture | Short Bio (background, interests, contact info) |
| Irfan Essa |  | Professor Contact: Web Site, Email: irfan@cc.gatech.edu |
| Nick Diakopoulos |  | Co-Instructor Education: PhD student in CS-HCI. B.S. Multimedia Signal Processing, M.S. in Computer Science. Interests: My interests include collaborative media authoring and tagging, information visualization, and interaction design. Contact: Web Site, Email: nad@cc.gatech.edu |
| Justin Smith |  | 4th year Computational Media Interests: Interface and Interaction Design, Game Design. Contact: jsmith@gatech.edu No partner yet so please e-mail me if interested. |
| Sergio Goldenberg |  | 2nd Year IDT Master Student Education: Journalism degree, UC Chile. Experience:School of Journalism instructor for 5 years (new media history and interactive narrative), Editor, Producer, and Web Developer at a Chilean National TV Network (canal13.cl). Interests: Interactive storytelling, Journalism + Technology, Interactive and Social Television. Contact: sergio.goldenberg@gatech.edu |
| Paul Stamatiou |  | 3rd Year CM Interests:The web, technology, blogging and technical writing and publications Contact: pauls@gatech.edu or my blog No partner yet so please e-mail me if interested. |
| Dan Shaw |  | 2nd Year MS-HCI Interests: UI design, computer-mediated communication, social networking Contact: dshaw-at-gatech.edu |
| Steph Yang |  | 2nd Year CM Interests:(related to course)Web/graphic design, animation, blogging.. (general intersts) Music, movies, sports of all types Contact: steph.yang@gatech.edu I don't have a partner yet, so let me know if you're looking for one! I'm the one in the front! |
| Nirmal Thakker |  | MS CS Interests:digital photography, photo editing, writing, networking, databases Contact: nirmalt@gatech.edu No partner yet |
| Kirti Goel |  | 1st Year MS HCI Interests:UI design, Interaction design, Blogs Contact: kgoel3@gatech.edu |
| Joseph Jo |  | Major: Computational Media Contact: GT E-mail Interests: Digital Photography, Web Design, Graphic Design, Film Theory, Film Production and Editing, Animation (2D and 3D) |
| Michael Hansen |  | 4th year CM send e-mails or use aim here for: blogs, vlogs, and podcasts, oh my enjoys: html/css, flash, music, myspace, octane detests: sepia tone, television, starbucks, ayn rand, and people who say "it's too much" |
| Andrew Cantino |  | I am a 2nd year CS student interested in machine learning, new online (social) media, aggregation, and entrepreneurship. Email: As a side project, I run an experimental user-rated and reviewed free stuff aggregator. |
| ellie harmon |  | MS HCI, 2nd year interests: how people choose what news to read and be aware of and how they establish reliability/validity, "consumer"-created news media, social networks that transcend both online and physical "real life" settings, digital photography contact: email • im • website |
| Puja Verma |  | MS HCI, 1st year Interests: ui design, photo/video editing, writing, college football, and animal rescue Email: pujaverma@gatech.edu No partner yet. I was thinking of covering the AHS Flea Fair on January 20. Any takers? |
| John Swisshelm |  | Comp Media, 4th++ year interests: game design, popular media journalism, comics, dancing, rock and roll karaoke, and extremely spicy food experience: Game reviews, previews, and editorials for tokidokijournal.com and ds.advancedmn.com, covered E3 2003-2005. Assistant Producer Intern at EA Tiburon. contact: email • im • www.swisshelm.com have a partner - we're covering Scott McCloud's visit to Tech |
| Sheila D. Isbell | ugh. | "Special Grad" meaning very part-time Full-time researcher at GTRI, full-time wife, full-time mom First let me be brutally honest. I kind of missed the whole mySpace, text by phone, pda, facebook, RSS feed, bring laptops to class thing. This wiki thing has me freaked out. There I said it. However, I'm highly technical, I have set up and use several blogs: wordpress, blogger, forums, and I get paid to think about intra and interlab communication. I have taught two two-hour courses on video editing to Atlanta area teachers - MovieMaker, iMovie and photostory. And I even minored in fine arts. But I just haven't had time to get online for anything other than the basics - work, email, a bit of news. So I'm very excited about learning about what's out there and applying my tech-sav and all else experience. Basically, if I got to CNN.com once a day, I am doing good. So....yeah....now I can ask the stupid questions in class without you wondering, hey, why is she asking such dumb questions? Wow, that was freeing. interests (relevant to class): storytelling, application of technology to education, application and benefits of communication and collaborative tools in corporate settings, archiving, information extraction contact: sheila@gatech.edu no partner yet, but I have a story I really want to, please ping me if interested. Tech is hosting the First Georgia Lego League on the 20th, I'd like to cover that. If you'd like to cover that as well, send me an email. It runs from 7 to 4, I'm going to contact a few people to set up interviews, get permission to film, etc. |
| Matthew Drake |  | Undergraduate, soon to be released upon the world. I embody many of the stronger aspects of the Geek: I can film, edit, and print video and have done so usually on my own time as well as for class. Programming-wise I have a very strong background in java and have an intermediate knowledge of programming in flash. I have no difficulty speaking in front of others and have existed as an amatuer in fine arts for a while. If you want to get personal:My interests include experimental computer application, digital video, and interactive narrative. (Needless to say, this course is wonderfully applicable.) For those trying to reach me: Email: mdrake@gatech.edu Phone:404 667 7975 I do not have an official partner, so contact would be wonderful. |
| Roma Kane |  | MS CS Interests: Photo editing, technical writing Contacts:Email: roma@gatech.edu, Web Site No partner yet. I wanted to join some of you (would have loved to go to the AHS Flea Fair), however I won't be in Atlanta 19-21 Jan. Others let me know, if there are any events barring those dates. |
| Christopher LaRosa |  | MS International Affairs Interests: journalism, telecom policy, politics, mobile computing Related Experience: Year as Thomas J. Watson Fellow examining the effects of new media on traditional print journalism enterprises, time spent as a stringer for a newspaper paper in CT, editor of undergraduate newspaper. Lots of time over the years working with web-related and new media technologies. current project... A continent-wide evaluation of information security practices and policies in Africa. recent projects... A Mining System for Kernel Trace Data, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database Online Contact: e: clarosa [at] gatech .dot. edu, tel: 860-307-8298, web: web site. No partner yet, contact me if interested |
| John Clark |  | 2nd Year HCI Masters Student Contact: Web Site, Email: john.clark@gatech.edu Undergrad Degree in Music Engineering 8 years experience in the recording industry doing audio video post production. 9 years programming experience (Mostly PHP & MySQL these days). Some basic Flash experience and a strong background in both technical and creative writing No partner yet, contact me if interested |
| Jill Donnelly |  | 3rd year Computational Media student Contact: jill.donnelly@gatech.edu Interests: anything media, music, art, everything video |
| Ranjith Subramanian | ... | 2nd year MS CS student Contact: ranji@cc.gatech.edu I'm a computer architecture/mostly systems kinda person! But I'm a big news junkie, more the sports type. This course sounded interesting and I thought I'd take a break from all the systems stuff and that's why I'm here :-) Haven't found a partnet yet. Just wondering if any of you are considering covering one/some of the sports events on campus for the first assignment? I'm pretty much new to everything that's got to do with media, news, technology etc., but I'm hoping to learn a lot from some you who seem to have a ton of experience in this area. |
| Angus Perkerson | (maybe I'll find a picture of me) | 5th Year Comp Media Contact: angus.perkerson@gatech.edu Most of my interests can be umbrelled (I think that is a word) as visual design and information sharing. I love film, photography, and the internet. So I love to combine these the best I can, and all their experimental forms as well. I will be covering Scott McCloud's visit to Georgia Tech with Jon Swisshelm |
| Laura Bungenstock |  | Contact: Laura.Bungenstock [at] gmail [dot] com 4th year CM major (graduating in May!!!) Academic Interests: information architecture, user experience design, usability research Non-Academic Interests: ultimate frisbee, tennis, photography, piano |
| Anandi Pendse |  | Contact: anandi [at] gatech [dot] edu First Year HCI (computing track) Academic Interests: Usability, User evaluations, User experience, Interface design, blogs Non-Academic Interests : Books especially the harry potters and enid blytons, Movies ( both hollywood and bollywood-if u know what that is) Blogs, ice skating and generally discussing crazy stuff in life..! |
| Joaquin Estrada |  | Background: 4th year CM major Interests: Frisbee, Film, Video Production, Web Design, Music Contact: joaquin [at] gatech [dot] edu |
| Brant Callaway | no pic yet | I'm a 4th year CS major who is graduating this semester. I'm interested in sports, web design, piano, getting a job or going to grad school. my email is brant [at] gatech [dot] edu |
