This new Georgia Tech-led initiative brings together industry and public agencies to help local governments implement smart development. The strategies developed by the selected communities will serve as models that could be implemented elsewhere across Georgia.  

GTRI Senior Research Scientist Zsolt Kira joins a team of researchers from Georgia Tech, and other local universities, to study how to improve machine learning performance through state-of-the-art neuroscience with support from a grant of up to $2 million, from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Lifelong Learning Machines (L2M) program.

Lora Weiss, Regents researcher, deputy director, and chief technology officer at GTRI, has agreed to serve as the interim senior vice president and director of GTRI.