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Next Gen In The News: Analyzing Music to Identify ISIS

Next Gen In The News: Analyzing Music to Identify ISIS

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported about software developed by Second Century Initiative faculty member Anthony Lemieux and other colleagues that can analyze the music embedded in Islamic State/Da’esh video soundtracks to help flag and identify terrorist content online.

The automatic content recognition tool, named Marvin, allowed the researchers to single out Da’esh-produced Islamic songs (or anashid) and Koranic recitation appearing in Da’esh video. If a video has music embedded in it that is a product of the Islamic State’s music production wing of their media outfit, then it would really be something that should be screened further and most likely taken offline.

News and Announcements, Press Releases, Research Stories

Georgia State Research Expenditures Top $200 Million For The First Time

Georgia State Research Expenditures Top $200 Million For The First Time

Georgia State University’s total research expenditures exceeded $200 million for the first time in fiscal year 2017, the National Science Foundation reports in the latest Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey.

The university ranks 108th out of 902 universities in the U.S. for research expenditures, and rose 15 spots from last year.

From fiscal year 2010 to fiscal year 2017, expenditures increased by 248 percent, making Georgia State one of the nation’s fastest-growing research universities. For the past two years, Georgia State has been the highest-ranked institution without an engineering or medical school.

News and Announcements, Research Stories

2CI Faculty Collaboration: LGBTQ Institute, Georgia State Release New Survey of LGBTQ Southerners

2CI Faculty Collaboration: LGBTQ Institute, Georgia State Release New Survey of LGBTQ Southerners

Transgender people in the American South reported nearly twice as much discrimination over the past year than lesbian, gay or bisexual people, according to a study conducted by the LGBTQ Institute at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights and Georgia State University. Second Century Initiative Professor Eric Wright worked with the LGBTQ Institute for this research.

The wide-ranging study also found that the most common forms of discrimination for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people in the South were being subject to slurs and jokes, rejection by friends and family and places of worship, and poor service at places of business.

The survey is one of the largest conducted, with more than 6,500 people taking part. Researchers worked with more 146 nonprofit organizations across 14 Southern states, including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.

News and Announcements, Research Stories, Second Century Initiative

Stargazing’s New Age: The 2CI Astroinformatics Cluster

Stargazing’s New Age: The 2CI Astroinformatics Cluster

Astronomy was one of the first professions to use computers. When Halley’s comet made its 1758 pass, astronomers divided up the computations required in order to determine its orbit. More than 150 years later, around the time that Georgia State was founded in 1913, Harvard astronomer William Pickering became the first to employ human “computers” — women paid low wages to sort and classify objects in glass-plate photographs.

Today, highly sensitive space telescopes such as NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory collect more than a terabyte (or one million million bytes) of data every day, more than any human can successfully sift through. To keep up with the data deluge, astronomers must now use complex algorithms, machine learning and immense computing power. Yet these whopping data sets are also making it possible for scientists, including researchers at Georgia State, to mine incredible new insights about life in our solar system and beyond.

Georgia State’s Second Century Initiative (2CI), the predecessor initiative to the Next Generation Program, was key to starting this innovative and exciting research effort– astroinformatics.

Faculty Profiles, News and Announcements, Research Stories, Second Century Initiative

2CI Collaborative Research Excellence: Social Media and the Growth of E-Cigarettes

2CI Collaborative Research Excellence: Social Media and the Growth of E-Cigarettes

Reports that use of electronic cigarettes is declining may not have accounted for explosive growth in sales of the JUUL device, a novel product that has benefited from social media marketing campaigns to reach young consumers, according to a study led by researchers at Georgia State University’s School of Public Health.

Feature Stories, News and Announcements, Research Stories, Second Century Initiative

A 2CI Scientist’s International Collaboration and a Neuroscience Breakthrough: How the Brain Controls Flexible Learning

A 2CI Scientist’s International Collaboration and a Neuroscience Breakthrough: How the Brain Controls Flexible Learning

A Second Century Initiative researcher at Georgia State University is a member of an international team of scientists who have made an important breakthrough in understanding the mechanisms in the brain that control cognitive flexibility.

Dr. Angela M. Mabb, a 2CI faculty member at Georgia State, collaborated with researchers at the University of Bradford and the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Their results were published in the Cell Press journal Neuron.

The study highlights the importance of a protein known as Arc in learning and memory and shows that proteins not only need to be switched on, but also need to be removed at the correct times for proper learning. More important, these findings show for the first time that the dynamic expression of a single protein has profound implications in replacing a previously learned task with a new one.