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article Can Your Smartphone Predict Your GPA?

June 12, 2015

Work by Professor Andrew T. Campbell and Professor Xia Zhou seems to indicate it can, as reported by NPR's WGBH. The group developed the SmartGPA app that automatically infers various student behavior including studying, partying, and sleeping. These human signals are used as input to a model that predicts GPA within 17 hundredths of a point.

article Emily Whiting at TED-x-BeaconStreet

December 31, 2014

Prof. Whiting speaks at TEDxBeaconStreet on the emerging field of computational fabrication, and how her work is bridging the gap between the digital realm of computer graphics and real world physics.