Location: Event DetailsDate/Time: Wednesday October 24, 2012 8:00 am - 2:45 pm Location: Academy of MedicinePhone: (404) 385-1252 Email: gvu@cc.gatech.edu Contact: Vivian Chandler - chandler@cc.gatech.edu Description: Our 20th anniversary program will offer a thought-provoking look at the future of interactive technology and the role of university research in its discovery. 8:00 - 9:00am Registration and Breakfast9:00 - 9:30am Welcome and Opening Remarks9:30 - 10:30am KeynoteJessica Hodgins joined theRobotics Institute and Computer Science department at Carnegie Mellon University as an Associate Professor in Fall of 2000. She is now a Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, Associate Director for the Faculty in the Robotics Institute as well as the part-time Director of the new Disney Research Pittsburgh Laboratory. Prior to moving to CMU, she was an Associate Professor and Assistant Dean in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. She received her PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1989. She has received a NSF Young Investigator Award, a Packard Fellowship, and a Sloan Fellowship. She was Editor in Chief of ACM Transactions on Graphics from 2000 to 2002 and Papers Chair for ACM SIGGRAPH 2003.10:30 - 10:45am Break 10:45 - 11:45am Panel Discussion 11:45am - 12:45pm Lunch 12:45 - 1:00pm Break 1:00 - 2:45pm Director's Remarks, and Presentation of the GVU Impact Awards