Interactive Introduction to Shape Machine

Presented as part of the Shape Machine Symposium on April 11, 2019 at 9:10 a.m. in the John & Joyce Caddell Building, Flex Space.Athanassios (Thanos) Economou is Professor in the College of Design at Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr Economou’s teaching and research are in the areas of shape grammars, computational design, formal specification of style, computer-aided design and design theory with over forty published papers in these areas. He is the Director of the Shape Computation Lab and the Director of the Architectonics Study Abroad Program at Georgia Tech.Tzu-Chieh Kurt Hong is a PhD candidate in the School of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The current research of Kurt is mainly focusing on implementation of shape computation system, including the development of geometry/graph kernel, novel data representations and shape recognition algorithms. Kurt is a research assistant at the Shape Computation Lab working with Dr. Thanos Economou and his works include the implementation of shape grammar interpreter, generative modeling system of US Courthouse design and generative modeling system of Froebel blocks.Runtime: 71:30 minutesThe talk presents the current state-of-the-art of the Shape Machine, a new computational, visual and disruptive technology, to leading experts in various fields including AI, engineering, computer science, mathematics and design to review, discuss, and envision the field of shape cognition and computing at Georgia Tech