{"230981":{"#nid":"230981","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Alumni Earn Spots on MIT Technology Review Innovators List","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThree graduates of Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Computing earned inclusion this week to \u003Cem\u003EMIT Technology Review\u003C\/em\u003E\u2019s \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/lists\/innovators-under-35\/2013\/\u0022\u003E35 Innovators under 35\u003C\/a\u003E,\u201d an annual list recognizing people driving the next generation of technological breakthroughs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe list honors innovators in five categories: inventors, entrepreneurs, visionaries, humanitarians and pioneers. To compile the list, MIT Technology Review editors solicited nominations, selected fewer than 100 finalists and asked a distinguished panel of judges to score each finalist on the originality and impact of their work. From those scores, editors compiled the final list of 35 innovators.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/lists\/innovators-under-35\/2013\/entrepreneur\/dmitri-alperovitch\/\u0022\u003EDmitri Alperovitch\u003C\/a\u003E, 32, was recognized in the entrepreneur category for his role in co-founding the security company \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.crowdstrike.com\u0022\u003ECrowdStrike\u003C\/a\u003E, which enables cyber-attack victims to strike back against cyber-espionage.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/lists\/innovators-under-35\/2013\/inventor\/vijay-balasubramaniyan\/\u0022\u003EVijay Balasubramaniyan\u003C\/a\u003E, 33, was recognized in the inventor category for developing \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.pindropsecurity.com\u0022\u003EPindrop Security\u003C\/a\u003E, which enables its clients to determine the origins of fraudulent phone calls, including those attempting identity theft.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/lists\/innovators-under-35\/2013\/visionary\/julie-kientz\/\u0022\u003EJulie Kientz\u003C\/a\u003E, 33, was recognized in the visionary category for her work in using computing tools to help people with sleep disorders and families with autistic children.\u0026nbsp; She now works at the University of Washington, where she directs the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chilllab\/\u0022\u003EComputing for Healthy Living and Learning Lab\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlperovitch earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in computer science in 2001 and a master\u2019s in information security\u0026nbsp;in 2003, both at Georgia Tech. Balasubramaniyan earned a doctorate in computer science from Georgia Tech in 2011.\u0026nbsp;Both men completed research at the College of Computing\u2019s Information Security Center. Kientz earned her doctorate in computer science in 2008, completing her research in the School of Interactive Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThree graduates of Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Computing earned inclusion this week to \u003Cem\u003EMIT Technology Review\u003C\/em\u003E\u2019s \u201c35 Innovators under 35,\u201d an annual list recognizing people driving the next generation of technological breakthroughs.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27556","created_gmt":"2013-08-21 16:30:32","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:46","author":"Michaelanne Dye","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-08-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-08-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"72091","name":"Dmitri Alperovitch"},{"id":"72101","name":"vijay balasubramaniyan; pindrop; crowdstrike; MIT; GTISC"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}