{"285351":{"#nid":"285351","#data":{"type":"news","title":"DeMillo Named as First Warren Chair of Computing","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERich DeMillo, a former dean of the College of Computing, last week was named as the first Charlotte B. and Roger C. Warren Chair of Computing, the newest endowed chair for the College.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlan Warren, vice president of engineering of Google and vice-chair of the College of Computing\u2019s Advisory Board, announced the College\u2019s newest endowed chair last year, naming it for his parents, Charlotte and Roger Warren. Last week, the Board of Regents formally approved both the establishment of this chair and DeMillo as its first holder. Warren is also a Georgia Tech alumnus, having earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in physics and mathematics in 1978.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt the time he offered the endowment, Warren said Georgia Tech holds a special place for his family, particularly since his parents met here when Roger Warren was earning a chemical engineering degree and Charlotte Warren was a nursing student at the former Crawford Long Hospital.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022After being at Georgia Tech, you want to be able to give back,\u0022 Warren told \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/development.gatech.edu\/campaign-georgia-tech\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s Campaign Quarterly\u003C\/a\u003E last August. \u0022The question is, at what time, and how to go about doing that. There were a lot of pieces that went into this being the right time and the right thing to do.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELast week, the final piece fell into place with the approval of DeMillo as the first chair. DeMillo\u2019s long career of scholarship and leadership in computing includes a six-year tenure as the Imlay Dean of Computing from 2002 to 2008, as well as his current role as director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/c21u.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for 21st Century Universities\u003C\/a\u003E. He was also recently named as one of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/lumina-taps-rich-demillo-among-inaugural-fellows\u0022\u003Efirst fellows of the Lumina Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E, a private foundation focused on education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI am thrilled and honored to be the first to hold the Charlotte B. and Richard C. Warren Chair,\u201d DeMillo said. \u201cAlan Warren has been an important guiding voice in the College and a source of wisdom and support for me when I was dean. So holding the chair that bears the names of his parents has special meaning for me personally.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI want to both congratulate Rich for this well-deserved honor and to Alan Warren for his generosity in endowing this chair,\u201d said Zvi Galil, the current Imlay Dean of Computing. \u201cIt\u2019s especially appropriate for Rich to be the first Warren Chair since he recruited Alan to our Advisory Board. I look forward to creating more endowed chairs so we can appropriately recognize our most accomplished senior faculty.\u201d \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFormer College of Computing dean serves as inaugural holder of newly endowed chair funded by Google executive and Georgia Tech alumnus.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Former College of Computing dean serves as inaugural holder of newly endowed chair funded by Google executive and Georgia Tech alumnus."}],"uid":"27897","created_gmt":"2014-03-25 09:47:17","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:07","author":"Phillip Taylor","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-03-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-03-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"242311":{"id":"242311","type":"image","title":"Rich DeMillo","body":null,"created":"1449243704","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:41:44","changed":"1475894916","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:36","alt":"Rich DeMillo","file":{"fid":"197815","name":"demillo-headshot.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/demillo-headshot_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/demillo-headshot_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":423499,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/demillo-headshot_0.jpg?itok=EFZlqSAV"}}},"media_ids":["242311"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"114601","name":"Press Release"},{"id":"30491","name":"Rich DeMillo; C21U; TechBurst; Education; Higher Education; Innovation; Center for 21st Century Universities"}],"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":""}}}