Our year-long celebration will begin on Friday, January 23rd with a kickoff party in the Klaus Building. Planned events for students, alumni, faculty and staff will be held throughout the day, including:

8-9:30 a.m. Breakfast for College of Computing faculty & staff

• Enjoy a Waffle House breakfast with your colleagues & friends

11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Lunch for College of Computing undergraduate & graduate students

• Join us for a fajita bar and the opportunity to network with other computing students

3-4:30 p.m. Birthday Cake Reception (open to all!)

• Founding Dean Peter Freeman will deliver remarks on the College's history
• Get your picture taken with the Ramblin' Wreck!
• Sign the College's official birthday card!

6-8 p.m. Evening Reception for GT Computing alumni and invited guests (Stubbins Gallery, College of Architecture)

• Take a tour through the history of wearable computing with pioneering professor Thad Starner           

• Dean Zvi Galil gives a toast to the College of Computing

All attendees at any portion of the day will be invited to share their own thoughts and memories of GT Computing via video compilation.

We hope to see you at the College's Anniversary Celebration Kickoff!

Please RSVP!

Dr. Klawe is one of the ten members of the board of Microsoft Corporation, a board member of Broadcom Corporation, and of the nonprofit Math for America. She is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and a trustee for the Mathematical Sceinces Research Institute in Berkeley. In addition she is a member of the Stanford Engineering Advisory Council, the Advisory Council for the Computer Science Teachers Association, and the Canada Excellence Research Chairs Selection Board. She is the recipient of the 2014 Women of Vision, Anita Borg Institute of Excellence Award for Leadership, and appears on Fortune's 2014 list of the World's 50 Greatest Leaders.

Our kickoff to the year-long celebration will conclude on Friday, Jan. 23, with an evening reception for alumni and special guests. This reception will be held in the GT School of Architecture's Stubbins Gallery from 6 to 8 p.m. Dean Zvi Galil will give a toast to the College of Computing at 7 p.m. This reception will also serve as the closing reception for the Meeting the Challenge: The Path Towards a Consumer Wearable Computer exhibit, which is sponsored by the School of Industrial Design and the Wearable Computing Center. A tour of this exhibit will be provided by the curator.

Please RSVP! 

Keynote Speaker: Vint Cerf

An interactive event highlighting world class Innovation that Georgia Tech is known for where teams will show how their breakthroughs in information theory, telecommunications, computing and cryptography, can scale into applications powering both the enterprise and consumer applications of tomorrow. The event provide an opportunity for undergraduate students to show posters of their work.

Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, and Vice Chair of the Marconi Society, will deliver the keynote address, "Dynamics, Evolution and Explosion of the Internet (to Billions of Devices)". Turing Award winner and Internet co-creator Vint Cerf looks ahead to what he foresees as the key future technological disruptions and its resulting challenges. How will we connect billions of devices in the physical world, from automobiles to security and home energy management, especially in developing nations?

Symposium Schedule:

11:00 am – 12:00 pm  

-Career Panel - Career in Computing: What's your game plan?

-Marconi Society Young Scholars as Panelists: Dr. Aakanksha Chowdhery (Microsoft Research), Dr. Hao Zou (PIMCO), Dr. Joseph Kakande (Alcatel Lucent)

-Klaus Classroom 2443

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

-Posters/Demos/Presentations by students with a panel of judges+ Lunch  

-Klaus 1116 East and West

1:30 pm – 2:15 pm

-Young Scholars Symposium Keynote: Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, Vice Chair of the Marconi Society.

-Keynote: Dynamics, Evolution and Explosion of the Internet (to Billions of Devices)                 

-Klaus Atrium

2:15 pm - 3pm

-Panel Discussion: Women in Technology: Real World Challenges and Issues

-Panelists: Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google and Vice Chair of the Marconi Society, Aakanksha Chowdhery, postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research Redmond, Kanchana Raman founder/CEO of AVION Systems, Dana Randall Director of the Algorithms and Randomness Center and ADVANCE Professor of Computing, and Ellen Zegura Professor of Computer Science with moderator Hatti Hamlin Executive Director of the Marconi Society

-Klaus Atrium

This event is sponsored by the Marconi Society and Georgia Tech College of Computing. Please register for this event here! 

• Moderator: Interim Dean Ellen Zegura (2002)
• Special Guests: Interim Dean Jim Foley (2008-2010), CoC Advisory Board member Said Mohammadioun
• Description: In every organization, there is the History Behind the History. As part of the GT Computing 25/50 Anniversary celebration, please join us for an afternoon of stories that never made it into the official record from everyone who has led the College of Computing since its formation in 1990.
• Contact: For more information, contact Birney Robert at brobert@cc.gatech.edu. 

2:30pm-4:30pm - Reception - Klaus Atrium 

Parking Lots Visitors Area 4 & 5

The GVU Center and the Digital Media Program at Georgia Tech invite you to experience people-centered technology research that enhances our communities and impacts how we live day-to-day. This spring we have more than 80 projects at the Research Showcase, many that let you touch, control and imagine what technology will enable in the future.

Our relationship with personal technology and how we use it is evolving. Research through our interdisciplinary teams shows the opportunities that exist for technology to address long-standing societal challenges and how we can make new connections to advance our lives and those of others. 

The Spring Research Showcase offers:

- Hands-on and interactive demonstrations to experience technology in a wide variety of formats.

- Research from more than 20 labs with specialties that cover broad areas such as mobile and wearable technology, digital media, transportation, online communities, artificial intelligence, game development, graphics, user interfaces and much more.  

- Networking with industry representatives and access to researchers and their latest work. 

- A range of innovative ideas, interfaces and devices that can only be experienced here. 

What will shape your future technology experience? Come find out April 15, 2-5 p.m., in the Technology Square Research Building on the Georgia Tech campus. 

Please join us for an afternoon of inspiration. We look forward to seeing you on April 15, 2015.

For more information and registration, please click here!

Congratulations! You will soon become one of thousands of GT Computing alumni spread around the world, and we'd like to help you mark the occasion at the Spring 2015 Dean's New Alumni Celebration!

The ceremony will be held on Friday, May 1, from noon–1pm in the atrium of the Klaus Advanced Computing Building on the Georgia Tech campus. A light reception will begin immediately following the ceremony in the atrium until 1:30pm. Families and graduates will have an opportunity to take photos, meet administrators, faculty, and staff, and share in unique traditions that make the College of Computing a special place among Georgia Tech's schools. RSVPs required for students and their guests (up to 5 guests per student).

Please RSVP here!

Meet Georgia Tech Leadership and Curators:

                    Zvi Galil, The John P. Imlay Jr. Dean of Computing

                    Charles Isbell, Associate Dean of Computing & Professor

                    Keith Edwards, Professor and Director, GVU Center

                    Thad Starner, Co-Curator, Professor of Interactive Computing

                    Clint Zeagler, Co-Curator, Research Scientist in Wearable Computing

                    Center, Interactive Media Technology Center

Please RSVP!

On You: A Story of Wearable Computing June 30th - September 20th 2015 at The Computer History Museum in Mountain View California

Clint Zeagler | Curator / Designer

Thad Starner | Curator

Kevin Shankwiler | Designer

Yoni Kaplan | Designer

Tavenner M. Hall | Text and Images

Wearable computers and head-mounted displays are in the press daily. Why now? While the basic technology has existed for decades, only recently have these devices become practical and desirable. Using consumer, professional, and “maker” devices, this exhibit demonstrates four challenges along the road to making a consumer wearable computer: power and heat, networking, mobile input, and displays. The groups of head-mounted displays shown here reflect product categories that developed as these challenges were addressed:  

·      virtual reality displays which seek to remove the user from reality

·      portable video viewers for entertainment

·      industrial systems designed to support work tasks

·      early academic and maker systems that provide smartphone-like productivity and communication abilities for everyday use and

·      current consumer devices that leverage modern miniaturized sensors and wireless mobile networks to provide services that are “there when you need it, gone when you don’t.”

On You: A Story of Wearable Computing June 30th - September 20th 2015 at The Computer History Museum in Mountain View California

Clint Zeagler | Curator / Designer

Thad Starner | Curator

Kevin Shankwiler | Designer

Yoni Kaplan | Designer

Tavenner M. Hall | Text and Images

Wearable computers and head-mounted displays are in the press daily. Why now? While the basic technology has existed for decades, only recently have these devices become practical and desirable. Using consumer, professional, and “maker” devices, this exhibit demonstrates four challenges along the road to making a consumer wearable computer: power and heat, networking, mobile input, and displays. The groups of head-mounted displays shown here reflect product categories that developed as these challenges were addressed:  

·      virtual reality displays which seek to remove the user from reality

·      portable video viewers for entertainment

·      industrial systems designed to support work tasks

·      early academic and maker systems that provide smartphone-like productivity and communication abilities for everyday use and

·      current consumer devices that leverage modern miniaturized sensors and wireless mobile networks to provide services that are “there when you need it, gone when you don’t.”

Meet Georgia Tech Leadership and Curators:

                    Zvi Galil, The John P. Imlay Jr. Dean of Computing

                    Charles Isbell, Associate Dean of Computing & Professor

                    Keith Edwards, Professor and Director, GVU Center

                    Thad Starner, Co-Curator, Professor of Interactive Computing

                    Clint Zeagler, Co-Curator, Research Scientist in Wearable Computing

                    Center, Interactive Media Technology Center

Please RSVP! 

On You: A Story of Wearable Computing June 30th - September 20th 2015 at The Computer History Museum in Mountain View California

Clint Zeagler | Curator / Designer

Thad Starner | Curator

Kevin Shankwiler | Designer

Yoni Kaplan | Designer

Tavenner M. Hall | Text and Images

Wearable computers and head-mounted displays are in the press daily. Why now? While the basic technology has existed for decades, only recently have these devices become practical and desirable. Using consumer, professional, and “maker” devices, this exhibit demonstrates four challenges along the road to making a consumer wearable computer: power and heat, networking, mobile input, and displays. The groups of head-mounted displays shown here reflect product categories that developed as these challenges were addressed:  

·      virtual reality displays which seek to remove the user from reality

·      portable video viewers for entertainment

·      industrial systems designed to support work tasks

·      early academic and maker systems that provide smartphone-like productivity and communication abilities for everyday use and

·      current consumer devices that leverage modern miniaturized sensors and wireless mobile networks to provide services that are “there when you need it, gone when you don’t.”

We invite you to help us connect computing to the world, via:

• Business & economics. How will computing affect the way people work?
• Wellbeing & autonomy. How will computing affect the way people live?
• Arts & entertainment. How will computing affect the way people play?
• Tomorrow’s computing leaders. We know computing will shape the world, but who will shape computing?

This event will demonstrate that, if the challenge is to determine how computing will continue to permeate more deeply into the fabric of human existence, then the natural question is: What does Georgia Tech think?

Our speakers include:

• Phil Alvelda, program manager, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
• Emily Bazelon, journalist, The New York Times Magazine
• Melissa Gregg, principal engineer, Intel
  
• David Harvey, former VP of product strategy, athenahealth
• Chris Klaus, CEO, Kaneva
• James Kurose, assistant director, National Science Foundation Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering
• Frank Lantz, director, NYU Game Center
• Ed Lazowska, professor of computer science, University of Washington
• Andy Ozment, assistant secretary for cybersecurity & communications, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
• Anouk Wipprecht, wearable technology fashion designer
• Avis Yates-Rivers, president & CEO of Technology Concepts Group International; member, National Center for Women & Information Technology Board of Directors

Georgia Tech Provost Rafael Bras will open the symposium on Thursday, Oct. 22, at 2:30 p.m. in the Klaus Advanced Computing Building on the Georgia Tech campus. The event is free and open to the public.

• Sunbird full agenda at cc.gatech.edu/sunbird.
• RSVP online at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Sunbird.
• Watch online at cc.gatech.edu/event-webcast (webcast will begin immediately prior to event).
  
• For more information on the College of Computing’s 25^th Anniversary, please visit http://gtcomputing25-50.gatech.edu.

Pavel Pevzner, Ronald R. Taylor Distinguished Professor of Computer Science

University of California at San Diego

The Alberto Apostolico Lecture Series was endowed in 2015 to commemorate the life of Professor Alberto Apostolico, late of the Schools of Computational Science & Engineering and Interactive Computing. Prof. Apostolico was an influential figure in the computer science subdiscipline of string algorithms, and his contributions to the field will be honored by those chosen to deliver lectures bearing his name.

Abstract

In 2010-2015, Alberto Apostolico published an influential series of papers on alignment-free string comparison. In 2012, the original approach to alignment-free string comparison (based on comparing k-mers compositions) was extended to analyzing colored de Bruijn graphs to characterize the differences between strings. In this talk, I will discuss applications of the colored de Bruijn graphs to analyzing genome rearrangements.

A fundamental question in chromosome evolution is whether there exist fragile regions (rearrangement hotspots) where chromosomal rearrangements are happening over and over again. I demonstrate that the fragile regions do exist and further show that they are subject to a ``birth and death'' process, implying that fragility has limited evolutionary lifespan. To establish this biological result, I will prove some theorems about the breakpoint graphs, the workhorse of genome rearrangement studies. I will further illustrate that both breakpoint graphs and de Bruijn graphs are special cases of a more general notion of A-Bruijn graphs that found many applications in computational biology.

Bio

Pavel Pevzner is Ronald R. Taylor distinguished professor of computer science at UCSD where he directs the National Technology Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry. He holds a Ph.D. (1988) from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia. Pevzner was named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor in 2006 and was elected as an Association for Computing Machinery Fellow in 2010 for "contribution to algorithms for genome rearrangements, DNA sequencing, and proteomics.” He is also a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology Fellow (2012), and in 2011 Pevzner was awarded an honorary degree from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. He is the author of multiple textbooks, including Computational Molecular Biology: An Algorithmic Approach (2000), Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms (2004 with Neal Jones), and Bioinformatics Algorithms: An Active Learning Approach (2014 with Phillip Compeau). In 2013 he offered Coursera’s first MOOC on bioinformatics, which was turned into a bioinformatics specialization in 2015.