{"51326":{"#nid":"51326","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech to Offer First Truly Interdisciplinary Robotics Ph.D. in the U.S.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nATLANTA (January 30, 2008) \u0026ndash; The Colleges of Computing and Engineering at Georgia Tech today announced the nation\u0026rsquo;s first truly interdisciplinary doctoral degree in robotics to be offered at Georgia Tech. The program, which starts fall semester of 2008, was developed through Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (RIM@Georgia Tech), a collaborative research center that combines the educational strength and expertise of both units. Reaching across disciplines and drawing from curricula in computer science, electrical and computer engineering, aerospace, biomedical engineering and mechanical engineering, the doctoral degree is designed to educate a new breed of multidisciplinary researchers who will enter the market best prepared to chart a new course for robotics in the United States.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We are pleased to offer the first truly interdisciplinary robotics Ph.D. program in the country,\u0026rdquo; said Dr. Henrik Christensen, KUKA Chair of Robotics for the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. \u0026ldquo;Exposing our students to course work from multiple disciplines early on prepares them to think about robotics from a holistic approach once they enter the workforce. True to our mission in robotics at Georgia Tech, our program will recruit and educate outstanding students who will provide leadership in a world that is increasingly dependent on technology.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to robotics industry associations in North America and Japan, the global robotics market is expected to significantly expand over the next five years, including gains in both the service and personal robotics fields. With a focus on personal and everyday robotics, as well as the future of automation, faculty involved with RIM@Georgia Tech developed the doctoral degree program to best enable students to understand and drive the future role of robotics in society and industry. Approximately 15 candidates per year are expected to be admitted, gradually building the program to 60 enrolled students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Over the next five to ten years, robotics technologies will become more integrated throughout various industries that directly impact human activity and culture, such as healthcare, food processing, logistics and others,\u0026rdquo; said Dr. Christensen. \u0026ldquo;At Georgia Tech, our doctorate students will be guided through their research by at least two faculty members from distinct participating schools, providing more insight and expertise into a specific industry sector or focus area.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStudents in the Robotics Ph.D. program must first be admitted to one of the participating academic units, subsequently designated as the student\u0026rsquo;s home unit. Students will then progress through the course requirements consisting of 36 semester hours of core research and elective courses, the passing of a comprehensive qualifying exam with written and oral components, and the successful completion, documentation and defense of a piece of original research culminating in a doctoral thesis.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOver 30 faculty members from the schools of Interactive Computing, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering are affiliated with this new Ph.D. program. Faculty involved in the development of the new doctoral program include Henrik Christensen (College of Computing), Frank Dellaert (College of Computing), Eric Johnson (School of Aerospace Engineering), Ayanna Howard (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering), Steve DeWeerth (Department of Biomedical Engineering), and Harvey Lipkin (School of Mechanical Engineering).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAbout the Robotics \u0026amp; Intelligent Machines at Georgia Tech (RIM@GT)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (RIM@Georgia Tech) leverages the strengths and resources of Georgia Tech in robotics education, research, and leadership by reaching across traditional boundaries to embrace a multidisciplinary approach. The College of Computing, College of Engineering and the Georgia Tech Research Institute play key, complementary roles through Tech\u0026#39;s traditional expertise in interactive and intelligent computing, control, and mechanical engineering. Emphasizing personal and everyday robotics as well as the future of automation, faculty involved with RIM@Georgia Tech help students understand and define the future role of robotics in society. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.robotics.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewww.robotics.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAbout the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe College of Engineering at Georgia Tech is the largest engineering program in the U.S. and ranked 4th among the country\u0026rsquo;s best graduate programs by U.S. News and World Report. A respected leader in interdisciplinary research and education, the College of Engineering grants the highest number of engineering degrees in the nation across nine fields of study. For more information about the programs in the College of Engineering, please visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.coe.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewww.coe.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAbout the College of Computing at Georgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe College of Computing at Georgia Tech is a national leader in the creation of real-world computing breakthroughs that drive social and scientific progress. With its graduate program ranked 11th nationally by U.S. News and World Report, the College\u0026rsquo;s unconventional approach to education is defining the new face of computing by expanding the horizons of traditional computer science students through interdisciplinary collaboration and a focus on human centered solutions. For more information about the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, its academic divisions and research centers, please visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUseful Links\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSting Racing \u0026ndash; \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sting-racing.org\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewww.sting-racing.org\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nRobot Ethics \u0026ndash; \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/robot-ethics-proposal-funded-by-dod\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewww.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/robot-ethics-proposal-funded-by-dod\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIntelligent Machine Dynamics \u0026ndash; \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.imdl.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewww.imdl.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nInstitute for Personal Robots in Education \u0026ndash; \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.roboteducation.org\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewww.roboteducation.org\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nHuman Automation Systems \u0026ndash; \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/humanslab.ece.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehumanslab.ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Research \u0026ndash; \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/uav.ae.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Euav.ae.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information, contact:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nStefany Wilson\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCollege of Computing at Georgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n404.894.7253\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/inside\/directory\/stefany-wilson\u0022 title=\u0022Stefany Wilson\u0022\u003Estefany@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ewww.cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Colleges of Computing and Engineering at Georgia Tech today announced the nation\u0026rsquo;s first truly interdisciplinary doctoral degree in robotics to be offered at Georgia Tech. The program, which starts fall semester of 2008, was developed through Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (RIM@Georgia Tech).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Colleges of Computing and Engineering at Georgia Tech today announced the nation\u2019s first truly interdisciplinary doctoral degree in robotics to be offered at Georgia Tech."}],"uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:43:42","changed_gmt":"2016-11-22 20:09:45","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-01-30T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-01-30T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"52003":{"#nid":"52003","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Faculty Member In the News","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBalch uses ant behavior as model for robots.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETucker Balch uses ant behavior as a model for robots.\u00a0 \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:13","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:33","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-07-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-07-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"52004":{"#nid":"52004","#data":{"type":"news","title":"James Foley Named Stephen Fleming Chair in Telecommunications","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch2\u003EThe College of Computing Proudly Announces the Appointment of Dr. James D. Foley to the Stephen Fleming Chair In Telecommunications\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Foley is Professor and Associate Dean in the College of Computing, and Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He earned the Ph.D. in Computer Information and Control Engineering at the University of Michigan and the BSEE at Lehigh University, where he was initiated into Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Foley first came to Georgia Tech in 1991 to establish the Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center, which in 1996 was ranked #1 by US News and World Report for graduate computer science work in graphics and user interaction. In 1996, he became director of Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab in Cambridge and then in 1998 chairman and CEO of Mitsubishi Electric ITA, directing corporate R\u0026amp;D at four labs in North America. He returned to Georgia as Executive Director and then CEO of Yamacraw, Georgia\u0027s economic development initiative in the design of broadband systems, devices and chips.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Foley is a Fellow of ACM and IEEE, an inaugural member of the ACM\/CHI Academy, and recipient of the biannual ACM\/SIGGRAPH Stephen Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics. The graphics textbooks he has co-authored are widely used and have been translated into six foreign languages. In 1992, the Georgia Tech College of Computing graduate students named him, \u0022most likely to make students want to grow up to be professors.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn July 2001, Dr. Foley will become chairman of the Computing Research Association - an organization of over 200 computer science and computer engineering university departments, professional societies and industrial research labs.\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Stephen Fleming\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStephen Fleming is a fifth-generation Atlanta native, who graduated summa cum laude from Georgia Tech in 1983 with a BS in physics. During his years on campus he was involved in student government, undergraduate curriculum affairs, and the ANAK honor society. He was the recipient of the Phi Kappa Phi Scholarship cup for the highest academic achievement (4.0) in his graduating class.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMr. Fleming has a varied background in telecommunications operations, having managed optical fiber, broadband, and interactive telecommunications projects since his co-op assignments while at Georgia Tech. His career has included increasingly senior positions at AT\u0026amp;T Bell Laboratories, Northern Telecom (Nortel), and LICOM, a venture-backed startup.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHe joined Alliance Technology Ventures as the second general partner in early 1995, and has played a key role in building ATV\u0027s reputation as one of the leading early-stage technology venture funds in the Southeast. Mr. Fleming has held board seats at over a dozen of ATV\u0027s portfolio companies, both public and private. As of 2001, Alliance Technology Ventures has been successful in raising three venture funds; the Georgia Tech Foundation has been an investor in each fund. Five of ATV\u0027s investments to date have involved technology transfer of Georgia Tech research.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMr. Fleming is a past member of the board of directors of the Georgia Center for Advanced Telecommunications Technology (GCATT), and is a current member of the boards of advisors for the College of Computing and the DuPree College of Management, both at Georgia Tech. He has served as an advisor to the Georgia Research Alliance, and is heavily involved in the state\u0027s public policy debates regarding high technology. He is also the founder of the LIGHT (Linking Investors to Georgia High Technology) program, which is sponsored by GCATT, ATDC, the DuPree College, and the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG).\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Dr. Foley is Professor and Associate Dean in the College of Computing, and Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:13","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:33","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-07-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-07-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"52001":{"#nid":"52001","#data":{"type":"news","title":"College of Computing Launches New Information Security Course for Managers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe College of Computing Continuing Education Program introduces a new course entitled \u0022Blueprint for Information Security\u0022 on November 14th at the Georgia Tech Computer Training Facility at Colony Square in Midtown Atlanta. This one-day program is designed for managers at all levels who are charged with protecting digital data resources and want to learn more about their responsibilities and options. The class also will be useful to those who seek a foundation for further study on the details of building and implementing an information risk management environment.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This course material is as timely as today\u0027s headlines,\u0022 said Tom Pilsch, the College\u0027s assistant dean for Continuing Education. \u0022We built the course especially for technical and non-technical leaders at all levels who finally have heard the wake-up call and are looking for a \u0027how-to\u0027 roadmap.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis course goes beyond traditional information security courses that focus on technologies such as firewalls and encryption to secure data. \u0022Blueprint for Information Security\u0022 will touch on security technology but will concentrate on risk management and policy issues to assist managers in creating a data protection plan consistent with the needs of their organization.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Recent national events have motivated us to accelerate this program,\u0022 noted Pilsch. \u0022The interest and need definitely are there.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Blueprint for Information Security\u0022 is the lead course for a new certificate on Managing Information Security beginning in January 2002. This series of short courses will fill in the details on policy, planning and implementation for building a comprehensive information risk management program. The full certificate also will cover the common body of knowledge elements for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOnline registration and directions to the Georgia Tech Computer Training Facility are available at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtcoc.com\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtcoc.com\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.gtcoc.com\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EContact  \u003Ca title=\u0022Thomas Pilsch\u0022 href=\u0022resolveuid\/2e98d6ebec1f22bb27faa260abbf7700\u0022\u003ETom Pilsch\u003C\/a\u003E for more information.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe College of Computing Continuing Education Program introduces a new course entitled \u0022Blueprint for Information Security\u0022 on November 14th at the Georgia Tech Computer Training Facility at Colony Square in Midtown Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:12","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:33","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-07-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-07-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"52002":{"#nid":"52002","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Information Security Center To Kick Off 2001 Lecture Series","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003EThe Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) will begin its inaugural 2001 Distinguished Lecture Series on September 6 with a visit by Dr. Michael Rabin, Thomas J. Watson Sr. Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University. Rabin will speak on \u0022Hyper-Encryption and Ever Lasting Secrets\u0022 at 3 p.m. in Student Services Building, room 117.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe lecture series is generously sponsored by Atlanta-based SecureWorks Inc., which offers a 24x7 real-time intrusion prevention service to protect networks from security breaches.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECreated in 1998, GTISC is an interdisciplinary center focused on conducting research and providing education and outreach programs on information security issues. Recently, the National Security Agency named GTISC a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Security Assurance Education.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESome 20 faculty and 45 students from across the Georgia Tech campus are involved in approximately $6 million of funded research in information security through GTISC. The Center also offers a number of courses on the topic and expects to offer a Master\u00b9s in Information Security starting sometime in 2002.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Information security is one of the most important and challenging issues facing our society today,\u0022 said Dr. Peter Freeman, acting director for GTISC and John P. Imlay, Jr. dean and professor in the College of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022As we understand more about the subject, it is clear that there are a myriad of opportunities for cutting-edge research in computer science as well as policy studies. This set of outstanding speakers has been chosen to help us all better understand the intellectual challenges and policy decisions we face.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EAbout SecureWorks\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E SecureWorks is the first \u0022next generation\u0022 network security service designed to prevent network intrusions by professional hackers. The company provides comprehensive intrusion prevention by offering three key components: real-time intervention, data fingerprint correlation and dynamic inoculation technology. SecureWorks\u00b9 proactive security solution is based on its information security appliance, the iSensor, and its technology working in concert with security specialists located at the company\u00b9s security operations center.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe complete schedule for the 2001 Fall lecture series follows:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESeptember 6\u003Cbr \/\u003EDr. Michael O. Rabin\u003Cbr \/\u003EThomas J. Watson Sr. Professor of Computer Science\u003Cbr \/\u003EHarvard University\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOctober 4\u003Cbr \/\u003EDr. Eugene H. Spafford\u003Cbr \/\u003EPurdue University\u003Cbr \/\u003EProfessor of Computer Science and Philosophy\u003Cbr \/\u003EDirector, Center for Education Research Information Assurance and Security\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOctober 18\u003Cbr \/\u003EDr. Edward W. Felten\u003Cbr \/\u003EPrinceton University\u003Cbr \/\u003EAssociate Professor of Computer Science\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENovember 8\u003Cbr \/\u003EDr. Matthew A. Bishop\u003Cbr \/\u003EUniversity of California, Davis\u003Cbr \/\u003EAssociate Professor of Computer Science\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDecember 6\u003Cbr \/\u003EDr. Donald Prosnitz\u003Cbr \/\u003EDepartment of Justice\u003Cbr \/\u003EChief Scientist\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) will begin its inaugural 2001 Distinguished Lecture Series on September 6 with a visit by Dr. Michael Rabin, Thomas J. 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The panelists discussed how the nation\u0027s heightened level of security is impacting global business by creating new threats, challenges, and opportunities that have never been experienced by today\u0027s society. The program, presented by the Georgia Tech Business Network and the Georgia Tech Coca-Cola Alumni Club, addressed domestic and international security issues including terrorism, privacy \u0026amp; product security. Panelists analyzed the impact each of these issues has across multiple industries.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPictured from left to right are moderator Chip White (ISyE Chair of Transportation and Logistics), Rich DeMilllo, Chris Klaus (Founder and CTO of Internet Security Systems and Georgia Tech alumnus), and Doug Lewis (CIO of Six Continents Hotels).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn his keynote address, DeMillo said that today\u0027s security threats are asymmetric in that there is not one common perimeter of defense to consider but multiple points of entry that could be targeted indirectly and from the inside.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKlaus agreed and added that more investment in information technology is needed in terms of people, education and training. He also recommended that companies build security into their plan rather than after, and that they set common standards for pushing security throughout an organization.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELewis noted that information technology discussion is increasingly moving into the board room due to security\u0027s impact on a company\u0027s revenue, accountability and brand.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECreated and sponsored by the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Georgia Tech Business Network holds quarterly meetings on a wide variety of topics. For more information, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtbn.org\u0022 title=\u0022www.gtbn.org\u0022\u003Ewww.gtbn.org\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"CoC Imlay Dean and Distinguished Professor of Computing Rich DeMillo participated in a panel discussion held at the Coca-Cola Headquarters on May 14.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:10","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-05-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-05-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51953":{"#nid":"51953","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Researchers Search for a Faster Internet","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETech researchers develop technology to determine how the Internet is performing from the end-user perspective.\u00a0 \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:06","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-03-26T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-03-26T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51979":{"#nid":"51979","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Alum Wins 2003 World Technology Award","body":"","field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Computing Alum Krishna Bharat, a principal scientist at Google, has been given the 2003 World Technology Awards for work in media and journalism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:10","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-06-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-06-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51951":{"#nid":"51951","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Two College of Computing Alums Recently Selected as Sloan Research Fellows","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe College of Computing at Georgia Tech is pleased to announce that two of their Ph.D. alums have been selected as Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows. Dr. Samrat Bhattacharjee, assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland and Dr. James O\u0026amp;rsquo;Brien, assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley are among those selected to receive honors for their \u0022exceptional promise to contribute to the advancement of knowledge.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship is an extraordinarily competitive award, involving nominations for most of the very best scientists from around the country. Sloan Research Fellows, once chosen, are free to pursue whatever lines of inquiry are of the most compelling interest to them. The Fellowship carries with it a grant of $40,000, to be used over a two-year period in support of research.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESamrat (Bobby) Bhattacharjee received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the College of Computing at Georgia Tech in 1999. His thesis was part of the CANES active networking project. At Tech, he also worked on the GT-ITM and SOREN projects. Bhattacharjee is also an assistant professor in the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and an affiliate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland. He is a NSF CAREER Award recipient. His research interests include wide-area networking, network protocol design, operating systems and distributed systems and algorithms. His research group has designed a set of protocols and mechanisms that address different aspects of implementing cooperative applications. The focus is on incentive-based cooperation policies, on mechanisms to scalably check and enforce partnerships and on protocols to ensure privacy and integrity.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJames O\u0027Brien earned his doctorate in Computer Science from the Georgia Tech\u0026amp;rsquo;s College of Computing in August of 2000 before going to UC Berkeley. His interests are in most areas of Computer Graphics and Animation, but his research focuses primarily on the physically based simulation of complex deformable and fluid systems. The methods developed by his research group can be used for generating special effects in movies, realistic environment in video games and for training simulations. In addition to serving on the committees for other conference and journals, O\u0027Brien has twice served on the ACM SIGGRAPH Papers Committee. He has published seven journal papers and twenty conference papers, including ten in the ACM SIGGRAPH conference. \u0026amp;ldquo;I think one of the reasons I\u0027ve been successful is that I had the opportunity to work closely with outstanding faculty at Georgia Tech, and learn from each one of them,\u0022 says O\u0027Brien. \u0022The real secret to success is to be excited about your work and enjoy it. Other things like integrity and self-honesty are important too.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Sloan Research Fellowships were established in 1955 to provide support and recognition to young scientists. Twenty-six Sloan Fellows have won Nobel Prizes later in their careers, and hundreds have received other honors. Currently a total of 116 fellowships are awarded annually in seven fields: chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience and physics. Since the beginning of the program, the Foundation has spent nearly $99 million for support of over 3,800 young researchers.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Dr. Samrat Bhattacharjee, assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland and Dr. James O\u2019Brien, assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley are among those selected to receive honors for their \u201cexceptional promise to contribute to the advancement of knowledge.\u201d","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:06","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-04-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-04-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51998":{"#nid":"51998","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Freeman to Step Down as Dean of Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Computing","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPeter A. Freeman met with the faculty and staff of the College of Computing today to announce he was stepping down as dean effective May 5, 2002. After serving as founding dean of the College since 1990, Freeman will assume a position with the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Washington as assistant director of NSF for Computer \u0026amp; Information Science \u0026amp; Engineering (CISE). He will remain a member of the Georgia Tech Faculty, on assignment to NSF.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJean-Lou Chameau, Georgia Tech provost, was in attendance at Friday\u0027s meeting and told the College community: \u0022Peter has done a tremendous job at recruiting bright faculty who will carry his legacy. He also has done a tremendous job of raising much needed funds for expansion of the College. Peter is a great colleague and I will miss him.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFreeman told his faculty and staff it was a \u0022bittersweet time\u0022 for him.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Serving as dean of the College of Computing at Georgia Tech has been the highlight of my career. We are blessed with faculty with great minds who push the boundaries of computing and who help integrate the discipline of computer science with many other academic and applied areas,\u0022 he said. \u0022The College of Computing will always be a part of me, and I\u0027ll miss working with the great faculty, staff, students and administrators both here at the College of Computing and Georgia Tech on a regular basis. But, remember that you are the College. Carry on!\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFreeman holds the only endowed dean\u0027s chair at Georgia Tech, the John P. Imlay, Jr. Dean of Computing, which was established in 1999. Under his leadership, the College of Computing has become one of the strongest and largest computing research and education groups in the country, as well as one of the top units at Georgia Tech. Enrollment in the College of Computing has grown dramatically from approximately 700 students to a current total of nearly 1,900, increasing by more than 1,000 students at the undergraduate level and by nearly 120 at the graduate level. The faculty has also grown from 37 academic and four research faculty to 64 academic and 35 research faculty.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFreeman\u0027s leadership also helped bring to fruition the single largest outright gift in Georgia Tech\u0027s history when in 2000 Christopher W. Klaus donated $15 million to the College. The new Advanced Computing Technology Building, now in the design phase, will be named in his honor.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to serving as dean, Freeman also served as chief information officer for the campus for three years during which time he led the campus networking project (FutureNet) in preparation for hosting the1996 Olympics. As part of the campus leadership team he was heavily involved in the recently completed capital campaign and the Yamacraw Economic Development Mission. In 1998, he chaired the Sam Nunn NationsBank Policy Forum on information security, which led to the creation of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC), one of the first comprehensive centers in the country focused on information security. He currently serves as acting director for GTISC.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPrior to coming to Georgia Tech, Freeman was visiting distinguished professor of information technology at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia (1989-90), and from 1987 to 1989 he served as division director for computer and computation research at the National Science Foundation. He served on the faculty of the Department of Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine, for almost twenty years before coming to Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We are grateful to Peter Freeman for serving as the dean for our College of Computing during its first 12 years,\u0022 said Georgia Tech President G. Wayne Clough. \u0022Under his leadership the College has grown dramatically and developed into one of the nation\u0027s best computing programs in the nation. His legacy will include an accomplished faculty, a top flight student body, and a successful capital campaign that provided faculty chairs, student scholarships and private funding for the soon to be built Klaus Advanced Computing Technology Building. We are grateful to Peter and wish him the best in his new position.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFreeman received his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1970, his M.A. in mathematics and psychology from The University of Texas at Austin in 1965, and his B.A. in physics and mathematics from Rice University in 1963. He co-authored \u0022The Supply of Information Technology Workers in the United States\u0022 (CRA, 1999) and authored \u0022Software Perspectives: The System is the Message\u0022 (Addison Wesley, 1987), \u0022Software Systems Principles\u0022 (SRA, 1975), and numerous technical papers.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, he edited or co-edited four books including, \u0022Software Reusability\u0022 (IEEE Computer Society, 1987), and \u0022Software Design Techniques,\u0022 4th edition (IEEE Press,1983). He was the founding editor of the McGraw-Hill Series in software engineering and technology. In addition, Freeman is an active consultant to industry, government and academia around the globe. He has been a member of the board of directors of the Computing Research Association since 1988, having served as vice-chair and chair of the Government Affairs Committee. He serves as co-chair for the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science Advisory Committee and is a senior advisor to the University of United Arab Emirates. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPeter A. Freeman met with the faculty and staff of the College of Computing today to announce he was stepping down as dean effective May 5, 2002.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:12","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2002-01-25T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2002-01-25T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51963":{"#nid":"51963","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dean welcomes new faculty to CoC","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch1\u003EDean Welcomes New Faculty to CoC\u003C\/h1\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E To: The College of Computing Community\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E I am pleased to tell you that the 2003-4 academic year was one of remarkable growth for the College. Thanks to the dedicated effort of the CCD and ICD recruiting committees chaired by Mustaque Ahamad and Irfan Essa, and a great support team led by Linda Williams, we will add five new faculty:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E Eric Vigoda\u003C\/strong\u003E will join CCD as an Associate Professor on July 15th. His office will be located in CCB 237. Eric received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1999. Prior to joining the College, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. Among his research interests are new techniques for analyzing Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E Alexandra (Sasha) Boldyreva\u003C\/strong\u003E will join CCD as an Assistant Professor on August 15th. Her office will be located in CCB 254. Sasha received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at San Diego in 2004. Her research interests include cryptography and information security.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E Alessandro (Alex) Orso\u003C\/strong\u003E will join CCD as an Assistant Professor on August 15th. His office will be located in CCB 218. Alex received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Politecnico di Milano, Italy in 1999. Alex is currently a CoC Research Scientist. His research interest is in software engineering with an emphasis on program analysis and testing. He was the recipient of the CoC 2004 Outstanding Research Scientist Research Faculty Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E Keith Edwards\u003C\/strong\u003E will join ICD as an Associate Professor on September 27th. His office will be located in TSRB. Keith received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech in 1995. Keith joins us from The Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) where he was a senior member of the research staff. His research interests include ubiquitous computing, infrastructure to support novel user interfaces, and computer-supported cooperative work.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E Rebecca (Becki) Grinter\u003C\/strong\u003E will join ICD as an Associate Professor on September 27th. Her office will be in TSRB. Becki received her Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine in 1996. Becki is also joining us from PARC where she is a member of the research staff. Her research interests include computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), human computer interaction (HCI), and software engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E We also have two virtual additions: previously announced faculty members that were hired last year but spent the year on leave at other institutions:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ESubhash Khot\u003C\/strong\u003E (CCD) arrived on July 1st after spending a year at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton. Here are Subash\u0027s coordinates:\u003Cbr \/\u003E Office: CCB 234\u003Cbr \/\u003E E-mail: \u0026lt;a xhref=\u0022mailto:khot@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u0026gt;khot@cc.gatech.edu\u0026lt;\/a\u0026gt;\u003Cbr \/\u003E Phone: (404) 385-6603\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Assistant Professor Gabriel Loh (CCD) will arrive on August 15th after spending a year on leave at Intel. Here are Gabriel\u0027s coordinates:\u003Cbr \/\u003E Office: CCB 221\u003Cbr \/\u003E E-mail: \u0026lt;a xhref=\u0022mailto:loh@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u0026gt;loh@cc.gatech.edu\u0026lt;\/a\u0026gt;\u003Cbr \/\u003E Phone: (404) 385-6604\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Please join me in welcoming our new colleagues to Georgia Tech and the College of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Rich DeMillo\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Five new faculty added to College of Computing","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:08","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-07-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-07-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51978":{"#nid":"51978","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Approach to Introductory Computing Praised by Non-CS Students","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003EMost students at Tech will tell you that introductory computer science (CS) courses are not considered \u201cuser-friendly\u201d\u2014especially for non-CS majors and non-Engineering majors. In particular, non-CS majors have voiced concerns about the irrelevance of introductory CS content to their diverse fields of study. In fact, CS programs nationwide have witnessed dramatically low retention rates and failure rates as high as 50 percent.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERecent studies by the American Association of University Women show that the kinds of concerns voiced by Georgia Tech students have had an especially negative impact on female participation in CS. Margolis and Fisher\u2019s book titled \u201cUnlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing,\u201d suggests that many students view computing courses as overly technical, boring, and lacking opportunities for creativity and relationships to real application. The book suggests that women in particular find this view of computing unappealing enough to stay away.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOne course offered as a pilot this spring in the College of Computing, however, may forever change the landscape for non-CS majors. Titled \u201cIntroduction to Media Computation,\u201d the pilot offering of the course included 120 students, two-thirds of whom were women. The course uses \u201ccomputation for communication\u201d as a guiding principle. CS1315 students study and create programs that manipulate sound, images and movies. Students program in Jython (JES), an implementation of the programming language Python integrated with Java. Specialized technology for the course was developed by a team of undergraduate students and includes an environment for programming in JES and a suite of applications that support students\u2019 exploration of media.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe technology built for the course was more effective than we anticipated, given the pilot nature of the course and the software,\u201d said Associate Professor Mark Guzdial, who created and taught the pilot course. \u201cThe results in our first offering of the course have been remarkable,\u201d he said. Ph.D. student and research assistant Andrea Forte said, \u201cwhile we are still in the process of exploring its effectiveness as a learning environment, I think the simplicity of JES\u2019 design contributed to students\u2019 success.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBy drop day, only three students out of 120 had dropped the class, resulting in one of the highest retention rates in CoC history for an introductory programming course for non-majors.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMany students run in fear of CS1321, and it is a lot of pressure for non-CS majors, so we decided to develop a pilot course (CS1315) that was less intimidating, but equally challenging,\u201d said Guzdial.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EComputer science classes traditionally emphasize issues such as speed of solutions because historically computers were slow in solving generalized problems. Instead, CS1315 emphasizes real-world applications of computing and creative social experiences with computing. Students learn to program in the context of learning how to use computers for communication, as opposed to calculation, an important distinction for non-CS majors.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen asked what they like about the class, students affirmed that the pilot program is succeeding at establishing a course that students recognize as relevant even among non-CS majors. One female student said, \u201cI dreaded CS, but all of the topics thus far have been applicable to my future career and personal plans. There isn\u2019t anything I don\u2019t like about this class!\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech requires all students to take an introductory course in computing, including programming skills. The traditional course is undoubtedly one of the most unpopular courses on campus, especially among non-CS majors. Results from the pilot course in media computation, however, indicate that the new approach appeals to liberal arts majors and yet retains a focus on programming.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGuzdial says, \u201cProgramming and computation will inevitably become part of a general liberal education, but computing courses will need to continue evolving for this to happen.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStudents in the pilot offering of Media Computation were surveyed at the beginning of the course this past spring along with students from 2 other introductory computing courses\u2014 CS 1321 (required for CS majors) and COE1361 (required for engineering majors). Andrea Forte wrote the survey with input from Guzdial, and responses were collected and analyzed with assistance from Rachel Fithian and undergraduate Lauren Rich. The survey responses indicated that at the beginning of the semester, students in different introductory CS courses had different perceptions about computer science. By the end of the courses, however, perceptions among students were much more similar, suggesting that parallel conceptions or understanding about CS arose from students in all three courses. Results also indicated that students in Media Computation appreciated the relevance of the course and even found computer science interesting. Students wrote eight programs (six collaboratively and two individually) involving the creation or manipulation of pictures, sounds, HTML pages and movies, with some of their programs reaching over 100 lines of code. Some students reported that they did programming on their own time \u201cjust for fun,\u201d to do things like play songs backwards or manipulate their personal photographs.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETeaching assistants who helped make the pilot offering successful were undergraduates Jim Gruen, Angela Liang, Larry Olson, Matt Wallace, Adam Wilson, and Ph.D. student Jose Zagal. Guzdial will teach two sections in the fall with an expected enrollment of 240 students. CoC Associate Professor Colin Potts and CoC Assistant Professor Blair MacIntyre will join Guzdial to teach CS1315 in the spring of 2004. The expected enrollment for spring is 360 students.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOther colleges and universities have taken notice of the pilot\u2019s success and some have started implementing the approach as well. Gainesville College started a Media Computation class this summer with 12 students (9 female). Charles Fowler of Gainesville is working closely with Guzdial\u2019s team to evaluate how the class works to adapt materials at a variety of institutions. Other schools in the University System are talking with Guzdial about how to adapt the approach for their curricula as well.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOne course offered as a pilot this spring in the College of Computing may forever change the landscape for non-CS majors.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:10","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-07-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-07-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51952":{"#nid":"51952","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CoC Virtual Ground Breaking and Noonan Lecture on Information Security","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECeremony to feature the new Christopher W. Klaus Advanced Computing Building as well as a lecture from Mr. Klaus on information security.\u00a0 \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:06","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-04-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-04-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51997":{"#nid":"51997","#data":{"type":"news","title":"College of Computing Launches Certificate in Managing Information Security","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003EThe College of Computing Continuing Education Program will offer a new continuing education certificate program titled \u0022Managing Information Security\u0022 on March 1st at the Georgia Tech Computer Training Facility at Colony Square in Midtown Atlanta. This 15-day program is offered on a recurring two-month cycle and is designed for managers at all levels who are charged with protecting digital data. The program also will be valuable to those who seek professional certification in information security.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is the program security leaders in business and government have asked for,\u0022 said Tom Pilsch, the College\u0027s assistant dean for continuing education. \u0022People told us that they are concerned about policy, planning and human engineering challenges as well as the technical issues and they want a program that supports a widely recognized certification exam. This curriculum offers all that.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe certificate in Managing Information Security provides a bridge between a traditional focus on technologies such as firewalls and encryption and the business issues of risk management and policy to assist managers in creating a comprehensive data protection plan consistent with the needs of their organization.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We built this program especially for technical and non-technical leaders at all levels who finally have heard the wake-up call and are looking for a \u0027how-to\u0027 roadmap in information security,\u0022 said Pilsch.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe core of the curriculum is based on the 10 elements of the Certificate Body of Knowledge (CBK) covered on the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) examination. This vendor-neutral certification is administered by the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, Inc., (ISC)2, and is widely recognized in the information security industry as a mark of professional commitment.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe nine modules in the certificate cover legal issues, policy, planning, implementation, incident response and business continuity. There also is a one-day information technology overview for non-technical managers who may need to refresh their technical understanding. The final module in the certificate is an incident response exercise to provide hands-on application of the principles covered in the classroom.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe College of Computing provides a series of non-credit short courses and certificates in core computing competencies such as databases, Internet, software engineering, networks, computing environments and now information security at the Georgia Tech Computer Training Facility in Midtown Atlanta. Additional information on these programs, including online registration and directions to the facility, is available at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtcoc.com\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtcoc.com\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.gtcoc.com\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe College of Computing Continuing Education Program will offer a new continuing education certificate program titled \u0022Managing Information Security\u0022 on March 1st at the Georgia Tech Computer Training Facility at Colony Square in Midtown Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:12","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2002-02-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2002-02-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51977":{"#nid":"51977","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Cybersecurity Pioneer Selected To Lead Information Security Center At Georgia Tech","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology announced today that it has named Ralph Merkle, an inventor of the encryption technology that allows secure transactions over the Internet, as director of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC). Merkle is known for his seminal contributions to information security and nanotechnology.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMerkle will be joining the College of Computing faculty as Professor of Computing and director of GTISC, reporting to the Office of the Provost, effective September 8. Merkle fills the position currently held on an interim basis by Richard A. DeMillo, the Imlay Dean of the nationally ranked College of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Ralph brings his undisputable expertise and worldwide name recognition in the field of information security, an important area of focus for Georgia Tech,\u0022 said Jean-Lou Chameau, provost and vice-president for academic affairs.\u00a0 \u0022His extensive research experience, credibility, and leadership will enhance GTISC\u0027s successes.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMerkle is widely recognized for his award-winning work in the field of cryptography as one of the co-founders of public-key cryptography. The New York Times said, \u0022Dr. Ralph C. Merkle is celebrated as an inventor of the encryption technology that allows secure transactions over the Internet.\u0022 More recently, he has focused in theemerging area of nanotechnology, also called molecular manufacturing, gaining a reputation for achievement in that field as well.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Ralph Merkle, together with Martin Hellman and Whitfield Diffie, invented modern cryptography,\u0022 said DeMillo. \u0022Today there are millions of ordinary people -- internet users, cell phone subscribers, bank customers, soldiers in the battlefield -- who depend on Ralph\u0027s inventions for security and trust in cyberspace. He really provided the key insight that led to the explosion of security innovation that we see today. We are, needless to say, very excited that Ralph will be joining our community and leading information security research here at Georgia Tech.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Ralph\u0027s selection is great news,\u0022 said Christopher W. Klaus, founder and chief technology officer of Internet Security Systems.\u00a0 \u0022It\u0027ll be a good time for him to bring leadership to GTISC and be a part of the next big security wave. I look forward to working with him.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EComputers have exploded into every facet of our lives as never before.\u00a0 They shape what we know, what we can do, and what is done to us - and yet we cannot and do not trust them. That must change, and the time for that change has now come, said Merkle. \u0022It is both an honor and a pleasure for me to return to my first loves of computer security and cryptography to help Georgia Tech play a pivotal role in this coming transformation.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EAbout Merkle\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMerkle comes to Georgia Tech from Zyvex LLC, a nanotechnology start-up company headquartered near Dallas, where as principal fellow he led the company\u0027s nanotechnology research efforts since 1999. During this time he kept up his interests in security by consulting with, among others, Xerox PARC, Securify, and various confidential clients.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom 1988 - 1999, Merkle pursued research in both computer security and computational nanotechnology as a research scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). From 1980 - 1988, he was manager of compiler development at Elxsi Corporation, a Silicon Valley start-up company.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMerkle has published and spoken extensively and holds 11 patents.\u00a0 He holds the fundamental patents on many of the major technologies in cryptography and cryptographic protocols.\u00a0 Notable are his patents with Martin Hellman and Whitfield Diffie on public key distribution and public key cryptosystems.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMerkle has published extensively in such leading journals as IEEE Spectrum, MIT Technology Review, Nanotechnology, Journal of Cryptology, and Crypto.\u00a0 His influential books include \u0022Secrecy, Authentication, and Public Key Systems,\u0022 UMI Research Press (1982).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHe was co-recipient of the 1998 Feynman Prize for Nanotechnology for Theory. For his security work he received the Association for Computing Machinery\u0027s (ACM) Kanellakis Award for Theory and Practice, the 2000 RSA Award in Mathematics and the Kobayashi Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHe served for many years as the executive editor of the journal Nanotechnology. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the American Chemical Society, the American Physical Society, and the IEEE. He sits on the Board of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation and serves as vice president for technology assessment at the Foresight Institute, a Palo Alto based non-profit focused on nanotechnology.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Merkle received his B.A. and M.S. degrees in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E About GTISC\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Information Security Center, a National Security Agency (NSA) Center of Excellence in Information Assurance Education, conducts interdisciplinary research and development on all aspects of information security, including systems-vulnerability assessment, theory development, and public and organizational security policies. GTISC\u0027s three-pronged mission includes: conducting research that will lay the foundations for a discipline of information security and that contributes to the development and testing of systems, devices, strategies, policies, practical concepts, and techniques; educating and training information security professionals through degree and continuing-education programs, and to insure that information security awareness is instilled in all Georgia Tech students; and assisting industry, non-profit organizations, government, and individuals to solve information security problems through outreach programs and support of groups devoted to information security.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe interdisciplinary center is housed in the College of Computing and involves faculty from Computing, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, and the School of Public Policy.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERalph Merkle will be joining the College of Computing faculty as Professor of Computing and director of GTISC, reporting to the Office of the Provost, effective September 8.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:10","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-07-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-07-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51964":{"#nid":"51964","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Researchers Explore Solutions to Information Security Problems","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFaculty members conduct research that covers a gamut of information security issues, including database security, secure networks, cryptography, intrusion detection, quality of information, and policies on unsolicited e-mail, privacy, passive and active defense, and international cooperation to deal with cyber crime and terrorism.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFaculty members conduct research that covers a gamut of information security issues, including database security, secure networks, cryptography, intrusion detection, quality of information, and policies on unsolicited e-mail, privacy, passive and active defense, and international cooperation to deal with cyber crime and terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:08","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-01-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-01-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51990":{"#nid":"51990","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Graduates First Master\u2019s in Information Security","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003EThis month Georgia Tech graduates its first student with a Master of Science in Information Security. A June 1999 Department of Commerce Report, \u201cThe Digital Workforce,\u201d estimates that the U.S. will require more than 1.3 million new highly skilled information technology workers between 1996 and 2006. Michael E. Torrey of Winter Springs, Fla., started graduate school working towards an M.S. in Computer Science with a concentration in information security, but once the new Information Security program was approved he decided to pursue the new degree. The importance of information security has become increasingly urgent with recent Home Land Security effortss\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are very proud of Mike\u2019s accomplishment and gratified that he was able to take advantage of our new graduate degree in Information Security so quickly,\u201d said Rich DeMillo, John P. Imlay, Jr. Dean of Computing, Distinguished Professor of Computing and Director, Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC). \u201cWe are working to build one of the best information security programs in the country.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETorrey completed his undergraduate degree in computer science from the Catholic University of America in May 2001, where his interest in information security began. Torrey considered graduate school at Duke University, James Madison University, Johns Hopkins, and University of Central Florida but felt Tech was leading the way in the InfoSec field. In his first semester Torrey greatly enjoyed the introductory courses in information security and cryptography and knew he wanted to concentrate in that area. When the new degree was approved in February, Torrey had already completed many of the required courses.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhat has impressed me most about the program has been the faculty,\u201d said Torrey \u201cIt is a difficult task simply to keep up with all of the new developments or in fact be responsible for new developments in the InfoSec field, let alone teach it. In my opinion the faculty have done an amazing job in both cases.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETorrey is considering a conditional job offer from the National Security Agency and an offer from Anteon Corporation.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe first graduate program of its kind in Georgia, the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia approved the new Master of Science degree in February. The degree is designed to help fill the high demand for individuals with both the practical skills and theoretical understanding of information security. Students can focus on either technical or policy issues of information security. The 32-hour interdisciplinary program is housed in the College of Computing with coordination with the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, the DuPree College of Management, and the Georgia State University Management Information Systems program.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC), a National Security Agency Center of Excellence in Information Assurance Education, developed the comprehensive curriculum and brings together faculty and resources in information security from across campus.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMichael E. Torrey of Winter Springs, Fla., started graduate school working towards an M.S. in Computer Science with a concentration in information security, but once the new Information Security program was approved he decided to pursue the new degree.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:11","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-10-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-10-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51996":{"#nid":"51996","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Board of Regents Approves State\u0027s First Master\u0027s In Information Security at Georgia Tech","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003EThe Board of Regents (BOR) of the University System of Georgia has approved a new Master of Science degree program in Information Security (InfoSec) that will be housed in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech starting in the Fall.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe degree, approved at the Board\u2019s most recent meeting, is the only graduate program of its kind in Georgia, according to Mike McCracken, master\u2019s program coordinator and principal research scientist in the College of Computing. The 32-hour interdisciplinary program will be housed in the College of Computing and will be offered in coordination with the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, the Dupree College of Management and the Georgia State University Management Information Systems program.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe objective of the program is to provide students with practical skills and a theoretical understanding of information security. Students can focus on either the technical aspects of InfoSec or on the policy issues. Technically, students will examine ways to provide secure information processing systems, including secure operating systems and applications, network security, cryptography and security protocols. Approximately 25 students are expected to enter the program in the Fall.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022There is a high demand for individuals with advanced knowledge of information security,\u0022 said McCracken, \u0022and we anticipate that graduates of the program will be highly recruited by both the corporate and government sector.\u0022 The recent tragedies of September 11, 2001 only serve to heighten the awareness for the increased need for information security, McCracken said, although the program was in the planning stages well before September 11.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech already has received positive feedback from the corporate sector for the program, including companies such as Intel, Microsoft, Internet Security Systems, SecureWorks and the United States Department of Justice, said Dr. Peter A. Freeman, dean of the College of Computing and acting director of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center, (GTISC) a center that will be heavily involved with the master\u2019s program. \u0022Our corporate partners have expressed great interest in hiring employees who have the level of education in information security that this degree will offer graduates and are delighted that the Board has granted approval for the College to offer this very much needed program,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGTISC, a National Security Agency Center of Excellence in Information Assurance Education, recently developed a broad and comprehensive curriculum for the information security area, noted Mustaque Ahamad, co-director of GTISC for technology and professor of computing. \u0022Our significant number of knowledgeable faculty and research emphasis in information security allow us to offer this unique program in this important area,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe BOR approval follows on the heels of an announcement by the College of Computing Continuing Education Program to offer a new continuing education certificate titled \u0022Managing Information Security\u0022 begininng March 1st at the Georgia Tech Computer Training Facility at Colony Square in Midtown Atlanta. The 15-day program is offered on a recurring two-month cycle and is designed for managers at all levels who are charged with protecting digital data.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Board of Regents (BOR) of the University System of Georgia has approved a new Master of Science degree program in Information Security (InfoSec) that will be housed in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech starting in the Fall.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:12","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2002-02-21T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2002-02-21T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51976":{"#nid":"51976","#data":{"type":"news","title":"First Two Cyber Corps Scholarship Students To Graduate from Georgia Tech","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe first two Georgia Tech students in the National Science Foundation\u00e2s Cyber Corps scholarship program graduate this semester with highly sought after information security expertise. Cyber Corps, a scholarship opportunity for students in either the Department of Defense Information Assurance Scholarship Program or the NSF Scholarship for Service Program, is designed to increase and strengthen the cadre of Federal information assurance professionals that protect the government\u0027s critical information infrastructure.The program provides full scholarships for qualified students attending an approved institution of higher learning. In addition, students in the program work in paid internships with a Federal agency and may be offered permanent employment upon graduation.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EChristopher Messer, Master of Science in International Affairs, and Charles \u201cChad\u201d Sellers, Master of Science in Computer Science with a concentration in Information Security, were selected for the NSF\u2019s Scholarship for Service program for students studying information security. Georgia Tech as a Center of Academic Excellence for Information Assurance Education (CAE\/IAE) coordinates these efforts through the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC). At Georgia Tech, the College of Computing and the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts both offer graduate-level information security concentration or degrees.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cCyber Corps is intended to cover the broad spectrum of information security from policy to technology,\u201d said Mustaque Ahamed, professor of Computing and co-director of GTISC. \u201cThat the first two Cyber Corps graduates from Georgia Tech are graduating with degrees in International Affairs and Computer Science really fits the mission of the program.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe best part of my studies here at Georgia Tech has been exploring the cutting edge of security,\u201d says Sellers. \u201cAt Georgia Tech, I have been able to explore the technologies of tomorrow, as well as analyze the technologies of today in order to improve upon them.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMesser has accepted an offer to work in the Information Assurance Directorate of the National Security Agency (NSA) and will focus on information security policies and procedures. Sellers, a self-described \u201ctechnical guy,\u201d plans to work in network security with the NSA Information Assurance Directorate as well.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Cyber Corps program has given me the opportunity to get in on the ground level of a field of huge importance to national security,\u201d says Messer. \u201cIt has helped me to make professional and career contacts with leading scholars and practitioners across the country, and it has provided the finances necessary to do this.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech as a Center of Academic Excellence has a unique relationship with three historically black colleges and universities in Atlanta. Georgia Tech has partnered with Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, and Spelman College for a NSF Scholarship for Service grant, enabling each school to award scholarships to qualified information security students.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EAbout GTISC\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Information Security Center, a National Security Agency (NSA) Center of Excellence in Information Assurance Education, conducts interdisciplinary research and development on all aspects of information security, including systems-vulnerability assessment, theory development, and public and organizational security policies. GTISC\u0027s three-pronged mission includes: conducting research that will lay the foundations for a discipline of information security and that contributes to the development and testing of systems, devices, strategies, policies, practical concepts, and techniques; educating and training information security professionals through degree and continuing-education programs, and to insure that information security awareness is instilled in all Georgia Tech students; and assisting industry, non-profit organizations, government, and individuals to solve information security problems through outreach programs and support of groups devoted to information security.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe interdisciplinary center is housed in the College of Computing and involves faculty from Computing, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, and the School of Public Policy.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gtisc.gatech.edu\/edInit.htm\u0022\u003E Cyber Corps Scholarship Programs\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECyber Corps, a scholarship opportunity for students in either the Department of Defense Information Assurance Scholarship Program or the NSF Scholarship for Service Program, is designed to increase and strengthen the cadre of Federal information assurance professionals that protect the government\u0027s critical information infrastructure.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:10","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-07-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-07-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51965":{"#nid":"51965","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Under Attack: Information Security Battle Will Require Computer Users to Make Tough Choices","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology say solving the world\u0026amp;rsquo;s growing information security problems will demand tough choices involving tradeoffs in cost, convenience and computing performance. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:08","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-01-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-01-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51995":{"#nid":"51995","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Computing Ranked in Four Ph.D. Areas By U.S. News","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe College of Computing continues to move up in the latest ranking of doctoral computer science (CS) programs by U.S. News \u0026amp; World Report. The College currently ranks 12th, tied with the University of Maryland, for doctoral CS programs, a move up from the 13th position in the previous ranking of CS programs in 1999.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAdditionally, three CS specialty areas received national rankings by the magazine. Georgia Tech is ranked as 8th best for Computer Systems (not included in previous years), 12th for Artificial Intelligence and 16th for Theory. These extensive specialty rankings are available by purchasing U.S. News\u2019 \u0022premium online edition\u0022 at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.usnews.com\u0022 title=\u0022www.usnews.com\u0022\u003Ewww.usnews.com\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe magazine\u0027s rankings, also available in print in the magazine\u2019s annual special edition guidebook titled \u0022Best Graduate Schools,\u0022 are based on a survey of deans and department chairs at CS programs around the country.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETwo other programs, not ranked in the current year, received rankings by the magazine in the last listing of doctoral CS programs in 1999. Georgia Tech ranked 4th in 1999 in Graphics\/User Interaction and 7th for Databases, bringing the current total number of ranked specialty programs to five.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA rankings summary of all Georgia Tech graduate programs may be viewed at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news-info.gatech.edu\/news_releases\/usnewsgrad2003.html\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.news-info.gatech.edu\/news_releases\/usnewsgrad2003.html\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.news-info.gatech.edu\/news_releases\/usnewsgrad2003.html\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe U.S. News rankings follow a National Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS) online survey in the fall that gave the College high marks for doctoral student satisfaction. The College received an overall grade of B+ and is among 10 programs in the first of four quartiles of 35 computer science programs in the survey. The overall average for computer science programs is a B. The College is the only program from the South listed in the first quartile of schools receiving an overall grade average of B+ or higher (total points ranking from 75 to 100).\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe College of Computing continues to move up in the latest ranking of doctoral computer science (CS) programs by U.S. News \u0026amp; World Report.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:12","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2002-04-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2002-04-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51975":{"#nid":"51975","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Researchers Create the World\u2019s Fastest Detailed Computer Simulations of the Internet","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created the fastest detailed computer simulations of computer networks ever constructed --simulating networks containing more than 5 million network elements. This work will lead to improved speed, reliability and security of future networks such as the Internet, according to Professor Richard Fujimoto, lead principal investigator of the DARPA-funded project (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThese \u201cpacket-level simulations\u201d model individual data packets as they travel through a computer network. Downloading a web page to one\u2019s home computer or sending an e-mail message typically involves transmitting several packets through the Internet. Packet-level simulations provide a detailed, accurate representation of network behavior (e.g., congestion), but are very time consuming to complete.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEngineers and scientists routinely use such simulations to design and analyze new networks and to understand phenomena such as Denial of Service attacks that have plagued the Internet in recent years. Because of the time required to complete the simulation computations, most studies today are limited to modeling a few hundred network components such as routers, servers and end-user computers.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe end goal of research on network modeling and simulation is to create a more reliable and higher-performance Internet,\u201d says Fujimoto. \u201cOur team has created a computer simulation that is two to three orders of magnitude faster than simulators commonly used by networking researchers today. This finding offers new capabilities for engineers and scientists to study large-scale computer networks in the laboratory to find solutions to Internet and network problems that were not possible before.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech researchers have demonstrated the ability to simulate network traffic from over 1 million web browsers in near real time. This feat means that the simulators could model a minute of such large-scale network operations in only a few minutes of clock time.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUsing the high-performance computers at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, the Georgia Tech simulators used as many as 1,534 processors to simultaneously work on the simulation computation, enabling them to model more than 106 million packet transmissions in one second of clock time -- two to three orders of magnitude faster than simulators commonly used today. In comparison, the next closest packet-level simulations of which the research team is aware have simulated only a few million packet transmissions per second.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research team plans to present their findings at the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS) in October. Team members include: Mostafa Ammar, Regents professor of Computing; Kalyan Perumalla, post-doctoral\/research faculty; George Riley, assistant professor in School of Electrical and Computer Engineering; and Fujimoto. Graduate students involved in this project include Alfred Park, Computing and Talal Jaafar, Electrical and Computer Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMajor funding was provided by the Network Modeling and Simulation Program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the National Science Foundation. The cluster computing platforms at Georgia Tech were obtained through a grant from Intel.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMore information about the Modeling \u0026amp; Simulation Research \u0026amp; Education Center is available at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.msrec.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EMSREC website\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created the fastest detailed computer simulations of computer networks ever constructed\u2014simulating networks containing more than 5 million network elements.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:09","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-08-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-08-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51962":{"#nid":"51962","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ACM Names Four College of Computing Faculty out of 30 Fellows as Information Technology Achievers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003EFour College of Computing (CoC) faculty help comprise 30 new Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellows selected this year for their contributions in computer science and information technology. CoC\u2019s Mostafa Ammar, Rich DeMillo, Mary Jean Harrold and Ramesh Jain join a distinguished list of colleagues from leading universities, corporations and research labs throughout the world to whom ACM and its members look for guidance and leadership.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EReflecting the scope and extent of the computing field, the 2003 ACM Fellows were cited for contributions to everything from wireless telecommunications to network services, bioinformatics, Internet architecture, secure database management, and artificial intelligence, among others.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis year\u2019s ACM Fellows join the ranks of outstanding ACM members who have contributed to the computing community through distinguished service and significant achievements in information technology,\u201d said John White, CEO of ACM. \u201cBy their contributions, they have advanced the computing discipline and its increasingly critical role in society in countless ways.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt is quite impressive and possibly an unprecedented honor to have four of the 30 ACM Fellows from one institution, so Congratulations to CoC Faculty, and specifically to:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Mostafa Ammar - For contributions to the design of systems and protocols for scalable network services.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Richard DeMillo - For contributions to the engineering of reliable and secure software.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Mary Jean Harrold - For contributions in software engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERamesh Jain - For contributions to computer vision and multimedia information systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EACM will formally recognize the new Fellows at its annual Awards Banquet in the spring of 2004. Additional information about the ACM 2003 Fellows, the awards event, as well as previous ACM Fellows and award winners is available at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.acm.org\/awards\u0022 title=\u0022www.acm.org\/awards\u0022\u003Ewww.acm.org\/awards\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EInitiated in 1993, the Fellows program celebrates the exceptional contributions of the leading members in the computing field. These individuals have helped to enlighten researchers, developers, practitioners and end-users of information technology throughout the world. They reflect the makeup of ACM\u2019s diverse membership roster, with representation from men and women, from universities and corporations, from North America and abroad.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E 2003 ACM FELLOWS\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERakesh Agrawal - IBM Almaden Research Center\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Mostafa Ammar - Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Victor Bahl - Microsoft Research\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Bonnie Berger \u2013 Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Elisa Bertino - University of Milano\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E John Carroll \u2013 Pennsylvania State University\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Richard DeMillo - Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Barbara J. Grosz - Harvard University\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Brent Hailpern \u2013 IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Jiawei Han - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Mary Jean Harrold - Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Peter E. Hart - Ricoh Innovations, Inc.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Mark Horowitz - Stanford University\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Paul Hudak - Yale University\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E H.V. Jagadish - University of Michigan\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Anil Jain - Michigan State University\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Ramesh Jain - Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Niraj Jha - Princeton University\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Dexter Kozen - Cornell University\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Yi-Bing Lin - National Chiao Tung University\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Kathleen McKeown - Columbia University\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Thomas P. Moran - IBM Almaden Research Center\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Eugene W. Myers - University of California-Berkeley\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Craig Partridge - BBN Technologies\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Daniel Reed \u2013 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Stuart J. Russell - University of California, Berkeley\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E William H. Sanders - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Scott Shenker - University of California, Berkeley\/International Computer Science Institute\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Gurindar Sohi - University of Wisconsin\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Cornelis J. van Rijsbergen - University of Glasgow\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoC\u2019s Mostafa Ammar, Rich DeMillo, Mary Jean Harrold and Ramesh Jain join a distinguished list of colleagues from leading universities, corporations and research labs throughout the world to whom ACM and its members look for guidance and leadership.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:08","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-01-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-01-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51993":{"#nid":"51993","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Zegura Named Interim Dean of Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Computing","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Provost Jean-Lou Chameau has named Dr. Ellen Zegura, assistant dean of facilities planning and associate professor of computing, to the position of interim dean of the College of Computing, effective May 6. Chameau made the announcement at a special faculty meeting on April 25, which was open to all members of the College. Zegura will serve as dean while a search committee looks for a replacement, which could be announced as early as this summer.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn January, Dr. Peter A. Freeman, John P. Imlay, Jr. Dean of Computing, announced he was stepping down as dean to assume a position with the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Washington as assistant director of NSF for Computer \u0026amp; Information Science \u0026amp; Engineering (CISE). He will remain a member of the Georgia Tech Faculty, on assignment to NSF.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn making the announcement, Chameau said, \u0022I\u0027m very pleased that Ellen has accepted my offer to hold this important position during this critical time for the College. Having served the College and Georgia Tech in numerous capacities over the years, I\u0027m confident that the College will continue to perform very well under her guidance and leadership.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs assistant dean of facilities planning, Zegura oversees all aspects of space needs for the College\u0027s faculty, staff and students. She obtained D.Sc. , M.S. and B.S. degrees in computer science, and a B.S. in electrical engineering, all from Washington University in St. Louis. She has served as assistant dean of the College since 2000 and as an associate professor since 1999. She joined the College as an assistant professor in 1993 from Washington University, where she served as a research assistant since 1987.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHer research interests lie in the area of wide-area computer networking. Current research focuses on techniques to enable distributed applications to perform well in the face of increasing scale and diversity in network infrastructure, end-system devices and application base. Ongoing projects include active networking to achieve greater network programmability, application and user-driven server selection, adapting network multicast, and development of application-aware network services.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Provost Jean-Lou Chameau has named Dr. Ellen Zegura, assistant dean of facilities planning and associate professor of computing, to the position of interim dean of the College of Computing, effective May 6.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:12","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2002-04-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2002-04-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51974":{"#nid":"51974","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CoC Graduate Selected for the 2004-2005 Defense Science Study Group","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAnnie Anton has been selected for the The Defense Science Study Group (DSSG), which allows leaders in science and technology to get involved in national security.\u00a0 \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:09","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-08-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-08-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51961":{"#nid":"51961","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Student Wins Prestigious Fellowship to Research Computer Vision","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFirst time a computer science or engineering student selected since the award was created in 1998.\u00a0 \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:08","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-01-21T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-01-21T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51988":{"#nid":"51988","#data":{"type":"news","title":"College of Computing Announces Appointment of New Members To Administrative Team","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEllen W. Zegura, Merrick Furst \u0026amp; Maureen Biggers Begin New Roles\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr.Richard A. DeMillo, Imlay Dean and Distinguished Professor of Computing, announced today three additions to the College of Computing (CoC) administrative team. Effective February 1, Ellen W. Zegura became associate dean for research and graduate programs. Zegura\u0027s duties include overall responsibility for overseeing the College\u2019s extensive research budget, and promoting and developing new research projects and initiatives. She also will oversee all aspects of the College\u0027s graduate programs and graduate student services. Zegura will retain her former duties related to space and facilities, and will continue to maintain her personal research activities in GCATT.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEllen\u0027s considerable administrative skills became apparent to all of us during her recent tenure as interim dean of CoC, so I am personally thrilled that she has agreed to bring her intelligence and energy to the dean\u0027s office on a permanent basis,\u201d DeMillo said.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMerrick Furst has joined the College\u0027s faculty and the dean\u0027s administrative team as professor and associate dean for undergraduate programs and faculty development. Furst is a distinguished scholar and brings further strength to the College\u2019s already strong theory group. Furst and DeMillo have been colleagues, collaborators and friends for many years.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBeyond his academic experience at Carnegie Mellon and Berkeley, he has commercial, entrepreneurial and administrative experience I value,\u201d said DeMillo. \u201cI have on many occasions relied on his good sense and judgment, so it gives me great personal pleasure to have him join us here at Tech.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFurst has overall responsibility for all aspects of the College\u0027s undergraduate programs, including (jointly with Ellen Zegura) supervisory responsibilities for the office of Student Services. In addition, Furst will establish and monitor a systematic mentoring infrastructure aimed at the professional development of the College\u0027s junior faculty - particularly those faculty who join the College fresh from Ph.D. programs. Furst\u0027s challenge will be to aggressively enhance the College of Computing\u2019s stature as a national leader in undergraduate computing education, a priority for the College and the Institute. With a focus on innovation and technology, and CoC\u2019s access to a remarkably talented student body, the goal is to be as celebrated for the educational achievements as the College\u2019s research achievements.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso on February 1, Maureen Biggers becomes assistant dean for diversity and special programs. Biggers has overall responsibility for promoting diversity and diversity-based programs with the College. Bigger\u0027s role is to weave diverse student populations and programs into an innovative approach to diversity that places CoC and Georgia Tech among the top ranked institutions in this area. Biggers also has responsibility for a number of programs and initiatives that require dedicated attention from the dean\u0027s office.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBiggers has an extensive background in college-level administration and brings a dedication to diversity goals to this new position,\u201d DeMillo said.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech College of Computing houses one of the largest computer science programs in the country with 68 academic faculty and 35 research faculty. The College strives to provide high quality instruction and to integrate computing knowledge into other academic disciplines as well as aspects of daily life. Approximately 1900 students are enrolled in the college; including approximately 1500 undergraduates and more than 400 graduate students, some 260 of which are Ph.D. students.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Richard A. 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The committee will be chaired by Jim Foley, professor and Stephen Fleming Chair in Telecommunications, and Nancy Nersessian, professor in the College of Computing and the School of Public Policy.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe committee is the direct outgrowth of work by College of Computing professors Beth Mynatt and Amy Bruckman over the past few months to determine the feasibility of a new degree program in this area,\u201d said Dr. Richard DeMillo, Imlay Dean of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUsing \u0022Human-Centered Computing\u0022 as a working title, the committee is charged with developing a Ph.D. program proposal that meets the following goals:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFurther establish Georgia Tech and the College of Computing as a leader in research and education at the intersection between computing and the myriad ways in which humans use and are affected by computers\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECreate a cutting-edge program that will differentiate us from other schools with similar programs\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EClearly and definitively signal to ourselves, Georgia Tech and the world the breadth and diversity of the College of Computing\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELeverage Georgia Tech\u0027s strengths in computing, HCI, psychology, cognitive science, multimedia and media studies, human factors, ergonomics, assistive technologies and industrial design\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECreate stronger synergies between CoC faculty in HCI, AI, Intelligent Systems, Cognitive Science and Learning Science, and create a Ph.D. program that is highly relevant to faculty working in many of these areas\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAttract the very best students and faculty whose interests are research and education at the intersection between computing and humans\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe committee will initially focus on developing a CoC Ph.D. degree with a strong interdisciplinary orientation, with subsequent plans to work with interested schools to develop a multiple-entry degree similar to degrees in bioinformatics, HCI, and algorithms, combinatorics and optimization (ACO).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Ph.D. in HCC is yet another step toward broadening the College\u2019s intellectual base,\u201d said Foley. Nersessian agrees. \u201cWe see this as a step in fulfilling and further articulating our vision to extend the boundaries of computing,\u201d she said.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe College of Computing at Georgia Tech has announced plans to form a committee with the task of developing a new Ph.D. program in Human-Centric Computing (HCC).\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:11","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-02-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-02-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51972":{"#nid":"51972","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Recent Computer Science Double Major Receives Competitive Homeland Security Fellowship","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENew Scholarship Proves Extremely Competitive\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003ERecent Georgia Tech graduate V. Blair Dowling, who is passionate about mathematics and is a fierce competitor in Ultimate Frisbee, will soon become part of a much larger team. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has selected her to receive one of 100 fellowships in the new Homeland Security Scholars and Fellows Program. More than 2,500 students nationwide applied for the 100 openings available to undergraduate and graduate students studying a variety of disciplines related to scientific and technological innovations that can be applied to the DHS mission. Dowling graduated in May with degrees in applied mathematics and computer science and a minor in economics.\u00a0 Dowling will use the three-year graduate fellowship, which includes a stipend and full tuition, to pursue her doctoral degree in mathematics at Princeton University. Her long-term goal is to be a professor of mathematics.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI fell in love with math at a very early age,\u201d said Dowling. \u201cInitially my only goal was to make a contribution to theoretical mathematics \u2013 a beautiful result on a pedestal. Over the last four years, my goal has expanded to include the innovation of new applications of mathematics to societal problems \u2013 such as the HIV project I\u2019m working on now. I\u2019m looking forward to learning the foundations of mathematics at Princeton, and hope to be able to then teach them to the next generation.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDowling feels this fellowship will give her the freedom to concentrate on her studies.\u00a0 In April when she received an e-mail from one of her math professors suggesting she apply for the fellowship, she had already been offered a teaching fellowship at Princeton, which covered all expenses for four years. Dowling felt the Homeland Security Fellowship provided more flexibility.\u00a0 As part of the fellowship, Dowling will be required to complete an internship with DHS the summer after her first year.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDowling, an outstanding student who graduated from Tech with a perfect 4.0 GPA, has received many honors. She was a finalist for the highly prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, which included an intensive application and interview process that she found very thought provoking.\u00a0 She also received the Phi Kappa Phi Scholarship Cup, awarded each year to the graduating senior with the most outstanding scholastic record in the class.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs an undergraduate, she pursued several research projects. She worked on a joint Georgia Tech - Emory University research project with Dr. Dana Randall, associate professor in the College of Computing and adjunct in the School of Mathematics at Georgia Tech and Dr. Guido Silvestri, assistant professor of medicine at the Emory Vaccine Research Center \u0026amp; Yerkes National Primate Research Center.\u00a0 The project\u2019s goal is to develop a mathematical model of HIV infection in vivo, along with computer software allowing biologists, to visualize the progression of the disease. For this project, she won first place in the annual UROC (Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Computing) competition. Dowling is involved in ongoing research with the project, and anticipates publication of their work sometime in the next year. Another project was a National Science Foundation-sponsored Research Experience for Undergraduates focusing on elliptic curves and quadratic residue tournaments.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBlair completely embodies the type of student that made me want to become an academic,\u201d said Randall.\u00a0 \u201cShe demonstrated such extreme professionalism and scientific integrity in our HIV modeling research project that it is hard to believe that she was still an undergraduate.\u00a0 For the project, Blair had to comprehend the immunological dynamics involved in HIV infection at the level of a graduate student in biology, she had to understand partial differential equations used in mathematical modeling and reinterpret them as stochastic equations, and she had to demonstrate proficiency in programming methodologies.\u00a0 Her enthusiasm and dedication elevated this joint Georgia Tech-Emory project to a level far beyond our original expectations, and we were incredibly fortunate to have her work with us.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDowling, from Savannah, Ga., enjoys teaching.\u00a0 At Georgia Tech she worked as a teaching assistant for Calculus II courses.\u00a0 One summer, she served as head counselor for a math camp for high school students at Boston University called PROMYS \u2013 the Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDespite her heavy academic load, Dowling found time for extracurricular activities as well.\u00a0 She played on the Georgia Tech Women\u2019s Ultimate Frisbee team and additionally served as captain of an intramural ultimate team all four years.\u00a0 Dowling served as president of the Georgia Tech chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon, the National Math Honor Society, and faculty credit her with reviving this organization and transforming it into a vibrant group that promotes excellence in mathematics and interactions among department faculty and students. Also, Dowling was an active member of Westminster Christian Fellowship and helped organize and raise funds for the renovation of their on-campus building in the spring of 2003.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThrough this education program, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security supports the growth and mentoring of the next generation of scientists as they study ways to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, reduce America\u2019s vulnerability to terrorism, and minimize the damage and recovery efforts from attacks that occur. More than 100 experts from a variety of fields reviewed the applications. About one-third of the awards were given to students from engineering disciplines, followed by computer science and math, psychology and social sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMore information about the Homeland Security Scholars and Fellows Program is available online at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.orau.gov\/dhsed\/\u0022\u003Eprogram website\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERecent Georgia Tech graduate V. 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Noonan Lecture in Information Security","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech College of Computing\u2019s Thomas E. Noonan Distinguished Lecture in Information Security will host the Honorable Anita K. Jones Thursday, April 3rd at 3 p.m. in room 117 of Georgia Tech\u2019s Smithgall Student Services Building. This will be the third annual Noonan Lecture established to honor Georgia Tech Alumnus Thomas Noonan for his many contributions to the College of Computing and to the field of information security.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJones returned to the University of Virginia in 1997 after being sworn in as the director of Defense Research and Engineering for the U.S. Department of Defense in June 1993. In that position, she was responsible for the management of the science and technology program which included the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the DoD laboratories, as well as being the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense for defense-related scientific and technical matters.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJones is a member and former vice-chair of the National Science Board. She is also a member of the Defense Science Board and the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Corporation. She co-chairs the Commonwealth of Virginia Research and Technology Advisory Commission and has served on other government advisory boards and panels for NASA, the National Research Council, the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJones is currently a member of the board of directors of Science Applications International Corporation and Avaki Corp. Other private sector experience includes serving as a founder and vice pal articles and two books in the area of computer software \u0026amp; systems and cyber-security. Jones holds an A.B. from Rice University in mathematics, a Master of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThomas E. Noonan is the chairman, president and chief executive officer of Internet Security systems, Inc. (ISS), a leading global provider of information protection solutions that secure IT infrastructure and defend key online assets from attack and misuse. Established in 1994, ISS has soared under Noonan\u2019s leadership with over 1200 employees, operating in 22 countries with an annual revenue of nearly $250 million. Noonan\u2019s management style and vision have been recognized by industry leading publications and associations including Forbes, Business Week and Fortune magazine. He was Ernst and Young\u2019s \u201cEntrepreneur of the Year\u201d in 1999 and was recently appointed by President Bush to the newly formed National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC), as part of homeland defense. Noonan holds a mechanical engineering degree form Georgia Tech and a business degree from Harvard University.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech College of Computing\u2019s Thomas E. Noonan Distinguished Lecture in Information Security will host the Honorable Anita K. 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Regarded as one of the pioneers of the Internet, DeMillo\u2019s distinguished technology career spans business, government and academia, including major positions at HP, the National Science Foundation (NSF), Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore), Purdue University and Georgia Tech. Effective December 1, DeMillo fills the position formerly held by Dr. Peter A. Freeman, who joined the National Science Foundation in May.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERich\u2019s vision and three decades of experience are precisely what is needed to lead the College of Computing to even higher levels,\u0022 said Jean-Lou Chameau, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Georgia Tech. \u0022He brings experience at the highest levels of industry, government, and academia, and his leadership will provide a tremendous boost to the College. His research strengths dovetail perfectly with the research going on currently in the College and his long-time relationships with current faculty ensure a smooth transition and a fast start toward enhancing the reputation of an already solid academic unit.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDeMillo will lead the education, research and outreach activities of the College including such research areas as cognitive science, computer architecture, database systems, educational technology, future computing environments, graphics and visualization, human computer interaction, information security, intelligent systems and robotics, networking and telecommunications, programming languages and compilers, parallel and distributed systems, software engineering, and theoretical computer science.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is a very exciting time to be joining the Georgia Tech community, there are tremendous changes taking place in information technology and Georgia Tech has always been at the forefront of that change. I look forward to helping Georgia Tech continue its climb to the very top ranks in computing,\u0022 said DeMillo.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EAbout DeMillo\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E At Hewlett-Packard, DeMillo had worldwide responsibility for technology, technology strategy and the HP patent portfolio. He also chaired HP\u2019s Technology Council. DeMillo was responsible for many innovations in the oversight and governance of R\u0026amp;D at HP. He also starred in a national television ad campaign that featured him as a famous inventor that is changing the world but is relatively unknown outside the industry when compared to the type of attention afforded other pop cultural icons.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining HP, he directed computer science research and applied research at Telcordia Technologies, in support of Telcordia\u2019s software businesses, telecommunications consulting businesses, as well as government and other externally sponsored R\u0026amp;D.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining Telcordia in 1995, DeMillo was professor of computer science at Purdue University and served as director of the Software Engineering Research Center, a NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (a consortium of universities). Under DeMillo\u2019s leadership the Software Engineering Research Center became one of the most successful industrial research consortia in the nation.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom 1989 to 1991, DeMillo was director of the Computer and Computation Research Division at NSF. In this capacity he managed the largest computing research division at NSF and was responsible for most of the academic computer science research in the U.S., including programs in software engineering, theoretical computer science, numeric and symbolic computation, computer architecture, graphics, operating systems and programming languages. Among other achievements at NSF, DeMillo was responsible for successful national initiatives in High Performance Computing and Communications and Computational Biology.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom 1976 until 1987, DeMillo was Professor of Information and Computer Science at Georgia Tech and was founding director of Georgia Tech\u2019s Software Engineering Research Center. DeMillo\u2019s accomplishments as head of this center included the development and successful application of advanced software quality technology to high-visibility national security initiatives and systems such as the Patriot Air Defense System and the Strategic Defense Initiative. He also directed the Software Test and Evaluation Project for the Office of the Secretary of Defense. In this role DeMillo was the chief architect of Department of Defense policy for software testing and evaluation.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDeMillo has held faculty appointments in Electrical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Electronics and Informatics at the University of Padua in Padua, Italy where he helped establish an international master\u2019s program in software engineering on whose Executive Committee he still serves.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDeMillo received his Doctoral degree in Information and Computer Science from Georgia Tech and received his Bachelor\u2019s degree in Mathematics from College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EAbout the College of Computing\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech College of Computing houses one of the largest computer science programs in the country with 68 academic faculty and 39 research faculty. The College strives to provide high quality instruction and to integrate computing knowledge into other academic disciplines as well as aspects of daily life. Approximately 2,000 students are enrolled in the college, including approximately 1,580 undergraduates and 410 graduate students, some 270 of which are Ph.D. students. The College is ranked 12th overall at the doctoral level and houses several interdisciplinary research centers including the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC), the Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center (GVU), Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS), and the Modeling \u0026amp; Simulation Research and Education Center (MSREC).\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology announced today that it has named Richard A. DeMillo as the John P. Imlay, Jr. Dean of Computing of the nationally ranked College of Computing, one of the largest computer science programs in the country.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:11","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-07-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-07-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51987":{"#nid":"51987","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech\u0027s Richard DeMillo to Keynote at First Annual Atlanta SecureWorld Expo","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERichard DeMillo, Imlay Dean and Distinguished Professor of Computing at Georgia Tech and Director of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center, has been confirmed as the keynote speaker at the first annual Atlanta SecureWorld Expo. Security professionals throughout the Southeast will gather at the Cobb Galleria May 21-22 to promote the ideals of fostering communication between security professionals and technology leaders, to discuss best practices and to bind that body of thought in a public\/private partnership with government.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDeMillo returned to academia in 2002 after a career as an executive in industry and government. He was chief technology officer for Hewlett-Packard, where he had worldwide responsibility for technology and technology strategy. Prior to joining HP, he was in charge of Information and Computer Sciences Research at Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore) in Morristown, New Jersey, where he oversaw the development of many Internet and web-based innovations. He has also directed the Computer and Computation Research Division of the National Science Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe author of over 100 articles and books, DeMillo\u0027s research has spanned several fundamental areas of computer science and includes fundamental innovation in computer security, software engineering and mathematics. His present research interests are focused on information security and nanotechnology. He is active in many aspects of the IT industry, serving on advisory boards and panels, and he is an advisor for several early-stage technology companies. He is a member of the board of directors for RSA Security.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe first annual Atlanta SecureWorld Expo will feature the most advanced physical and digital security products offered by top regional and national manufacturers and solution providers. In addition to keynote presentations, the event will focus on three educational conference tracks that address the most critical security issues today, including public\/private partnerships, IT security, workplace violence, security management, bioterrorism, integration of physical and digital security and so much more.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe SecureWorld Expo has partnered with the Georgia Tech Information Security Center, Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), American Society of Industrial Security (ASIS), Southeast Cyber-Crime Institute, Technology Association of Georgia (TAG), InfraGard Atlanta, Information Systems Forensic Association, Georgia Technology Authority, FBI and the GBI.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESecureWorld is the first regional conference combining both physical and information security under a public private partnership. In 2003 SecureWorld Expo will host events in Baltimore, Atlanta, Seattle and Detroit. For additional information on SecureWorld Expo, and details on additional features within the event go to: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.secureworldexpo.com\u0022 title=\u0022www.secureworldexpo.com\u0022\u003Ewww.secureworldexpo.com\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESecurity professionals throughout the Southeast will gather at the Cobb Galleria May 21-22 to promote the ideals of fostering communication between security professionals and technology leaders, to discuss best practices and to bind that body of thought in a public\/private partnership with government.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:11","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-03-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-03-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51970":{"#nid":"51970","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Yellow Jackets Place 2nd at 2003 Programming Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E Georgia Tech Team Awaits Their Seat At The World Finals\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003EThe Georgia Tech Student Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (gtACM) won 2nd place at the Southeastern Regional of the 2003 ACM programming competition held in Daytona Beach, Fla. Now, the students start practicing for the March finals and look forward to representing Georgia Tech and Atlanta in the international competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech sent four teams, each with three students, to the Southeastern Regional. Out of the 88 teams from 39 universities at the competition, Georgia Tech teams placed second, seventh, 13th, and 22nd. Trayton Otto, Topraj Gurung, and Ryan Wilson made up the top team. Tech was also represented by nine other student participants: Christopher Oezbek, Ankur Kalra, Tyler Weston, Ram Gandhapuneni, Hitesh Kanwathirtha, Michael Sulak, Frank Rietta, Hussain Ali, and Nick Clift.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC), established in 1970, is the most prestigious programming competition for the world\u0027s universities and colleges. The contest fosters creativity, teamwork and innovation in building new software programs and demonstrates how students perform under pressure. The contest takes place in two stages, first regional competitions and then a worldwide final competition with the winners from each regional.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETwo months prior to the competition, students dedicated their Sunday afternoons to seven-hour practices with coach David Van Brackle. TheGeorgia Tech team traveled to Daytona with three College of Computing staff members: Dan Colestock, GTACM chapter sponsor; Maureen Biggers, assistant dean, and Monica Sweat, lecturer.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThousands of teams compete world-wide in regional contests held from September to December 2003, but only seventy-two teams advance to the World Finals in Prague, Czech Republic on March 28-April 1, 2004. Awards, prizes, scholarships and bragging rights will be at stake for some of the world\u0027s finest computing students at the Obecni Dum (Municipal House) of the Czech Republic, courtesy of Mayor Bem and hosts at The Czech Technical University Prague and Charles University.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile the Yellow Jackets\u2019 seat at the World Finals is not yet certain, traditionally, the top two teams from the southeast region advance to the March competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EAbout gtACM\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFounded in 1947, ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) is an international scientific and educational organization dedicated toadvancing the arts, sciences, and applications of computer science and information technology. ACM is the professional society for computing professionals. GTACM is the primary student organization for Georgia Tech computer science majors. Activities include organized corporate and faculty presentations and other events, which benefit both undergraduate and graduate students. 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DeMillo Distinguished Professor of Computing and Director of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC), effective August 15. DeMillo was Hewlett-Packard (HP) Company\u2019s first Chief Technology Officer. He is leaving his post as vice president at HP and returning to Georgia Tech, where he had previously taught until 1987. DeMillo\u2019s distinguished technology career spans business, government and academia, including major positions at HP, the National Science Foundation (NSF), Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore), and Purdue University and Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDeMillo will direct the applied research, education and outreach activities of GTISC, which was named a National Security Agency (NSA) Center of Excellence in Information Assurance Education last year. GTISC has developed courses for a Master\u2019s Degree in Information Security and new basic research and educational funding of approximately $2.7 million for FY 2001. GTISC focuses on researching security technologies, policy research on information security, information security education, applied research and development, and service and outreach to academia, government and industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Rich is an outstanding addition to GTISC, the College of Computing and to Georgia Tech,\u0022 said Jean-Lou Chameau, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Georgia Tech. \u0022He is highly regarded in the worlds of industry, government, and academia and his presence will provide our information security initiative a tremendous boost,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022He brings incredible experience and knowledge from his impressive career in academia, government, and business,\u0022 said Ellen Zegura, interim Dean of the College of Computing. \u0022Our students and faculty will benefit greatly from his presence at Tech,\u0022 she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is a very exciting time to be joining the Georgia Tech community, and I hope I will be able to contribute to Tech\u2019s long-term success,\u0022 said DeMillo. \u0022Information security has become the critical technology problem of the decade and I look forward to helping Georgia Tech become a national resource in Cyber Security.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGTISC was established in Spring 1998 upon the recommendation by business, government and education leaders meeting at Georgia Tech for the Sam Nunn NationsBank Policy Forum entitled, \u0022Information Security: Risks, Opportunities, \u0026amp; the Bottom Line.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Center uses an interdisciplinary approach to conducting research and development in the field of information security. Its mission is to conduct research contributing to the development and testing of concepts, techniques, and models that will become the foundation for the discipline of information security; to develop and commercialize new information security technologies; and to educate and train information security professionals through degree, non-degree, and public information programs. The interdisciplinary center reports to the Office of the Provost and involves faculty from the College of Computing, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, and the School of Public Policy\u2014both schools in the Ivan Allen College.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology has named Dr. Richard A. 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Tragically, firefighters too often lose their lives in the line of duty. On average about 102 firefighters die each year, about a 7 percent increase in deaths since 1990 (U.S. Fire Administration, FEMA). Consequently, firefighters need the best training possible to react to these emergencies in the most effective way.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn an effort to achieve that goal, the Atlanta Fire Department approached Georgia Tech about developing a fire command training simulator to better prepare their officers to react in emergencies. Collaborating with the Atlanta Fire Department, Georgia Tech researchers are refining a training application using virtual environment technology\u2014immersive computer-generated experiences\u2014to better train fire commanders directing teams of firefighters.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe key here is the safety of the firefighters,\u201d says Captain W.G. May, special projects coordinator, Atlanta Fire Department. \u201cBy reducing the dangers involved in training, we can greatly lower the chance of a firefighter injury.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis application simulates the progress of a fire in a single-family home and responds to the orders made by the fire commander on the scene. The virtual environment allows the user to navigate around the fire scene and view a house on fire from any angle; to direct firefighters and watch them execute commands; and see realistic fire and smoke behavior reacting to changes in the environment such as the opening of windows.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\u0022pullquote\u0022\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBy reducing the dangers involved in training, we can greatly lower the chance of a firefighter injury.\u0022 - Captain W.G. May\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe world that firefighters work in is incredibly complex. Every fire and every situation is different, so a virtual environment, which can be changed fairly easily, is a good fit for this type of training,\u201d says Dr. Chris D. Shaw, senior research scientist in Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Computing and faculty member of the Graphics, Visualization and Usability (GVU) Center, who leads the project.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Firefighter Command Training Virtual Environment is designed as a training tool to be used by the fire company officer, who usually commands a four- to eight-person company of firefighters who respond to fire emergencies. The officer usually has a number of years of experience as a firefighter and has trained to be an officer in the classroom and by practicing command procedure at the fire department\u2019s training ground.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHowever, these training methods are limited. First, not all fire companies see all types of emergencies in equal amounts; some companies may see many more fires than others. The overall number of fires has declined over the years -- only about 3 percent of calls to the Atlanta Fire Department are for fires. Second, practice training always takes place at the training ground in exactly the same fireproof building, so realism and the element of surprise are limited. The virtual environment, on the other hand, can provide a variety of scenarios in a more realistic way and with less risk and expense than training with real fires.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen I came to Georgia Tech for graduate school, I was interested in working in computer graphics and with virtual reality, so this project was a good fit,\u201d said Tazama St. Julien, third year computer science Ph.D. student. \u201cThe visit to the actual fire training ground and seeing fires up close and personal was pretty interesting and fun.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the prototype application, Shaw and his team of students created a virtual environment with a furnished one-story house with a garage, a fire truck, firefighters, tools, and fire hydrant. The user, the fire company officer, sees the house on fire on a computer screen or a head-mounted display and gives verbal commands as he would in a real fire. The system operator types the officer\u2019s commands into the computer system via code. The project team decided to handle the command input in this fashion rather than incorporating a voice recognition system to translate the voice commands due to their unreliability for multiple users. Also, having an operator input the commands rather than the user allows the user to concentrate on evaluating the situation and making decisions. This arrangement also allows the operator to set up mistakes or traps for the user, again creating a more realistic experience. The officer then sees animated firefighters reacting to his commands, such as laying hoses or climbing onto the roof to cut a hole over the fire. Also, every 15 seconds the visuals of the smoke and fire change in reaction to the officer\u2019s commands.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cDue to the number of factors involved, the project has proven technically challenging. The Atlanta Fire Department told us that accuracy is important. If the fire in our virtual environment doesn\u2019t respond like a real fire would to a door opening, for example, then it\u2019s not very useful as a training tool. So we\u2019ve concentrated on accuracy in the amount of smoke and fire produced, for example, which is a huge amount of data to calculate,\u201d said Shaw.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESignificant improvements have been made since the original prototype was created. Originally, the animated firefighters moved like robots; now the application includes motion scripts to make the firefighters\u2019 movements more realistic.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt has been amazing to see this project develop. The early stages were simply cylinders representing firefighters that hopped through a house with little candle flames sprouting from the floor. Now, we have firefighters that can walk, climb ladders, ventilate a roof, spray water, etc. The fire is very realistic, not only in the way it looks but in its behavior as well. For example, if the house has a limited oxygen supply, the fire will smolder and burn slower,\u201d says May.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDue to the complexity of calculating the amount of smoke and fire produced, the team turned to the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), which studies why firefighters die and compiles extensive data on this problem. The Georgia Tech team is using NIST\u2019s Fire Dynamic Simulator to compute realistic physical fire and smoke behavior. Due to the lengthy time to accurately compute the volume of fire and smoke, the team pre-computed the data for the entire house at one-second increments, and the system uses the pre-computed data to visualize and animate the fire and smoke in the virtual environment. On a current PC, the Fire Dynamic Simulator takes about eight hours to compute one minute of data, making it impossible to calculate the smoke and fire in real time.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe majority of my work has been on the volume renderer,\u201d said St. Julien. \u201cI worked with the Fire Dynamic Simulator (FDS) to simulate the fire and smoke data, then render or draw a visualization of that data in the virtual environment. This took learning the input and output file format for FDS, learning how to use FDS, and learning how to efficiently render the data. My other main contributions are path finding, the hose animation, control of the firemen, and the fire simulation.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOther challenges for this project include the need to develop compression techniques to make the huge data files manageable. The exponential growth of choices and conditions -- such as opening doors, spraying water -- result in an exponential increase in data. Also, the team had to create realistic-looking 3-D visuals of fire and smoke to accurately indicate to the officer the amount of soot, heat and smoke. At the scene of a real fire, officers look for these factors to determine the cause and type of fire to guide their decisions.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe firefighter project had a compelling blend of the technical challenges I\u2019m interested in: graphics and artificial intelligence, as well as concrete, real-world applicability,\u201d said Dan Cunning, senior in computer science. \u201cI am currently working on creating a more realistic looking fire simulation, exploring the possibilities of using different textures and transparency for different parts of the fire, and possibly using fragment and vertex shaders, a fairly cutting-edge technology. Most undergrads have no clue how easy it is to start working with one of the research groups on campus.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Firefighter Command project has provided hands-on experience to a number of computer science seniors and graduate students. Typically, a student is assigned to work on a specific component of this complex project. The team continues to refine the technical aspects of the application including developing a more complex path selection of the various choices a commander might make.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHoused in the new Technology Square Research Building, the Graphics, Visualization and Usability (GVU) Center, an interdisciplinary research center at Georgia Tech, fosters collaborations in computing and information technology research among Georgia Tech faculty and students. With more than 40 faculty and 150 affiliated students from the disciplines of Computing; Psychology; Architecture; Literature, Communication and Culture; and Electrical and Computer Engineering, GVU has gained international recognition in the research areas of graphics, animation, virtual reality, human-computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, augmented reality, wearable computing, 3-D compression, robotics, perception, collaborative web spaces and online communities.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen I came to Georgia Tech for graduate school, I was interested in\nworking in computer graphics and with virtual reality, so this project\nwas a good fit,\u201d said Tazama St. Julien, third year computer science\nPh.D. student. \u201cThe visit to the actual fire training ground and seeing\nfires up close and personal was pretty interesting and fun.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:09","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-11-03T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-11-03T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51999":{"#nid":"51999","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Andy Ozment wins Marshall Scholarship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003EJames Andrew Ozment, a Georgia Tech computer science graduate (\u002700) and current research scientist for the College of Computing, is one of 40 winners nationwide for the 2002 Marshall Scholarship award. Ozment plans to pursue an M.Phil. in Information Systems at the London School of Economics next fall en route to the Ph.D. in order to study information security policy.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA native of Huntsville, Ala., Ozment becomes only the second Georgia Tech student in 20 years to win the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, established in 1953 for U.S. students by the British in appreciation for assistance received after the Second World War under the Marshall Plan. Financed by the British Government, the Scholarships provide an opportunity for American students, who have demonstrated academic excellence and leadership potential, to continue their studies for two or three years at a British University.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELong regarded as one of the highest undergraduate accolades, the Marshall Scholarship covers the scholar\u0027s tuition costs, books, travel and living expenses while in the United Kingdom. Prominent former Marshall scholars include the U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Stephen Breyer; former U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Bruce Babbitt; The New York Times foreign affairs columnist, Tom Friedman; and the scientist\/inventor, Ray Dolby.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs an undergraduate, Ozment was well rounded academically and active in the Georgia Tech community. In addition to his B.S. in computer science, Ozment obtained certificates in history, music and business Spanish, and served as a teaching assistant. Ozment was a President\u0027s Scholar, a member of the Honor Advisory Council and a Georgia Tech Ambassador. In addition to his stellar academic performance, Ozment was a cooperative education student at Nortel Networks and pursued undergraduate research. His research project on cheating resulted in a presentation at the 2000 conference of the American Society of Engineering Education and was published in the proceedings.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECurrently Ozment is a full-time Research Scientist for the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, working for both the Computing and Networking Services (CNS) group and the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC). On a part-time basis, Ozment is pursuing an M.S. degree at Georgia Tech in Information Security with an emphasis on technical policy.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We are extremely happy for Andy in winning this prestigious Marshall award and are proud of his accomplishments as a student in the College,\u0022 said Peter A. Freeman, dean of the College of Computing. \u0022Andy is indicative of the caliber of student we seek to attract in the College, and this award serves as an encouragement to faculty as well as our students for the work we are doing in our program.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.marshallscholarship.org\u0022\u003EMarshall Scholarship Web Site\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"James Andrew Ozment, a Georgia Tech computer science graduate (\u002700) and current research scientist for the College of Computing, is one of 40 winners nationwide for the 2002 Marshall Scholarship award.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:12","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-07-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-07-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51984":{"#nid":"51984","#data":{"type":"news","title":"College\u2019s Ammar Receives Prestigious Regents\u2019 Professor Designation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech College of Computing Professor Mostafa Ammar has been named Regents\u2019 Professor, effective July 1. A committee of Regents\u0027 and chaired professors recommended him for this honor, and their recommendation has been confirmed by Georgia Tech Provost Jean-Lou Chameau.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWith this recognition Georgia Tech celebrates your long-term accomplishments in the field of networking and your exemplary teaching and educational leadership, and your service to the profession and to the Institute,\u201d said Dr. Bob McMath, professor of history and vice provost for undergraduate studies. \u201cThis elevation to the rank of Regents\u0027 Professor brings with it universal recognition on the Georgia Tech campus as an intellectual and educational leader of the highest order,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is allowed to nominate up to two individuals per year for appointment as Regents\u0027 Professors. Those considered already hold the rank of (full) professor and are nominated by their colleges based on excellence in research and teaching and contributions to their profession and to Georgia Tech over a considerable period of time. A committee made up of Regents\u0027 Professors and other chaired professors representing all six of the colleges considers the nominations and makes a recommendation to the Provost.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMostafa is very deserving of this prestigious award for his years of world-class research, teaching and leadership in networking,\u201d said Dick Lipton, professor and Frederick G. Storey Chair in Computing who represented the College on the Institute\u2019s selection committee.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAmmar joined the College of Computing in September 1985 (then the School of Information and Computer Science) as an assistant professor. He is a member of the College\u2019s Networking and Telecommunications Group and is also a faculty member of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center. His research is in the area of computer networks architectures, protocols and services with specific interests and contributions in multimedia and multicast communication, scalable content distribution services, large-scale network simulation and peer-to-peer networks.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAmmar became an IEEE Fellow in 2002, cited \u201cfor contributions to the design of scalable multimedia services and their network support.\u201d He has served as Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE\/ACM Transactions on Networking journal since 1999.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech College of Computing houses one of the largest computer science programs in the country with 68 academic faculty and 39 research faculty. The College strives to provide high quality instruction and to integrate computing knowledge into other academic disciplines as well as aspects of daily life. Approximately 1900 students are enrolled in the college, including approximately 1500 undergraduates and more than 400 graduate students, some 260 of which are Ph.D. students.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech College of Computing Professor Mostafa Ammar has been named Regents\u2019 Professor, effective July 1.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:11","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-04-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-04-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51968":{"#nid":"51968","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Professor Featured as the \u0022Best Unsung Hero\u0022 in Information Security Magazine","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERalph Merkle, Distinguished Professor of Computing \u0026amp; Director of the Georgia Institute of Technology Information Security Center, knows his contributions to the development of public key cryptography could have received more attention.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter all, two other researchers -- Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman -- received the prestigious Marconi Foundation award in 2000 for advancing PKI technology, which paved the way for virtually every secure online transaction. But Merkle accepts that notoriety is fickle and understands that his well-documented contributions are known to anyone truly interested in infosecurity. Most Stanford University patents for public keys credit his work, and Merkle\u0027s research, which he began in the early 1970s, is cited in dozens of cryptography books.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The awareness of people\u0027s specific contributions in highly technical areas is often highly variable,\u0022 Merkle says. \u0022I actually feel quite fortunate to have as high a level of recognition as I have had. Looking at it objectively, quite a few people in the industry are aware of my contributions.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOne reason why Merkle\u0027s work may have been somewhat overlooked is that he hasn\u0027t devoted his entire career to infosecurity. For years, he devoted most of his attention to cutting-edge nanotechnology research, most recently with a startup in Dallas. He did, however, continue some infosecurity work on the side.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen the Georgia Institute of Technology called with an offer to take over its Information Security Center, Merkle knew the time had come to focus more on infosecurity.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Interest in computer security is driven by events, and the number of events is increasing dramatically,\u0022 he says. \u0022That means that resources are now available that weren\u0027t 10 or 20 years ago. When there were no resources, working on the problem was a lot less interesting. Now that there\u0027s been this huge shift, it makes the whole thing a lot more fun.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERich Demillo, the dean of the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, says that as soon as Merkle surfaced as a candidate, the university moved to land him. And while not all of his students know of his seminal contributions to the field, they quickly realize he has a lot to offer.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022He\u0027s such an understated guy,\u0022 Demillo says. \u0022But the students catch on real quick. They can tell right away there\u0027s a lot of substance there.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp class=\u0022discreet\u0022\u003EMore Information:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/infosecuritymag.techtarget.com\/ss\/0,295796,sid6_iss288_art514,00.html\u0022\u003EInformation Security Magazine Article\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERalph Merkle, Distinguished Professor of Computing \u0026amp; Director of\nthe Georgia Institute of Technology Information Security Center, knows\nhis contributions to the development of public key cryptography could\nhave received more attention.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:09","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-12-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-12-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51957":{"#nid":"51957","#data":{"type":"news","title":"IEEE Computer Web Site Features Article Assistant Professor","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThad Starner takes a look at an often overlooked issue.\u00a0 \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:07","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-03-02T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-03-02T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"52000":{"#nid":"52000","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Computing Ranks in Top Tier Nationally for Doctoral Student Satisfaction","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003EThe College of Computing is ranked among the top tier of computer science programs in the U.S. for student satisfaction in a just released online doctoral survey by the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS). The College received an overall grade of B+ and is among 10 programs in the first of four quartiles of 35 computer science programs in the survey. The overall average for computer science programs is a B. The College is the only program from the South listed in the first quartile of schools receiving an overall grade average of B+ or higher (total points ranking from 75 to 100).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESome 41 students in the College participated in the survey, conducted from March 30 \u00ad August 15, including one Ph.D. graduate. The students were among 670 students from 35 computer science programs nationally participating in the survey and 32,000 graduate students from 1,300 doctoral programs across all disciplines.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe web-based survey consisted of 48 questions in nine areas relevant to doctoral education: information provided for prospective students, preparation for a broad range of careers, teaching and teaching assistantship preparation, professional development, career guidance and placement services, controlling time to degree, mentoring, program climate, and overall satisfaction. The College ranked higher in nearly every category than the national average. Students gave the College highest marks for mentoring (A-), preparation for a broad range of careers (B+), and overall satisfaction (B+). Complete results may be viewed at http\/\/survey.nagps.org.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOther computer science programs ranked in the top quartile include Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Rice University, Stanford University, University of California-Berkeley, University of California-San Diego and the University of Washington \u00ad Seattle.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We strive to constantly improve the student experience at all levels in the College and to create a nurturing environment and a sense of community by listening and responding to students\u00b9 needs,\u0022 said Dr. Peter A. Freeman, John P. Imlay, Jr. Dean of the College of Computing. \u0022This survey is a strong indication that we are succeeding at the doctoral level and mirrors what we have heard from our students as well.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Larry Hodges, Ph.D. recruiting committee chair, says that he is not surprised at the results of the survey. \u0022The size of our faculty and the vast variety of innovative research projects and groups in the College of Computing gives each of our students a great deal of choice in terms of research areas and advisors,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENAGPS is an advocacy organization representing 900,000 graduate and professional students across 200 campuses in the U.S. dedicated to improving the quality of graduate and professional student life in the United States.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe College of Computing is ranked among the top tier of computer science programs in the U.S. for student satisfaction in a just released online doctoral survey by the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS).\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:12","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-07-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-07-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51983":{"#nid":"51983","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Grocery Shopping with a Wireless PDA: Shoppers Like Prototype Software\u0027s Assistance","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESomeday soon grocery shoppers using wireless personal digital assistants (PDA) may be able to interact with a store\u0027s computer system to locate items and learn about special promotions.\u00a0 \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:10","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-04-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-04-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51966":{"#nid":"51966","#data":{"type":"news","title":"NSF Board Approves Nano Infrastructure Network","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe National Science Board, the 24-member policy advisory group for the National Science Foundation, has authorized a fund to create a National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) composed of 13 university sites that will form an integrated system of national facilities for nanoscale science and research.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe NNIN, expected to launch in January, will be led by Cornell University. Other member universities are Georgia Institute of Technology; Harvard University; Howard University; North Carolina State University; Pennsylvania State University; Stanford University; the University of California, Santa Barbara; the University of Michigan; the University of Minnesota; the University of New Mexico, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Washington.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGoals for the network go beyond academic research. They will also include educational efforts involving students from kindergarten through high school as well as industry outreach activities.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe National Science Board, the 24-member policy advisory group for the National Science Foundation, has authorized a fund to create a National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) composed of 13 university sites that will form an integrated system of national facilities for nanoscale science and research.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:08","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-12-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-12-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51956":{"#nid":"51956","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Assistant Professor Quoted in AJC Story about DARPA Grand Challenge","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003EIt\u0027s a road race with no drivers, just cars. It\u0027s a Mad Max dash across the California desert, but no Max.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Pentagon\u0027s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the technological godfather of things stealth, smart bullets and the Internet, is sponsoring a road race this week --- with one overriding entry requirement.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOnly robots need apply.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe race, called the DARPA Grand Challenge, begins Saturday at dawn at the Slash X Ranch near Barstow, Calif. The still-secret course is guaranteed to be a grueling grind over 200 miles of blue highways, back roads, trails and open desert from Barstow to the Nevada state line.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETwenty-five robots with assorted pedigrees --- modified Humvees, souped-up sport utility vehicles, dune buggies, all-terrain vehicles, a six-wheeled military truck and a motorcycle --- will vie for a congressionally authorized prize of $1 million.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe winner also gets bragging rights to one of the most daunting challenges robots have ever faced: that distinctly human, infinitely complex activity we call driving.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith or without a winner, the Defense Department\u0027s top research agency believes the interest generated by the race will stimulate some grassroots innovations that might be useful in future military robots. Under a congressional mandate to make a third of the country\u0027s military vehicles autonomous by 2015, DARPA has already funded dozens of research projects to develop machines that can replace human soldiers.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENew ideas wanted\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut they\u0027re still looking for a few good machines --- and the race is intended to draw out fresh approaches to robotics from universities and entrepreneurial companies that might never think about applying for million-dollar defense contracts.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERobotic contests aren\u0027t really new. There are hundreds every year --- robo-soccer championships, robotic egg hunts, robotic firefighting competitions, cleaning robot contests, even robotic sumo matches.Robots do a lot of serious work these days, too. They assemble automobiles, solder circuit boards, sweep floors, answer telephones, and even assist doctors in surgery. At the moment, roving robots are trundling across hostile terrain 100 million miles from Earth --- revealing details of a Martian landscape that no human has ever set foot on.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESo far, however, robots haven\u0027t done much driving, and for good reason: They\u0027re not very good at it.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA robotic van \u0022drove\u0022 from Pittsburgh to San Diego in 1995, but there was a human in the driver\u0027s seat, just in case. The van-bot did fine on interstate highways, but it never mastered the exit ramps and intersections. Robotics enthusiasts counter that 43,000 traffic fatalities a year prove humans aren\u0027t great drivers, either.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut Saturday\u0027s race is a sign of the changing times. These drivers are also the driven. For 200 miles, the entrants will be guided entirely by satellite navigation systems, racing through thousands of interim waypoints --- precise points of longitude and latitude --- to the finish line.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EComputers and sensors aboard the vehicles will be entirely responsible for the steering, turning, braking and accelerating as they cross the desert.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe final course --- chosen from more than 1,200 miles of possible routes --- won\u0027t be disclosed to participants until two hours before the race.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe vehicles, including the University of Alaska\u0027s Arctic Tortoise, Louisiana State University\u0027s CajunBot and Virginia Tech\u0027s club car Cliff, will have 10 hours to cover the course.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDefense officials are promising that: \u0022The route will include surfaced and unsurfaced roads, trails, and off-road areas. Manmade and natural obstacles --- both above and below the surface of the average terrain --- are likely. Examples of obstacles include ditches, washboard, open water, rocks, underpasses, construction, power line towers, barbed wire fences and other vehicles.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E Opinions among robotics experts vary about whether the race should be known as the grand challenge or the impossible dream.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022You\u0027re talking about a course over very rough roads and open desert,\u0022 says Frank Dellaert, co-director of Georgia Tech\u0027s robotics lab, which is not participating in the race. \u0022I would have trouble driving some of these roads myself. I think it\u0027s beyond the capabilities of autonomous vehicles today.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOne robotics team has already reinforced those sentiments. Team Overbot, made up of former Stanford University engineering students and Silicon Valley volunteers, dropped out of the race last month, announcing that they were \u0022not able to deliver a safe autonomous vehicle in time.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EInterest running high\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMark Maimone of NASA\u0027s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will watch the competition with special interest. He\u0027s well aware of the potential pitfalls. He wrote the software now being used by NASA\u0027s Mars rovers.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It is a huge challenge to operate the rovers on Mars, but this is a lot different,\u0022 Maimone says. \u0022It takes the Mars rovers a minute and a half to scan what\u0027s ahead and make a decision. At the speeds these vehicles will be traveling, they are going to have to do that 20 times a second.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The real challenge is to pull all of the sensing and control systems together and make them respond quickly,\u0022 he says. \u0022Robots don\u0027t do well with changing situations. The real world is very confusing to them.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA more confident Chuck Thorpe, director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, says, \u0022It\u0027s all going to depend on the course. Cliffs and ravines aren\u0027t the problem, but if there are nasty, tricky obstacles like water-filled holes you can\u0027t see the bottom of, or fence poles hidden behind a yucca plant, it may be no one will make it.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIf any entrant does, Thorpe and other experts agree that it will very likely be Team Red, headed by his CMU colleague William \u0022Red\u0022 Whittaker, who heads the school\u0027s field robotics laboratory and has 30 years of experience designing robotic vehicles.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhittaker and more than 50 students have spent the last year building and testing Sandstorm, a 1986 Humvee that --- with $3.5 million in refinements --- reportedly does a pretty good job of driving itself.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUnlike other teams, Whittaker\u0027s has spent months building detailed maps of the possible race routes across the Mojave Desert. No matter how well a robot drives, it won\u0027t get where it\u0027s going if it doesn\u0027t know where it is --- just like a human driver.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u0022computer farm\u0022 that serves as Sandstorm\u0027s road map holds 16 terabytes of data, enough to fill 100 hard drives on a desktop computer.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother team, the Palos Verdes Road Warriors, may not bring as much robotic experience to the competition, but its members make up for it with youthful optimism.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe 40 gifted high school students, who each get five hours of research credit, are modifying a 2003 Acura SUV to enable it to drive itself, something many of them are still too young to do.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUnder the tutelage of science teacher Graham Robertson, the Palos Verdes students have received donations of a new Acura SUV --- renamed Doom Buggy --- and $40,000 worth of electronic gear. From time to time, they also get a little friendly advice from engineers at nearby institutions like Cal Tech, the University of South California, NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEven DARPA has doubts about whether driverless vehicles will be able to conquer the California outback. If no one wins, the race will be run again next year. And the year after that.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It\u0027s hard to say who came up with the precise idea for this Grand Challenge,\u0022 recalls DARPA Director Anthony Tether. \u0022We were having a bull session. In the military that\u0027s a bunch of generals sitting around a table.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We were all thinking about, God, you know, these unmanned vehicles really are the way to go. But how are we going to energize people, how are we going to get people out of the garages?\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERacers, venue changed\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOnce the race was announced, energizing people was definitely not a problem: More than 100 robotics teams applied. Realizing that 100 robots racing across Southern California might be hard to manage, the agency cut the field to 25.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso changed was the venue, originally billed from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. The idea of a pack of driverless vehicles roaring down Los Angeles freeways was deemed too ambitious for the current state of robotics technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEven with the empty quarter of the Mojave Desert between Barstow and the current finish line at Primm, Nev., DARPA is being careful. Judges will shadow each robot to make sure they don\u0027t run amok, or try to run each other off the road. Race rules require the robots to give the right-of-way to other vehicles.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAccidents, of course, are not always avoidable.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022They have insurance, just in case,\u0022 says race spokesman Don Shipley, \u0022They have taken out a lot of insurance.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd some fear that, at speeds that might reach 50 mph, the robots also pose a threat to the desert tortoise --- a federally threatened species and the official state reptile of California. Sluggish after a winter of hibernation, the tortoises usually emerge from their burrows this time of year.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUnder orders from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, teams of biologists will sweep the race corridor before the competition, moving any tortoises out of harm\u0027s way and fencing their burrows until the robots pass.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe tortoises, which have resided in the Mojave for 60 million years and, as individuals, often live to be 100, probably won\u0027t pay much mind.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOff-roading is common in this part of the desert. And from inside a tortoise shell at ground level, it\u0027s pretty hard to tell whether someone\u0027s behind the wheel or not.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHOW THEY NAVIGATE\u003Cbr \/\u003E Each vehicle travels the course through a series of waypoints. Each waypoint has a different circumference in which vehicles must enter before advancing to the next waypoint. If a vehicle goes outside the boundaries, DARPA can remotely shut off the vehicle.\u003Cbr \/\u003E Map shows course from START: Barstow to FINISH: Primm, Nev.\u003Cbr \/\u003E Shading indicates land elevations from sea level and below to 12,000+ ft.\u003Cbr \/\u003E Diagram of waypoints shows course line and areas where teams must enter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E Each waypoint determines vehicle speed. If a vehicle travels faster than the recommended speed, it will be disqualified.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Sensors and satellites responsible for guiding cars 200 miles through the desert.\u003Cbr \/\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:07","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-03-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-03-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51982":{"#nid":"51982","#data":{"type":"news","title":"UROC Has Best Year to Date","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003EIn 1998, Amy Bruckman started a new initiative in the College of Computing to encourage undergraduates to take part in research: the Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Computing (UROC) Program. Now in its fifth year, UROC has grown dramatically in participation and is recognized as a model undergraduate research program at Tech and elsewhere.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u2019s event on April 16 drew some 28 research projects, the most to date. In addition, \u201cthe quality of all of the projects was truly outstanding,\u201d according to UROC co-chair and assistant professor Amy Bruckman, and the competition becomes stiffer each year. The event involves exhibits of students\u2019 projects, while a panel of faculty judges choose winners, and a separate set of winners are picked by popular vote. Microsoft Corporation sponsored the event and generously donated prizes for the student winners. Handspring also donated products for student awards and raffle prizes.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUROC is modeled after the UROP program at MIT where Bruckman received her Ph.D. from the Media Lab\u0027s Epistemology and Learning group in 1997. UROC ensures that undergraduate research assistants are able to make meaningful contributions, while enhancing their educational experience. \u201cWhether going on to industry or graduate school, all students should include research as part of their experience at Tech,\u201d Bruckman said. Assistant Professor and UROC co-chair Tucker Balch agreed and added that he is pleased to see a growing cultural appreciation and awareness of the importance of research among CoC students.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFollowing is the list of winner\u2019s from the 2003 UROC Symposium:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJUDGES\u0027 AWARDS\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E1ST PLACE:\u003Cbr \/\u003EBlair Dowling\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022A Stochastic Model for HIV Infection\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003EAdvisor: Dana Randall\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E 2ND PLACE:\u003Cbr \/\u003ERavi Ruddarraju\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022Fast Multiple Camera Head Pose Tracking\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003EAdvisor: Irfan Essa\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E 3RD PLACE:\u003Cbr \/\u003EYushi Jing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022Speaker Detection\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003EAdvisor: Jim Rehg\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E PEOPLE\u0027S CHOICE AWARDS:\u003Cbr \/\u003E221 ballots cast\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E 1ST PLACE:\u003Cbr \/\u003EAkshay Dayal, Jeffrey Tchang, Lili Lili, Shivank Dua, and Umang Dua\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022Biometric Interface using a Galvanic Skin Response System\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003EAdvisor: Melody Moore\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E 2ND PLACE:\u003Cbr \/\u003EYushi Jing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022Speaker Detection\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003EAdvisor: Jim Rehg\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E 3RD PLACE:\u003Cbr \/\u003EStephen Frowe Ingram and Pravin Bhat\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022Volume Analogies\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003EAdvisor: Greg Turk\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn 1998, Amy Bruckman started a new initiative in the College of Computing to encourage undergraduates to take part in research: the Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Computing (UROC) Program.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:10","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise 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research, which also has implications for biologically inspired design of robots and computers.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:08","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-12-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-12-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51955":{"#nid":"51955","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Alumna Joins CipherTrust\u0027s Management Team","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchneck appointed to vice president of strategic development at CipherTrust.\u00a0 \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:07","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-03-22T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-03-22T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51981":{"#nid":"51981","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Atlanta Electronic Commerce Forum Anticipates a Full House at EC Day 2003","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003EThe Atlanta Electronic Commerce Forum (AECF) announced today that 15 exhibitors have been confirmed for its12th annual EC Day, a one-day conference to be held on Thursday, May 22, 2003 in Atlanta, Georgia. Jointly sponsored by AECF and the Georgia Electronic Commerce Association (GECA), EC Day 2003 offers 18 sessions focused on leveraging past investments in e-commerce to create a strong competitive advantage today.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe action-packed agenda offers keynotes from Leonard Haynes of Southern Company and Dr. Richard DeMillo, Dean of Computing at Georgia Tech along with speakers from companies such as Earthlink, Equifax, Ga. Department of Revenue, Experient, Noro-Moseley, Ga. State University, Gyst Group and others. For the first time the conference will also include a track dedicated to legal issues covering topics on electronic contracting, identity theft and data privacy. Attendees can even receive CLE credits toward continuing education.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEC Day 2003 exhibitors currently include AeA, B2B Technologies, Ceridian, Easylink Services, ForestExpress, IT Manna, Kennesaw State University, King \u0026amp; Spalding, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Sevista, Segue Software, Sterling Commerce, Southern Company, User Insight and Valicert. Conference attendees will visit with these organizations during breaks to learn more about the latest in e-Commerce trends and technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe conference will feature respected electronic commerce thought leader, Leonard Haynes, executive vice president of Southern Company, as the morning keynote. Mr. Haynes\u2019 remarks will include a discussion of the e-business strategy for America\u2019s most admired Electric and Gas Utility, according to Fortune magazine\u2019s 2002 and 2003 lists.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Richard DeMillo, Dean of Computing at Georgia Tech and past CTO for Hewlett-Packard will provide the luncheon keynote address on the topic of security. He will share his insights into how corporate, government and academic communities can work together to help achieve a common goal of providing a more secure world that contributes to, rather than detracts from, the bottom line.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIdeal for mid-level and senior executives who need to understand the latest issues surrounding electronic commerce, EC Day 2003 offers a total of four tracks that encompass strategies and tactics, public policy, future trends and legal issues. The complete agenda with registration information is available at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.atlecf.org\u0022 title=\u0022www.atlecf.org\u0022\u003Ewww.atlecf.org\u003C\/a\u003E. The seminar is only $225 for members or $275 for guests.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe AECF is the oldest and largest non-profit trade association in Georgia, focused exclusively on business and technology issues relating to electronic commerce. Via a strong membership base that includes Atlanta\u2019s largest companies as well as emerging technology firms, the organization is able to provide an environment that fosters the development of best practices in e-commerce while maintaining an unbiased, non-commercial atmosphere.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGECA is a not-for-profit partnership of public and private sector organizations working together to reshape public policy for a knowledge economy. GECA advocates a favorable environment for electronic commerce and government by supporting public policy that is market driven, predictable, sustainable, simple, fair, technology and media neutral and harmonized.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Atlanta Electronic Commerce Forum (AECF) announced today that 15 exhibitors have been confirmed for its 12th annual EC Day, a one-day conference to be held on Thursday, May 22, 2003 in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:10","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-05-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-05-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51919":{"#nid":"51919","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CoC Celebrates \u201cBest Paper Award\u201d at the World Wide Web 2004 Conference","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe College of Computing (CoC) is very pleased to report that \u0022Automatic Detection of Fragments in Dynamically Generated Web Pages,\u0022 a paper by CoC Associate Professor Ling Liu, CoC Ph.D. student Lakshmish Ramaswamy, and IBM collaborators Arun Iyengar and Fred Douglis won the Best Paper Award from the World Wide Web 2004 Conference held in New York (May 17-21, 2004).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWWW 2004 is a highly competitive conference with over 1,000 attendees. The paper was selected from an initial list of 506 submissions for the Refereed Research Papers Track, and the \u201cBest Paper Award\u201d was presented at the closing ceremony on Friday of May 21. For more information, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.www2004.org\/awards.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.www2004.org\/awards.htm\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Automatic Detection of Fragments in Dynamically Generated Web Pages,\u0022 a paper by CoC Associate Professor Ling Liu, CoC Ph.D. student Lakshmish Ramaswamy, and IBM collaborators Arun Iyengar and Fred Douglis won the Best Paper Award from the World Wide Web 2004 Conference held in New York.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:02","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:26","author":"Louise 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Stephanie Nelson, the founder and driving force behind Cut Out Hunger, approached Georgia Tech because she knew her Cut Out Hunger website\u2019s old technology was inefficient. Nelson founded Cut Out Hunger several years ago when she realized there are thousands of store and manufacturer coupons that never get used and these unused coupons and in-store specials could be used to fill community food banks and soup kitchens. Her idea was simple - since in-store specials make some products practically free, buy it even if it\u2019s not your product of choice and donate it to a food bank.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe push our students to find a project that\u0027s interesting technically but also has real world impact,\u201d says Dr. John Stasko, associate professor in the College of Computing and faculty adviser for the team. 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The distinguished list of visitors included representatives from the two Governors\u0027 offices, as well as the National Governors\u0027 Association, the Georgia Division of Aging Services, the Federal Administration on Aging, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u0027s Division of Adult and Community Health.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENGA Chairman Governor Kempthorne is launching an initiative on long-term care and healthy aging to NGA Chairman Governor Kempthorne is launching an initiative on long-term care and healthy aging to help confront existing and future healthcare challenges in America . Georgia Tech\u0027s Vice Provost for Research Charles Liotta and the College of Computing\u0027s Imlay Dean of Computing Richard DeMillo, joined researchers of the Aware Home Research Initiative, led by members of the GVU Center, to emphasize Georgia Tech\u0027s dedication to developing new technologies to promote independent and healthy aging within the home environment. As the first wave of baby boomers will reach the retirement age within the next seven years, putting an unprecedented level of stress on the U.S. healthcare structure, it is becoming essential to develop awareness technologies that can provide assistance to the aging population, thereby enabling senior adults to stay in their own homes longer, as opposed to moving to an assisted living facility.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFormer Director of the Aware Home Research Initiative and College of Computing (CoC) Associate Professor, Gregory Abowd, recently testified before both the U.S. Senate\u0027s Committee on Aging and the National Governor\u0027s Association chiefs of staff and health policy advisors, increasing state and federal level awareness of the interdisciplinary research endeavors within the Aware Home Research Initiative and encouraging the gubernatorial visit to the Aware Home. Elizabeth Mynatt, CoC associate professor and new director of the Aware Home Research Initiative as of January 1, led the Governors\u0027 visit with an overview of the AHRI, and then guided the distinguished visitors as they participated in three project demonstrations. The first demonstration, called \u0022What was I Cooking?\u0022 illustrated Ph.D. student Quan Tran\u0027s research of memory aid technologies. Next, Psychology Professor Dan Fisk and Ph.D. students Anne McLaughlin and Yan Huang featured their work with the \u0022Blood Glucose Monitor\u0022 project, demonstrating how technology can assist with the accuracy of self administered tests and activities. Associate Professor Irfan Essa, who is also working on the Blood Glucose Monitor project, was instrumental in addressing questions from the governors. Finally, Ph.D. student Jim Rowan provided the guests with a demonstration of the \u0022Digital Family Portrait\u0022 project, which provides a visual display for an adult child to monitor the day-to-day activity levels of their elderly parent, who is living in a different location.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGovernor Dirk Kempthorne, Chairman of the National Governors\u0027\nAssociation and Governor for the State of Idaho , and Governor Sonny\nPerdue, Governor for the State of Georgia , visited the Aware Home in\nNovember of 2003 to experience hands-on demonstrations of the GVU\nCenter Aware Home Research Initiative\u0027s latest technologies designed to\npromote independent and healthy aging.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:05","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:26","author":"Louise 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in Facade: Surface-text Processing,\u0022 describing the natural language understanding infrastructure for the interactive drama Facade, won \u0022Best Paper\u0022 at TIDSE 2004 (Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment) held July 24-26, 2004 in Darmstadt, Germany.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETIDSE 2004 brought together researchers, developers and practitioners working in the areas of art and design, human sciences, computer sciences and related areas. The conference covered a wide range of story and entertainment related invetigations including authoring, user interfaces, games, dramaturgy and applications. Conference participators got a deep insight into innovative technologies of TIDSE, relevant for commerce and industry. It was a platform for communication and exchange of new ideas to improve game industries, interactive entertainment, information management, web technologies, education and training, infotainment, movie industry and industry with world wide dependences. The conference featured several informal get-together possibilities to give room for talks and contacts. For more information, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.zgdv.de\/TIDSE04\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.zgdv.de\/TIDSE04\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoC Assistant Professor Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern\u0027s paper, entitled \u0022Natural Language Understanding in Facade: Surface-text Processing,\u0022 describes the natural language understanding infrastructure for the interactive drama Facade.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:01","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:26","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-07-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-07-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51923":{"#nid":"51923","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Three Cyber Corps Students Graduate with Highly Sought Information Security Expertise","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003EThe Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC), housed in the College of Computing, has grown a robust set of information security education options to help fill the growing demand for information security expertise. This semester six students, two bachelors, three master\u2019s and one Ph.D., graduated on May 1 with expertise in information security.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe first two undergraduate students graduating with a B.S. in Computer Science with an Information Assurance certificate are James P. (Jim) Gruen and Stephen C. (Craig) Wampler. The recently approved Information Assurance certificate is a joint program between the College of Computing and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter graduation, Gruen and Wampler both plan to work for the National Security Agency (NSA). They both participated in Cyber Corps, a scholarship opportunity for students in either the Department of Defense Information Assurance Scholarship Program or the NSF Scholarship for Service Program, designed to increase and strengthen the cadre of federal information assurance professionals who protect the government\u2019s critical information infrastructure.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother Cyber Corps participant, Sheree N. Elliott, graduated with a Master of Science in Information Security. Two years ago, Elliot was the first Georgia Tech student selected for the Department of Defense Information Assurance Scholarship Program. Elliot interned with NSA last summer and plans to work for the agency after graduation. She received her undergraduate degree in computer science from Clark Atlanta University, a historically black college and university (HBCU) partner with GTISC.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a designated National Security Agency Center of Academic Excellence in Information Security Assurance Education, GTISC has a unique information security education and scholarship partnership with three HBCUs in Atlanta-Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College and Spelman College.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"This semester six students, two bachelors, three master\u2019s and one Ph.D., graduated on May 1 with expertise in information security.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:02","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:26","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51909":{"#nid":"51909","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Alum Analyzes Threat to Financial Institutions","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EAtlanta\u0027s Infragard chapter plays a key role in preventing against the threat of terror attacks.\u00a0 \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:01","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:26","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-08-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-08-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51922":{"#nid":"51922","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Professor Janet L. Kolodner Named Regents\u0027 Professor","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKolodner\u0027s research addresses issues in learning, memory and problem solving, both in computers and in people.\u00a0 \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:02","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:26","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-05-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-05-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51908":{"#nid":"51908","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Joins State to Target High School Computer Literacy","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBy strengthening the technology skills of computer science teachers, Tech and the Department of Education hope to boost the skills of students.\u00a0 \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:01","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:26","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-08-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-08-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51943":{"#nid":"51943","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ACM Team Takes on the World in Prague","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia                            Tech\u2019s College of Computing \u201cYellow Jacket\u201d                            team will compete in an all-out \u201cbattle of the                            brains\u201d against the brightest collegiate programmers                            from around the world on March 28 \u2013 April 1, 2004                            in Prague, Czech Republic. The 28th Annual ACM international                            Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC) is the most                            prestigious programming competition for the world\u0027s                            universities and colleges. The \u201cYellow Jacket\u201d                            team, includes undergraduates Trayton Otto and Topraj                            Gurung and graduate student Ryan Wilson, along with                            team Coach David Van Brackle, and is one of only 25                            North American teams scheduled to compete in the World                            Finals. The ACM regional competition this past October                            drew tens of thousands of college participants from                            1,412 universities from 75 countries, and only seventy-three                            teams earned a coveted spot on the World Finals roster.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team will face a series of six to eight complex,                            real-world programming challenges, to be completed in                            less than five hours. These grueling problems are designed                            to test not only programming skills, but also creativity                            and teamwork. Huddled around a single computer, competitors                            will race against the clock in a battle of logic, strategy                            and mental endurance. Teammates will collaborate to                            rank the difficulty of the problems, deduce the requirements,                            design test beds and build software systems that solve                            the problems under the intense scrutiny of expert judges.                            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Stay tuned for World Finals results or get                            the latest updates from \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/icpc.baylor.edu\/icpc\/Finals\/\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/icpc.baylor.edu\/icpc\/Finals\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/icpc.baylor.edu\/icpc\/Finals\/\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E                           ______________________________\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp class=\u0022MsoEndnoteText\u0022\u003E\u003Csup\u003E1\u003C\/sup\u003E Drawing on resources from across                              IBM and key IBM Business Partners, IBM offers a wide                              range of services, solutions and technologies that                              enable customers, large and small, to take full advantage                              of the new era of e-business. For more information                              about IBM and Linux, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/linux\u0022\u003Ewww.ibm.com\/linux\u003C\/a\u003E. *Linux is a trademark of                              Linus Torvalds.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\u0022MsoEndnoteText\u0022\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022_edn2\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Csup\u003E2\u003C\/sup\u003E Eclipse is an open platform                              for tool integration built by an open community of                              tool providers. Operating under an open source paradigm,                              with a common public license that provides royalty                              free source code and world wide redistribution rights,                              the eclipse platform provides tool developers with                              ultimate flexibility and control over their software                              technology. Visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eclipse.org%3chttp\/\/www.eclipse.org\u0022\u003Ewww.eclipse.org\u0026lt;http:\/\/www.eclipse.org\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;                              to discover more!\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIf the \u201cYellow Jackets\u201d solve the most problems correctly in the least\namount of time, they will be international collegiate programming\nchampions and bring the championship back to the U.S. for the first\ntime since 1997.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:05","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:26","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-03-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-03-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51938":{"#nid":"51938","#data":{"type":"news","title":"President Bush Honors Two Georgia Tech Alums for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EARLINGTON,                          Va.-President Bush announced nine individuals and eight                          institutions to receive the 2003 Presidential Award for                          Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring                          (PAESMEM) at the May 6 ceremony. Christine Grant received                          her master\u2019s and doctoral degrees in chemical engineering                          from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1986 and 1989,                          respectively; and Calvin Mackie received his bachelor\u2019s                          degree in mechanical engineering in 1990, as well as his                          master\u2019s and doctoral degrees in mechanical engineering                          from Georgia Tech in 1992 and 1996.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEach year the                          president recognizes the people and institutions that                          have provided broad opportunities for participation by                          women, minorities and people with disabilities in science,                          mathematics and engineering in elementary, secondary,                          undergraduate and graduate education. Each award includes                          a $10,000 grant for continued mentoring work.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe National                          Science Foundation (NSF), an independent federal agency                          that supports fundamental research and education programs                          across all fields of science and engineering, administers                          the awards on behalf of the White House. In the eight                          years the awards have been made, 78 individuals and 62                          institutions have been recognized. The program allows                          for an annual maximum of 10 awards each for individuals                          and institutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERecipients                          of this year\u0027s individual awards include a range of professionals                          from chemical engineering and computer science to biology                          and medicine. Their innovative approaches include comprehensive                          programs and enrichment activities for K-12 students to                          initiatives aimed at reaching a continuum of students                          from early childhood through undergraduates, using such                          community resources as schools and churches.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EChristine Grant,                          currently at North Carolina State University, is one of                          only six tenured African-American women faculty members                          in chemical engineering nationwide. Her outreach activities                          serve students from K-12 through graduate education. She                          includes students in her research agenda, and she gives                          additional attention to mentoring junior faculty. She                          has built an array of activities that seek to stop leaks                          in the academic pipeline for women and students from traditionally                          under-represented groups and teaches students how to work                          within the system.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECalvin Mackie,                          currently at Tulane University, is a tenured associate                          professor of mechanical engineering. His mentoring and                          outreach activities extend to pre-college, undergraduate,                          and graduate populations. Active in the community, speaking                          to large audiences and to schools, Mackie is authentic,                          humorous and has a high-energy, charismatic style in communicating                          science. He also develops video and other visual materials.                          His skill in using a unique cultural framework in his                          mentoring has effectively motivated students from diverse                          backgrounds to succeed.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso recognized                          during the noon ceremony at the Eisenhower Executive Office                          Building were: Chellu S. Chetty, professor of biology,                          Savannah State University; Denice D. Denton, dean of engineering,                          University of Washington; Linda Bailey Hayden, professor                          of computer science, Elizabeth City State University;                          Rudolf E. Henning, professor of electrical engineering,                          University of South Florida; Ellis Ingram, University                          of Missouri-Columbia; Lisa Pruitt, professor of biomedical                          engineering, University of California-Berkeley, and; Margaret                          Werner-Washburne, professor of biology, University of                          New Mexico.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe institutional                          awards recognize organizations that have developed mentoring                          approaches that encourage improved achievement, keeping                          young students in the \u0022pipeline\u0022 of science,                          engineering and mathematics education, and creating peer                          mentoring programs.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe institutional                          honors went to: American Physiological Society; Center                          for the Advancement of Hispanics in Science \u0026amp; Engineering                          Education; Committee on the Status of Women in Computing                          Research, Computing Research Association (CRA-W); CONNECT,                          University of California at Riverside; Alfred P. Sloan                          Foundation\u0027s \u0022Increasing Ph.D.s for Underrepresented                          Minorities;\u0022 National Society of Black Engineers;                          Science and Technology Programs, New York State Department                          of Education, and; Women in Engineering Program (WEP),                          Pennsylvania State University.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECollectively,                          the 2003 awards recognize exemplary mentoring programs                          nationwide, from New York to Florida, and westward from                          Pennsylvania to California. Four of the eight institutional                          awards were to organizations in or around Washington,                          D.C.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information                          on the presidential mentoring awards program, see: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ehr.nsf.gov\/EHR\/HRD\/paesmem.asp\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.ehr.nsf.gov\/EHR\/HRD\/paesmem.asp\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPresident Bush announced nine individuals and eight institutions to\nreceive the 2003 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science,\nMathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) at the May 6 ceremony.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:04","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:26","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-05-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-05-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51907":{"#nid":"51907","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Brain Drain in Tech\u0027s Future?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Computing Professor Jim Foley warns against the threats of a decline in tech-related doctoral candidates.\u00a0 \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:01","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:26","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-08-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-08-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51921":{"#nid":"51921","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Bush Honors CRA-W for Mentoring Efforts","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003EPresident George W. Bush awarded the Computing Research Association\u0027s Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) the 2003 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) for \u0022significant achievements in mentoring women across educational levels.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhite House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director John H. Marburger, III, presented CRA-W Co-Chair Dr. Mary Jean Harrold (Georgia Tech, College of Computing) and CRA-W representative Dr. Jan Cuny (University of Oregon, Computer Science Department) with the citation at a noon ceremony in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. CRA-W was one of just eight institutional winners of the annual award, given to those organizations identified as \u0022exemplars\u0022 and leaders in the national effort to more fully develop the Nation\u0027s human resources in science, mathematics and engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe award cites CRA-W\u0027s work providing \u0022hands-on research experiences, mentoring, role models and information exchange to women pursuing careers in [the] field.\u0022 CRA-W programs seek to increase the number of women involved in computer science and engineering, increase the degree of success they experience, and provide a forum for addressing problems that often fall disproportionately within women\u0027s domain.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn a message from the President read by Marburger at the ceremony, Bush noted that new technology was redefining the American workplace and that, \u0022in order to stay on the leading edge we must insure the participation of people from diverse backgrounds and experiences.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The programs recognized today will serve as role models [in that process],\u0022 the President\u0027s message said. \u0022I\u0027m incredibly pleased that the long-term work of CRA-W has received this recognition,\u0022 Harrold said. \u0022CRA-W\u0027s success is owed to a long progression of women in computing who gave \u2013 and give \u2013 of their time and effort to share their knowledge and experiences with the next generation. As the President noted, the country will be well-served by continuing to increase the participation of underrepresented groups.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The problem is particularly acute in computing,\u0022 Cuny said. \u0022Five of the 10 fastest growing occupations in the next decade will be computer related, but women make up less than a third of the IT workforce and an even smaller percentage of the academic pipeline. This underrepresentation represents a loss of talent and creativity that we will need shaping the future role of technology in society.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the Presidential Citation, the award also includes $10,000 to be used by CRA-W to further its efforts. In addition to the eight institutional awards, the President also named nine individual awards for 2004.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Computer Research Association\u0027s Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) is an action oriented organization dedicated to increasing the number of women participating in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) research and education at all levels. The current CRA-W co-chairs are Mary Jean Harrold (Georgia Tech) and Carla Ellis (Duke University).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp class=\u0022discreet\u0022\u003EMore Information:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ehr.nsf.gov\/EHR\/HRD\/paesmem.asp\u0022\u003ECRA Website\u003Cbr \/\u003EPAESMEM program\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ehr.nsf.gov\/EHR\/HRD\/paesmem.asp\u0022\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E CRA-W Co-Chairs 2003-2006\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E Mary Jean Harrold, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E Carla Ellis, Duke University\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E Current Members\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E Fran Allen, IBM Fellow Emerita\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E Nancy Amato, Texas A\u0026amp;M University\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E Carla Brodley, Purdue University\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E Sheila Casta\u00f1eda, Clarke College\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E Lori A. Clarke, University of Massachusetts\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E Anne Condon, University of British Columbia\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E Jan Cuny, University of Oregon\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E Faith E. Fich, University of Toronto\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E Kathleen Fisher, AT\u0026amp;T Labs Research\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E Joan Francioni, Winona State University\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E Jessica Hodgins, Carnegie Mellon University\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E Mary Jane Irwin, Penn State University\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E Leah Jamieson, Purdue University\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E Susan Landau, Sun Microsystems Laboratories\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E Nancy G. Leveson, MIT\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E Ren\u00e9e J. Miller, University of Toronto\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E Joann Ordille, Avaya Labs\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E Lori Pollock, University of Delaware\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E Ann Redelfs, San Diego Supercomputer Center\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E Mary Lou Soffa, University of Pittsburgh\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E Telle Whitney, Institute for Women in Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPresident George W. Bush awarded the Computing Research Association\u0027s Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) the 2003 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) for \u0022significant achievements in mentoring women across educational levels.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:02","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:26","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-05-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-05-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51905":{"#nid":"51905","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Klaus Construction Underway","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe building, funded in part by a $15 million donation from alumnus Christopher W. Klaus, will house faculty of both the College of Computing and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, facilitating improved communication and synergy between the two Institute departments.\u00a0 \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:01","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:26","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-08-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-08-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51920":{"#nid":"51920","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech to Tap Into World\u0027s Largest Supercomputer","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech will have direct access to supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.\u00a0 \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:02","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:26","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-05-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-05-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51906":{"#nid":"51906","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Institute Maintains National Profile in U.S. News Rankings","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor the sixth consecutive year and the eighth time in the past decade, U.S. News \u0026amp; World Report ranks the Georgia Institute of Technology as one of the top 10 public universities in the nation.\u00a0 \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:01","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:26","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-08-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-08-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51937":{"#nid":"51937","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dean welcomes new faculty to CoC.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022subtitles\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDean                    welcomes new faculty to CoC.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ctable width=\u0022741\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00220\u0022 cellpadding=\u00220\u0022\u003E\n\u003Ctbody\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\n\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\n\u003Ctd class=\u0022normaltext\u0022 valign=\u0022middle\u0022\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ETo:                          The College of Computing Community\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI am pleased                          to tell you that the 2003-4 academic year was one of remarkable                          growth for the College. Thanks to the dedicated effort                          of the CCD and ICD recruiting committees chaired by Mustaque                          Ahamad and Irfan Essa, and a great support team led by                          Linda Williams, we will add five new faculty:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EEric                            Vigoda\u003C\/strong\u003E will join CCD as an Associate Professor                            on July 15th. His office will be located in CCB 237.                            Eric received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the                            University of California at Berkeley in 1999. Prior                            to joining the College, he was an Assistant Professor                            at the University of Chicago. Among his research interests                            are new techniques for analyzing Markov chain Monte                            Carlo (MCMC) methods. \u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlexandra                            (Sasha) Boldyreva\u003C\/strong\u003E will join CCD as an Assistant                            Professor on August 15th. Her office will be located                            in CCB 254. Sasha received her Ph.D. in Computer Science                            from the University of California at San Diego in 2004.                            Her research interests include cryptography and information                            security.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E                            Alessandro (Alex) Orso\u003C\/strong\u003E will join CCD as an                            Assistant Professor on August 15th. His office will                            be located in CCB 218. Alex received his Ph.D. in Computer                            Science from Politecnico di Milano, Italy in 1999. Alex                            is currently a CoC Research Scientist. His research                            interest is in software engineering with an emphasis                            on program analysis and testing. He was the recipient                            of the CoC 2004 Outstanding Research Scientist Research                            Faculty Award.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E                            Keith Edwards\u003C\/strong\u003E will join ICD as an Associate                            Professor on September 27th. His office will be located                            in TSRB. Keith received his Ph.D. in Computer Science                            from Georgia Tech in 1995. Keith joins us from The Palo                            Alto Research Center (PARC) where he was a senior member                            of the research staff. His research interests include                            ubiquitous computing, infrastructure to support novel                            user interfaces, and computer-supported cooperative                            work.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERebecca                            (Becki) Grinter\u003C\/strong\u003E will join ICD as an Associate                            Professor on September 27th. Her office will be in TSRB.                            Becki received her Ph.D. in Information and Computer                            Science from the University of California, Irvine in                            1996. Becki is also joining us from PARC where she is                            a member of the research staff. Her research interests                            include computer supported cooperative work (CSCW),                            human computer interaction (HCI), and software engineering.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWe also have                          two virtual additions: previously announced faculty members                          that were hired last year but spent the year on leave                          at other institutions:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E                            Assistant Professor Subhash Khot\u003C\/strong\u003E (CCD) arrived                            on July 1st after spending a year at the Institute for                            Advanced Studies in Princeton. Here are Subash\u0027s coordinates:\u003Cbr \/\u003E                            o Office: CCB 234\u003Cbr \/\u003E                            o E-mail: \u0026lt;mailto\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www-static.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/mailto::%20khot@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E:                            \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:khot@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ekhot@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;khot@cc.gatech.edu\u003Cbr \/\u003E                            o Phone: (404) 385-6603\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAssistant                            Professor Gabriel Loh\u003C\/strong\u003E (CCD) will arrive on                            August 15th after spending a year on leave at Intel.                            Here are Gabriel\u0027s coordinates:\u003Cbr \/\u003E                            o Office: CCB 221\u003Cbr \/\u003E                            o E-mail: loh \u0026lt;mailto:\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:khot@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E                            loh\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:khot@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;                            @cc.gatech.edu\u003Cbr \/\u003E                            o Phone: (404) 385-6604\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPlease join                          me in welcoming our new colleagues to Georgia Tech and                          the College of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERich DeMillo\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/td\u003E\n\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/tbody\u003E\n\u003C\/table\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr 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becomes more and more a part of our lives, and in some cases our bodies, we must be conscious of both the advantages and disadvantages of technology\u0027s impact on our lives.\u00a0 \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:02","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:26","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-05-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-05-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51929":{"#nid":"51929","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CoC undergraduate honored with an award from the Compuitng Research Association.","body":[{"value":"\u003Ctable width=\u0022100%\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00220\u0022 cellpadding=\u00220\u0022\u003E\n\u003Ctbody\u003E\n\u003Ctr class=\u0022normaltext\u0022\u003E\n\u003Ctd valign=\u0022top\u0022\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003EFor more information, contact:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Joy Weaks, 404-932-1254\u003Cbr \/\u003E College of Computing\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:joyweaks@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejoyweaks@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/td\u003E\n\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\n\u003Ctd\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/td\u003E\n\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/tbody\u003E\n\u003C\/table\u003E\n\u003Cp class=\u0022subtitles\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E                   CoC undergraduate honored with an award from the Computing Research Association.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp class=\u0022style1\u0022\u003E College of Computing undergraduate, Leo Singleton, has been selected for Honorable Mention in the Computing Research Association\u0027s Outstanding Undergraduate Award for 2005.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:03","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:26","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-04-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-04-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51904":{"#nid":"51904","#data":{"type":"news","title":"DeMillo: Number of IT Graduates Is Shrinking","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Atlanta Business Chronicle notes fewer and fewer graduating from technology programs at metro Atlanta universities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:26","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-08-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-08-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51939":{"#nid":"51939","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CoC Professor Mary Jean Harrold accepts Presidential Award for Excellence on behalf of women in comp","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022subtitles\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPRESIDENT                    BUSH HONORS CRA-W FOR MENTORING EFFORTS\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAtlanta                        (May 13, 2004) - President George W. Bush awarded the Computing                        Research Association\u0027s Committee on the Status of Women                        in Computing Research (CRA-W) the 2003 Presidential Award                        for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring                        (PAESMEM) for \u0022significant achievements in mentoring                        women across educational levels.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhite House                          Office of Science and Technology Policy Director John                          H. Marburger, III, presented CRA-W Co-Chair Dr. Mary Jean                          Harrold (Georgia Tech, College of Computing) and CRA-W                          representative Dr. Jan Cuny (University of Oregon, Computer                          Science Department) with the citation at a noon ceremony                          in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. CRA-W was                          one of just eight institutional winners of the annual                          award, given to those organizations identified as \u0022exemplars\u0022                          and leaders in the national effort to more fully develop                          the Nation\u0027s human resources in science, mathematics and                          engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe award cites CRA-W\u0027s work providing \u0022hands-on                          research experiences, mentoring, role models and information                          exchange to women pursuing careers in [the] field.\u0022                          CRA-W programs seek to increase the number of women involved                          in computer science and engineering, increase the degree                          of success they experience, and provide a forum for addressing                          problems that often fall disproportionately within women\u0027s                          domain.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn a message from the President read by Marburger at                          the ceremony, Bush noted that new technology was redefining                          the American workplace and that, \u0022in order to stay                          on the leading edge we must insure the participation of                          people from diverse backgrounds and experiences.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0022The                          programs recognized today will serve as role models [in                          that process],\u0022 the President\u0027s message said. \u0022I\u0027m                          incredibly pleased that the long-term work of CRA-W has                          received this recognition,\u0022 Harrold said. \u0022CRA-W\u0027s                          success is owed to a long progression of women in computing                          who gave \u2013 and give \u2013 of their time and effort                          to share their knowledge and experiences with the next                          generation. As the President noted, the country will be                          well-served by continuing to increase the participation                          of underrepresented groups.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The problem is particularly acute in computing,\u0022                          Cuny said. \u0022Five of the 10 fastest growing occupations                          in the next decade will be computer related, but women                          make up less than a third of the IT workforce and an even                          smaller percentage of the academic pipeline. This underrepresentation                          represents a loss of talent and creativity that we will                          need shaping the future role of technology in society.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn                          addition to the Presidential Citation, the award also                          includes $10,000 to be used by CRA-W to further its efforts.                          In addition to the eight institutional awards, the President                          also named nine individual awards for 2004.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPhoto (left to right): Dr. Mary Jean Harrold, Georgia                          Tech (Co-Chair of CRA-W); Dr. Jan Cuny, University of                          Oregon (former Chair of CRA-W), Dr. John Marburger, Director                          OSTP, Dr. Maria Klawe, Dean of Engineering, Princeton                          University (co-founder of CRA-W and current President                          of the Association for Computing Machinery), Peter Freeman,                          National Science Foundation (NSF) assistant director of                          the Computer \u0026amp; Information Science \u0026amp; Engineering                          (CISE).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E                           More information about the PAESMEM program can be found                          at: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ehr.nsf.gov\/EHR\/HRD\/paesmem.asp\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.ehr.nsf.gov\/EHR\/HRD\/paesmem.asp\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe                          Computer Research Association\u0027s Committee on the Status                          of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) is an action oriented                          organization dedicated to increasing the number of women                          participating in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)                          research and education at all levels. The current CRA-W                          co-chairs are Mary Jean Harrold (Georgia Tech) and Carla                          Ellis (Duke University). For more information: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cra.org\/Activities\/craw\/aboutCraw.html\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.cra.org\/Activities\/craw\/aboutCraw.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Computing Research Association (CRA) is an association                          of more than 200 North American academic departments of                          computer science, computer engineering, and related fields;                          laboratories and centers in industry, government, and                          academia engaging in basic computing research; and affiliated                          professional societies.                          For more                          information: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cra.org\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.cra.org\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp class=\u0022subtitles\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECRA-W                          Co-Chairs 2003-2006\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E                           Mary Jean Harrold, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E                           Carla Ellis, Duke University\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECurrent                          Members:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E                           Fran Allen, IBM Fellow Emerita\u003Cbr \/\u003E                           Nancy Amato, Texas A\u0026amp;M University\u003Cbr \/\u003E                           Carla Brodley, Purdue University\u003Cbr \/\u003E                           Sheila Casta\u00f1eda, Clarke College\u003Cbr \/\u003E                           Lori A. Clarke, University of Massachusetts\u003Cbr \/\u003E                           Anne Condon, University of British Columbia\u003Cbr \/\u003E                           Jan Cuny, University of Oregon\u003Cbr \/\u003E                           Faith E. Fich, University of Toronto\u003Cbr \/\u003E                           Kathleen Fisher, AT\u0026amp;T Labs Research\u003Cbr \/\u003E                           Joan Francioni, Winona State University\u003Cbr \/\u003E                           Jessica Hodgins, Carnegie Mellon University\u003Cbr \/\u003E                           Mary Jane Irwin, Penn State University\u003Cbr \/\u003E                           Leah Jamieson, Purdue University\u003Cbr \/\u003E                           Susan Landau, Sun Microsystems Laboratories\u003Cbr \/\u003E                           Nancy G. Leveson, MIT\u003Cbr \/\u003E                           Ren\u00e9e J. Miller, University of Toronto\u003Cbr \/\u003E                           Joann Ordille, Avaya Labs\u003Cbr \/\u003E                           Lori Pollock, University of Delaware\u003Cbr \/\u003E                           Ann Redelfs, San Diego Supercomputer Center\u003Cbr \/\u003E                           Mary Lou Soffa, University of Pittsburgh\u003Cbr \/\u003E                           Telle Whitney, Institute for Women in Technology\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:05","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:26","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-04-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-04-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51928":{"#nid":"51928","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GTISC Renewed as NSA Center of Excellence","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003EThe National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland                        Security have announced that the Georgia Tech Information                        Security Center (GTISC) will remain among the National Centers                        of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education.                        Designation as a Center is good for three academic years,                        after which a university must reapply. GTISC was initially                        designated as a Center in 2001, reapplied and was successfully                        evaluated against strengthened criteria.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETen                        additional university centers, including Kennesaw State                        University\u2019s Center for Information Security Education                        and Awareness, were added to the fraternity, bringing the                        total number of such centers to 59 in 27 states.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security\nhave announced that the Georgia Tech Information Security Center\n(GTISC) will remain among the National Centers of Academic Excellence\nin Information Assurance Education.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:03","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:26","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-01-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-01-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51873":{"#nid":"51873","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Subhash Khot receives Microsoft\u0027s 2005 Fellowship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoC Assistant Professor Subhash Khot - Recipient of Microsoft\u0027s 2005 New Faculty Fellowship Grant to Design Efficient Algorithms\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoC Assistant Professor Subhash Khot - Recipient of Microsoft\u0027s 2005 New Faculty Fellowship Grant to Design Efficient Algorithms\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:52:56","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:23","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-07-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2005-07-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51856":{"#nid":"51856","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CoC Associate Professor Beth Mynatt comments on the wireless life","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAJC Sunday: CoC Associate Professor Beth Mynatt comments on the wireless life\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAJC Sunday: CoC Associate Professor Beth Mynatt comments on the wireless life\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:52:54","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:23","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-10-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2005-10-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51887":{"#nid":"51887","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Nancy Nersessian Awarded NEH Fellowship","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch2\u003ECognitive Science Professor Recognized for Her Research on Human Creativity in Science and Engineering\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003ENancy Nersessian, professor and director of the Cognitive Science Program at the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, has been awarded a year-long fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for academic year 2005-06.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003ENersessian\u2019s research focuses on human creativity in science and engineering. A major theme of this research is the model-based reasoning practices through which scientists created novel understandings of nature. She has investigated these practices in historical cases of conceptual change in physics and in ethnographic studies of problem solving in interdisciplinary bio-engineering laboratories (PI, Wendy Newsletter, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Co - PI: \u0022Laboratory Learning: Model-Based Reasoning in Research and Instructional Laboratories,\u0022 2004 - 2007 REC0411825, and \u0022Biomedical Engineering Thinking and Learning: The Challenge of Integrating Systems and Analogical Thinking,\u0022 2001 - 2004 REC0106773). The award will assist her theoretical work on an integrative account of the complex cognitive and cultural systems which give rise to the physical and computational models researchers construct to simulate biological phenomena in problem solving and in learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EIn addition, Nersessian is currently at work on a book, Creating Concepts: Model-based reasoning in conceptual change, to be published by MIT Press. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EUpon receiving the honor, Nersessian said \u0022I am pleased and honored to have the Endowment recognize my contributions as important to the humanities. Although as a interdisciplinary cognitive scientist my research focuses on science and engineering, I strongly believe, based on years of research, that creativity in the humanities, arts, and sciences forms but one spectrum, and this is most visible in the kinds of modeling practices with which I am concerned. The award will enable me to have a sustained period of reflection and writing about the interplay of cognition and culture in these.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EThis year\u2019s NEH fellowship program is very competitive. Nersessian was among 193 recipients from a pool of 1,470 fellowship applications this year, a success rate of 13 percent. Created in 1965, the National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent grant-making agency of the US government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation and public programs in the humanities. Proposals are evaluated by a panel of experts outside of NEH and are then submitted to the National Council on the Humanities. The council then makes recommendations to the NEH chairman, who has the final authority over which proposals receive the grant.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003ENersessian has an A.B. in Physics and Philosophy from Boston University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Case Western Reserve University in Philosophy. She is author of numerous publications, and has been appointed jointly at Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Public Policy and the College of Computing since 1993. She has been a Fulbright Research Scholar at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, a Senior Fellow of the Pittsburgh Center for the Philosophy of Science, a Senior Fellow of the Dibner Institute at MIT and has taught at several institutions, including the Technical University of Twente, the Netherlands and Princeton University. In 2003-4 she was Chair of the Cognitive Science Society.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENancy Nersessian, professor and director of the Cognitive Science\nProgram at Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Computing, has been awarded a\nyear-long fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)\nfor academic year 2005-06.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:52:58","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:23","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-02-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2005-02-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51871":{"#nid":"51871","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The College of Computing at Georgia Tech Announces New Computational Science and Engineering Division","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EATLANTA, GA \u2014 (August 2005) The Georgia Tech College of Computing (CoC) has announced the creation of a new computational Science and Engineering Division (CSED) to better reflect the critical role that computation plays at Georgia Tech and in the broader technology community. Along with theory and experimentation, computation has gained widespread acceptance as a key component in the advancement of knowledge and practice in science and engineering disciplines.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Computation has become the \u0027third mode\u0027 of science and engineering, taking its place alongside theory and experimentation,\u0022 says Rich DeMillo, College of Computing dean. \u0022Our vision in the College is to explore and create the future of computing, so forming this division is just the first step in enabling Georgia Tech to be a leader on an international scale.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EModeled after the college\u0027s renowned Interface Computing (ICD) and Core Computing (CCD) divisions, CoC carved out a separate academic division around Computational Science and Engineering in order to create a specific identity and provide a certain level of autonomy essential for its success. While other competing universities or national laboratories have typically built high-performance computing research centers, CoC sought to establish an academic unit for education and research in order to provide a suitable \u0022home\u0022 for graduate students and tenured faculty in this field.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAdhering to the visions of Georgia Tech Provost Jean-Lou Chameau and CoC Dean Rich DeMillo, the CSED was developed to enhance the university\u0027s strength in the computational and high-performance computing areas. Stepping into the CSED\u0027s leadership position is Richard Fujimoto, a Professor in the College of Computing. \u0022As an internationally recognized expert in simulation technology, Richard Fujimoto is a natural leader for the Computational Science and Engineering Division\u0022 says CoC Professor Dick Lipton, who steered an internal task force and external executive search firm in identifying leaders in computational science to fill faculty positions in the new division. In addition to Fujimoto, several new and exceptional faculty members were brought on board.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs division chair, Fujimoto is charged with shaping and implementing the vision of CSED and leveraging Georgia Tech\u0027s investments to realize tangible impacts both on campus and in the broader community. Two of the key areas where Fujimoto anticipates focusing his efforts include modeling and simulation, and high performance computing. \u0022For example, the Department of Defense has been promoting the establishment of modeling and simulation as its own discipline for many years,\u0022 says Fujimoto. \u0022This is one area where I think our efforts will be well received.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe division also represents a concrete step by the College of Computing to help bridge the gap between traditional Computer Science work that is typically generic (independent of the application domain), and work that is done in the context of a specific engineering or scientific discipline. By bridging this gap, the Computational Science and Engineering Division (CSED) will foster interdisciplinary activities on and off campus. \u0022In keeping with our overall mission to foster innovative and interdisciplinary computing research and education, the College of Computing plans to build the CSED on multiple fronts, including the development of new educational programs, research thrusts and enhanced collaborations both within Georgia Tech as well as with key external strategic partners,\u0022 stated Fujimoto.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EAbout the College of Computing\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech \u003Ca title=\u0022 GA Tech, College of Computing \u0022 href=\u0022..\u0022\u003ECollege of Computing\u003C\/a\u003E houses one of the largest computer science programs in the country with 68 academic faculty and 39 research faculty. The College strives to provide high quality instruction and to integrate computing knowledge into other academic disciplines as well as aspects of daily life. Over 1,500 students are enrolled in the college, including approximately 1,100 undergraduates and 481 graduate students, some 273 of which are Ph.D. students. The College is ranked 9th overall at the doctoral level and houses several interdisciplinary research centers including the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (\u003Ca title=\u0022 GTISC \u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtisc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGTISC\u003C\/a\u003E), the Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center (\u003Ca title=\u0022 GVU \u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gvu.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGVU\u003C\/a\u003E), Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (\u003Ca title=\u0022 CERCS \u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cercs.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECERCS\u003C\/a\u003E), and the Modeling \u0026amp; Simulation Research and Education Center (\u003Ca title=\u0022 MSREC \u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.msrec.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMSREC\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information, contact:\u003Cbr \/\u003EJoy Weaks, 406-544-5517\u003Cbr \/\u003ECollege of Computing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca title=\u0022 Email Joy Weaks \u0022 href=\u0022mailto:joyweaks@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejoyweaks@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca title=\u0022 GA Tech, College of Computing \u0022 href=\u0022..\/\u0022\u003Ewww.cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The College of Computing at Georgia Tech Announces New Computational Science and Engineering Division: Giving supercomputing the attention it deserves.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:52:56","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:23","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-08-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2005-08-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51857":{"#nid":"51857","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Michelle Kitaoka Invents a Gadget of the Future","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAJC: CoC Student Michelle Kitaoka Invents a Gadget of the Future\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:52:54","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:23","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-10-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2005-10-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51886":{"#nid":"51886","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech\u2019s Computing Ph.D. student honored by IBM","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EFebruary 22, 2005 - Aameek Singh, a Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Computing, has been selected for the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship, a highly competitive worldwide competition. He is one of 54 recipients in academic disciplines such as computer science, chemistry, physics, electrical and computer engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EThe IBM PhD Fellowship Program is intended to honor exceptional PhD students in disciplines of mutual interest, as well as emerging technical fields such as autonomic computing, nanotechnology, Grid computing, e-business on demand, and the fertile intersections of biology, computation and economics. IBM Ph.D. Fellows are awarded\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003Etuition, fees, an IBM thinkpad, and a stipend of $17,500 (US) for one nine-month academic year. Recipients also receive an internship designed to strengthen and broaden their technical experience and contacts. Fellows are selected based on \u0022their overall potential for research excellence, the degree to which their technical interests align with those of IBM, and their academic progress to-date as evidenced by publications and endorsements from their faculty advisor and department head.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003ESingh was nominated by his advisor Ling Liu, associate professor of computing at Georgia Tech and then endorsed by Professor Kishore Ramachandran, Core Computing Division Chair at Tech\u2019s College of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EAameek Singh\u2019s dissertation research focuses on security and privacy aspects of large scale decentralized storage systems. Last summer, Singh had the opportunity to work with Dr Kaladhar Voruganti, Sandeep Gopisetty and Norm Pass of the Storage Systems Department at IBM\u2019s Almaden Research Center. During this IBM internship, Singh architected a resource planner for enterprise storage area network file systems. He also helped design a framework for automated compliance-checking in large enterprises, utilizing the research experience gained from his PhD research at Georgia Tech. \u0022Enterprises have to continuously ensure that their storage solutions do not violate any laws like those required by medical privacy acts. Our framework automated the whole process, and a patent application is being filed with the U.S. Patents Office regarding this work.\u0022 This internship experience not only helped Singh to expand his research agenda in wide area storage systems but also expedited his research results in this area.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u0022The internships at IBM have been a great experience because it gives me the opportunity to work on large real-world projects,\u0022 Singh said. \u0022The IBM PhD fellowship award will provide an opportunity for me to be involved with IBM researchers and engineers, to better understand the real world problems, and to apply my research to solving practical problems.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EAt Georgia Tech, Singh is currently working on solutions regarding the issue of data privacy in multi-user operating systems. \u0022In this work, we will show that present access control mechanisms fall short of meeting user expectations of data privacy and can lead to information being leaked to other users.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003ESingh is currently a member of the Distributed Data Intensive Systems research group at the College of Computing, a program directed by his advisor Dr. Ling Liu. Singh and the DiSL research group work on various aspects of distributed data intensive systems, ranging from decentralized overlay networks, exemplified by peer to peer computing and grid computing, to mobile information management systems, sensor network systems, and enterprise computing technology. The research at DiSL is being supported in part by NSF, DoE, DARPA, IBM, and HP and the center for Experimental Computer Systems Research (CERCS) at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFor more information, contact:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003EJoy Weaks, Media Relations\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-544-5517\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:joyweaks@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejoyweaks@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAameek Singh, a Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Computing, has been selected for the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:52:58","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:23","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-02-22T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2005-02-22T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51870":{"#nid":"51870","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ComputerWorld:  Augmented Reality for Poultry Trimmers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoC\u0027s Blair MacIntyre and Parth Bhawalkar test Augmented Reality technology in poultry plants to improve communications\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoC\u0027s Blair MacIntyre and Parth Bhawalkar test Augmented Reality technology in poultry plants to improve communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:52:56","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:23","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-08-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2005-08-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51855":{"#nid":"51855","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CoC Professor Janet Kolodner Makes Learning Science Fun","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoC Professor Janet Kolodner Makes Learning Science Fun for Middle School Students\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoC Professor Janet Kolodner Makes Learning Science Fun for Middle School Students\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:52:54","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:23","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-11-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2005-11-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51885":{"#nid":"51885","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Computing Team:  On the Road to the Ultimate \u0022Battle of the Brains\u0022 in Shanghai","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EA team of elite programmers from Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Computing is preparing for the most prestigious computer competition in the world on April 3-7, 2005. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is sponsored by IBM, and will gather the world\u2019s best and brightest collegiate programmers for an all-out \u0022battle of the brains,\u0022 in Shanghai, China. Tech\u2019s College of Computing team is one of only nineteen U.S. student teams to make it to the World Finals, and is made up of Charlie Reiss, Topraj Gurung, and Chris Sidi with coach David Van Brackle.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EIn Shanghai, seventy-eight teams of three students each will be challenged to solve a series of complex, real-world programming problems\u0022 equal to a semester\u2019s worth of computer programming curriculum \u0022under a grueling five-hour deadline. The Contest fosters creativity, teamwork, and innovation in building new software programs, and enables students to test their ability to perform under pressure. The team that solves the most problems correctly, in the least amount of time, emerges as the international champion, earning scholarships, IBM prizes, and bragging rights to the world\u2019s smartest \u0022trophy.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EThis year, IBM will introduce these programmers to POWER parallel computing technologies during a separate challenge prior to the World Finals competition. Teams will need to create a parallel application and run it on an IBM POWER-based eServer Blue Gene Supercomputer, IBM\u2019s \u0022rock star of Supercomputers. \u0022Known for their enormous speed, memory, storage capacity and number crunching capabilities, IBM POWER-based parallel supercomputers have been used to solve some of the most difficult problems in physics, engineering, biology, geology and the environment. IBM\u2019s sponsorship is part of a company-wide effort to advance the next generation of information technology talent.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EThe Contest\u2019s regional competitions this year drew over 3,150 teams from 71 countries on six continents. Georgia Tech\u2019s Computing team not only emerged as a finalist earning a coveted spot on the World Finals roster, but Charlie, Topraj, and Chris will also attempt to bring the world champion trophy home to the U.S. for the first time since 1997. So, as the spring semester gets underway, don\u2019t forget about your campus\u2019 computer programming superstars! They\u2019ll be sharpening their programming skills and packing their good luck charms as they head for Shanghai to compete in the oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming contest in the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EStay tuned for World Finals results or get the latest updates from \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/icpc.baylor.edu\/icpc\/Finals\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/icpc.baylor.edu\/icpc\/Finals\/\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Georgia Tech ACM Student Chapter\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EFounded in 1947, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) promotes and increases knowledge of science, design, development, construction, languages and applications of modern computing. The ACM is the society for computing professionals. The Georgia Tech Student Chapter (GTACM) is the primary student organization for computer science majors. Activities include organized corporate and faculty presentations and other events, which benefit both undergraduate and graduate students. GTACM also provides an avenue for students to develop corporate leadership skills.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout ACM\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EThe Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a major force in advancing the skills of information technology professionals and students. ACM serves its global membership of 75,000 by delivering cutting edge technical information and transferring ideas from theory to practice. ACM hosts the computing industry\u0027s leading Portal to Computing Literature. With its journals and magazines, special interest groups, conferences, workshops, electronic forums and Career Resource Centre, ACM is a primary resource to the information technology field. For more information, see \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.acm.org\/\u0022\u003Ewww.acm.org\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFor more information, contact:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003EJoy Weaks, 404-385-2881\u003Cbr \/\u003ECollege of Computing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:joyweaks@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejoyweaks@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team of elite programmers from Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Computing is preparing for the most prestigious computer competition in the world on April 3-7, 2005.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:52:58","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:23","author":"Louise 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gesture-recognition technology bridges a gulf in communication for deaf people\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:52:56","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:23","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-08-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2005-08-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51854":{"#nid":"51854","#data":{"type":"news","title":"AJC:  As wireless grows, so do security risks","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAtlanta Journal-Constitution article by Rich DeMillo, Dean of the CoC: As wireless grows, so do security risks\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAtlanta Journal-Constitution article by Rich DeMillo, Dean of the CoC: As wireless grows, so do security risks\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:52:54","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:23","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-11-03T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2005-11-03T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of 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Information Security Center Raises Awareness of Wireless Security Issues","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch2\u003ESummit Brings Technology Stakeholders Together to Examine Wireless Security Challenges Facing Consumers and Enterprises\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EATLANTA, November 15, 2005 \u2013 The Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC), a national leader in information security research and education, today hosted the Wireless Security Summit, which examined the security challenges associated with one of the fastest-growing and most dynamic areas in the technology industry today \u2013 wireless voice and data networks. Executives from major corporations with a stake in wireless technology, including AirDefense, BellSouth [NYSE: BLS], Children\u0027s Healthcare of Atlanta, Cingular Wireless, InterContinental Hotels Group [LON: IHG, NYSE: IHG (ADRs)], Internet Security Systems [NASDAQ: ISSX] and RF Micro Devices [NASDAQ: RFMD], provided Summit attendees with a breakdown of security risks and solutions from the perspective of the end user, service provider, security leader and wireless component developer.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWireless technology is exploding, with enterprises and consumers quickly adopting new services in order to realize the significant social and economic benefits that come with wireless voice and data networks,\u201d said Mustaque Ahamad , director of GTISC. \u201cAt the Wireless Security Summit, GTISC has further educated the technology and business communities about the security issues associated with this technology and proposed solutions to these potential challenges . \u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMore than 200 corporate executives, industry leaders and technologists from across the country attended the Wireless Security Summit, which was keynoted by Mitch Gelman, vice president and executive producer of CNN.com. Mr. Gelman\u0027s keynote address focused on current growth and future possibilities of the wireless market, as well as the need for increased security measures to protect the information that flows over wireless voice and data networks.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAs the usage of wireless and mobile technologies becomes more and more ingrained into everyday life, security still remains as a large obstacle for further adoption,\u201d said Mr. Gelman. \u201cIn order for wireless services to thrive, there cannot be a security cost associated with improved connectivity. I commend GTISC and the College of Computing at Georgia Tech for creating a forum for discussing and developing usable solutions to security risks that challenge the integrity of wireless and mobile technologies.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFollowing Mr. Gelman\u0027s address, representatives from AirDefense, Cingular Wireless, Children\u0027s Healthcare of Atlanta, InterContinental Hotels Group, Internet Security Systems, RFMD and Georgia Tech participated in a panel about wireless security. Moderated by Steve Zimba, the Director of Voice Strategy at BellSouth, the panelists debated how security will impact the constant availability associated with wireless voice and data networks and whether security threats such as identity theft will proliferate due to less secure wireless networks and \u201chotspots.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAs stakeholders in the wireless industry, BellSouth and the other organizations represented at the Wireless Security Summit have a responsibility to monitor security risks as new and more technically-complex wireless devices and networks develop,\u201d said Mr. Zimba. \u201cProviding our customers with convenient, affordable and safe means of communications is BellSouth\u0027s top priority, and we are looking forward to working with GTISC and other industry participants to heighten security awareness among consumer and business end users and proactively promote viable solutions.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about the Wireless Security Summit and GTISC, please visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtisc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.gtisc.gatech.edu\/\u003C\/a\u003E .\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAbout Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Information Security Center , a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education, is an interdisciplinary center involving faculty from the College of Computing , School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, and the School of Public Policy.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information, contact:\u003Cbr \/\u003EBrendan Streich\u003Cbr \/\u003EGCI Group\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-870-6796\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:bstreich@gcigroup.com\u0022\u003Ebstreich@gcigroup.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESummit Brings Technology Stakeholders Together to Examine Wireless Security Challenges Facing Consumers and Enterprises (Nov. 2005)\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:52:53","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:23","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-11-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2005-11-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of 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2004.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student Twaeesup (Term) Apiwattanapong, Assistant Professor Alessandro (Alex) Orso, and Professor Mary Jean Harrold recently received the Best Paper Award and an ACM-SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:23","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-09-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-09-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of 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Perdue visits Georgia Tech to sign anti-spam law","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoC researchers show that you are what you listen to.  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DeMillo\u003C\/a\u003E, the John P. Imlay Dean and Distinguished Professor of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has become a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world\u2019s largest federation of scientists dedicated to the advancement of scientific and technological excellence. DeMillo is being honored for notable contributions to the fields of computer security, software engineering and mathematics, with particular emphasis on information security. DeMillo will officially accept the honor in February when more than 5,000 scientists, engineers, educators, policymakers and students gather in Washington D.C. for the 171th national meeting of AAAS.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe author of over 100 articles and books, DeMillo\u0027s research has spanned several fundamental areas of computer science and includes innovation in computer security, software engineering and mathematics. His present research interests focus on information security and nanotechnology, and he is active in many aspects of the IT industry. DeMillo serves on several technology company advisory boards and panels, and he also serves on the board of directors for RSA Security.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is a well deserved recognition,\u201d says Dr. Alan Leshner, Chief Executive Officer of AAAS and Executive Publisher of the journal Science. The rank of fellow is the highest awarded by the AAAS, bestowed upon a small fraction of members by their peers, because of their efforts to advance science or foster applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished. The tradition of AAAS Fellows began in 1874. DeMillo will be presented with an official certificate and a gold and blue (representing science and engineering, respectively) rosette pin on Saturday, February 19 at the 2005 AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech College of Computing houses one of the largest computer science programs in the country and provides high quality instruction that integrates computing knowledge into other academic disciplines, as well as aspects of daily life. The College of Computing is ranked 9th overall at the doctoral level, and houses several interdisciplinary research centers including the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC), the Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center (GVU), Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS), and the Modeling \u0026amp; Simulation Research and Education Center (MSREC).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) was founded in 1848, and serves some 262 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. As publisher of the journal, Science (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\u0022 title=\u0022www.sciencemag.org\u0022\u003Ewww.sciencemag.org\u003C\/a\u003E), AAAS has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general science journal in the world, with an estimated total readership of one million. The non-profit AAAS (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.aaas.org\u0022 title=\u0022www.aaas.org\u0022\u003Ewww.aaas.org\u003C\/a\u003E) is open to all and fulfills its mission to \u0022advance science and serve society\u0022 through initiatives in science policy; international programs; science education; and more. For the latest research news, log onto \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\u0022\u003Ewww.eurekalert.org\u003C\/a\u003E, the premier science-news Web site, a service of AAAS.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERichard A. DeMillo, the John P. Imlay Dean and Distinguished Professor of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has become a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world\u2019s largest federation of scientists dedicated to the advancement of scientific and technological excellence.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:23","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-10-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-10-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51881":{"#nid":"51881","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GTISC committed to promoting security","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022GTISC is committed to educating and promoting security among all of\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia\u0027s Internet users,\u0022 says Mustaque Ahamad, director of GTISC\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022GTISC is committed to educating and promoting security among all of Georgia\u0027s Internet users,\u0022 says Mustaque Ahamad, director of GTISC\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:52:58","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:23","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-04-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2005-04-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51865":{"#nid":"51865","#data":{"type":"news","title":"NYT: CS education appropriate for all majors and professions","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENYT: A computer science education is appropriate for all majors, all professions\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENYT: A computer science education is appropriate for all majors, all professions\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:52:55","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:23","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-08-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2005-08-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51851":{"#nid":"51851","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Mark Guzdial and Mary Jean Harrold Present Best Practices for Attracting Women to Computing","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E(November 17, 2005) The National Center for Women in IT (NCWIT - \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ncwit.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.ncwit.org\/\u003C\/a\u003E) held its Inaugural Practices Workshop last week in Pittsburgh to talk about recommended practices for increasing the number of girls and women choosing IT educations and careers.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECoC Professor Mary Jean Harrold presented the initiatives of ADVANCE, an NSF funded program led by Dr. Harrold with the goal of increasing the participation of women in the scientific and engineering workforce through the increased representation and advancement of women in academic scientific and engineering careers. Dr. Harrold also led a breakout session where other faculty came to discuss how they might adopt the kind of mentoring program that the College of Computing has started.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Mark Guzdial presented CoC\u0027s Computational Media degree in a panel on curricular changes that draw women into computing. The Deputy Director of the NSF, Dr. Kathie Olsen, praised Computational Media during her reception talk.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EProgram Brochure\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ncwit.org\/pdf\/Practices_Program.pdf\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.ncwit.org\/pdf\/Practices_Program.pdf\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEvent Blog\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ncwit.org\/connect.blog.php?source=calendar\u0026amp;action=display\u0026amp;editorial_id=68\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.ncwit.org\/connect.blog.php?source=calendar\u0026amp;action=display\u0026amp;editorial_id=68\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"CoC Professors Mark Guzdial and Mary Jean Harrold Present Best Practices for Attracting Women to Computing at NCWIT Workshop in Pittsburgh (Nov. 2005)","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:52:53","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:23","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-11-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2005-11-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51896":{"#nid":"51896","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Subhash Khot Wins Best Paper Award at FOCS 2004","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca title=\u0022Subhash Khot\u0022 href=\u0022resolveuid\/ff67e9be4e816b9301f2acb40ed3b66c\u0022\u003ESubhash Khot\u003C\/a\u003E, Assistant Professor of Computing, recently won the Best Paper Award at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cs.brown.edu\/people\/aris\/focs04\/\u0022\u003E45th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2004)\u003C\/a\u003E, held last month in Rome, Italy. Khot was the sole author of the award-winning paper titled, \u0022Hardness of Approximating the Shortest Vector Problem in Lattices\u0022. He submitted two other papers in this year\u2019s FOCS as well -\u201cRuling out PTAS for Graph Min-Bisection, Densest Subgraph and Bipartite Clique\u201d and \u201cOptimal Inapproximability Results for MAX-CUT and Other 2-Variable CSPs,\u201d the latter co-authored with Guy Kindler, Elchanan Mossel and Ryan O\u0027donnell.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKhot earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University in 2003 under his advisor Professor Sanjeev Arora. He stayed at Princeton for another year as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study before joining the Theory Group at Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFOCS is a premier theory conference, and is considered one of the most important venues for presenting new results in theoretical computer sciences. The annual FOCS conference is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and is organized by what is now called the IEEE Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TC-MFCS). FOCS began in 1960 as a \u0022Symposium on Switching Circuit Theory and Logic Design\u0022 (SCT\u0026amp;LD), changed its name in 1966 to the \u0022Symposium on Switching and Automata Theory\u0022 (SWAT), and assumed its current name in 1975.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe FOCS program committee may choose up to three papers as Best Papers each year. The main criterion for giving the award is: introduction of a strong new technique, solution of a long-standing open problem, introduction and solution of an interesting and important new problem. The program committee must also have substantial confidence in the accuracy of the paper. Each author on each of the selected Best Papers receives a certificate or plaque with the name of the award, the name of the paper, and the names of the authors of the paper. The other Best Paper Award at FOCS 2004 was \u201cCryptography in NC^0\u201d by authors Benny Applebaum, Yuval Ishai, and Eyal Kushilevitz.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech College of Computing houses one of the largest computer science programs in the country and provides high quality instruction that integrates computing knowledge into other academic disciplines, as well as aspects of daily life. The College of Computing is ranked 9th overall at the doctoral level, and houses several interdisciplinary research centers including the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtisc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC)\u003C\/a\u003E, the \u003Ca href=\u0022..\/gvu\u0022\u003EGraphics, Visualization and Usability Center (GVU)\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/http:\/\/www.cercs.gatech.edu\/\u0026quot;\u0022\u003E Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS)\u003C\/a\u003E, and the Modeling \u0026amp; Simulation Research and Education Center (MSREC).\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s Subhash Khot, Assistant Professor of Computing, recently won the Best Paper Award at the 45th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2004), held in Rome, Italy.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:52:59","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:23","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-11-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-11-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51880":{"#nid":"51880","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CoC Professors involved in creating the Information Technology Innovation Center","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoC Associate Professor Leo Mark and Sr. Research Scientist Spencer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nRugaber are involved in creating the Information Technology Innovation\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nCenter (ITIC).\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoC Associate Professor Leo Mark and Sr. Research Scientist Spencer Rugaber are involved in creating the Information Technology Innovation Center (ITIC).\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:52:57","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:23","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-04-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2005-04-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gov.state.ga.us\/press\/2005\/press772.shtml","title":"http:\/\/www.gov.state.ga.us\/press\/2005\/press772.shtml"}],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51864":{"#nid":"51864","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Australian IT - High-tech hope for deaf","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoC\u0027s Gesture Recognition Technology Will Allow Translation Between Sign Language and Spoken Languages\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoC\u0027s Gesture Recognition Technology Will Allow Translation Between Sign Language and Spoken Languages\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:52:55","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:23","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-08-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2005-08-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51895":{"#nid":"51895","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Yellow Jacket Team Wins 2004-2005 Programming Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Student Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (GTACM) won 1st place at the 2004-2005 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) held in Melbourne, FL. Thousands of collegiate programmers participated in this year\u2019s international \u201cTech Olympics,\u201d sponsored by IBM. After winning the South Eastern Regional Competition, the Georgia Tech team has earned a coveted spot at the World Finals.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOver the next three months, regional competitions across the globe are expected to draw more than 3,000 teams from over 70 countries on 6 continents. Of these, 75 teams will compete at the World Finals, April 3-7, 2005, in Shanghai, China, hosted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The ACM-ICPC aims to develop the next generation of information technology talent, and to ensure that the computer sciences education pipeline remains full.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech sent three, three-man teams to the South Eastern Regionals, and placed 1st, 9th, and 21st out of 64 teams. The top Georgia Tech team included Charlie Reiss, Topraj Gurung, and Chris Sidi. The other six students representing Tech were: Justin Altman, Garry Boyer, James Robinson, Nick Clift, Will Rorabaugh, and Nirmal Thakker. Two months prior to the competition, Georgia Tech students dedicated their Sundays to seven-hour practices with volunteer coach David Van Brackle.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is the world\u0027s premier university competition in the computing sciences and engineering,\u201d said Dr. Bill Poucher, ICPC Executive Director.\u201d The world\u2019s universities have partnered with IBM and ACM to offer the best and brightest students the opportunity to challenge themselves to achieve far beyond classroom expectations so that they can build the cutting edge technology of tomorrow.\u201d The contest challenges students, working in three-person teams, to rely on their programming skills and creativity during a five-hour battle of logic, strategy, and mental endurance. Students solve complex problems using both traditional and new software development tools.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets are grateful for the support of their corporate sponsors: Cisco, Dell, Hewlett-Packard (HP), IBM, King Industrial Realty, ISX, and Vocalocity, as well as their ACM sponsors: Andrew Harp, Dan Colestock, and Harrison Caudill.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E About the Georgia Tech ACM Student Chapter\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFounded in 1947, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) promotes and increases knowledge of science, design, development, construction, languages and applications of modern computing. The ACM is the society for computing professionals. The Georgia Tech Student Chapter (GTACM) is the primary student organization for computer science majors. Activities include organized corporate and faculty presentations and other events, which benefit both undergraduate and graduate students. 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To examine these issues more closely, the Georgia Tech Information Security Center held its first GTISC Security Summit on Tuesday, January 18 at the Global Learning \u0026amp; Conference Center on the Georgia Tech campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EExperts from the Federal Trade Commission and leading security and Internet organizations including CipherTrust, EarthLink (Nasdaq: ELNK), Internet Security Systems (Nasdaq: ISSX), RSA Security (Nasdaq: RSAS) and the Georgia Tech College of Computing gathered to discuss current security issues. The Summit also showcased Atlanta\u2019s increasingly important role as a center of the security industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOrson Swindle, Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, gave the keynote address entitled, \u201cThe Road to Regulation: Do You Really Want to Go There?\u201d Swindle was sworn in as a Commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission in 1997, and he was appointed in 2001 as head of the U.S. Delegation to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Experts Group to review the 1992 OECD Guidelines for the Security of Information Systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFollowing Swindle\u2019s keynote address, a panel discussion by leading security experts outlined the latest security issues facing the industry from their different perspectives as Internet service providers, information security firms, researchers and educators.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPanelists included:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022 Garry Betty, president and chief executive officer, EarthLink (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.earthlink.net\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.earthlink.net\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.earthlink.net\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022 Richard DeMillo, the John P. 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Coviello, Jr., president and chief executive officer, RSA Security\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rsasecurity.com\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.rsasecurity.com\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.rsasecurity.com\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022 Christopher Rouland, chief technology officer, Internet Security Systems (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iss.net\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.iss.net\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.iss.net\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe panel was moderated by Doug Isenberg, editor and publisher, GigaLaw.com and attorney practicing technology and Internet legal issues with Needle \u0026amp; Rosenberg, P.C.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMore details about the Security Summit and participants are available at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gtisc.gatech.edu\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/gtisc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/gtisc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAbout GTISC\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Georgia Tech Information Security Center, a National Security Agency (NSA) Center of Excellence in Information Assurance Education, conducts interdisciplinary research and development on all aspects of information security, including systems-vulnerability assessment, usable security, and public and organizational security policies. GTISC\u2019s three-pronged mission includes: conducting research that will lay the foundations for a discipline of information security and that contributes to the development and testing of systems, devices, strategies, policies, practical concepts, and techniques; educating and training information security professionals through degree and continuing-education programs, and to insure that information security awareness is instilled in all Georgia Tech students; and assisting industry, non-profit organizations, government, and individuals to solve information security problems through outreach programs and support of groups devoted to information security.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe interdisciplinary center is housed in the College of Computing and involves faculty from Computing, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, and the School of Public Policy.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERelated Link: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtisc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Information Security Center\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information, contact:\u003Cbr \/\u003EJoy Weaks, 404-932-1254\u003Cbr \/\u003ECollege of Computing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:joyweaks@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejoyweaks@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELeading Internet and Security Industry Executives and Commissioner of Federal Trade Commission Address Cyber Security Issues\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:52:59","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:23","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-01-19T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2005-01-19T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51875":{"#nid":"51875","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Instant Messaging in Teen Life","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Instant Messaging in Teen Life,\u0022 a paper by CoC\u0027s Beki Grinter and Leysia Palen is one of the top ACM Digital Library downloads\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Instant Messaging in Teen Life,\u0022 a paper by CoC\u0027s Beki Grinter and Leysia Palen is one of the top ACM Digital Library downloads\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:52:56","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:23","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-06-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2005-06-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51890":{"#nid":"51890","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Computing Technology has remade the workplace","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor Boomers and Beyond - \u0022Computing technology has remade the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nworkplace, it should do the same for the home,\u0022 says CoC Associate\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor Beth Mynatt, Director of Georgia Tech\u0027s Aware Home initiative.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor Boomers and Beyond - \u0022Computing technology has remade the workplace, it should do the same for the home,\u0022 says CoC Associate Professor Beth Mynatt, Director of Georgia Tech\u0027s Aware Home initiative.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:52:59","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:23","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-01-30T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2005-01-30T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51874":{"#nid":"51874","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Augmented reality improves communication in poultry plants","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoC\u0027s Blair MacIntyre and Parth Bhawalkar test Augmented Reality technology in poultry plants to improve communication\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoC\u0027s Blair MacIntyre and Parth Bhawalkar test Augmented Reality technology in poultry plants to improve communication\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:52:56","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:23","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-07-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2005-07-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51859":{"#nid":"51859","#data":{"type":"news","title":"High-performance computing cluster will support CoC\u0027s dynamic research...","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHigh-performance computing cluster will support CoC\u0027s dynamic research\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nenvironment and initiatives that drive social and scientific progress\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHigh-performance computing cluster will support CoC\u0027s dynamic research environment and initiatives that drive social and scientific progress\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:52:54","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:23","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-09-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2005-09-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51889":{"#nid":"51889","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Krishna Palem unveils prototype chip","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoC Professor Krishna Palem, Director of Georgia Tech\u0027s Center for\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nResearch in Embedded Systems \u0026amp; Technology unveils his prototype\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nchip confirming that when it comes to performance - 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Jensen died on Feb. 6, 2005","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProfessor Emeritus Alton P. (Pete) Jensen (ME \u002756) died Sunday, February 6, 2005, after a long illness.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMr. Alton P. (\u0022Pete\u0022) Jensen, Professor Emeritus of Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Computing, died peacefully at home on Sunday, February 6, 2005, at age 79.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Jensen was an Army veteran of World War II and served with companies I and L of the 94th Infantry Division. His military service and his long career at Georgia Tech were the proudest and most satisfying times of his life.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHe was preceded in death by his parents, Peter Roosevelt Jensen and Emma Brown Jensen; his brother, James Russell Jensen; and his first wife, Jackie Epperson Jensen. He is survived by his wife of 28 years, Judith Bourgeois Jensen; his son, Allen P. Jensen and wife Sara; his daughter, Jean Jensen Terrell; and grandson, Lance Clinton Terrell; and his brothers, Edward Norman Jensen of Whitesburg, Georgia, and Joseph John Jensen of Plainfield, Illinois, as well as numerous beloved nieces and nephews.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EVisitation will be at A. S. Turner \u0026amp; Sons Tuesday, February 8th 4-6 pm, followed by a reception at the Jensen family home 6-8 pm. Graveside services will be conducted at the Georgia Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Milledgeville, Georgia, on Wednesday, February 9th at 11 am. A memorial service will be announced at some future date.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the College of Computing at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFor more information, contact:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003EMary Alice Isele\u003Cbr \/\u003EDirector of Development\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:isele@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eisele@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-8383\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMr. Alton P. 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Schmidt, chief security strategist for the US CERT Partners Program and former special advisor to the White House for Cyberspace Security, has joined its Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) as an Adjunct Professor. In this role, Schmidt will work with GTISC faculty and students on research efforts to improve the state of information security by lending his vast knowledge and expertise in this growing technological area.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI have spent my career trying to raise national awareness of information security issues through my various corporate and public policy positions,\u201d said Schmidt. \u201cBy joining the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, one of our nation\u0027s most progressive and innovative academic environments for computing, I can now provide my vision and insight to those research and educational initiatives that will drive the future development of cyber security solutions for the everyday computer user.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESchmidt\u0027s distinguished career as an information security advocate includes leadership positions with both public and private sector organizations. He has served on the President\u0027s Critical Infrastructure Protection Board, was an augmented member of the President\u0027s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology and held executive positions with the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), the Information Technology Information Sharing and Analysis Center (IT-ISAC), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Information Security Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB). Schmidt also served as vice president and chief security strategist for eBay and chief security officer for Microsoft Corporation, forming and directing the computer giant\u0027s Trustworthy Computer Security Strategies Group. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe College of Computing continuously seeks out industry experts and visionaries such as Howard Schmidt to take our faculty and students to greater heights in computing research,\u201d said Richard A. DeMillo, dean of the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. \u201cWe are thrilled to be able to tap into Howard\u0027s expertise and apply it to the College of Computing\u0027s academic and research programs surrounding cyber security.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGTISC, a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education, believes that research and education form the basis for developing effective solutions to safeguard personal digital information against current cyber security threats such as phishing, spoofing and identity. GTISC addresses these threats using an innovative and unique approach of \u201cusable security\u201d \u2013 the integration of usability and security research with the goal of empowering everyday users to better protect themselves and take charge of their online security and privacy.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the College of Computing at Georgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EThe College of Computing at Georgia Tech is a national leader in the research and creation of real-world computing breakthroughs that drive social and scientific progress. With its graduate program ranked 12 th nationally by U.S. News and World Report, the College\u0027s unconventional approach to education is pioneering the new era of computing by expanding the horizons of traditional computer science students through interdisciplinary collaboration and a focus on human centered solutions. For more information about the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, its academic divisions and research centers, please visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ewww.cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC)\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Georgia Tech Information Security Center, a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education, is an interdisciplinary center involving faculty from the College of Computing, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the School of Public Policy.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe College of Computing at Georgia Tech, a national leader in education and research that creates real-world computing breakthroughs to drive social and scientific progress, today announced that Howard A. 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The grant is one of seven awards totaling over $1 million, announced in December by the Toyota USA Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EICE@ Tech, a year-round secondary education teacher training initiative, is designed to strengthen the technology skills of current and future computer science teachers, resulting in Advanced Placement (AP) computer science courses being offered in Georgia high schools.  The program is delivered by the College of Computing (CoC) at Georgia Tech. \u201cWe are delighted to team up with Georgia Tech in this important secondary education initiative,\u201d said Hideaki \u201cHarry\u201d Otaka, Chairman of the Toyota USA Foundation, in announcing the award.  \u201cInformation technology is one of the driving forces in the U.S. economy, and it is vital that students have the opportunity to pursue studies in the field of computer science while in high school.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u201cRecently there has been a downward trend in students electing to pursue careers in this field.  We are pleased to join the Georgia Department of Education and Georgia Tech in a partnership to reverse this situation,\u201d Otaka added. The \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ICE@Tech\u0022\u003EICE@Tech\u003C\/a\u003E Program, launched in June 2004 by CEISMC, together with the CoC at Georgia Tech, utilizes an innovative media competition curriculum developed by CoC faculty that has already proven successful with women and minorities.  It is anticipated that the \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ICE@Tech\u0022\u003EICE@Tech\u003C\/a\u003E Program will increase the number of public high schools in Georgia that offer AP Computer Science from fewer than 50 percent to all 376 public high schools in the state within the coming decade.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EToyota USA Foundation, Georgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EUpon receiving notification of the award, CEISMC\u2019s Director, Paul Ohme, said, \u201cGeorgia Tech is very pleased to receive support from the Toyota USA Foundation. This will allow us to enhance our efforts with the Georgia State Department of Education to increase the effectiveness of secondary teachers who provide instruction in the field of computer science.\u201d In addition to Georgia Tech, other recipients of the Toyota USA Foundation awards are the Zoological Society of San Diego, San Diego, CA; Rocking the Boat, Inc., Bronx, NY; the University of Montana Foundation, Missoula, MT; the Saint Louis Science Center, St. Louis, MO; Trees for Tomorrow Natural Resources Specialty School, Eagle River, WI and National 4-H Council, Chevy Chase, MD.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EThe Toyota USA Foundation is a $40 million charitable endowment created to support education programs serving kindergarten through 12th grade students and their teachers in the United States.  The Foundation\u2019s emphasis is on supporting mathematics and science. For additional information about the Toyota USA Foundation, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.toyota.com\/foundation\u0022\u003Ewww.toyota.com\/foundation\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EContact:\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EMira Sleilati\u003Cbr \/\u003EToyota Motor North America, Inc.\u003Cbr \/\u003E(212) 715-7435\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:mira_sleilati@tma.toyota.com\u0022\u003Emira_sleilati@tma.toyota.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFunds to Help Increase the Presence of Computer Science in Georgia Public High Schools\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:52:50","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:19","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-02-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2005-02-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51823":{"#nid":"51823","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Interactive and Intelligent Computing Division Faculty Win $2.8M DARPA Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EAssociate Professor Ashwin Ram and\u00a0Assistant Professors Charles Isbell and Michael Mateas have won $2.8 million in research funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency\u0027s (DARPA) Integrated Learning Program. Current learning systems are brittle, the learned knowledge is situation-specific, and does not readily apply to new problems and changing situations. Their project, one of only two projects chosen for funding, will create technologies that integrate multiple reasoning, planning, learning, and meta-reasoning techniques to accomplish human-plus performance in realistic domains involving both computer and human agents.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EThe four-year contract will support research in Game AI. This funding is part of a $25 million project on Generalized Integrated Learning Architectures (GILA), led by Lockheed Martin and involving several leading universities.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAshwin Ram, Charles Isbell and Michael Mateas\u00a0will receive four years of research funding from the agency\u0027s\u00a0Integrated Learning Program.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:47:05","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:19","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-03-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2006-03-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51807":{"#nid":"51807","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Four College of Computing Women Win Google\u0027s Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoC students Gillian Hayes, Delphine Nain, Laura Rouse, and Tracy Westeyn are excelling in computer science and creating diversity that benefits us all.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoC students Gillian Hayes, Delphine Nain, Laura Rouse, and Tracy Westeyn are excelling in computer science and creating diversity that benefits us all.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:47:03","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:19","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-04-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-04-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51839":{"#nid":"51839","#data":{"type":"news","title":"AJC: Atlantans Embrace Wireless Lifestyle","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAtlantans Embrace Wireless Lifestyle \u0022because it\u0027s a young, tech savvy\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ncity. Atlanta should be proud it\u0027s on the edge,\u0022 said CoC associate\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nprofessor Beki Grinter\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAtlantans Embrace Wireless Lifestyle \u0022because it\u0027s a young, tech savvy city. 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Master of Ceremony and CoC Dean Rich DeMillo was assisted by Associate Dean and Honors \u0026amp; Awards Chair Merrick Furst in congratulating students, faculty, and staff on another exciting and productive year.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe 2005-2006 Undergraduate Awards included:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EOutstanding Freshman - Jeffrey David Starker II\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EOutstanding Sophomore - Joshua Isaac Silver\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EOutstanding Junior - Kathy Pham\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EOutstanding Undergraduate - Robert Ian Fitzpatrick\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EOutstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant - Blake Patrick O\u2019Hare\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EOutstanding Undergraduate Research Assistant - Andrew Russell Guillory\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EThe Dave \u0026amp; Carrie Armento Scholarship - Joseph Chester Hardy\u003Cbr \/\u003EEstablished to award an African-American computer science major who is a Georgia resident. \u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EThe Bierne M. 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Artists using sound, image, movement, etc.; designers; engineers; students; and anyone else interested in the creation of electronic art are invited to attend these monthly meetings held in Georgia Tech\u0027s Couch Building.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp class=\u0022discreet\u0022\u003EMore Information:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/dorkbot.org\/dorkbotatl\/\u0022\u003EDorkbot Atlanta\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe\u00a0sponsorship of this international forum dedicated to arts, technology, and people doing strange things with electricity began this year.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:47:05","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:19","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-03-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2006-03-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51805":{"#nid":"51805","#data":{"type":"news","title":"College of Computing Students Compete in the 30th Annual International \u0027Battle of the Brains\u0027","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EATLANTA (April 11, 2006)\u003C\/strong\u003E--Students from the College of Computing at Georgia Tech are among the most talented in computing from all corners of the globe in San Antonio this week for the 30th annual World Finals of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). Charlie Reiss, Chris Sidi, and James Robinson (IE), along with coach David Van Brackle are representing Georgia Tech at the world\u0027s most prestigious university competition in computing sciences and engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EMore than 5,600 teams representing 1,733 universities from 84 countries on 6 continents participated in regional contests held last fall. Georgia Tech was one of the top 83 teams to qualify for positions at the 2006 ACM-ICPC World Finals championships. Charles, Chris, and James will be challenged to solve eight or more highly complex, real-world programming problems -- a semester\u0027s worth of curriculum -- under a grueling five-hour deadline. Programmers must tackle problems such as determining the best travel routes to minimize traffic and ensure cost-effectiveness, or developing a network strategy to determine the optimal placement of cell phone service towers to cover as many customers as possible. The team solving the most problems correctly in the least amount of time will emerge as ICPC champions, earning scholarships as well as awards from IBM.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EIBM\u0027s sponsorship of the ACM-ICPC is an important component of the company\u0027s many academic initiatives, designed to stimulate open-source programming skills to develop a more competitive IT workforce capable of driving global innovation and economic growth. Contest participation has skyrocketed seven-fold since IBM began its sponsorship of the World Finals in 1997.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u0022This event offers collegiate programmers the opportunity to become familiar with Java, Linux, Eclipse and other open computing platforms being adopted by industries around the world,\u0022 said Doug Heintzman, a Director of Strategy at IBM Software Group, and Sponsorship Executive of the ICPC. \u0022Open source and open standards are driving the next great innovations in the industry, and this Contest challenges students who will be responsible for that innovation for decades to come.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EAs part of IBM\u0027s continuing commitment to IT education, the company provides academic institutions with free technology and software, as well as consulting on how to keep curricula current with the ever-changing industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u0022The ICPC World Finals is a wonderful platform for generating awareness of computing and problem-solving in our high tech world,\u0022 said Dr. Bill Poucher, ICPC Executive Director and Baylor University Professor. \u0022Through IBM\u0027s sponsorship and generous support, students have an opportunity to investigate and experience new technologies in the world of programming, resulting in the emergence of stronger, more gifted superstars. The World Finals helps us to shine the spotlight on these future IT leaders.\u0022 The ICPC has been headquartered at Baylor\u0027s main campus in Waco, Texas, since 1989.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EIn 2006, 22 North American teams, including 17 from the U.S., will compete in the World Finals, along with 3 teams from Africa\/Middle East, 7 from Latin America, 22 from Europe and Russia, and 29 from the Asia\/South Pacific region. CoC students from Georgia Tech were also among the April 2005 ACM-ICPC World Finals which took place in Shanghai, China.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EThe 2006 ACM-ICPC World Finals, sponsored by IBM, is being held at the Hilton Palacio del Rio in San Antonio, Texas. For more information, visit the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/icpc.baylor.edu\/icpc\/finals\/default.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Econtest Web site\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EFor a complete schedule of regional contests worldwide, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/icpc.baylor.edu\/icpc\/Regionals\/UpcomingRegionals.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Georgia Tech ACM Student Chapter\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EFounded in 1947, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) promotes and increases knowledge of science, design, development, construction, languages and applications of modern computing. The ACM is the society for computing professionals. The Georgia Tech Student Chapter (GTACM) is the primary student organization for computer science majors. Activities include organized corporate and faculty presentations and other events, which benefit both undergraduate and graduate students. GTACM also provides an avenue for students to develop corporate leadership skills.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout ACM\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EThe Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a major force in advancing the skills of information technology professionals and students. ACM serves its global membership of 75,000 by delivering cutting edge technical information and transferring ideas from theory to practice. ACM hosts the computing industry\u0027s leading Portal to Computing Literature. With its journals and magazines, special interest groups, conferences, workshops, electronic forums and Career Resource Centre, ACM is a primary resource to the information technology field. For more information, see \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.acm.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.acm.org\/\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoC\u0027s Charlie Reiss, Chris Sidi, and James Robinson (IE), along with coach David Van Brackle represent Georgia Tech at the world\u0027s most prestigious university competition in computing sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:47:03","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:19","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-04-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-04-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of 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Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51835":{"#nid":"51835","#data":{"type":"news","title":"College of Computing at Georgia Tech, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and UT-Battelle Collaborate to Advance U.S. High-Performance Computing","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch1\u003E\u003C\/h1\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EATLANTA, February 1, 2006\u003C\/strong\u003E \u2013 The College of Computing at Georgia Tech (CoC), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and UT-Battelle today announced a wide-ranging collaborative agreement to share facilities, staff and scientific resources aimed at significantly increasing the United States\u0027 capability to carry out large-scale research efforts reliant on advanced supercomputing 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This unique, public-private collaboration will position the Southeastern United States as a national destination for high-performance computing research and development.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The College of Computing at Georgia Tech was created to make it easier to partner with leading research centers and academic institutions and to elevate computer science research and education on a national and global scale\u0022 said Richard A. DeMillo, Dean of the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. \u0022We firmly believe that this partnership with ORNL and UT-Battelle will create a one-of-a-kind environment for high-performance computing research and help reinvigorate U.S. capabilities in supercomputing\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs part of the agreement, Dr. Thomas Zacharia , Associate Laboratory Director for ORNL\u0027s Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate, will be appointed as a Professor in Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Computing, a national leader in education and research that creates real-world computing breakthroughs to drive social and scientific progress. Subsequent joint appointments of faculty and staff, as well as an ongoing distribution of research students and computing resources, will follow in the coming months. In addition, with support from UT-Battelle, the non-profit partnership between the University of Tennessee and Battelle charged with managing ORNL operations, CoC\u0027s Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) Division will open a campus at ORNL dedicated to advanced computational science and engineering research and graduate education.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This agreement represents a milestone for Oak Ridge National Laboratory,\u0022 said Director Jeff Wadsworth. \u0022This creative partnership will bring closer together the extraordinary computational capabilities of both Georgia Tech and ORNL. Together, the partnership will represent one of the world\u0027s greatest resources for high-performance computing.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The CoC-ORNL-UT-Battelle partnership will further the development of various scientific breakthroughs that are heavily-dependant on access to the highest levels of computational resources in the nation. For example, Jeffrey Skolnick, Ph.D., a renowned systems biologist at Georgia Tech, is leading a research team in integrating mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology with advanced, high-performance computing and engineering in order to harness the vast information growing out of the sequencing of the human genome and apply it to the detection and prevention of diseases through accelerated drug design and medicine. Additionally, researchers in the School of Physics at Georgia Tech are employing high-level, computer-based, nanoscale simulations to discover new technologies that can be used to store massive amounts of information in a compact space. These two projects, among others, highlight the partnership\u0027s ability to leverage advanced supercomputing resources to foster the development of new technologies with broad impacts on daily life.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the College of Computing at Georgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EThe College of Computing at Georgia Tech is a national leader in the research and creation of real-world computing breakthroughs that drive social and scientific progress. With one of the largest and most highly ranked graduate programs in the nation, the College\u0027s unconventional approach to education is pioneering the new era of computing by expanding the horizons of traditional computer science students through interdisciplinary collaboration and a focus on human centered solutions. For more information about the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, its academic divisions and research centers, please visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\u0022 title=\u0022www.cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E . \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u00a0\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout ORNL\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EOak Ridge National Laboratory is the Department of Energy\u0027s largest multi-purpose laboratory. With 4,100 employees, ORNL has research capabilities in energy, high-performance computing, advanced materials, biological sciences, neutron science, and national security. ORNL is home to the National Leadership Computing Facility, where researchers are building the world\u0027s most powerful open scientific computer. Later this year ORNL will celebrate the opening of the $1.4 billion Spallation Neutron Source, which will provide the world\u0027s foremost facility for materials research. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u00a0\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout UT-Battelle\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EA not-for-profit company, known as UT-Battelle, has been established for the sole purpose of managing and operating the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy. Formed as a 50-50 limited liability partnership between the University of Tennessee and Battelle , UT -Battelle is the legal entity responsible for leading ORNL as the Laboratory enters the 21st Century.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Computing at Georgia Tech, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and UT-Battelle Collaborate\u00a0to Advance U.S. High-Performance Computing\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:52:51","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:19","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-02-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2006-02-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51817":{"#nid":"51817","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Developing Ultra-Efficient Embedded Architectures Based on Probabilistic Technology","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe College of Computing\u0027s Dr. Krishna Palem and fellow Tech researchers presented at the DATE Conference in Munich, Germany.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe College of Computing\u0027s Dr. Krishna Palem and fellow Tech researchers presented at the DATE Conference in Munich, Germany.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:47:04","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:19","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-03-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2006-03-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51801":{"#nid":"51801","#data":{"type":"news","title":"College of Computing Professor Brings Robots Center Stage at Georgia Tech","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EATLANTA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u00a0\u003Cstrong\u003E(April 13, 2006)\u003C\/strong\u003E \u2014 College of Computing (CoC) Associate Professor Tucker Balch is chair as Georgia Tech\u00a0hosts the 2006 KUKA RoboCup U.S. Open on April 20-23. The public is invited to see innovative and unusual search and rescue robots, the four-legged dog robots playing soccer, and the fast-moving small-size robots at this year\u2019s event. Robotic teams from top universities in the United States, Germany, Mexico, and Canada will compete for the coveted championship title including Georgia Tech, Harvard, MIT, Colorado State, Carnegie Mellon, and more.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EIn addition to bringing RoboCup\u00a0to Georgia Tech, Tucker Balch was instrumental in establishing\u00a0the College of Computing\u0027s\u00a0unprecedented Robotics Doctoral Program.\u00a0CoC\u00a0has\u00a0further solidified its\u00a0position as a national academic leader in robotics with the recent appointment of international\u00a0expert Dr. Henrik Christensen as\u00a0KUKA Chair of Robotics.\u00a0Christensen\u2019s\u00a0position\u00a0is endowed by a $1.5 million grant from KUKA Robotics, the North American subsidiary of KUKA Roboter GmbH and a global leader in robot manufacturing.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EKUKA and Lockheed Martin are U.S Open sponsors of\u00a0RoboCup,\u00a0an international project designed to promote research in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, computational perception and related fields.\u00a0The goal is to foster AI and intelligent robotics research by providing a set of standard problems where a wide range of technologies, including perception, planning, cooperation, and action must be integrated and examined.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E2006 KUKA RoboCup Schedule:\u003Cbr \/\u003EApril 20 \u2013 venue opens for the teams at 12 noon \u003Cbr \/\u003EApril 21 - competition begins 8:30AM - 6PM \u003Cbr \/\u003EApril 22 \u2013 round-robin competitions and quarter finals from 8:30AM \u2013 5PM \u003Cbr \/\u003EApril 23 \u2013 semi-finals and finals 8:30AM \u2013 Noon; finals 1PM \u2013 4PM\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EFor more details about this year\u0027s RoboCup including participants and updated schedule, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.robocup-us.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout KUKA Robotics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003EKUKA Robotics Corporation, with its parent company KUKA Roboter GmbH, Augsburg, Germany, is one of the world\u0027s leading manufacturers of industrial robots, with an annual production volume approaching 10,000 units, and an installed base of over 60,000 units.\u00a0 The company\u2019s 5 and 6 axis robots range from 3kg to 570kg payloads, and 635mm to 3700mm reach, all controlled from a common PC based controller platform. KUKA robots are utilized in a diverse range of industries including the appliance, automotive, aerospace, consumer goods, logistics, food, pharmaceutical, medical, foundry and plastics industries. KUKA robots are found in a multitude of applications including: material handling, machine loading, assembly, packaging, palletizing, welding, bending, joining, and surface finishing.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoC Associate Professor Tucker Balch is Chair of the 2006 KUKA RoboCup U.S. Open on April 20-23.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:47:02","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:19","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-04-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-04-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of 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Living Game Worlds 2006 focuses on digital media including interactive design, games, digital art, mobile technologies and more. The theme of this year\u2019s symposium is \u201cDesign Processes and the Future of Expressive Computing.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u201cAt Georgia Tech we teach digital design at the graduate and undergraduate level and are preparing our students to be innovators in the digital revolution,\u201d says Janet Murray, professor and director of the graduate Program in Digital Media in Tech\u2019s School of Literature, Communication and Culture. \u201cWe are pleased to bring together some of the leaders in industry and academia to discuss the challenges facing the field.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech is at the cutting edge of innovation in multimedia, gaming and interactive technologies,\u201d says Elizabeth Mynatt, associate professor in the College of Computing and director of the GVU Center at Georgia Tech. \u201cThe Living Game Worlds symposium offers a multidisciplinary look at these converging technologies.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s Digital Media Graduate Program in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture and the GVU Center in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech have organized Living Game Worlds 2006 as a follow up to last year\u2019s successful inaugural event initiated by Georgia Tech\u2019s Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and the School of Literature, Communication and Culture celebrating the tenth anniversary of digital media degree programs at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003ELiving Game Worlds 2006 also includes a keynote by three-time Emmy winner Dale Herigstad, who has more than a decade of experience in interactive television and broadband environments.\u00a0 Panel discussions will feature experts from industry and academia discussing issues in digital media including design process, interactive design, games, digital art, mixed reality and convergence. The day closes with demos and exhibits.\u00a0 The detailed agenda is available online at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gameworlds.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/gameworlds.gatech.edu\/\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EParticipants include:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E* Will Wright, co-founder of Maxis and the original designer of the two best-selling computer games SimCity and The Sims. In 2005 he received the Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Progress and Service from Georgia Tech\u2019s Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E* Dale Herigstad, creative director of Schematic and three time Emmy winner, has 25 years experience as a graphic designer in television and over a decade of experience in interactive television and broadband environments.\u003Cbr \/\u003E* Christopher Klaus, founder and CEO of Kaneva Inc., a digital entertainment marketplace where people can watch, play, create and self-publish films and games. Klaus is also founder and chief security advisor of Internet Security Systems (ISS) headquartered in Atlanta.\u003Cbr \/\u003E* Raph Koster, chief creative officer at Sony Online Entertainment, builds massively multi-player online worlds, including Star Wars Galaxies, an online version of the Star Wars universe. \u003Cbr \/\u003E* Karen Lennon is president\/CEO, Beyond Z Interactive Media, a leading iTV development company. With over 15 years experience in new media, marketing and management, Lennon launched her Emmy Award winning iTV company in 2000.\u003Cbr \/\u003E* Michael Mateas, assistant professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Literature, Communication and Culture and College of Computing, recently won the Grand Jury Prize for Fa\u00e7ade at the Slamdance Guerilla Gamemaker Competition at the independent Slamdance 2006 Film Festival.\u003Cbr \/\u003E* Rick Sanchez, vice president for content for GameTap, Turner Broadcasting\u0027s first-of-its-kind broadband games and entertainment network, which launched to consumers last October.\u003Cbr \/\u003E* And more\u2026\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Digital Media Graduate Program\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003EThe Georgia Tech Digital Media Graduate Program in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture (LCC) in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech provides both the theoretical and the practical foundation for careers as digital media researchers and designers in academia and industry. The advent of a new medium of human communication and representation is a significant event in human social and cultural history, and introduces the possibility of new genres of artistic expression as well as new forms of information and knowledge transmission. The study of these new forms\u2014from the point of view of the creators and the analysts\u2014is an emerging field, one that requires a convergence of the methodologies of several traditional disciplines, and one that is also defining its own methodologies of research and practice. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/idt.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eidt.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the GVU Center\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe GVU (Graphics, Visualization and Usability) Center is a university-wide, interdisciplinary research center that spans the Georgia Tech campus and includes many outside collaborators. Its faculty and students are drawn from disciplines in science, engineering, the humanities and design. The Center enables collaborative research that is often difficult to achieve in traditional academic and industrial settings. The unique combinations of research interests and expertise are the catalyst for significant insights into the rapidly evolving landscape of people and computation. The GVU Center conducts research in crucial areas of human experiences with computing including health care, education, work and home life, and entertainment. The Center consistently leads the forefront of research in fields such as human-computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, mixed and augmented reality, animation and graphics, wearable computing, information visualization, educational technologies, new media and communications, intelligent systems and robotics. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gvu.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ewww.gvu.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EVideo Games Symposium Features Industry Leaders and Innovators\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:52:50","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:19","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-02-13T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2006-02-13T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51815":{"#nid":"51815","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Technologies are Altering the Look of PCs, the Web, and Cell Phones","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoC Associate Professor Jeff Pierce helps make sense of the changes in user interfaces for the machines we use every day.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoC Associate Professor Jeff Pierce helps make sense of the changes in user interfaces for the machines we use every day.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:47:04","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:19","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-03-21T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2006-03-21T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51847":{"#nid":"51847","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Search Technology Comes to the Camera Phone","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Aaron Bobick on CNET News: Search Technology Comes to the Camera Phone\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Aaron Bobick on CNET News: Search Technology Comes to the Camera Phone\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:52:53","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:19","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-11-22T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2005-11-22T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"51831":{"#nid":"51831","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CoC Professor Wins Slamdance Gamemaker Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA Georgia Tech professor won the second annual Slamdance Guerilla Gamemaker Competition at the recent independent Slamdance Film Festival, honoring independent gamemakers and filmmakers, held alongside the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Michael Mateas, assistant professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Literature Communication and Culture and the College of Computing, and his co-developer Andrew Stern of Procedural Arts, won the Grand Jury Sparky Award for \u201cFa\u00e7ade,\u201d a one-act interactive drama. The Slamdance game competition recognizes and rewards innovative and exciting work being done by independent game designers, programmers, and artists. Mateas, an expert in artificial intelligence (AI)-based art or expressive AI, and Stern worked on their creation for 5 years.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u0022With Fa\u00e7ade we really wanted to open up a whole new genre of interactive entertainment experience. Traditionally games have focused on physical movement - running, jumping, shooting - in fantasy or science fiction environments. In contrast, Fa\u00e7ade focuses on social interaction with human characters. Games are the cinema of the 21st century, and are capable of commenting on the full range of human experience. But fundamental artificial intelligence and design research are necessary to enable games to move beyond action\/adventure scenarios. Fa\u00e7ade takes a big step in this direction.\u201d Fa\u00e7ade is shaped as a visit to a quarreling couple, where the player finds herself involved in the breakdown of their marriage. Whether and how their marriage ends, and how they feel about you, depends on how you interact with them. Advance artificial intelligence techniques are used to control the autonomous characters, to manage the dynamic plot arc, and to understand the player\u2019s natural language conversation with the characters.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EFa\u00e7ade is available for free download, currently only for PCs, but with a Mac port coming soon. Mateas is now working with Blair MacIntyre within Georgia Tech\u2019s GVU Center to have Fa\u00e7ade ported into an augmented reality experience in which viewers can physically walk through Trip and Grace\u2019s apartment and carry on a conversation with the couple. The computer animated characters are superimposed on the real world, using an augmented reality headset. \u0022We\u2019re trying to get as close as we can to the Star Trek Holodeck\u0022, says Mateas.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EMateas directs the Experimental Game Lab (EGL) at Georgia Tech, where he and other faculty push the limits of game design and technology. Within the EGL, Mateas continues to develop advanced AI for interactive entertainment, including AI techniques for interactive story, advanced autonomous characters, and for games which dynamically change and morph depending on how the player plays them. Besides entertainment applications, such technologies have huge implications for future education and training simulations. \u0022Imagine historical simulations where you can talk to famous people from the past, organizational simulations for management training that include office politics and face-to-face people skills, healthcare simulations that allow doctors to practice bedside manner. Fa\u00e7ade was only the first step.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Slamdance\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EStarted in 1995 by a group of upstart filmmakers, Slamdance Film Festival is a year-round organization dedicated to emerging artists and their vision. Slamdance has established a unique reputation for premiering independent films by first-time directors working with limited budgets. At the same time, the Festival has stayed true to its roots by being organized and programmed by active filmmakers. In 2004, Slamdance launched a teleplay competition in conjunction with fox21, a Games Competition, and the Slamdance Media Group; a company comprised of distribution and talent-management units.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMichael Mateas, assistant professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of\nLiterature Communication and Culture and the College of Computing, and\nhis co-developer Andrew Stern of Procedural Arts, won the Grand Jury\nSparky Award for \u201cFa\u00e7ade,\u201d a one-act interactive drama.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:52:50","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:19","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-02-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2006-02-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}