{"51787":{"#nid":"51787","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Computing Grad Student Receives Intel Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EATLANTA\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003E- April 28, 2006\u003C\/strong\u003E\u00a0 Keith O\u0027Hara, a College of Computing graduate student,\u00a0recently received a coveted Ph.D. Fellowship Award from the Intel Foundation. Selected from an extremely competitive pool of applicants, O\u0027Hara is officially recognized as a leader in technology research. The Intel Fellowship includes one year of tuition and fees, a $20,000 stipend, a Dell laptop and an Intel mentor to offer support and advice during the fellowship year.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EO\u0027Hara says he is interested in distributed computing systems that sense and effect the real world.\u00a0His\u00a0current research involves systems of mobile robots and sensor networks which \u0022falls\u00a0at the intersection of intelligent systems and robotics research and software systems research.\u0022\u00a0O\u0027Hara\u00a0works with Assistant Professor Tucker Balch and Professor Karsten Schwan who is also director of the Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Intel Corporation is one of the key technology companies in the nation and has maintained a strong relationship with the College of Computing at Georgia Tech and CERCS research center. Collaborations were further strengthened\u00a0with this Ph.D. student fellowship award, as well as the curriculum and equipment grants and research awards CERCS research faculty have received for multi-core instruction this year.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The awards are not only indications of the College\u0027s increasingly strong\u00a0collaboration with Intel Corporation,\u0022 says Schwan, \u0022but they also demonstrate the fact that Georgia Tech is\u00a0one of the largest suppliers of technical talent.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EO\u0027Hara\u0027s fellowship is renewable for up to two years pending a review\u00a0by the Intel Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKeith O\u0027Hara\u00a0was officially recognized as a leader in technology research after receiving the coveted Intel Fellowship.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:47:01","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:16","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":""}}}