{"565931":{"#nid":"565931","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Turning Ideas into Successful Startups","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EInstead of interning at established companies this summer, a group of Georgia Tech students launched their own startups.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe 20 teams who participated in \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/startupsummer.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EStartup Summer\u003C\/a\u003E will demonstrate their products and services Tuesday starting at 4:30pm in the Egyptian Ballroom of the Fox Theatre.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStartup Summer is one of three main programs under the umbrella of CREATE-X, a Georgia Tech initiative to enhance and support entrepreneurship programs for undergraduate students. It is just one way the Institute is preparing the nation\u0026rsquo;s next entrepreneurs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis is the third cohort of teams to go through the 12-week Startup Summer program. If the past is any indication, many of the teams will continue to succeed long after the program ends.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThree program graduates \u0026ndash; FIXD, Gimme Vending and TEQ Charging \u0026ndash; were among 10 emerging companies selected to participate in The Bridge:Atlanta, a startup commercialization program established by Coca-Cola to foster connections and create mentorships between entrepreneurs and established corporations.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOthers Startup Summer graduates joined Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/atdc.org\u0022\u003EAdvanced Technology Development Center\u003C\/a\u003E, a statewide technology incubator.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHere\u0026rsquo;s a look at five past Startup Summer teams:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKeeping Cars \u0026lsquo;FIXD\u0026rsquo;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDrivers tense up when the check engine light come on. They wonder if the car is OK to drive or if it will be expensive to fix.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/fixdapp.com\u0022\u003EFIXD\u003C\/a\u003E helps drivers quickly understand what\u0026rsquo;s wrong with their cars.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe FIXD sensor is plugged into a car\u0026rsquo;s diagnostics port, located just underneath the steering wheel. It relays problems to an app via Bluetooth. It provides a simple definition of what is wrong, explains the severity of the issue and warns of the consequences of driving without repairs. The device will also keep track of the vehicle\u0026rsquo;s diagnostics and let owners know when their car is due for maintenance.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe company was part of the inaugural Startup Summer class in 2014. Since then they\u0026rsquo;ve completed a successful Kickstarter campaign and are selling\u0026nbsp;the FIXD sensor through their website and on\u0026nbsp;Amazon.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe startup isn\u0026rsquo;t just targeting individual drivers. John Gattuso, the company\u0026rsquo;s CEO and a graduate of\u0026nbsp;the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, said\u0026nbsp;the device also benefits dealership service departments and auto repair shops.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor example,\u0026nbsp;FIXD enables dealership service departments to monitor customers\u0026#39; vehicles through a dashboard.\u0026nbsp;The dealership\u0026#39;s dashboard allows for the service departments to communicate with customers via the FIXD app on their smartphones.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERepair shops can give it to their customers so they can can easily schedule repairs and maintenance.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFIXD is currently working with\u0026nbsp;Kuhn Volkswagen of Marietta, Georgia, and RPM Automotive, a repair shop in Jacksonville, Florida, with 10 stores.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Startup Summer helped us lay an amazing foundation for FIXD and gave us the confidence to pursue our startup full-time,\u0026rdquo; said Gattuso, who graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering. \u0026ldquo;Even though we have graduated from Tech, we still rely\u0026nbsp;heavily\u0026nbsp;on the mentors and advisors that we met during our time in Startup Summer.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERevolutionizing Vending Machines\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECory Hewett knew from experience the problems vending machine companies face.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBy the time he graduated high school, Hewett had owned and managed more than 25 gumball and vending machines.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt was during his time at Georgia Tech that Hewett co-founded a solution to allow vending machine operators to track what is happening in the field in real-time.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gimmevending.co\u0022\u003EGimme Vending\u003C\/a\u003E developed a hardware and software solution that allows companies to replace their handhelds and easily monitor the status of their cash and inventory.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe devices work with the existing vending management software. The Gimme Key is installed into each vending machine\u0026rsquo;s DEX board and left there. It installs in seconds, with no tools or pairing. Data is communicated wirelessly from the key to the Gimme Drive app via Bluetooth. The data instantaneously uploads from the app to the Gimme Vending cloud and can be immediately accessible to executives. This provides operators faster service and fewer returns, and streamlines inventory.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHewett, who studied electrical engineering, was also part of the first group of teams to go through Startup Summer.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESince then the startup has won $50,000 at the Technology Association of Georgia\u0026#39;s Business Launch Competition and received $450,000 in seed funding.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn April the company won the Automatic Merchandiser 2016 Readers\u0026#39; Choice New Product of the Year Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso in April, the company received its first invention patent -- for its method of wirelessly communicating data from vending machines even when there is no network connection.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Gimme has made a significant impact on the vending industry in a short period of time, and is staged to further disrupt the industry in a positive way,\u0026rdquo; Hewett said. \u0026ldquo;We provide our customers with the data they need to operate more efficiently and profitably.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELet Them Eat Bugs\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs students at Georgia Tech, cousins Sean Warner and Patrick Pittaluga transformed the laundry room inside their apartment into a nursery for 700 larvae of black soldier flies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt marked the beginning of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/grubblyfarms.com\u0022\u003EGrubbly Farms\u003C\/a\u003E, a startup company that breeds and sells the larvae as a sustainable source of protein for chicken, pigs and farmed seafood.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe country produces more than 30 million tons of food waste that is dumped into landfills and releases greenhouse gases that damage the environment. But Grubbly Farms is collecting the organic waste and feeding it to the black soldier fly larvae.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs the larvae eat, they excrete a nutrient-rich fertilizer that benefits gardeners and farmers. The larvae are later used as feed for fish and poultry farms.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWarner and Pittaluga knew that famers in Europe and Africa use black soldier fly larvae as a protein in livestock feed and wondered if famers in the U.S. would be willing to do the same. So as part of last year\u0026rsquo;s Startup Summer they travelled around the state and country to talk with chicken and fish famers to better understand the needs of the market and potential customers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We had the idea but CREATE-X gave us the skills and ability to launch our startup,\u0026rdquo; said Pittaluga, who graduate with a degree in business.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWarner graduated with a degree in building construction.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShortly after Startup Summer ended they attended the 2015 Kairos Global Summit, which highlighted 50 innovative startups from around the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELast year the company partnered with Kennesaw State University to conduct research and development in a greenhouse on the university\u0026rsquo;s farm.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThey recently moved into a 5,500-square-foot facility in Doraville and are getting ready to hire their first employee.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGrow Your Own Food\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERuwan Subasinghe grew tired of his produce and herbs going bad before he could eat it all. He wanted fresh food but didn\u0026rsquo;t have the time or space for a garden.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstead he co-invented a machine to let people grow their own fresh produce right in their kitchens.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETogether with Alex Weiss they launched \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.replantable.com\u0022\u003EReplantable\u003C\/a\u003E, the startup behind the Nanofarm, a tiny modular farm that fits on a kitchen countertop. It grows vegetables, herbs and salad greens.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Nanofarm cabinet includes a water tray, LED grow lights and a plant pad. The plant pads are soil-free, pre-seeded paper and fabric pads that contain the plant nutrients. The pads go on top of a water-filled growing tray, where they wick up water during the growing cycle. A built-in ventilation system pumps carbon dioxide to the plants and vents oxygen into the home.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUnlike other products to come out of Startup Summer this one doesn\u0026rsquo;t require an app or depend on a smartphone or computer to work.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Nanofarm\u0026rsquo;s frame is built from powder-coated steel and natural wood. The door is\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Emade of tinted glass and the door handle and hinge are made of marine-grade aluminum. It has three dials: one selects the length of the growing period, another starts the unit and a final light is lit when it\u0026rsquo;s time to harvest.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESubasinghe described the device as \u0026ldquo;set it and forget it.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There is no seeding or watering or adding nutrients and you don\u0026rsquo;t have to adjust the light,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;After you hit start it will do all the work and let you know when it\u0026rsquo;s time to harvest.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA group of beta testers spent about seven months using the device. The startup is planning to officially launch the Nanofarm this week on Kickstarter.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow to Charge EVs\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile in different classes at Georgia Tech, Dorrier Coleman, Josh Lieberman and Isaac Wittenstein experimented with electric vehicles and their growing market.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThey quickly identified a main source of frustration for drivers and owners of these vehicles: seeing one car plugged in to a charger all day while other drivers wait their turn.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe three pooled their knowledge and created a power management system for electric vehicle chargers. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.teqcharging.com\u0022\u003ETEQ Charging\u003C\/a\u003E aims to make charging easy and hassle free by allowing multiple drivers to plug their cars into a charging queue.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe company\u0026rsquo;s name is short for The Electric Queue and pays tribute to Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA software system queues the power from one car to the next throughout the day. Although every car may be plugged into the charger, the company\u0026rsquo;s patent-pending algorithms place each connected car in a queue. Each charger turns on and off in the most efficient order to maximize the number of cars that can be charged during a specific period of time.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMeanwhile the TEQ app helps vehicle owners find open chargers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThey went through Startup Summer last year and began live testing the system in June at the Newberger Andes Offices offices, located on Roswell Road and I-285.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EResults from beta testing will allow the company to further develop the technology. 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as many as 10 percent of the repositories hosted by them had been compromised \u0026ndash; with several hundred of the \u0026ldquo;buckets\u0026rdquo; actively providing malware. Such bad content could be challenging to find, however, because it can be rapidly assembled from stored components that individually may not appear to be malicious.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo identify the bad content, researchers created a scanning tool that looks for features unique to the bad repositories, known as \u0026ldquo;Bars.\u0026rdquo; The features included certain types of redirection schemes and \u0026ldquo;gatekeeper\u0026rdquo; elements designed to protect the malware from scanners. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Indiana University Bloomington and the University of California Santa Barbara conducted the study.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBelieved to be the first systematic study of cloud-based malicious activity, the research will be presented October 24 at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security in Vienna, Austria. \u0026nbsp;The work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Bad actors have migrated to the cloud along with everybody else,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/abdul-r-beyah\u0022\u003ERaheem Beyah\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;The bad guys are using the cloud to deliver malware and other nefarious things while remaining undetected. The resources they use are compromised in a variety of ways, from traditional exploits to simply taking advantage of poor configurations.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBeyah and graduate student Xiaojing Liao found that the bad actors could hide their activities by keeping components of their malware in separate repositories that by themselves didn\u0026rsquo;t trigger traditional scanners. Only when they were needed to launch an attack were the different parts of this malware assembled.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Some exploits appear to be benign until they are assembled in a certain way,\u0026rdquo; explained Beyah, who is the Motorola Foundation Professor and associate chair for strategic initiatives and innovation in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. \u0026ldquo;When you scan the components in a piecemeal kind of way, you only see part of the malware, and the part you see may not be malicious.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the cloud, malicious actors take advantage of how difficult it can be to scan so much storage. Operators of cloud hosting services may not have the resources to do the deep scans that may be necessary to find the Bars \u0026ndash; and their monitoring of repositories may be limited by service-level agreements.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile splitting the malicious software up helped hide it, the strategy also created a technique for finding the \u0026ldquo;bad buckets\u0026rdquo; hosting it, Beyah said. Many of the bad actors had redundant repositories connected by specific kinds of redirection schemes that allowed attacks to continue if one bucket were lost. The bad buckets also usually had \u0026ldquo;gatekeepers\u0026rdquo; designed to keep scanners out of the repositories, and where webpages were served, they had simple structures that were easy to propagate.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We observed that there is an inherent structure associated with how these attackers have set things up,\u0026rdquo; he explained. \u0026ldquo;For instance, the bad guys all had bodyguards at the door. That\u0026rsquo;s not normal for cloud storage, and we used that structure to detect them.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers began by studying a small number of known bad repositories to understand how they were being used. Based on what they learned, they created \u0026ldquo;BarFinder,\u0026rdquo; a scanner tool that automatically searches for and detects features common to the bad repositories.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOverall, the researchers scanned more than 140,000 sites on 20 cloud hosting sites and found about 700 active repositories for malicious content. In total, about 10 percent of cloud repositories the team studied had been compromised in some way. The researchers notified the cloud hosting companies of their findings before publication of the study.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s pervasive in the cloud,\u0026rdquo; said Beyah. \u0026ldquo;We found problems in every last one of the hosting services we studied. We believe this is a significant problem for the cloud hosting industry.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn some cases, the bad actors simply opened an inexpensive account and began hosting their software. In other cases, the malicious content was hidden in the cloud-based domains of well-known brands. Intermingling the bad content with good content in the brand domains protected the malware from blacklisting of the domain.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBeyah and Liao saw a wide range of attacks in the cloud hosted repositories, ranging from phishing and common drive-by downloads to fake antivirus and computer update sites. \u0026ldquo;They can attack you directly from these buckets, or they can redirect you to other malicious buckets or a series of malicious buckets,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;It can be difficult to see where the code is redirecting you.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo protect cloud-based repositories from these attacks, Beyah recommends the usual defenses, including patching of systems and proper configuration settings.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELooking ahead, the researchers hope to make BarFinder available to a broader audience. That could include licensing the technology to a security company, or making it available as an open-source tool.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Attackers are very clever, and as we secure things and make the cloud infrastructure more challenging for them to attack, they will move onto something else,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;In the meantime, every system that we can secure makes the internet just a little bit safer.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERead about other \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/iisp.gatech.edu\/ccs-16\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech presentations\u003C\/a\u003E at\u0026nbsp;the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (grants CNS-1223477, 1223495, 1527141 and 1618493). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECITATION\u003C\/strong\u003E: Xiaojing Liao, et al., \u0026ldquo;Lurking Malice in the Cloud: Understanding and Detecting Cloud Repository as a Malicious Service,\u0026rdquo; ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n177 North Avenue\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAtlanta, Georgia \u0026nbsp;30332-0181 \u0026nbsp;USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (404-894-6986) (jtoon@gatech.edu) or Ben Brumfield (ben.brumfield@gatech.edu).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA study of 20 major cloud hosting services has found that as many as 10 percent of the repositories hosted by them had been compromised \u0026ndash; with several hundred of the \u0026ldquo;buckets\u0026rdquo; actively providing malware. 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And while there have been some significant advances since passage of the National Cancer Act in 1971, the conflict has spread out along many fronts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith the realization now that there are more than 200 types and subtypes of cancer, the battle plan has evolved from a one-size-fits-all strategy to a data-driven, more personalized approach, which means the army of researchers and clinicians devoted to fighting cancer also has evolved.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re seeing the emergence of the new cancer biology,\u0026rdquo; says John McDonald, director of the Integrated Cancer Research Center (ICRC) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s actually being driven now by technologies and expertise that lie outside the traditional framework of cancer biology. That\u0026rsquo;s why I think you\u0026rsquo;re probably going to see major breakthroughs in cancer research coming out of places like Georgia Tech and M.I.T., as opposed to traditional medical schools.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAdvances in genomics and high throughput sequencing have generated massive amounts of data, \u0026ldquo;and it\u0026rsquo;s opened up the field to people that were not trained as cancer biologists, but have the necessary skillsets for the analysis of all this new, big data,\u0026rdquo; says McDonald, a faculty researcher with the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience and professor in the School of Biological Sciences, who has definitely seen his share of breakthroughs in his own \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mcdonaldlab.biology.gatech.edu\/news.htm\u0022\u003Erecent research\u003C\/a\u003E focused on ovarian cancer.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe cancer biology that McDonald knew when he was a college student has moved from an era of specialization into an era of multidisciplinary research, in which researchers from a wide range of areas now work together on common projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Twenty five years ago, these people probably wouldn\u0026rsquo;t have spoken to each other because they didn\u0026rsquo;t have any common interests,\u0026rdquo; says McDonald. \u0026ldquo;I was like a kid in a candy store when we first came to Georgia Tech, and it still feels like that \u0026ndash; the idea of being in a place where all of this expertise and creativity exist. Cancer research is not a one-person endeavor. It\u0026rsquo;s all about collaboration.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd McDonald has plenty of collaborators within and beyond the ICRC, which occupies a busy space where molecular biology, computational science, engineering and nanotechnology converge. Together, these scientists and engineers are developing next generation cancer diagnostics and therapeutics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFamily Affair\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFatih Sarioglu trained as an electrical engineer in his native Turkey and later at Stanford University, developing particular expertise in microsystems and nanosystems, developing sensitive, small-scale devices to look at atoms. After earning his Ph.D., he says, \u0026ldquo;I wondered how I could use these skills to benefit humanity.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESarioglu, assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Petit Institute faculty researcher, he spent three years as a post-doc at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, learning about cancer. He found his opportunity, \u0026ldquo;to give biologists and biomedical scientists and clinicians capabilities they don\u0026rsquo;t have.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThere was a personal reason for Sarioglu\u0026rsquo;s interest in cancer, as well. The disease took the life of two grandparents. But he was particularly motivated when his mother-in-law was diagnosed, back in Turkey, with late-stage brain cancer.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It was devastating. I knew life expectancy was about four or five months,\u0026rdquo; says Sarioglu. \u0026ldquo;But their diagnosis was based purely on the pathology, a biopsy slice.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe asked a colleague at Mass General, David Lewis, one of the world\u0026rsquo;s top pathologists, for another opinion. Lewis\u0026rsquo; conclusions were vastly different. The cancer was benign, operable, and Sagioglu\u0026rsquo;s mother-in-law is alive and well.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It showed me that we still have to improve how we diagnose cancer,\u0026rdquo; says Sarioglu, whose lab develops microfluidic chips that can isolate tumor cells out of billions of other cells. At Mass General, he worked on a device that captures clumps of tumor cells before metastasis, preventing the spread of cancer.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe\u0026rsquo;s continued that work since arriving at Georgia Tech in 2014, developing microchip technology that analyzes cells accurately and at very high speeds. Essentially, it is a better way to find the needle in the haystack, a minimally invasive way to diagnose cancer, liquid biopsy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The possibilities are endless, really,\u0026rdquo; says Sarioglu, who counts McDonald and Fred Vannberg (an expert in DNA sequencing who specializes in the molecular analysis of cancer) among his research collaborators. \u0026ldquo;The technology is applicable to all types of cancer.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDoing Better\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe primary tumor is rarely the killer in cancer. Nine times out of 10, cancer kills because it spreads to other parts of the body. So when a patient gets a cancer diagnosis, one of his first questions is, \u0026ldquo;has it metastasized?\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;You can obviously appreciate the anxiety. The physician and patient wonder the same exact thing. That\u0026rsquo;s the first question,\u0026rdquo; says Stanislav Emelianov, professor in the Georgia Tech\/Emory Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and the Joseph M. Pettit Chair in School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Then there are more questions. What is the prognosis, the treatment, how do I deal with this \u0026ndash; a lot of questions that can be better answered if we know the answer to the first question,\u0026rdquo; says Emelianov, whose team designs ultrasound imaging devices and algorithms, and has embarked on a project supported by a grant from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation to use light and sound and a non-radioactive molecularly targeted contrast agent, to answer that anxious first question.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe traditional approach has been to inject radioactive material and tracking that, then biopsy, which involves incision of the skin to expose the lymph node and taking pieces out to look for cancer.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It is accurate, but it is also invasive, complicated and uses radioactive material,\u0026rdquo; Emelianov says. \u0026ldquo;We can do better.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEmelianov speculates that in the future, we may be able to \u0026ldquo;weaponize\u0026rdquo; these contrast agents to actually kill cancer cells. Meanwhile, his team also is using its advanced imaging technology in collaboration with colleagues at Emory University\u0026rsquo;s Winship Cancer Center, to diagnose thyroid cancer and differentiate between malignant and benign tumors.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETech\u0026rsquo;s Cancer Army\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThere are more than 40 faculty researchers at Georgia Tech who are members of the ICRC. They come from 12 different departments or schools. And there are an additional 16 researchers from academic and medical institutions that are affiliate members. It\u0026rsquo;s a diverse intellectual force that is giving Georgia Tech its own identity in cancer research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We can be a major player in cancer,\u0026rdquo; says McDonald. \u0026ldquo;How many medical schools have this breadth of expertise?\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe\u0026rsquo;s talking about young researchers like Susan Thomas, awarded Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s first grant from Susan G. 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Focusing extensively on primary lung tumors as well as lung metastasis, his team works on delivering genetic drugs to tumors.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We have changed their gene expression, and either slowed tumor growth or caused established tumors to recede,\u0026rdquo; says Dahlman, an expert in gene editing. \u0026ldquo;In some cases, we have delivered multiple therapeutic RNAs to tumors, so that tumor cells are hit with a genetic \u0026lsquo;one-two\u0026rsquo; punch that affects multiple cancer causing genes.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHis lab also creates tools to understand how cancer genes cause tumor resistance, studying how combinations of genes influence tumor growth, \u0026ldquo;because cancer is such a complicated disease and the genetics of cancer are notoriously difficult to understand,\u0026rdquo; Dahlman says. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s driven by many genes working together at once.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor Lam, the war on cancer is waged in a lab and on the front lines, in a clinical setting. In addition to being a biomedical engineer, he\u0026rsquo;s also a pediatric hematologist-oncologist who treats patients at Children\u0026rsquo;s Healthcare of Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHis Ph.D. was actually focused on the biophysics of childhood leukemia, and his research in this area has focused on a small percentage of patients who develop leukostasis (stroke-like symptoms and lung failure).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We always thought it was due to the biophysical properties of leukemia cells, which become big and sticky and jam up the plumbing of our blood vessels in our brain and lungs, which happen to have the smallest blood vessels,\u0026rdquo; says Lam, who is collaborating with Todd Sulchek, associate professor in mechanical engineering and a Petit Institute researcher.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re combining some of Todd\u0026rsquo;s microfluidic technologies and our microfluidic technologies, to develop more high throughput ways to address this issue,\u0026rdquo; says Lam.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe\u0026rsquo;s also collaborating with the lab of BME professor Krish Roy on developing a \u0026lsquo;lymphoma on the chip\u0026rsquo; model, to study how new cell therapies can directly affect the killing of cancer cells, as a way to determine whether those therapies have what it takes to work in the patient.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u0026rsquo;s all part of the multidisciplinary, \u0026ldquo;basement to bench to bedside\u0026rdquo; approach that Lam\u0026rsquo;s lab, with its connections to Georgia Tech, Emory University and Children\u0026rsquo;s Healthcare, has become known for.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Within our lab, we\u0026rsquo;re certainly interested in technology development,\u0026rdquo; Lam says. \u0026ldquo;But then, we\u0026rsquo;re also interested in the assessment of the technology and, ultimately, directly translating that to the patient. Our lab lives in that entire space.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELINKS\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/icrc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIntegrated Cancer Research Center\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mcdonaldlab.biology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EMcDonald Lab\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/icrc.gatech.edu\/people\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Cancer Army\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECONTACT:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nParker H. 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Work at the ISTC-ARSA will compliment additional ML research conducted by the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ml.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMachine Learning at Georgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E (ML@GT) research center, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/582203\/two-new-interdisciplinary-research-centers-shaping-future-computing\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eestablished in July\u003C\/a\u003E in the College of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlready, attackers can launch a causative (or, data poisoning) attack, which injects intentionally misleading or false training data so that an ML model becomes ineffective. Intuitively, if the ML algorithm uses the wrong examples, it is going to learn the wrong model. Attackers can also launch an exploratory (or, evasion) attack to find the blind spots of a ML model and evade detection. For example, if an attacker discovers that a detection model looks for unusually high traffic, he can send malicious traffic at a lower volume and just take more time to complete his attack. Researchers at the ISTC-ARSA will systematically evaluate the security and robustness of ML systems in the face of causative and exploratory attacks and develop new algorithms and systems to improve resilience.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;These issues in an adversarial setting pose many interesting and new machine learning challenges,\u0026rdquo; says \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iisp.gatech.edu\/wenke-lee\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWenke Lee\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, the principle investigator leading the ISTC-ARSA, a co-director of the IISP, and the John P. 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The research also involved scientists from the University of California at Santa Barbara, Kyushu University in Japan, and the Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe technique consists of immersing thin films of organic semiconductors and their blends in polyoxometalate (PMA and PTA) solutions in nitromethane for a brief time \u0026ndash; on the order of minutes. The diffusion of the dopant molecules into the films during immersion leads to efficient p-type electrical doping over a limited depth of 10 to 20 nanometers from the surface of the film. The p-doped regions show increased electrical conductivity and high work function, reduced solubility in the processing solvent, and improved photo-oxidation stability in air.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis new method provides a simpler alternative to air-sensitive molybdenum oxide layers used in the most efficient polymer solar cells that are generally processed using expensive vacuum equipment. When applied to polymer solar cells, the new doping method provided efficient hole collection. For the first time, single-layer polymer solar cells were demonstrated by combining this new method with spontaneous vertical phase separation of amine-containing polymers that leads to efficient electron collection at the opposing electrode. The geometry of these new devices is unique as the functions of hole and electron collection are built into the light-absorbing active layer, resulting in the simplest single-layer geometry with few interfaces.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The realization of single-layer photovoltaics with our approach enables both electrodes in the device to be made out of low-cost conductive materials,\u0026rdquo; said Canek Fuentes-Hernandez, a senior research scientist in Kippelen\u0026rsquo;s research group. \u0026ldquo;This offers a dramatic simplification of a device geometry, and it improves the photo-oxidation stability of the donor polymer. Although lifetime and cost analysis studies are needed to assess the full impact of these innovations, they are certainly very exciting developments on the road to transform organic photovoltaics into a commercial technology.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBy simplifying the production of organic solar cells, the new processing technique could allow fabrication of solar cells in areas of Africa and Latin America that lack capital-intensive manufacturing capabilities, said Felipe Larrain, a Ph.D. student in Kippelen\u0026rsquo;s lab.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Our goal is to further simplify the fabrication of organic solar cells to the point at which every material required to fabricate them may be included in a single kit that is offered to the public,\u0026rdquo; Larrain said. \u0026ldquo;The solar cell product may be different if you are able to provide people with a solution that would allow them to make their own solar cells. 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Though polymer-based cells are currently less efficient, they require less energy to produce than silicon cells and can be more easily recycled at the end of their lifetime.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Being able to process solar cells entirely at room temperature using this simple solution-based technique could pave the way for a scalable and vacuum-free method of device fabrication, while significantly reducing the time and cost associated with it,\u0026rdquo; said Vladimir Kolesov, a Ph.D. researcher and the paper\u0026rsquo;s lead author.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBeyond solar cells, the doping technique could be more broadly used in other areas of organic electronics, noted Ph.D. researcher Wen-Fang Chou. \u0026ldquo;With its simplicity, this is truly a promising technology offering adjustable conductivity of semiconductors that could be applied to various organic electronics, and could have huge impact on the industry for mass production.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso at Georgia Tech, the research involved professors Samuel Graham and Seth Marder, both from the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics. 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As a coordinating body for nine information security labs dedicated to academic and solution-oriented applied research, the IISP leverages intellectual capital from across Georgia Tech and its external partners to address vital solutions for national security, economic continuity and individual safety.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n177 North Avenue\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAtlanta, Georgia \u0026nbsp;30332-0181 \u0026nbsp;USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Assistance\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (404-894-6986) (jtoon@gatech.edu).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology has been awarded a $17.3 million cyber security research contract to help establish new science around the ability to quickly, objectively and positively identify the virtual actors responsible for cyberattacks, a technique known as \u0026quot;attribution.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech has been awarded $17.3 million to help establish new science of attribution."}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2016-11-29 02:40:17","changed_gmt":"2016-11-29 12:37:23","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-11-29T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-11-29T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"584325":{"id":"584325","type":"image","title":"Contract to Establish Science of Cyber Attribution1","body":null,"created":"1480386261","gmt_created":"2016-11-29 02:24:21","changed":"1480386261","gmt_changed":"2016-11-29 02:24:21","alt":"Developing attribution science","file":{"fid":"222771","name":"attribution1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/attribution1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/attribution1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1843495,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/attribution1.jpg?itok=9-D_w_Tw"}},"584326":{"id":"584326","type":"image","title":"Contract to Establish Science of Cyber Attribution2","body":null,"created":"1480386551","gmt_created":"2016-11-29 02:29:11","changed":"1480386551","gmt_changed":"2016-11-29 02:29:11","alt":"developing cyber attribution","file":{"fid":"222772","name":"attribution2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/attribution2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/attribution2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1700660,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/attribution2.jpg?itok=YpOxB_nx"}}},"media_ids":["584325","584326"],"groups":[{"id":"430601","name":"Institute for Information Security and Privacy"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1404","name":"Cybersecurity"},{"id":"167055","name":"security"},{"id":"172809","name":"attribution"},{"id":"7772","name":"malware"},{"id":"2678","name":"information security"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"},{"id":"39481","name":"National Security"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EResearch News\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E(404) 894-6986\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jtoon@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"582869":{"#nid":"582869","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Deep Startups: A CREATE-X Idea Series ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMany aspiring entrepreneurs start on their path of building a business with a dream to change the world and make it a better place than they found it. But to a student just beginning to think of running their own business, it can be difficult to know where to start. In recognition of that fact, CREATE-X has launched a new series called \u0026ldquo;Deep Startups: A CREATE-X ideas series\u0026rdquo;. The goal of the series is to inspire students to think bigger when it comes to the problems their startups will solve.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;We encourage students to tackle highly impactful problems. The impact could be in terms of the size of the population the startup would serve, the size of the market it would cater to, the intensity of the pain it would relieve, and the lasting value it would create,\u0026quot; said Raghupathy Sivakumar, director of CREATE-X. He feels that with the level of expertise that Georgia Tech students gain in diverse technologies, they shouldn\u0026rsquo;t be afraid of using their knowledge to build startups to tackle the bigger challenges facing the world today.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We use the phrase \u0026quot;deep startup\u0026quot; to mean a startup that is focused on a technically difficult and challenging problem.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Many startups nowadays seem to be focused on seemingly superficial problems.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Our goal is to help our entrepreneurs think about larger and deeper problems that they can solve,\u0026rdquo; said Sanjay Parekh, Associate Director of CREATE-X. He believes that not only are deep startups more interesting and engaging to aspiring entrepreneurs than companies with more conventional everyday products, but they are also more viable over the long term. By design, deep startups are not as easily supplanted by other startups with a different twist on the same idea.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;People should be interested in building deep startups because they are seeking to make a lasting change in the world.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;They aren\u0026#39;t looking for simple solutions to unimportant problems.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;The Deep Startups speaker series is about exposing attendees to the challenges within one industry and sparking discussion and ideas about how to solve those problems in the future,\u0026rdquo; said Parekh. Good examples of products created by existing Deep Startups include farming robots, ultrasound diagnostics, services for 3D printed parts, and mass manufacturing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith a lineup of guest speakers who are well-respected in their fields, the Deep Startups series is designed to make their wealth of knowledge and experience on the topics discussed available to students. The first talk focusing on Information Security featured Chris Klaus, founder and CEO of Kaneva, and Vijay A. Balasubramaniyan, CEO, CTO and founder of Pindrop. The next session on October 31\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E will focus on the topic of The Internet of Things, and feature George Yu, founder and CEO of Variable, Inc. (You can RSVP for that event \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cre8x.wufoo.com\/forms\/sb77p270pidgh0\/\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor CREATE-X, this is just another example of their commitment to giving aspiring entrepreneurs at Georgia Tech all the tools they need to succeed. Their other programs include Startup Lab, Idea to Prototype, and Startup Launch. Idea to Prototype offers students faculty mentors, guidance, and seed funding to build prototypes for their ideas, along with 3-6 undergraduate research credits. Startup Lab is a three credit course that teaches students about the process of becoming an entrepreneur, and how to vet their ideas and market needs. Startup Launch, their signature program, takes teams of students from one developed idea or prototype to a fully launched startup, with $20,000 in funding to get them there.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith the introduction of the the Deep Startups Speaker Series, Sivakumar hopes that students will continue to use the resources CREATE-X offers to build their own companies from the ground up, no matter what their product idea may be. \u0026ldquo;We are enabling Georgia Tech students to create the next Intel, Apple, Google, or Facebook,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMany aspiring entrepreneurs start on their path of building a business with a dream to change the world and make it a better place than they found it. But to a student just beginning to think of running their own business, it can be difficult to know where to start. 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In 2014, Keysight made a $120 million in-kind donation of its software to Georgia Tech, which the Institute is deploying to help students become industry-ready engineers by using the same instruments and software used by customers in government and industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;All of those things came together for us, making it \u0026nbsp;an obvious choice,\u0026rdquo; said Alexander. \u0026ldquo;We couldn\u0026rsquo;t be happier with our decision.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Santa Rosa, Calif.-based company\u0026rsquo;s $13.9 million investment in Georgia is expected to create more than 200 software engineering jobs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Tech Square has been a magnet for a number of promising startups, but we\u0026rsquo;re excited that it also has attracted companies with an impressive legacy like Keysight,\u0026rdquo; Georgia Tech President G.P. \u0026ldquo;Bud\u0026rdquo; Peterson said. \u0026ldquo;For Georgia Tech, it\u0026rsquo;s a point of pride and a significant achievement that a company of this caliber believes we can add value to its operations. 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She was wrong.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;After more than 40 years in education, I thought it might be time to retire,\u0026rdquo; said Weinsheimer, who is now director of CTL. \u0026ldquo;But, the opportunity to create a culture at this university that promotes and rewards excellence in teaching \u0026mdash; something I\u0026rsquo;ve always been passionate about \u0026mdash; presented itself. And I couldn\u0026rsquo;t say \u0026lsquo;no\u0026rsquo; to the challenge.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERecently, Weinsheimer shared her thoughts on CTL\u0026rsquo;s new name, other changes, and more about why she\u0026rsquo;s excited about her new role. Read on to find out more.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESo, why change the center\u0026rsquo;s name?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nWe wanted our emphasis to be on teaching and learning. When newcomers read \u0026ldquo;the enhancement of\u0026rdquo; in our name, they thought our focus was on fixing poor teaching. We sent out a survey to faculty and administrators, and 90 percent thought the change to Center for Teaching and Learning was a good idea.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWho can use CTL\u0026#39;s services?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAnyone teaching at Georgia Tech \u0026mdash; whether the person is a faculty member, a temporary\/part-time instructor, a postdoctoral scholar, a graduate student, an undergraduate who serves as a teaching assistant (TA) or tutor, or a staff member who teaches GT 1000. \u0026nbsp;There are a lot of different teaching roles on our campus, and CTL connects with them all.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat are some of the challenges that instructors at Georgia Tech face, and how can CTL help?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nHaving enough time to do everything well is difficult. This especially can pose a challenge to those who want to excel in both teaching and research. So, CTL provides a variety of ways to explore best teaching practices. Those who choose to invest just a little time can attend a workshop, consult about a particular class, or join our book club. Those who want to go into more depth can participate in a faculty learning community on a topic of their choice or participate in the future faculty program. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat are you looking forward to most about your work as director?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAs I\u0026rsquo;ve mentioned, I\u0026rsquo;m really passionate about creating a culture at Tech that promotes and rewards excellence in teaching. I want our students to have an educational experience that energizes them and prepares them for the future. We have instructors here who are using innovative strategies that engage students in the hard work of learning. As CTL\u0026rsquo;s director, I want to highlight what these folks are doing and help more of our instructional staff use evidence-based practices that enhance student learning.\u0026nbsp;In addition, I enjoy working with my campus colleagues on \u0026ldquo;Creating the Next\u0026rdquo; in teaching and learning. How will we respond to the challenges that are emerging? What bold actions will we take to ensure that the educational experience we offer is worthwhile? I like being part of the \u0026ldquo;next\u0026rdquo; and helping it take shape at Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAre there any new additions to the CTL staff?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nI\u0026rsquo;ve changed the structure of CTL a bit this year. David Lawrence is now associate director, and we have organized CTL into three areas: learning and technology initiatives, TA development and future faculty initiatives, and faculty teaching and learning initiatives. We\u0026rsquo;ve welcomed two new staff members \u0026mdash; Kate Williams and Tammy McCoy \u0026mdash; both of which will work with our TA development and future faculty initiatives. We also hope to have a postdoctoral fellow join us soon.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat changes will CTL make in the next few months?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nI want to lead us into a new era of collaboration among administrators, instructional staff, and support units to maximize student learning on this campus. We have two new important partnerships underway:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProvost Teaching and Learning Fellows.\u003C\/strong\u003E This new program makes it possible for CTL to partner with each of the colleges\/schools and work on college-specific initiatives. With the help of the deans, we will select two to five fellows from each college to work directly with CTL in this hub-and-spoke model. This new collaboration will allow us to connect the expertise of CTL professionals with the expertise of disciplinary faculty. Together, we\u0026rsquo;ll enhance the learning environment in ways we have not been able to do before.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECIRTL Network.\u003C\/strong\u003E We recently joined the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL) Network and are now partnering with 46 research universities to prepare future faculty in all disciplines (with a particular emphasis on STEM fields). This means that beginning this fall, Tech grad students and postdocs who want to pursue the Tech to Teaching Certificate will have more pathways\u0026nbsp;to satisfy the requirements of the program. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat are some of the highlights of CTL\u0026rsquo;s recently redesigned website? How is it more useful to the campus community?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThere was just so much information to digest on the old site. Now, whether you\u0026rsquo;re a faculty member, a postdoc, or a student, the information is easier to find. Also, our events page breaks out teaching and learning-related events according to audience. Best of all, the homepage now features news and information related to teaching and learning for the whole campus \u0026mdash; so, it\u0026rsquo;s easier to know what\u0026rsquo;s happening at Tech. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECan you share a few new publications that you\u0026rsquo;d recommend to instructors trying to learn more about best practices?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERight now our book club is looking at \u003Cem\u003EAre You Smart Enough?\u003C\/em\u003E by Alexander W. Astin. Next, we\u0026rsquo;re reading \u003Cem\u003EMinds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology\u003C\/em\u003E by Michelle D. Miller. We\u0026rsquo;ll discuss this book during the\u0026nbsp;Oct. 28, and Nov. 11 meetings \u0026mdash; so stop by CTL to pick up a book, then join us in book club for a glass of wine and a great discussion! \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo learn more about CTL, visit\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ctl.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ectl.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoyce Weinsheimer, director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, shares details about her new position at CTL, the name change, and more. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Joyce Weinsheimer, director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, shares details about her new position at CTL, the name change, and more. 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Imlay Jr. Dean \u003Cstrong\u003EZvi Galil\u003C\/strong\u003E. \u0026ldquo;The work these centers are undertaking is crucial to the advancement of computing, and strengthens Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s position at the vanguard of computer science.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMachine Learning @ Georgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBased in the College of Computing, ML@GT represents all of Georgia Tech. It is tasked with pushing forward the ability for computers to learn from observations and data. As one of the fastest growing research areas in computing, machine learning spans many disciplines that use data to discover scientific principles, infer patterns, and extract meaningful knowledge.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to School of Interactive Computing Professor \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/irfan-essa\u0022\u003EIrfan Essa\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, inaugural director of ML@GT, machine learning (ML) has reached a new level of maturity and is now impacting all aspects of computing, engineering, science, and business.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We are in the era of aggregation, of collecting data,\u0026rdquo; said Essa. \u0026ldquo;However, machine learning is now propelling data analysis, and the whole concept of interpreting that data, toward a new era of making sense of the data, using it to make meaningful connections between information, and acting upon it in innovative ways that bring the most benefit to the most people.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new center begins with \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ml.gatech.edu\/people\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Emore than 100 affiliated faculty members\u003C\/a\u003E from five Georgia Tech colleges and the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gtri.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute\u003C\/a\u003E, as well as some jointly affiliated with Emory University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMachine Learning is the new calculus\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to leading research, ML@GT is focused on developing human capital in machine learning. According to Dean Galil, \u0026ldquo;There is extensive demand for these classes from students in all majors across campus. Machine learning is the new calculus and it is showing.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThere are currently more than 200 undergraduate and 250 graduate students enrolled in introductory ML courses.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I meet people in finance, hardware, logistics, and other industries that either want to know how machine learning can change their business or they want to hire somebody with in-depth knowledge of machine learning,\u0026rdquo; said Essa.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo meet this growing demand, students, researchers, and faculty at ML@GT focus on three areas: examining the foundations of ML theory; building upon existing technologies at the application level; and adapting ML algorithms in different domains.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith leading computing, statistics, and optimization experts as part of the team, a primary area of focus for ML@GT is delving into the foundations of ML theory.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese foundational building blocks include:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDynamic data and decision-making\u003C\/strong\u003E \u0026ndash; building systems that can continuously update and process new data streams in order to make informed decisions.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENeural Computation\u003C\/strong\u003E \u0026ndash; creating more efficient and powerful computational processes inspired by biological systems.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EData Mining and Anomaly Detection\u003C\/strong\u003E \u0026ndash; developing new ways to detect anomalies that may be indicators of fraud, disease, or structural defects.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EInteractive Machine Learning\u003C\/strong\u003E \u0026ndash; designing systems that can develop and learn from interaction with humans.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EArtificial Intelligence\u003C\/strong\u003E \u0026ndash; strengthening the foundational roots of ML to build machines that can accomplish increasingly complex tasks and functions.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEthics and bias\u003C\/strong\u003E \u0026ndash; considering the ethical implications and appropriate limitations of ML and its evolving roles in research, industry, and culture, and how biased inputs can affect outcomes.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt the application level, ML@GT is pushing established ML tools and practices forward to create more innovative modeling and predictive capabilities. These capabilities will focus on healthcare, education, logistics and operations, sensors and detection, social computing, information systems, security, and privacy, and financial markets. They will also be used to reveal informative patterns and identify abnormal behavior in these and other application areas.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EML@GT is also going inside the application level to research new ways of applying ML knowledge to new disciplines.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Sometimes it is just not sufficient to take an existing algorithm and apply a new dataset to it,\u0026rdquo; said Essa. \u0026ldquo;You have to go inside the machinery in order to understand how to adapt the algorithm to a new domain.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This is the starting point. In the first year, we want to develop additional focal points, further strengthen the center\u0026rsquo;s educational mission, and move forward with establishing a machine learning Ph.D. program at Georgia Tech.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs for ML@GT\u0026rsquo;s longer-term goals, Essa said, \u0026ldquo;Within five years we fully expect Georgia Tech will be a global leader, and the center will be recognized as the international home for advanced machine learning research and education.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECenter for Research into Novel Computing\u0026nbsp;Hierarchies\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJust as ML@GT is working to move machine learning into a new era, CRNCH is focused on getting over one of the biggest hurdles facing computing today: the impending end of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moore%27s_law\u0022\u003EMoore\u0026rsquo;s Law\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We knew that at some point physics would come into play. We hit that wall around 2005,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/thomas-conte\u0022\u003ETom Conte\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, inaugural director of CRNCH and professor in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s schools of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESince the 1960s, Moore\u0026rsquo;s Law has essentially held that, for a given price point, the number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles roughly every two years. However, there are hard limits to building smaller integrated circuits because, as transistors get smaller they become less energy efficient.\u0026nbsp;The problem gets worse as the chips get faster.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;ve gotten by since 2005 using multiple, slower-clocked cores per chip-- \u0026#39;multicore processing,\u0026#39; in essence -- but it\u0026rsquo;s only a partial solution,\u0026rdquo; said Conte. \u0026ldquo;Very soon, computing\u0026rsquo;s historic performance growth rate will no longer be sustainable.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn fact, according to the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ieee.org\/index.html\u0022\u003EInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers\u003C\/a\u003E (IEEE) \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/rebootingcomputing.ieee.org\/\u0022\u003ERebooting Computing Initiative\u0026shy;\u003C\/a\u003E (of which Conte is a founding member and current co-chair) this inevitability means that wholesale changes are needed in both computing technologies and computer architecture if the next level of high performance supercomputing \u0026ndash; machines capable of 10 million trillion floating-point operations per second (10 exaflops) \u0026ndash; is to be achieved.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo facilitate these fundamental changes, Conte, along with School of Computational Science and Engineering Chair \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/david-bader\u0022\u003EDavid Bader\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, Charlotte B. and Roger C. Warren Chair of Computing \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/richard-demillo\u0022\u003ERichard DeMillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, Frederick G. Storey Chair in Computing \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/richard-lipton\u0022\u003ERichard Lipton\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and Rhesa \u0026quot;Ray\u0026quot; S. Farmer, Jr. Distinguished Chair in Embedded Computing Systems \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/marilyn-c-wolf\u0022\u003EMarilyn Wolf\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, and other Georgia Tech faculty proposed the establishment of a new interdisciplinary research center.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis IRC would take the lead in breaking down traditional barriers between computing\u0026rsquo;s various facets, such as devices, circuits, architecture, software, and algorithms, in order to restart the exponential growth rate embodied in Moore\u0026rsquo;s Law.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe proposal has come to fruition in the form of CRNCH.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We didn\u0026rsquo;t want to be a close follower in the space,\u0026rdquo; said Conte. \u0026ldquo;By leveraging the broad, interdisciplinary talent that exists here, Georgia Tech is well-poised to become the international leader in novel computing hierarchies. In doing so, we firmly believe Georgia Tech will be the global epicenter of a new computing economy.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo achieve the bold breakthroughs necessary to propel computing to the exascale level and beyond, CRNCH researchers are evaluating a number of possibilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Several promising research areas have been identified,\u0026rdquo; said Conte. \u0026ldquo;However some are more disruptive to the computer stack than others.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESome of the possible solutions that have been identified by the IEEE Rebooting Computing Initiative for further research include:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EQuantum computing\u003C\/strong\u003E \u0026ndash; uses properties of quantum mechanics to solve optimization problems.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENeuromophic computing\u003C\/strong\u003E \u0026ndash; leverages what is known about the human brain to create new technologies.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EApproximate and stochastic computing\u003C\/strong\u003E \u0026ndash; complimentary approaches based on the observation that computers often calculate results to higher than required accuracy and precision.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdiabatic and reversible computing\u003C\/strong\u003E \u0026shy;\u0026ndash; recycles unused inputs and utilizes non-traditional devices for substantial power savings\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECryogenic superconducting\u003C\/strong\u003E \u0026ndash; uses low temperature superconducting materials to conserve energy.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe CRNCH team includes experts in each of these focus areas. However, Conte said, \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s important to note that these general approaches are only a sampling of what may be possible and other approaches and techniques are actively being explored by the team.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith the team in place and the center open for business, Conte expects CRNCH to quickly take a leading role in researching new computer hierarchies and become recognized as the academic research embodiment IEEE\u0026rsquo;s rebooting computing initiative.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Within three years we firmly believe that CRNCH will be providing international leadership and have significant influence on the development of new computer hierarchies,\u0026rdquo; said Conte. \u0026ldquo; We also believe that CRNCH will establish Midtown Atlanta as a hotspot for this new computing technology.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv class=\u0022grammarly-disable-indicator\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech is taking on computing\u0027s biggest challenges as it launches two new IRIs."}],"uid":"32045","created_gmt":"2016-10-06 13:56:49","changed_gmt":"2016-10-17 20:55:12","author":"Ben Snedeker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-10-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-10-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"582212":{"id":"582212","type":"image","title":"Conte and Essa","body":null,"created":"1475766364","gmt_created":"2016-10-06 15:06:04","changed":"1475766364","gmt_changed":"2016-10-06 15:06:04","alt":"","file":{"fid":"221921","name":"Screen Shot 2016-10-06 at 11.03.51 AM.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202016-10-06%20at%2011.03.51%20AM.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202016-10-06%20at%2011.03.51%20AM.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1897499,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202016-10-06%20at%2011.03.51%20AM.png?itok=docbwKIU"}}},"media_ids":["582212"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"9167","name":"machine learning"},{"id":"167010","name":"crnch"},{"id":"167011","name":"moore\u0027s law"},{"id":"167012","name":"essa"},{"id":"167013","name":"conte"},{"id":"57441","name":"IRI"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBen Snedeker, Communications Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv class=\u0022grammarly-disable-indicator\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["albert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"582415":{"#nid":"582415","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Receives Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award for Third Consecutive Year","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EInstitute Diversity is proud to announce that Georgia Tech received the 2016 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from \u003Cem\u003EINSIGHT Into Diversity. \u003C\/em\u003EFor the third consecutive year, Georgia Tech is being recognized for its outstanding commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We are honored to receive the HEED Award once again,\u0026rdquo; said Archie Ervin, vice president for Institute Diversity and president of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education. \u0026ldquo;It has been a landmark year for the Institute, from the most diverse freshman class in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s history to the launch of the Black Student Experience Task Force and Gender Equity Initiatives. But there is still more work to do.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a recipient of the HEED Award, Georgia Tech will be featured \u0026mdash; along with 82 other award winners \u0026mdash; in the November 2016 issue of \u003Cem\u003EINSIGHT Into Diversity \u003C\/em\u003Emagazine.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The HEED Award process consists of a comprehensive and rigorous application that includes questions relating to the recruitment and retention of students and employees, leadership support for diversity, and other aspects of campus diversity and inclusion. We take a holistic approach to reviewing each application in deciding who will be named a HEED Award recipient. Our standards are high, and we look for institutions where diversity and inclusion are woven into the work being accomplished every day across their campus,\u0026rdquo; said Lenore Pearlstein, publisher of \u003Cem\u003EINSIGHT Into Diversity\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo learn more about the HEED Award, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.insightintodiversity.com\/about-the-heed-award\/\u0022\u003Ewww.insightintodiversity.com\/about-the-heed-award\/\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Institute Diversity is proud to announce that Georgia Tech received the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity for the third consecutive year."}],"uid":"27465","created_gmt":"2016-10-12 03:15:30","changed_gmt":"2016-10-12 03:32:38","author":"Annette Filliat","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-10-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-10-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"582416":{"id":"582416","type":"image","title":"HEED Award ","body":null,"created":"1476242514","gmt_created":"2016-10-12 03:21:54","changed":"1476242514","gmt_changed":"2016-10-12 03:21:54","alt":"","file":{"fid":"222015","name":"HEED_logo2016 copy.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/HEED_logo2016%20copy.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/HEED_logo2016%20copy.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":491381,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/HEED_logo2016%20copy.jpg?itok=1QEyz0vd"}}},"media_ids":["582416"],"groups":[{"id":"1313","name":"Institute Diversity"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"142101","name":"HEED Award"},{"id":"142111","name":"Insight Into Diversity"},{"id":"9171","name":"institute diversity"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAnnette Filliat\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitute Diversity\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Eannette.filliat@gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["annette.filliat@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"582052":{"#nid":"582052","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Augmenting Reality: GT Students Fare Well at Annual HackMIT","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhat if you could access crucial stock information with little more than the movement of a finger? What if education, which often relies on static images within the confines of a textbook, could become a more interactive experience for students?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese are a pair of questions that Georgia Tech students \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/nathan-dass-563b0a10a\u0022\u003ENathan Dass\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kshitij-kulkarni-9a155475\u0022\u003EKshitij Kulkarni\u003C\/a\u003E were attempting to address when they attended \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hackmit.org\/\u0022\u003EHackMIT\u003C\/a\u003E last month at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Utilizing Microsoft\u0026rsquo;s HoloLens, both Dass\u0026rsquo; and Kulkarni\u0026rsquo;s teams fared well at the event, the former earning the NASDAQ API prize for using the API in the most creative way and the latter placing in the top 10.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDass, who is in his third year as a computer science major, enjoys artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. He has worked in the past on a virtual reality project at Google, and said that helped direct his specific interests.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough he had never participated in a hackathon before, when he heard that the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/microsoft-hololens\/en-us\u0022\u003EHoloLens\u003C\/a\u003E, an augmented reality device that enhances the experience of your physical surroundings, would be available for use, he wanted to participate.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I knew there was really no other place that students could get basically a whole weekend with the HoloLens and make anything,\u0026rdquo; Dass said. \u0026ldquo;This was the opportunity in my opinion, so I sort of pushed my team toward that.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhat they came up with was an application that could retrieve and display stock information from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/data.nasdaq.com\/DOD.aspx\u0022\u003ENASDAQ API\u003C\/a\u003E on the HoloLens display in real time. When a user is wearing the device, they can simply look at a logo of a company, indicate through one of the device\u0026rsquo;s built-in gestures that they would like to access its information, and a graphic showing items such as current price and percent change would appear on the screen.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor their work, Dass\u0026rsquo; team won the NASDAQ sponsor prize, which was awarded for the most creative use of NASDAQ\u0026rsquo;s API. The group will be flown to New York to meet with NASDAQ executives. Organizers are also trying to coordinate with representatives from Microsoft to attend the demonstration, as well. That trip is tentatively planned for some time during winter break, Dass said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile in New York, Dass and his teammates will take part in the closing bell ceremony at the New York Stock Exchange, which will be broadcast live on the big screen in Times Square.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKulkarni, who is a second-year undergraduate in electrical engineering, and his team finished among the top 10, earning the opportunity to present their project on stage to the hackathon attendees. Their hack, which also utilized the HoloLens, involved providing a more interactive experience for students in and out of the classroom. The goal was to create an application that could associate interactive graphs with specific key words on a page.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team achieved the independent functionality for reading text off an image and putting it onto the HoloLens, as well as a separate function for visualizing the algorithm.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;What we were not able to do is put them together,\u0026rdquo; Kulkarni said. \u0026ldquo;Our next step is to bridge those two worlds together so that you have a seamless experience of having a book open, looking at it with the HoloLens, highlighting a word and then attaching an interactive visual display to that word.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKulkarni and his teammates came up with the concept when considering the shared experience they had during their first two years of undergraduate studies. Learning in-depth scientific and technological concepts out of a textbook presents challenges because of the difficulty in visualizing information that should be interactive.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;For example, if someone is trying to learn sorting or another algorithm, it\u0026rsquo;s very difficult to visualize that on a static sheet of paper,\u0026rdquo; Kulkarni said. \u0026ldquo;So we harnessed the power of the HoloLens and its augmented reality to attempt to overlay onto it educational modules that, in real time, show these algorithms happening.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKulkarni said their work at HackMIT was a proof of concept for many future modules.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDass plans to finish his undergraduate degree in December 2017, then pursue a graduate degree and, eventually, work in technological innovation with the goal of eventually integrating artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction into our everyday lives. Kulkarni, who is interested in data visualization and processing and machine learning, plans to pursue a graduate degree upon his graduation and continue to work on those large-scale problems \u0026ldquo;that are currently stumping people.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHackMIT is MIT\u0026rsquo;s headline hackathon, with more than 1,000 undergraduate attendees from around the world. During a 24-hour period, hackers collaborated and experimented on an assortment of software and hardware projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"GT Computing students earns top honor at a recent hackathon event hosted by MIT."}],"uid":"32045","created_gmt":"2016-10-03 19:34:39","changed_gmt":"2016-10-07 12:39:45","author":"Ben Snedeker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-10-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-10-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"582053":{"id":"582053","type":"image","title":"HackMIT participants from GT","body":null,"created":"1475523512","gmt_created":"2016-10-03 19:38:32","changed":"1475523528","gmt_changed":"2016-10-03 19:38:48","alt":"Two Georgia Tech students fared well at the recent HackMIT event.","file":{"fid":"221871","name":"HackMIT1.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/HackMIT1.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/HackMIT1.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4629150,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/HackMIT1.jpeg?itok=d-4pPQHN"}}},"media_ids":["582053"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBen Snedeker, Communications Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["albert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"582121":{"#nid":"582121","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Startup Launch Seeking Next Student Innovations","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/startuplaunch.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EStartup Launch\u003C\/a\u003E (formerly known as Startup Summer) is looking for the next great ideas from Tech students for its 2017 program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECREATE-X is relaunching Startup Summer as Startup Launch, a two-semester program in which student teams launch startups based on their ideas and prototypes. Teams are provided with mentorship, workspace, seed funding, intellectual property protection, and visibility. To date, 42 teams have launched startups through the 3-year-old program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStartup Launch will have two start dates for 2017. One group will start the program in spring 2017 and another in summer 2017. The two groups will overlap during the summer semester, which is the full-time, intense period. The spring (for teams starting in spring) and fall (for teams starting in summer) semesters will be part-time commitments that can be done in conjunction with other classes or work commitments. Participants may also dedicate themselves full time in the spring or fall, but are not required to do so.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;There are so many avenues that you can go down after graduating from Georgia Tech \u0026mdash; so many different careers,\u0026rdquo; said Samantha Becker, an undergraduate student and founder of TruePani. \u0026ldquo;But through CREATE-X and becoming an entrepreneur, you have such a sense of accomplishment and personal investment in the project that you\u0026#39;re working on.\u0026nbsp;The decision to participate in CREATE-X has directly influenced the course of my life.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EApplications for 2017 are now open. The deadline to apply for the spring cohort is Tuesday, Nov. 1. Applications for the summer cohort are also being accepted at this time, with a final deadline of March 3, 2017. As admission is granted on a rolling basis, the summer cohort may fill up before its deadline; earlier applications will have a higher chance of acceptance. Learn more at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/startuplaunch.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Estartuplaunch.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E or apply at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/startuplaunch.gatech.edu\/apply\u0022\u003Estartuplaunch.gatech.edu\/apply\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStartup Launch (formerly known as Startup Summer) is looking for the next great ideas from Tech students for its 2017 program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Startup Launch (formerly known as Startup Summer) is looking for the next great ideas from Tech students for its 2017 program."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2016-10-05 13:25:48","changed_gmt":"2016-10-05 13:43:44","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-10-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-10-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"582122":{"id":"582122","type":"image","title":"Startup Launch","body":null,"created":"1475674355","gmt_created":"2016-10-05 13:32:35","changed":"1475674355","gmt_changed":"2016-10-05 13:32:35","alt":"","file":{"fid":"221897","name":"createxflyercrop.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/createxflyercrop.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/createxflyercrop.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":173396,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/createxflyercrop.jpg?itok=Ro3vGzKY"}}},"media_ids":["582122"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.create-x.gatech.edu\/","title":"CREATE-X"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"166994","name":"startups"},{"id":"166971","name":"startup launch"},{"id":"137161","name":"CREATE-X"},{"id":"341","name":"innovation"},{"id":"3472","name":"entrepreneurship"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:trisha.smith@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ETrisha Smith\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCREATE-X\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"581831":{"#nid":"581831","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Addressing Environmental Challenges with Big Data and Artificial Intelligence","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESoon scientists and the public will have the chance to easily test hypotheses about America\u0026rsquo;s ecological challenges with the help of an ensemble of technologies, including artificial intelligence. Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology will link their technology for systems thinking with IBM Watson and the Encyclopedia of Life at the Smithsonian. Scientists will then be able to use the information to create their own models about the environment and efficiently test them.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe project is one of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/nsf.gov\/news\/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=189864\u0026amp;org=NSF\u0026amp;from=news\u0022\u003E10 \u0026ldquo;Big Data Spokes\u0026rdquo; announced by the National Science Foundation (NSF)\u003C\/a\u003E. The NSF\u0026rsquo;s $10 million initiative was created to improve the ability to solve the nation\u0026rsquo;s most pressing challenges with the use of big data. The Georgia Tech, Smithsonian and IBM \u0026ldquo;Spoke\u0026rdquo; will receive $1 million from NSF. IBM will also provide in-kind gifts. Overall, the project engages 24 researchers from 14 institutions from academia, industry, government and non-profit organizations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Environmental sustainability is a growing concern for our country. Scientists and citizens need\u003Cspan style=\u0022line-height: 1.6em;\u0022\u003Ebetter tools and data to rapidly build and test conceptual models of ecological phenomena,\u0026rdquo; said Ashok Goel, a Georgia Tech professor who is the principal investigator of the collaboration. \u0026ldquo;We want to empower them.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), headquartered at the Smithsonian Institution, is an online, open-access database that gathers information about all biological species on Earth.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Modelers tell us that predicting an ecosystem\u0026#39;s response to global changes requires knowledge of things like the mass of an algal cell, the lifespan of a copepod and the ecological partners of a reef-building coral,\u0026rdquo; said Bob Corrigan, EOL\u0026rsquo;s director of operations. \u0026ldquo;EOL is surfacing, structuring and sharing hundreds of years of careful measurements by generations of biologists. Combining these assets with the capabilities of Georgia Tech and IBM will give scientists and students alike the ability to model and study our biosphere at scales that have not been possible before.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs part of the Spoke project, Watson Developer Cloud\u0026rsquo;s Language and Vision services will be trained to deeply understand the specialized ecology domain represented in the EOL webpages and images.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Unlocking all of this unstructured information from the Smithsonian\u0026rsquo;s Encyclopedia of Life, bringing it into the context of other relevant structured knowledge, and making it available for further human and machine reasoning holds tremendous potential,\u0026rdquo; said Lisa Amini, director, Cognitive Computing: Knowledge and Reasoning at IBM Research. \u0026ldquo;The possibilities are endless.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUsers will then take that information and plug it into Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Modeling \u0026amp; Inquiry Learning Application (MILA) system. The interactive tool allows scientists to rapidly generate conceptual models, evaluates them through simulation and provides results.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe NSF grant will allow the team to seamlessly link EOL, Watson and MILA. The goal is to build a working system that enables ecological modeling by early 2018.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;You can have all the information in the world, but if you can\u0026rsquo;t easily find the knowledge, you can\u0026rsquo;t build a model,\u0026rdquo; said Goel. \u0026ldquo;And if you can\u0026rsquo;t build a good model, the information is useless. Our project uses artificial intelligence to address these concerns.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Big Data Spokes program is supported and organized by the NSF\u0026rsquo;s Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs (BD Hubs). The four Hubs (South, Northeast, Midwest and West) foster multi-sector collaborations among academia, industry and government. Georgia Tech co-leads the South Hub with the University of North Carolina.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;The Big Data Spokes advance the goals and regional priorities of each BD Hub, fusing the strengths of a range of institutions and investigators and applying them to problems that affect the communities and populations within their regions,\u0026quot; said Jim Kurose, assistant director of NSF for Computer and Information Science and Engineering. \u0026ldquo;We are pleased to be making this substantial investment today to accelerate the nation\u0026rsquo;s big data R\u0026amp;D innovation ecosystem.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETwo other Spoke awards have ties to Georgia Tech. Santiago Grijalva, Georgia Power Distinguished Professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, will study smart grids using big data with Texas A\u0026amp;M. 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They\u0026rsquo;ve created a system called EnerCage (Energized Cage) for scientific experiments on awake, freely behaving small animals. It wirelessly powers electronic devices and sensors traditionally used during rodent research experiments, but without the use of interconnect wires or bulky batteries. Their goal is to create as natural an environment within the cage as possible for mice and rats in order for scientists to obtain consistent and reliable results. The EnerCage system also uses Microsoft\u0026rsquo;s Kinect video game technology to track the animals and recognize their activities, automating a process that typically requires researchers to stand and directly observe the rodents or watch countless hours of recorded footage to determine how they react to experiments.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe wirelessly energized cage system was presented this month at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/embc.embs.org\/2016\/\u0022\u003EInternational Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society\u003C\/a\u003E (EMBC) in Orlando, Florida. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech EnerCage is wrapped with carefully oriented strips of copper foils that can inductively power the cage and the electronics implanted in, or attached to, one or more animal subjects inside the cage. The system can run indefinitely and collect data without human intervention because of wireless communication and power transmission.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s always better to keep an animal in its natural settings with minimum burden or stress to improve the quality of an experiment,\u0026rdquo; said Maysam Ghovanloo, an associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, who developed the EnerCage. \u0026ldquo;Anything that is abnormal or unnatural may bias the experiment, no matter what experiment in any field. That includes grabbing the animal to attach or detach wires, change batteries or transferring it from one cage to another.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGhovanloo uses four resonating copper coils to create a homogenous magnetic field inside the cage. The built-in closed loop power control mechanism supplies enough power to compensate for all freely behaving animal subject activities, whether they\u0026rsquo;re standing up, crouching down, or walking around the cage. The small headstage for the animal is also wrapped with resonators to deliver power to a receiver coil.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Kinect is suspended about three feet above the cage. It has a high-definition camera, an infrared depth camera, and four microphones to record and analyze the animal behavior. It can capture both a two-dimensional high-resolution image of a rat\u0026rsquo;s location and a three-dimensional image that would identify its body posture.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re building computer algorithms to determine if the animal is standing, sitting, sleeping, grooming, eating, drinking or doing nothing,\u0026rdquo; said Ghovanloo. \u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re hoping to reduce the expensive costs of new drug and medical device development by allowing machines to do mundane, repetitive tasks now assigned to humans.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech team is working in partnership with Emory University, hoping to impact the clinical efficacy of deep brain stimulation (DBS). A growing number of clinical trials are using DBS to treat disorders of the central nervous system, such as Parkinson\u0026rsquo;s disease, depression and obsessive compulsive disorder. The cellular mechanisms that contribute to the clinical efficacy of DBS remain largely unknown, however.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEmory\u0026rsquo;s Donald (Tig) Rainnie and his research team use freely moving rodent models to examine the effects of DBS on neural circuits thought to be disrupted in depression. They have tested the EnerCage system.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The requirement to use a tethered headstage to record neural data and apply the DBS has hindered progress in this field,\u0026rdquo; said Rainnie, a researcher at Emory\u0026rsquo;s Yerkes National Primate Research Center and professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science. \u0026ldquo;We provided critical feedback, via beta testing of the EnerCage system, on how to maximize the utility of the system for different behavioral applications. We found a key advantage of the EnerCage system is that it will allow researchers to conduct chronic DBS and track associated behavioral changes for days, if not weeks, without disturbing the test animals.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUntil now, Rainnie says, that hasn\u0026rsquo;t been possible, and it is key to understanding the long-term benefits of DBS in patients.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe next steps at Georgia Tech are designing EnerCage-compatible implants, such as one for delivering drugs, and expanding the system to a network of dozens of cages that can collect data from multiple animals at the same time.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe conference paper, \u0026ldquo;A Wirelessly Powered Homecage with Animal Behavior Analysis and Closed-Loop Power Control,\u0026rdquo; is co-authored by Yaoyao Jia, Zheyuan Wang, Daniel Canales, Morgan Tinkler, Chia-Chun Hsu, Teresa E. Madsen and S. 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This year\u0026rsquo;s Homecoming\u0026nbsp;theme is \u0026ldquo;TrECHing Through the Jungle.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3 class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cb\u003ETEAM Buzz\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003ESaturday, Oct. 22,\u0026nbsp;Various Locations\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp class=\u0022p3\u0022\u003EHomecoming week kicks off with a citywide service day where students, faculty, and staff can serve in projects around Atlanta. Start a team or sign up as an individual at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/teambuzz.org\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022s1\u0022\u003E\u003Cb\u003Eteambuzz.org\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3 class=\u0022p4\u0022\u003E\u003Cb\u003EKeynote Speaker Josh Pastner\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022 style=\u0022line-height: 20.8px;\u0022\u003EThursday, Oct. 27, 6 to 7\u0026nbsp;p.m., Room 236, Global Learning Center\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022s1\u0022\u003EAfter helping the Arizona Wildcats win the 1997 Championship as a player, Josh Pastner quickly made his mark as a tireless recruiter and one of the most successful young coaches in NCAA history, leading the Memphis Tigers to three Conference USA titles and four March Madness tournaments. \u0026nbsp;Join us as Coach Pastner shares his plans for rebuilding the Yellow Jackets men\u0026#39;s basketball program, including how he put together his coaching team, how he goes after smart and talented players and what it\u0026#39;s like to recruit in the ACC.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022s1\u0022\u003EAll registrants will be automatically entered to win a family four pack to the first game vs. Tennessee Tech.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3 class=\u0022p4\u0022\u003E\u003Cb\u003ECelebrating the Olympic Village of 20 Years Ago\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003EFriday, Oct. 28, 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., Global Learning Center\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp class=\u0022p3\u0022\u003EJoin Tech storyteller and director of the Living History Program, Marilyn Somers, to hear about this one-and-done historical Tech event.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3 class=\u0022p4\u0022\u003E\u003Cb\u003EPresident\u0026rsquo;s Update\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003EFriday, Oct. 28, 1 to 2 p.m., Global Learning Center\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp class=\u0022p3\u0022\u003EPresident G.P. \u0026ldquo;Bud\u0026rdquo; Peterson, Tech\u0026rsquo;s 11th president, will share an update on the Institute\u0026rsquo;s global, regional, and local impact, as well as other news from around campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3 class=\u0022p4\u0022\u003E\u003Cb\u003ENavigating the College Admission Process\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022s2\u0022\u003EFriday, Oct. 28, 2:15 to 3:15 p.m.,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EGlobal Learning Center\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp class=\u0022p3\u0022\u003ERepresentatives from the\u0026nbsp;Office of Undergraduate Admission will discuss the college admission process. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3 class=\u0022p4\u0022\u003E\u003Cb\u003ECampus Walking and Bus Tour\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003EFriday, Oct. 28, 3:30 to 5 p.m., Global Learning Center\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp class=\u0022p3\u0022\u003EStudent Ambassadors will guide attendees on a tour around campus highlighting landmarks and new additions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3 class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u003Cb\u003EMini 500 Tricycle Race\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003EFriday, Oct. 28, 5 to 8 p.m., Peters Parking Deck\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp class=\u0022p3\u0022\u003EThe Mini 500 has been part of Homecoming since 1969 when it started as a fraternity prank, where new pledges were forced to transport themselves around campus on tricycles. 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All participants get a free cupcake.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3 class=\u0022p4\u0022\u003E\u003Cb\u003ERamblin\u0026rsquo; Wreck Parade\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003ESaturday, Oct. 29,\u0026nbsp;9 a.m.,\u0026nbsp;Fowler Street\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp class=\u0022p3\u0022\u003EStudents will\u0026nbsp;design and build vehicles to parade down Fowler Street.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3 class=\u0022p4\u0022\u003E\u003Cb\u003ERamblin\u0026rsquo; Wreck\u0026nbsp;Rally Tailgate\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003ESaturday, Oct. 29,\u0026nbsp;2.5 hours before kickoff,\u0026nbsp;Tech Tower Lawn\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp class=\u0022p3\u0022\u003EEnjoy free gameday swag, pictures with the Wreck, and live entertainment.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3 class=\u0022p4\u0022\u003E\u003Cb\u003EFootball vs. Duke\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003ESaturday, Oct. 29,\u0026nbsp;Bobby Dodd Stadium\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp class=\u0022p3\u0022\u003EHomecoming culminates with the Yellow Jackets taking on\u0026nbsp;the Duke Blue Devils. Kickoff time will be announced seven to\u0026nbsp;10 days before the game. Check\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan class=\u0022s1\u0022\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ramblinwreck.com\u0022\u003Eramblinwreck.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003Eas the event gets closer.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp class=\u0022p3\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ESome events require registration. To register, visit\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan class=\u0022s1\u0022\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gthomecoming.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Egthomecoming.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;or\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/homecoming.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cb\u003Ehomecoming.gatech.edu\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022s2\u0022\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ETo learn more about Tech traditions,\u0026nbsp;visit\u003Cspan class=\u0022s2\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/traditions.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022s1\u0022\u003E\u003Cb\u003Etraditions.gatech.edu\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022s2\u0022\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ET\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Ehere are several events that may\u0026nbsp;be of interest\u0026nbsp;to anyone and everyone on campus, including those that spotlight some of Tech\u0026rsquo;s oldest traditions. 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BIP Capital led the round, followed by \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.basevc.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBase Ventures\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and TechSquare Labs. Tennessee Titans linebacker Derrick Morgan and Los Angeles Clippers power forward Glen Davis also participated in the round.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMonsieur claims it has\u0026nbsp;developed what is literally the first AI robot that can bartend and pour drinks. The robot runs in conjunction with Monsieur-produced apps for iOS and Android devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe robot\u2019s mixology skills and pours have laser-like accuracy, company executives say, and are, according to a release, \u201cprecisely tailored to meet the most discerning tastes, all at the touch of a button.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2014\/10\/11\/robot-bartender-maker-monsieur-takes-in-2-million\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERead full article\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27842","created_gmt":"2014-10-13 15:34:33","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:20","author":"Ashlee Gardner","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"macrophages","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2014\/10\/11\/robot-bartender-maker-monsieur-takes-in-2-million\/","dateline":{"date":"2014-10-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-10-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"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":""}},"362191":{"#nid":"362191","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Researchers work to counter a new class of coffee shop hackers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIf you\u2019re sitting in a coffee shop, tapping away on your laptop, feeling safe from hackers because you didn\u2019t connect to the shop\u2019s wi-fi, think again. The bad guys may be able to see what you\u2019re doing just by analyzing the low-power electronic signals your laptop emits even when it\u2019s not connected to the Internet.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnd smartphones may be even more vulnerable to such spying.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are investigating where these information \u201cleaks\u201d originate so they can help hardware and software designers develop strategies to plug them. By studying emissions from multiple computers, the researchers have developed a metric for measuring the strength of the leaks \u2013 known technically as \u201cside-channel signal\u201d \u2013 to help prioritize security efforts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPeople are focused on security for the Internet and on the wireless communication side, but we are concerned with what can be learned from your computer without it intentionally sending anything,\u201d said Alenka Zajic, an assistant professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cEven if you have the Internet connection disabled, you are still emanating information that somebody could use to attack your computer or smartphone.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResults of the research were presented December 15 at the 47th Annual IEEE\/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture in Cambridge, U.K. The work is sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESide-channel emissions can be measured several feet away from an operating computer using a variety of spying methods. Electromagnetic emissions can be received using antennas hidden in a briefcase, for instance. Acoustic emissions \u2013 sounds produced by electronic components such as capacitors \u2013 can be picked up by microphones hidden beneath tables. Information on power fluctuations, which can help hackers determine what the computer is doing, can be measured by fake battery chargers plugged into power outlets adjacent to a laptop\u2019s power converter.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESome signals can be picked up by a simple AM\/FM radio, while others require more sophisticated spectrum analyzers.\u0026nbsp; And computer components such as voltage regulators produce emissions that can carry signals produced elsewhere in the laptop.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a demonstration, Zajic typed a simulated password on one laptop that was not connected to the Internet. On the other side of a wall, a colleague using another disconnected laptop read the password as it was being typed by intercepting side-channel signals produced by the first laptop\u2019s keyboard software, which had been modified to make the characters easier to identify.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere is nothing added in the code to raise suspicion,\u201d said Milos Prvulovic, an associate professor in the Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cIt looks like a correct, but not terribly efficient version of normal keyboard driver software. And in several applications, such as normal spell-checking, grammar-checking and display-updating, the existing software is sufficient for a successful attack.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECurrently, there is no mention in the open literature of hackers using side-channel attacks, but the researchers believe it\u2019s only a matter of time before that happens. The potential risks of side-channel emissions have been reported over the years, but not at the level of detail being studied by the Georgia Tech researchers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOf course, it\u2019s possible that somebody is using it right now, but they are not sharing that information,\u201d Zajic noted.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo counter the threat, the researchers are determining where the leaks originate.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are trying to understand why these side channels exist and what can be done to fix these leaks,\u201d said Zajic. \u201cWe are measuring computers and smartphones to identify the parts of the devices that leak the most. That information can guide efforts to redesign them, and on an architectural level, perhaps change the instructions in the software to change the device behavior.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach computer operation has a different potential for leaking information. The processor draws different amounts of current depending on the operation, creating fluctuations that can be measured. Saving data to memory also requires a large amount of current, creating a \u201cloud\u201d operation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen you are executing instructions in the processor, you generate a different type of waveform than if you are doing things in memory,\u201d explained Zajic. \u201cAnd there is interaction between the two.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo measure the vulnerability, Zajic, Prvulovic and graduate student Robert Callen developed a metric known as \u201csignal available to attacker\u201d (SAVAT), which is a measure of the strength of the signal emitted. They measured the level of SAVAT for 11 different instructions executed on three different laptops, and found the largest signals when the processors accessed off-chip memory.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt is not really possible to eliminate all side-channel signal,\u201d said Prvulovic. \u201cThe trick is to make those signals weak, so potential attackers would have to be closer, use larger antennas and utilize time-consuming signal analyses. We have found that some operations are much \u2018louder\u2019 than others, so quieting them would make it more difficult for attackers.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers are also now studying smartphones, whose compact design and large differential between idle and in-use power may make them more vulnerable. So far, they have only looked at Android devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBecause the spying is passive and emits no signals itself, users of computers and smartphones wouldn\u2019t know they\u2019re being watched.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf somebody is putting strange objects near your computer, you certainly should beware,\u201d said Zajic. \u201cBut from the user\u2019s perspective, there is not much they can do right now. Based on our research, we hope to develop something like virus scan software that will look for vulnerability in the code and tell developers what they should update to reduce this vulerability.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis research has been supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under grant 1318934 and by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) under grant FA9550-14-1-0223. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official views of the NSF or AFOSR.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECITATION\u003C\/strong\u003E: Robert Callan, Alenka Zajic and Milos Prvulovic, \u201cA Practical Methodology for Measuring the Side-Channel Signal Available to the Attacker for Instruction-Level Events,\u201d (47th Annual IEEE\/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, 2014).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E177 North Avenue\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAtlanta, Georgia\u0026nbsp; 30332-0181\u0026nbsp; USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (404-894-6986) (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Brett Israel (404-385-1933) (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:brett.israel@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ebrett.israel@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIf you\u2019re sitting in a coffee shop, tapping away on your laptop, feeling safe from hackers because you didn\u2019t connect to the shop\u2019s wi-fi, think again. 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Nearly all of the students \u2014 97 percent \u2014 have taken AP calculus or a higher level of math. They average 1488 on the SAT (2146 with its writing component) and 32 on the ACT, and have taken an average of 10 college level classes before even finishing high school.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt doesn\u2019t really matter how many applications you get \u2014 you want the right class,\u201d said Rick Clark, director of Undergraduate Admission. \u201cWe\u2019re on our way toward an even better class.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Early Action group is made up of nearly 41 percent women, the highest ever for this group, and more African American and Hispanic students than last year. Legacy students, which include siblings, children, and grandchildren of Tech grads or employees, were admitted at a rate of 51.5 percent.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt doesn\u2019t necessarily mean we will yield as high in all those groups, but our admit group has never hit 40 percent women,\u201d Clark said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis year, Undergraduate Admission welcomed faculty into the admission committee process for the first time. Faculty members from the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and College of Architecture helped review applicants to their schools. Admission staff also had the help of Tech international students in reviewing interviews from prospective international students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThey can watch the interviews and help evaluate language skills and give us their thoughts on the applicant as a peer,\u201d Clark said. \u201cWe\u2019re making the admission process more and more inclusive, and taking more and more factors into consideration every year.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdmission staff will visit metro Atlanta schools this week to present a few lucky high school students with hand-delivered acceptance packets, an outing that\u2019s become something of a tradition for the Undergraduate Admission team.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe time, dedication, diligence, and commitment of our staff is remarkable,\u201d Clark said. \u201cTheir incredible efforts are what brings each class to fruition.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESaturday was also the deadline for Regular Admission applications. Tech received more than 4,000 applications on that day alone, bringing the Institute to a total of 26,900 applications for the next freshman class \u2014\u0026nbsp;a 4 percent increase over last year. 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The word \u201cshould\u201d has changed to \u201cmust,\u201d and her office counted 823 \u201cmusts\u201d in the new document.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut, award recipients will not receive additional funding to help them comply with the Uniform Requirements. Some may view this as another administrative burden.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHow can we do more with the same amount of funding is the trick,\u201d Garton said. \u201cOur interdisciplinary taskforce and department administrators from the College of Engineering, the College of Sciences, the College of Architecture, the College of Computing, and GTRI have been working on this since April. They have been part of the process because they will get the operational responsibility. 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Another 30 minutes will be spent answering audience questions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p4\u0022\u003EThe town hall events are part of Peterson\u2019s efforts to provide ongoing communication from leadership to the campus community.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p4\u0022\u003EThe first spring town hall \u2014 held for the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts \u2014 took place on Feb. 12. The remaining dates include:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECollege of Computing\u003C\/strong\u003E: Feb. 17, 11 a.m., Banquet Hall, Technology Square Research Building\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProfessional Education\u003C\/strong\u003E: Feb. 18, 3:30 p.m., Global Learning Center\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECollege of Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E, Feb. 24, 3:30 p.m., Student Center Theater\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECollege of Sciences\u003C\/strong\u003E, March 30, 11 a.m., Press Rooms A and B, Bill Moore Student Success Center\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E(rescheduled from Feb. 25, 3:30 p.m., Student Center Theater)\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EScheller College of Business\u003C\/strong\u003E, March 3, 11 a.m., LeCraw Auditorium, Scheller College\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003Eof Business\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute\u003C\/strong\u003E, April 1, 11 a.m., Auditorium, GTRI Conference Center\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStaff Town Hall\u003C\/strong\u003E, May 7, 11 a.m., Location TBD\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEvents will be hosted for faculty, staff during the spring semester.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Events will be hosted for faculty, staff during the spring semester."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2015-02-15 19:17:30","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:46","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-02-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-02-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"240851":{"id":"240851","type":"image","title":"President G.P. \u0022Bud\u0022 Peterson","body":null,"created":"1449243688","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:41:28","changed":"1475894916","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:36","alt":"President G.P. \u0022Bud\u0022 Peterson","file":{"fid":"197999","name":"peterson_092713.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/peterson_092713.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/peterson_092713.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2586867,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/peterson_092713.jpg?itok=WKGx8X45"}}},"media_ids":["240851"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/president.gatech.edu\/","title":"Office of the President"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3423","name":"employees"},{"id":"1506","name":"faculty"},{"id":"1893","name":"Peterson"},{"id":"1271","name":"President"},{"id":"167018","name":"staff"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:patti.futrell@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EPatti Futrell\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"384011":{"#nid":"384011","#data":{"type":"news","title":"2014-15 Georgia Tech Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN) Seed Grant Program - Information and Request for Applications","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProgram Description\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Georgia Tech IEN is an Interdisciplinary Research Institute (IRI) comprised of faculty and students interested in using the most advanced fabrication and characterization tools, and cleanroom infrastructure, to facilitate research in micro- and nano-scale materials, devices, and systems. Applications of this research span all disciplines in science and engineering with particular emphasis on biomedicine, electronics, optoelectronics and photonics, and energy applications. As there can be a learning curve associated with initial proof-of-concept development and testing using cleanroom tools, this seed grant program was developed to expedite the initiation of new graduate students and new research projects into productive activity. Successful proposals to this program will identify a new, currently-unfunded research idea that requires cleanroom access to generate preliminary data necessary to pursue other funding avenues.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProgram Eligibility\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis program is open to any current Georgia Tech or GTRI faculty member as project PI. The graduate student performing the research should be in the first 2 years of his\/her graduate studies. Preference will be given to students who are new users of the IEN facilities. The student\u2019s research advisor (project PI) does not need to be a current user of the IEN cleanroom\/lab facilities. Past awardees of a seed grant may submit additional proposals for different students\/projects, but not in consecutive funding cycles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt is the responsibility of the project PI and student to determine their ability to make use of the awarded time during the grant period. Extensions requested once the project has begun will not be granted.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAward Information\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach seed grant award will consist of free cleanroom access to the student identified in the proposal for 2 (consecutive) billing quarters.\u0026nbsp; Based on current access rates and the academic cap on hourly charges (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cleanroom.ien.gatech.edu\/rates\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/cleanroom.ien.gatech.edu\/rates\/\u003C\/a\u003E), this comprises a maximum award of $6000 for the 6 month period. This maximum award amount is still in effect even if IEN non-cleanroom (lab) equipment or electron beam lithography (EBL) is required. The designated student user is expected to only utilize the cleanroom\/tool access while working with the PI on the proposed project. Members of the\u0026nbsp; IEN Advanced Technology Team (ATT) will be available to consult during the project period. The number of awards for each proposal submission date will depend on the number and quality of the proposals, but typically 3-5 awards will be made. A short report describing the research activities is required midway and at the completion of the award period.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESubmission Schedule\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis Seed Grant program is offered in two competitions each year with due dates on October 1 and April 1. 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Koshy\u0027s excitment was evident.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It\u0027s kind of overwhelming. This is one of those things that defines a generation,\u0022 Koshy said, \u0022As a graduating senior, this feels amazing.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe line quickly exited the Student Center, wrapped around Tech Green and continued past the Mason Building up Atlantic Street. As the line grew, so did the air of excitement about the commander-in-chief\u0027s visit.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It\u0027s so exciting, regardless of your political views,\u0022 explained Terynne Burgan, second year student from Kennesaw. \u0022It\u0027s so cool to see an acting president. You can\u0027t really miss out on it.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAbout midway through the line, Ana\u00efs Felix Carrion waited with a group of friends. She heard about the event from Georgia Tech\u0027s Twitter and Facebook pages.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Everyone was already talking about it within 30 minutes of the news,\u0022 Felix Carrion said. \u0022It\u0027s really cool to have this opportunity.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents ate lunch, played football and did some studying while they waited for tickets.\u0026nbsp; Editors of the Technique handed out copies of the student newspaper.\u0026nbsp; A few students grabbed instruments, entertaining the crowds with an impromptu jam session. The Rambling Wreck drove by, with its signature horn blaring. 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Come learn about the leading-edge research happening at the nanoscale at Georgia Tech\u2019s Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology. 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But a unifying thread was missing -- something to link the entrepreneurial lessons in these experiences.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow, a major gift from alumnus Chris Klaus is giving Tech a new way to do just that. On April 1, the Institute and the College of Engineering will formally launch CREATE-X, a collective of programs designed to boost students\u0027 entrepreneurial confidence and give them the tools they need to establish startups.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMany of the programs under the CREATE-X umbrella, such as the Startup Lab course, have already begun to be offered. But CREATE-X will unite them with a common goal: equipping undergraduate students with the knowledge, skills, abilities, and experiences to be entrepreneurially confident.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022These programs have always been part of a larger vision,\u0022 says Professor Raghupathy Sivakumar, the Wayne J. Holman Chair in Electrical Engineering. 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With an overall admit rate of 31 percent, compared to 41 percent two years ago and down a percent from last year, this class is the most competitive in Tech\u2019s history. Those admitted boast an SAT average of 1480 (2185 with writing) and will have taken an average of nearly 10 college level courses before graduating from high school.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETech continued to admit in-state students at a slightly higher rate, 37 percent, than the overall acceptance rate.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow, the campus community is asked to help encourage these admitted students to become Yellow Jackets.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAt this point, it\u2019s critical that faculty, staff, and current students are available and invested in helping us enroll the best possible class we can,\u201d said Rick Clark, director of Undergraduate Admission. \u201cWe are competing with the world\u2019s best institutions, and the expertise and background provided by our community is what will help families decide Tech is the best choice for them.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis year, faculty members from both the College of Architecture and the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts sat in on the admission committee to help select students specifically passionate about those fields. Clark is hopeful that this type of commitment and enthusiasm will carry over to support the yielding of these students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENearly 5,000 prospective students and admits are expected to visit campus in the coming weeks as they evaluate which school is best for them and where to invest in their future.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn the weeks ahead, you\u2019ll see throngs of wide-eyed visitors,\u201d Clark said. \u201cStop and see if you can help them find where they\u2019re going, recommend a good place to eat, or just share your favorite thing about Tech. Ask where they\u2019re from, and if it\u2019s an admitted student, congratulate them.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFaculty, staff, and current students also can reach out to the admission liaison for their area of campus to assist with writing letters or making calls to admitted students to answer their questions and encourage them to enroll.\u0026nbsp;Current students who want to go the extra mile can\u0026nbsp;also \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.admission.gatech.edu\/applygttours\u0022\u003Eapply to be a tour guide\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;beginning this summer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Campus community asked to help recruit admitted students to become Yellow Jackets"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech received more than 27,500 applications. 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A total of 8,521 students have been offered admission."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2015-03-20 11:20:26","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:00","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-03-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-03-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"363101":{"id":"363101","type":"image","title":"Admission Staff Welcomes #gt19 Class","body":null,"created":"1449245793","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:16:33","changed":"1475895098","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:38","alt":"Admission Staff Welcomes #gt19 Class","file":{"fid":"201607","name":"gt19.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gt19_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gt19_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3660696,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/gt19_0.jpg?itok=UimgrPcA"}}},"media_ids":["363101"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/admission.gatech.edu\/","title":"Office of Undergraduate Admission"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"5453","name":"admission"},{"id":"10308","name":"Enrollment Services"},{"id":"68301","name":"first-year students"},{"id":"96","name":"freshmen"},{"id":"10347","name":"undergraduate admission"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kristen.bailey@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EKristen Bailey\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"393131":{"#nid":"393131","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New robotic vehicle provides a never-before-seen look under Antarctica","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EEditor\u0027s note: Icefin\u0027s videos from the seafloor can also be downloaded at the Dropbox link at the bottom of the press release.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA first-of-its-kind robotic vehicle recently dove to depths never before visited under Antarctica\u2019s Ross Ice Shelf and brought back video of life on the seafloor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA team of scientists and engineers from the Georgia Institute of Technology assembled the unmanned, underwater vehicle on Antarctica. They deployed (and retrieved) the vehicle through a 12-inch diameter hole through 20 meters of ice and another 500 meters of water to the sea floor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe robotic vehicle, called Icefin, carried a scientific payload capable of measuring ocean conditions under the ice. Icefin\u2019s readings of the environment under Antarctica\u2019s ice shelves, and video of the life that thrives in these harsh conditions, will help understand how Antarctica\u2019s ice shelves are changing under warming conditions, and to understand how organisms thrive in cold and light-free environments. The technologies developed for Icefin will also help in the search for life on other planets, namely Europa, a moon of Jupiter. Antarctica\u2019s icy oceans are remarkably similar to Europa\u2019s ice-capped oceans.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe built a vehicle that\u2019s a hybrid between the really small probes and the ocean-going vessels, and we can deploy it through bore holes on Antarctica,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/schmidt.eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EBritney Schmidt\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Tech, and the principal investigator for the Icefin project. \u201cAt the same time, we\u2019re advancing hypotheses that we need for Europa and understanding ocean systems here better. We\u2019re also developing and getting comfortable with technologies that make polar science -- and eventually Europa science -- more realistic.\u0022\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIcefin was deployed as a part of the Sub Ice Marine and Planetary\u2013analog Ecosystem (SIMPLE) program, funded by NASA and supported by NSF, with Schmidt as the principal\u0026nbsp;investigator. The research team returned from Antarctica in December 2014\u003Cstrong\u003E. \u003C\/strong\u003EIcefin is planned to make its Arctic debut in summer 2016, with a return to Antarctica that fall, the team hopes (For more images from the mission, visit: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bit.ly\/1P2hBRx\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/bit.ly\/1P2hBRx\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/bit.ly\/1P2hBRx\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt McMurdo Station, Schmidt and a team including Georgia Tech scientists and engineers from the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), led by principal research engineer \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.robotics.gatech.edu\/team\/faculty\/west\u0022\u003EMick West\u003C\/a\u003E, deployed Icefin to explore the underside of the ice shelves flowing off the continent.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhat truly separates Icefin from some of the other vehicles is that it\u2019s fairly slender, yet still has all of the sensors that the scientists like Britney need,\u201d West said. \u201cOur vehicle has instrumentation aboard both for navigation and ocean science that other vehicles do not.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Southern Ocean can be as deep as 5,000 meters. Icefin is capable of diving 1,500 meters and can perform three-kilometer-long surveys. Previous vehicles in Icefin\u2019s class were rated to a few hundred meters.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe saw evidence of a complex community on the sea floor that has never been observed before, and unprecedented detail on the ice-ocean interface that hasn\u2019t been achieved before,\u201d Schmidt said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVideo captured by Icefin shows eerie footage of an active seafloor 500 meters under the Ross Ice Shelf.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBiologists at McMurdo were just amazed at the amount of biology at that location which included sea stars, sponges and anemones that were at the ocean bottom,\u201d West said. \u201cTo have our very first deep-ocean dive happen through a small hole in the ice and go all the way to the ocean bottom and get the video we did was pretty amazing.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo get to the bottom, Icefin first had to be built. A partnership between research-focused GTRI and academic-focused School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS) enabled the team to design, build and deploy Icefin under the ice in less than a year.Traditional design cycles for these types of vehicles typically are two to three years.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team had to design for a number of challenges associated with deploying Icefin in such an extreme environment. For example, standard electronics systems are not typically rated to the extreme temperatures found under the Ross Ice Shelf.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe had probably 100 contingencies for if something went wrong,\u201d West said. \u201cThrough lots of analysis and robust design, we were fortunate not to have to initiate any of them.\u201d\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOnce Icefin was assembled, the vehicle was deployed through a bore hole in the ice that was 12 inches in diameter and 20 meters deep. Bore holes are often drilled on Antarctica for ocean moorings and sediment sampling.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETraditional underwater vehicles deployed on Antarctica are either \u201croving eyes\u201d because they carry only a camera, or much larger vehicles that are deployed in the water on the edge of the ice shelf. Icefin fills the gap between these two kinds of vehicles: able to be deployed easily by small teams in any environment, yet still able to record oceanographic information traditionally done by much larger vehicles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIcefin is the most capable small vehicle that\u2019s been down there,\u201d Schmidt said. \u201cWhat\u2019s really rewarding is that at the same time, we were able to involve some outstanding students in the design, build and deployment of the vehicle.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGraduate student Anthony Spears and undergraduate Matthew Meister, as well as Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/vip.gatech.edu\/new\/\u0022\u003EVertically Integrated Projects (VIP) program\u003C\/a\u003E participants, were involved in design of the vehicle. Spears and Meister also played key roles in the field integration and deployment of Icefin, along with EAS postdoctoral fellow Catherine Walker and graduate student Jacob Buffo from Icefin\u2019s science team.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIcefin carries forward and up\/down imaging and sonars and several different sensors. Icefin is also modular, similar to vehicles used on space missions. Scientists can swap sensors or point them in different directions as needed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETraditional GPS does not work under the ice, so Icefin uses a navigation system called SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) to triangulate its position based on measuring the range and bearing of features on the seafloor or under the ice.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cUsing algorithms such as SLAM allows us to construct a map of the unknown under-ice environment. When you can do that, you can begin to get a 3D picture of what\u2019s going on under the water,\u201d West said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe sensors on Icefin are helping scientists understand how the ocean affects properties of the ice, and how the ice affects properties of the ocean. The exchange between ocean and ice is a process that mediates biology, affects the climate system and controls the stability of glaciers.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThose are important processes that we can work out here in our backyard at the same time as we\u2019re answering how an ice shell would reflect the ocean chemistry on Europa,\u201d Schmidt said. \u201cThe ice shell is built out of the ocean, but how that process works is not well understood.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVideos from the seafloor:\u0026nbsp;https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/qn2j1q9qf3rqdto\/AACn5xE17456hQK43XHj0RBRa?dl=0\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPhotos from the mission:\u0026nbsp;https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/georgiatech\/sets\/72157650356164390\/with\/16626135435\/\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more on explorers at Georgia Tech, see the feature story in the spring issue of Research Horizons magazine:\u0026nbsp;http:\/\/www.rh.gatech.edu\/features\/explorers\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis research is supported by Georgia Institute of Technology and the School of Earth and Atmospheric sciences through Schmidt\u2019s startup funds, and partnership with GTRI. Icefin deployed to Antarctica with SIMPLE funded by NASA through grant NNX12AL65G. Deployment was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under project B259. Any conclusions or opinions are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the sponsoring agencies.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News\u003Cbr \/\u003E Georgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E 177 North Avenue\u003Cbr \/\u003E Atlanta, Georgia\u0026nbsp; 30332-0181\u0026nbsp; USA\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/GTResearchNews\u0022\u003E@GTResearchNews\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: Brett Israel (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/btiatl\u0022\u003E@btiatl\u003C\/a\u003E) (404-385-1933) (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:brett.israel@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ebrett.israel@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or John Toon (404-894-6986) (\u003Ca 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Fanning. \u201cWe look forward to collaborating with Georgia Tech and other strategic partners to develop the next generation of energy technologies and customer-focused programs.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe center will become a place where ideas, innovation and investment will intersect to develop a better customer experience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSouthern Company and Georgia Tech have collaborated in numerous areas through the years, and now we are delighted to welcome them to Technology Square,\u201d said Georgia Tech President G.P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAs the most recent addition, Southern Company\u2019s presence in Tech Square will continue the growing momentum of the Southeast\u2019s premier innovation ecosystem,\u201d he said.\u0026nbsp; \u201cWe look forward to increased opportunities to partner as they pursue customer-focused energy innovation.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe company joins a number of corporate giants that have come to Georgia Tech to create innovation and research centers. 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Events are planned nationwide to showcase the growing importance of robots in the United States.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca title=\u0022Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EInstitute for Robotics \u0026amp; Intelligent Machines (IRIM)\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;will host its own event, featuring demos of robots and tours of labs on campus, on Wednesday, April 8, 2015.\u0026nbsp;But if you can\u2019t make it in person to check out Tech\u2019s lineup of robots, you can still take part in the festivities: For the third year in a row, we\u2019ve released a set of trading cards to celebrate National Robotics Week. 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The group of students, faculty, and staff focused on changes that were based on recommendations made by previous committees and white papers; were in compliance with University System of Georgia (USG) policies; and did not significantly change the existing spring-summer-fall structure.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EPer the proposal, starting in fall 2015, classes would not meet on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, giving students an additional day for their break. A change implemented as a pilot this spring will continue to stand, which eliminated finals being held during the last exam session on the Friday before Commencement to prevent finals overlapping with graduation festivities. Starting the next academic year, it was approved to extend the individual course withdrawal deadline by two weeks, allowing students more time to evaluate whether to drop a class.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EIn Spring 2016, the current Dead Week would be replaced with Final Instructional Class Days and Reading Periods. The new schedule would designate Monday and Tuesday of the penultimate week of the semester as Final Instructional Class Days, followed by a day and a half of reading period, and administering the first final on Thursday afternoon. Finals would be broken up by that weekend and resume Monday, with an additional reading period the next Tuesday morning. Finals would finish that Thursday, allowing Friday for conflict periods and a day between exams and Commencement.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cAdding reading periods before and during final exams week so students have more time to prepare is one of the most important changes we can make to our calendar,\u201d said Steven Girardot, associate vice provost for undergraduate education who co-chaired the Academic Calendar Task Force with Paul Kohn, vice provost for Enrollment Services.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EWhen benchmarking against peers and other USG institutions, Georgia Tech was one of few universities that did not already have a reading period of this kind.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EIn many cases, Tech students were found to spend more time in class than at peer and USG institutions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cThe fact is that Georgia Tech students spend a lot of time in school,\u201d said Laura Margaret Burbach, vice president of Academic Affairs for the Student Government Association (SGA). Burbach participated in the academic calendar task force and helped draft a white paper last year from SGA on the topic.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EFor Burbach, getting the Wednesday before Thanksgiving is an immediate relief, but the changes to dead week and final exams will be the biggest change for campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cI hope it does a lot for alleviating student stress by incorporating additional study time, giving a true end to the semester, and letting students celebrate graduation,\u201d she said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5 class=\u0022p6\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBeyond Next Year\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EThe complete task force recommendations that would be phased into the calendar during the next two years include:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EReplace Dead Week with Final Instructional Class Days and Reading Periods and wrap final exams around a weekend. (Beginning spring 2016)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EEliminate final exams on the Friday before Commencement. (Implemented as a pilot in spring 2015)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAdd additional class holidays around Thanksgiving and July 4. (Beginning fall 2015)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBegin the spring semester no earlier than the second Monday of January. (Beginning Spring 2016)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EModify class length and breaks (contingent on final approval). (Beginning fall 2017)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EThe final recommendation would extend the length of Monday\/Wednesday\/Friday classes during spring and fall semesters from 50 to 55 minutes. Breaks between classes would extend from to 10 to 15 minutes. These extensions would ultimately mean the required number of instructional hours, per USG policy, is met in fewer days, giving additional flexibility for holidays or breaks during the semester. This recommendation has been approved in principle but will get additional study and potentially final approval at a later date. If approved, the change would go into effect in fall 2017.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cRight now you get significantly less class time in a Monday\/Wednesday\/Friday class than in a Tuesday\/Thursday, so in more challenging courses, you get a lot more time with the material in a Tuesday\/ Thursday section,\u201d said Burbach. \u201cThis would make them more comparable. The longer time in between classes would make it easier for students to get to class across campus.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5 class=\u0022p6\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Process\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EThe calendar changes have been approved by the Student Regulations Committee and will go before the full Faculty Senate for approval at its meeting on April 21.\u0026nbsp;The Office of Undergraduate Education will hold an \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.calendar.gatech.edu\/event\/394481\u0022\u003Einformational session\u003C\/a\u003E on Friday, April 17, from 9 to 10 a.m. in the Student Center Theater to review the proposed changes and answer questions from the campus community.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EStudents have voiced concerns to Tech administrators about aspects of the academic calendar in recent years. The 2013 SGA white paper proposed three changes, two of which were the delayed withdrawal date and wrapping finals around a weekend. Both of those changes will be implemented by spring 2016.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cWith everything we\u2019ve done the priority has been what\u2019s in the best interest of our students and reducing stress,\u201d said Girardot. \u201cFaculty will also benefit by having more time to grade and to prepare for their own holidays.\u201d \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Modifications Would Be Phased in Over Two Years"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech students could soon have more time to prepare for finals and an extra day off at Thanksgiving, thanks to proposed changes to the academic calendar.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech students could soon have more time to prepare for finals and an extra day off at Thanksgiving, thanks to proposed changes to the academic calendar."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2015-04-13 11:52:43","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:58","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-04-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-04-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.calendar.gatech.edu\/event\/394481","title":"Academic Calendar Info Session"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"61451","name":"Academic Calendar"},{"id":"166922","name":"sga"},{"id":"166923","name":"student government association"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kristen.bailey@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EKristen Bailey\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"400621":{"#nid":"400621","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Cellular sensing platform supports next-generation bioscience and biotech applications","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a novel cellular sensing platform that promises to expand the use of semiconductor technology in the development of next-generation bioscience and biotech applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research proposes and demonstrates the world\u2019s first multi-modality cellular sensor arranged in a standard low-cost CMOS process. Each sensor pixel can concurrently monitor multiple different physiological parameters of the same cell and tissue samples to achieve holistic and real-time physiological characterizations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur research is intended to fundamentally revolutionize how biologists and bioengineers can interface with living cells and tissues and obtain useful information,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=169\u0022\u003EHua Wang\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech. \u201cFully understanding the physiological behaviors of living cells or tissues is a prerequisite to further advance the frontiers of bioscience and biotechnology.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research is part of the Semiconductor Synthetic Biology (SSB) program sponsored and managed by Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC). Launched in 2013, the SSB program concentrates on synergies between synthetic biology and semiconductor technology that can foster exploratory, multi-disciplinary, longer-term university research leading to novel, breakthrough solutions for a wide range of industries.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWang said the research can have positive impact on semiconductors being used in the development of health care applications, including the more cost-effective development of pharmaceuticals and point-of-care devices and low-cost home-based diagnostics and drug testing systems. The research could also benefit defense and environmental monitoring applications for low-cost field-deployable sensors for hazard detections.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESpecifically, in the case of the more cost-effective development of pharmaceuticals, the increasing cost of new medicine is largely due to the high risks involved in drug development. On average, only one out of every ten thousand tested chemical compounds eventually become an approved drug product.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the early phases of drug development (when thousands of chemical candidates are screened), \u003Cem\u003Ein vitro\u003C\/em\u003E cultured cells and tissues are widely used to identify and quantify the efficacy and potency of drug candidates by recording their cellular physiology responses to the tested compounds.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMoreover, patient-to-patient variations often exist even under the administration of the same type of drugs at the same dosage. If the cell samples are derived from a particular patient, patient-specific drug responses then can be tested, which opens the door to future personalized medicine.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTherefore, there is a tremendous need for low-cost sensing platforms to perform fast, efficient and massively parallel screening of \u003Cem\u003Ein vitro\u003C\/em\u003E cells and tissues, so that the promising chemical candidates can be selected efficiently,\u201d said Wang, who also holds the Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professorship in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. \u201cThis existing need can be addressed directly by our CMOS multi-modality cellular sensor array research.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmong the benefits enabled by the CMOS sensor array chips are that they provide built-in computation circuits for in-situ signal processing and sensor fusion on multi-modality sensor data. The chips also eliminate the need of external electronic equipment and allow their use in general biology labs without dedicated electronic or optical setups.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdditionally, thousands of sensor array chips can operate in parallel to achieve high-throughput scanning of chemicals or drug candidates and real-time monitoring of their efficacy and toxicity. Compared with sequential scanning through limited fluorescent scanners, this parallel scanning approach can achieve more than one-thousand times throughput enhancement.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech research team just wrapped its first year of research under the 3-year project, with the sensor array being demonstrated at the close of 2014 and presented at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in February 2015. In the next year, the team plans to further increase the sensor array pixel density while helping improve packaging solutions compatible with existing drug testing solutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech\u2019s research combines semiconductor integrated circuits and living cells to create an electronics-biology hybrid platform, which has tremendous societal and technological implications that can potentially lead to better and cheaper health care solutions,\u201d said Victor Zhirnov, director of Cross-Disciplinary Research and Special Projects at SRC.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E177 North Avenue\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAtlanta, Georgia 30332-0181 USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: Georgia Tech \u2013 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Faculty Share Tips for Flipped Classes","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EFlipped and blended classrooms are gaining momentum at Georgia Tech. This method of instruction is exciting for many reasons\u0026nbsp; \u2014 particularly because \u201cflipping\u201d provides instructors more time in class to work with students on coursework and concepts, leading to greater student mastery.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EYet, educators should be warned that a flipped class can easily turn into a \u201cflopped class\u201d if flipping isn\u2019t approached carefully, and if significant time and preparation are not given to this method of instruction.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EThe Center for 21st Century Universities (C21U) recently assembled a team of \u201cflipping veterans,\u201d Bonnie Ferri from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Don Webster from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Jung Choi from the College of Sciences, to share successes and failures they\u2019ve experienced in learning to flip a class.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5 class=\u0022p6\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhy do educators value a flipped classroom?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EThe panelists agreed upon the fact that educators greatly value a flipped classroom because it allows for more hands-on or application-based project time, since students view lessons before class.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cOne of the core benefits of flipping a classroom,\u201d says Ferri, \u201cis that it delivers lessons beforehand and allows students time to apply these lessons in class.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EImproved examination scores have been another across-the-board benefit of this new style of teaching for Ferri, Webster, and Choi.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cAfter I looked at the application questions in my exam data, I realized that the students in the flipped version of my class did better than those who were in the previous model,\u201d says Choi.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5 class=\u0022p6\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat mistakes do educators make when planning to flip a class?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EOne of the greatest benefits of flipping is providing pre-recorded lessons for students to watch or engage with before class \u2014 but this can also become an educator\u2019s greatest downfall when first learning how to flip a class.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EAll three faculty members have seen flipped courses fail because educators simply recorded their typical lecture materials and expected the format to translate to a flipped class.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cI realized that if I wasn\u2019t going to record something that was better than a normal lecture, then what was the point?\u201d says Webster.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EAnother major mistake made by faculty in a newly flipped course is to place too much time and emphasis on the out-of-class lectures, and not enough on the quality of the more flexible in-class interactions and projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cRecording the lecture video is less important,\u201d says Choi. \u201cIt\u2019s the in-class portion and what an instructor does with that time that really counts.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5 class=\u0022p6\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat\u2019s the best advice you would give to someone flipping a class for the first time?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EOver and over, Ferri, Choi, and Webster asserted two important things to remember when flipping a class for the first time: Do not assume that a flipped class will be easier to manage or less work than a traditional class, and remember to ask for help.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s tricky to successfully flip a class, and people can be discouraged easily without mentoring,\u201d says Ferri. \u201cA lot of times, a person teaching a newly flipped class will see their teacher ratings plummet because they just don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing. So get a mentor.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EThe panel of C21U faculty all concluded that if approached with planning, dedication, and mentorship, the experience of flipping a class is an opportunity for both student and instructor growth and success.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EC21U provides resources and mentorship for those interested in flipped or blended classrooms. For resources and to find out more, explore C21U\u2019s Guide to Flipping Your Classroom at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.c.gatech.edu\/C21Uflipguide\u0022\u003Ewww.c.gatech.edu\/C21Uflipguide\u003C\/a\u003E, or visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.c21u.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.c21u.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Center for 21st Century Universities recently assembled a team of \u201cflipping veterans\u0022 to share successes and failures they\u2019ve experienced in learning to flip a class.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Center for 21st Century Universities recently assembled a team of \u201cflipping veterans\u0022 to share successes and failures they\u2019ve experienced in learning to flip a class."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2015-05-11 09:34:54","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:17","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-05-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-05-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"403361":{"id":"403361","type":"image","title":"Don Webster","body":null,"created":"1449252000","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:00:00","changed":"1475895124","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:04","alt":"Don Webster","file":{"fid":"75965","name":"donwebster.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/donwebster.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/donwebster.png","mime":"image\/png","size":155163,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/donwebster.png?itok=bbQtVVo6"}},"403371":{"id":"403371","type":"image","title":"Jung Choi","body":null,"created":"1449252000","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:00:00","changed":"1475895124","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:04","alt":"Jung Choi","file":{"fid":"75966","name":"choi.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/choi.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/choi.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1841872,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/choi.jpg?itok=1FSryww3"}},"214901":{"id":"214901","type":"image","title":"Bonnie Ferri","body":null,"created":"1449180096","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 22:01:36","changed":"1475894879","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:59","alt":"Bonnie Ferri","file":{"fid":"197077","name":"bonnie_f.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bonnie_f_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bonnie_f_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2627560,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/bonnie_f_0.jpg?itok=ef929n_U"}}},"media_ids":["403361","403371","214901"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/c21u.gatech.edu\/","title":"Center for 21st Century Universities"},{"url":"http:\/\/c21u.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/Flipped%20Classroom%20Guide_final.pdf","title":"C21U Guide to Flipped Classes (pdf)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2014\/04\/24\/flip-class-tech-professors-pioneer-new-learning-models","title":"Flip This Class: Tech Professors Pioneer New Learning Models (2014)"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"13481","name":"C21U"},{"id":"14381","name":"center for 21st century universities"},{"id":"654","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1506","name":"faculty"},{"id":"125891","name":"flipped classes"},{"id":"14302","name":"Teaching and Learning"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:baiello@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EBrittany Aiello\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECenter for 21st Century Universities (C21U)\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"403001":{"#nid":"403001","#data":{"type":"news","title":"An Engineer Returns to His Restaurant Roots","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAll roads led to the restaurant business\u0026nbsp;for 37-year-old Georgia Tech alumnus Tim Ma. All, that is, except for one that originally took him to Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMa literally grew up in restaurants, beginning in Maumelle, Ark., where his parents worked around-the-clock to keep open their small Chinese restaurant. Later, his family moved to New York in the 1980s, and some of the chef\u2019s favorite childhood memories played out against the backdrop of his uncle\u2019s much-acclaimed nouveau Chinese eatery, Paul Ma\u2019s China Kitchen.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019d go almost every weekend to my uncle\u2019s restaurant and see the entire family,\u201d Ma recalls. \u201cI remember being a little boy running around the restaurant. It was like one big dinner party.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo it\u2019s not surprising that the proud Yellow Jacket would eventually go on to open not one, but two successful restaurants of his own. It\u2019s just that he didn\u2019t realize that\u2019s what he wanted to do with his life\u2014he originally decided to try engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech was the last school I looked at,\u201d Ma says. \u201cI went on a campus visit and I immediately thought \u2018I want to go here\u2019.\u201d He wound up choosing Tech despite being offered full rides to several others.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMa studied hard for five years then graduated in 2000 with a degree in electrical and computer engineering. He then went on to get a master\u2019s degree, and started to build a lucrative career as a government contractor in the Washington, D.C., area. By all outside accounts, he was doing more than well, but Ma couldn\u2019t quiet the call of the kitchen.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnd that\u2019s when he did the contemporary version of running away to join the circus: He quit his job and went off to\u0026nbsp;culinary school.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI was in L.A. around 2006 visiting my sister and brother-in-law,\u201d he says. \u201cWe were in a Japanese restaurant eating sushi and I kept thinking about how the food scene defines a city. By the end of the meal I told them that I wanted to open a restaurant.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDespite lots of push back from his parents, Ma eventually moved forward with his plan. He and his now wife, Joey Hernandez, sold everything they had to move to New York City where he enrolled in the French Culinary Institute, which is now known as the International Culinary Center. The couple did a lot of couch surfing and bunking down in some pretty terrible apartments\u2014some plagued with rats\u2014to make it through. \u201cAt one point we were essentially homeless for 10 days,\u201d Ma says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut Ma had found his passion. And the demanding environment at Tech helped him conquer all his obstacles. After an externship with Chef David Chang of the Momofuku Empire and a short stint cooking in St. Thomas, Ma and Hernandez moved back to the D.C. area to open a place of their own, all on a shoestring budget.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2009, the couple leased an old decrepit doughnut shop on a strip in Vienna, Va., dotted with more auto shops than four-star restaurants. It was the only space they could afford and it sat decidedly outside the city\u2019s vibrant food scene. \u201cWe found the place surfing Craigslist,\u201d Ma says. \u201cNo broker would even talk to us.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETogether with the help of friends and family, Ma and his wife did everything to make the nine-table Maple Avenue Restaurant, as they dubbed it, into a reality\u2014from hauling out the old fixtures to putting up drywall themselves. Ma and Hernandez, who serves as Maple Avenue\u2019s general manager and shares her husband\u2019s passion for restaurants, financed the venture with credit cards.Lots and lots of maxed-out credit cards.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt didn\u2019t take long for their money and credit to run out. \u201cI couldn\u2019t even get a $500 Home Depot card at that point,\u201d Ma admits.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt first, the barely 1,000-square-foot dining room sat empty most nights. Closing seemed inevitable. But just as Ma started dusting off his engineering resume, Maple Avenue had its very first day where it almost broke even. Then came a few more where it actually turned a profit. The critics started paying attention. Great dishes led to even better reviews, and the buzz brought in diners from across the region to sample Ma\u2019s menu of American cuisine enhanced with Asian and French flavors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe dichotomy of Maple Avenue is that you walk into a building that is physically barely hanging on and get great food,\u201d Ma says of his little restaurant that could.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn Maple Avenue\u2019s early days, there were two nods to his time at Georgia Tech on the menu. The first was his take on the Southern classic\u2014fried green tomatoes. The second was a pineapple steak that he loved eating at a Houston\u2019s near campus that he went to all the time during college. \u201cThat item was such a rip off of that steak,\u201d Ma jokes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBuilding on Maple Avenue\u2019s success, he and his wife\u2014now parents of three children\u2014opened a second restaurant, Water \u0026amp; Wall, in late 2013. This time the couple had no trouble getting a broker to answer their call or to lure customers into the spacious, professionally designed spot.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMa rarely uses his engineering training anymore but says he does not regret his first career. \u201cThrough engineering I got to learn a lot of leadership qualities,\u201d says Ma, who enjoys trading stories with the many Tech grads living in the D.C. area who frequent his restaurants.\u0026nbsp; \u201cAnd my security clearance from my engineering days always helps when I apply for a liquor license.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gtalumnimag.com\/2015\/02\/an-engineer-returns-to-his-restaurant-roots\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis story originally appeared in Vol. 90, No. 1 of the\u003C\/em\u003E Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERenowned Washington, D.C.-area Chef Tim Ma, a 2000 graduate, gave up a successful career in engineering to return to his first love \u2014 food.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Renowned Washington, D.C.-area Chef Tim Ma, a 2000 graduate, gave up a successful career in engineering to return to his first love\u2014food."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2015-05-08 09:14:16","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:13","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-05-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-05-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"402991":{"id":"402991","type":"image","title":"Tim Ma","body":null,"created":"1449252000","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:00:00","changed":"1475895124","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:04","alt":"Tim Ma","file":{"fid":"75954","name":"ma.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ma.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ma.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":55373,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ma.jpg?itok=aCZfubwN"}},"403011":{"id":"403011","type":"image","title":"Waterwall","body":null,"created":"1449252000","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:00:00","changed":"1475895124","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:04","alt":"Waterwall","file":{"fid":"75955","name":"waterwall3.pg_-e1424810784705.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/waterwall3.pg_-e1424810784705.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/waterwall3.pg_-e1424810784705.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":752403,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/waterwall3.pg_-e1424810784705.jpg?itok=c0Ws5rxW"}}},"media_ids":["402991","403011"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gtalumnimag.com\/","title":"Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"506","name":"alumni"},{"id":"596","name":"Alumni Association"},{"id":"8271","name":"alumni magazine"},{"id":"116","name":"food"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"125731","name":"tim ma"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:editor@alumni.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EBeth Kanter\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Tech Alumni Magazine\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"405191":{"#nid":"405191","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New device captures metastasis-associated circulating tumor cell clusters","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe latest version of a microfluidic device for capturing rare circulating tumor cells (CTCs) is the first designed specifically to capture clusters of two or more cells, rather than single cells. The new device, called the Cluster-Chip, was developed by the same Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) research team that created previous microchip-based devices. Recent studies by MGH investigators and others have suggested that CTC clusters are significantly more likely to cause metastases than single circulating tumor cells.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe device is described in a \u003Cem\u003ENature Methods\u003C\/em\u003E paper that was published online May 18. Among the members of the research team is \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=178\u0022\u003EFatih Sarioglu\u003C\/a\u003E, now an assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEarly theories of cancer metastasis were based on clumps of tumor cells traveling through the bloodstream, but given that CTC clusters are even rarer in the blood than single CTCs, they have attracted minimal attention for several decades,\u201d explained Mehmet Toner, PhD, director of the BioMicroElectroMechanical Systems Resource Center in the MGH Center for Engineering in Medicine, the paper\u0027s senior author. \u201cThe ability to isolate intact clusters will enable is to investigate carefully their role in the metastatic process, and understanding metastasis really is the \u2018holy grail\u2019 of cancer research.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECTCs are living solid tumor cells found in the bloodstream at extremely low levels \u2013 about one in a billion cells. Starting in 2007, MGH researchers have developed three microchip-based devices that capture CTCs in ways that preserve molecular information that can help guide clinical treatment. The first two versions used antibodies directed at specific proteins on the surface of tumor cells, which limited the ability to capture cells that may have lost those marker proteins during the process of metastasis. The third version, developed in 2013, uses antigen-independent methods of isolating CTCs, which is also the case for the Cluster-Chip.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cCancer is an extremely heterogeneous disease, and even within the same tumor you can find cells with different surface antigens,\u201d said Sarioglu, co-lead author of the \u003Cem\u003ENature Methods\u003C\/em\u003E paper. \u201cSince we are capturing clusters because of their physical properties, this chip is directly applicable to all types of cancer.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESarioglu explained that the strategy behind the design of the chip is based on the physical properties of clusters of cells. The 3- by 1 \u00bd-inch plastic chip through which a blood sample is passed consists of rows of triangular microposts arranged in such a way that clusters passing between two posts will become trapped on the apex of a third central post and held in place by the balanced flow of fluid on either side. Single CTCs and blood cells will pass right through without being captured. In addition, passing the sample through the device at a slow rate minimizes the possibility that clusters will be broken, distorted or escape.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInitial testing of the Cluster-Chip with blood samples to which artificially formed tumor cell clusters had been introduced helped to determine the optimal flow rate to capture the most clusters in the least time. The researchers then compared the new device to the second-generation HBCTC-Chip, which relies on known cell-surface markers and was the first to isolate CTC clusters. The Cluster-Chip proved to be 40 to 50 percent better at finding clusters of cells expressing targeted markers and 100 percent better at capturing cells without target antigens.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile initial attempts to release captured clusters from the device by simply reversing the fluid flow had limited success, the investigators found that reducing the temperature of the device itself to 4 degrees Celsius (39 F) not only released 80 percent of clusters, but also improved the purity of the captured material by reducing the undesired capture of white blood cells.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUse of the Cluster-Clip to test blood samples from 60 patients with either breast cancer, melanoma or prostate cancer successfully captured CTC clusters in from 30 to 40 percent of samples. Analysis of captured clusters revealed they consisted of cells with significant molecular differences, some actively proliferating and other relatively quiescent, and were often accompanied by immune cells, an observation that could have important implications with the increased attention to immune-system-based cancer therapies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTesting of patient blood samples also revealed that there were significantly more CTC clusters in the blood than was previously believed,\u201d said Toner. \u201cWe now are looking at ways to improve further the release of captured clusters, but we are only at the beginning of our quest to understand the role and biology of CTC clusters. 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A person taps the tablet to control where the beam of light appears on a floor. The swarm robots then roll toward the illumination, constantly communicating with each other and deciding how to evenly cover the lit area. When the person swipes the tablet to drag the light across the floor, the robots follow. 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Actor: \u0022Angel,\u0022 \u0022Rent,\u0022 \u0022Bert Bratt,\u0022 and \u0022How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.\u0022 Director and Choreographer. Tau Beta Pi, business analyst at Codesigned. Also worked at Turner Broadcasting System.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat are you doing after you graduate?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EThis summer I am performing at OnStage Atlanta in \u0022The Addams Family: The Musical,\u0022 and in August I start my year-long apprenticeship at Georgia Ensemble Theatre! I will also continue working at Codesigned during the day. You can find me on Twitter\/Instagram: @JTyAutry\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EQ: You\u0027re an engineer, but also an actor. How has acting impacted your time at Georgia Tech?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E A: Acting has allowed me to de-stress from my busy work and school schedule. 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The IEN Seed Grant\u2019s primary purpose is to give first or second year graduate students in various disciplines working on original and un-funded research in micro- and nano-scale projects the opportunity to access the most advanced academic cleanroom space in the Southeast. In addition to accessing the high-level fabrication, lithography, and characterization tools in the labs, the students will have a chance to learn cleanroom and tool methodology and to consult with the research staff of the IEN Advanced Technology Team. The Seed Grant program\u2019s secondary purpose is to give faculty with novel research topics the ability to develop preliminary data in order to pursue follow-up funding sources.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Spring 2014-2015 IEN Seed Grant Award winners are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ERyan Randall (PI Eric Gaucher, Biology), \u003Cem\u003EEngineering Protein-based BioInks for 2D Printing\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ENing Xia (PI Rosario Gerhardt, Materials Science and Engineering), \u003Cem\u003EAn Indium Tin Oxide Ink for All-Printing Liquid Crystal Display Devices\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMason Chilmonczyk (PI Andrei Fedorov, Mechanical Engineering), \u003Cem\u003EMicro\/Nanofabrication of Mass Spectrometry Probe for Single-Cell-Scale Biochemical Imaging\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EEric Tervo (PI Baratunde Cola, Materials Science and Engineering \u0026amp; Mechanical Engineering), \u003Cem\u003EA Proposal for Fabrication and Characterization of Surface Phonon Polariton Metamaterials\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ERuxiu Liu (PI Fatih Sarioglu, Electrical and Computer Engineering), \u003Cem\u003EMicrofluidic Chip for Label-Free Single Cell Analysis\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe five student winners for this award cycle come from various schools across campus, and will be provided no-cost access to the IEN cleanrooms and labs for a six-month period. 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Demonstration of the phenomenon was reported by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology in a paper published June 15 in the journal \u003Cem\u003ENature Materials\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThough by itself the discovery may have few immediate practical applications, realization of a material that had been predicted by theorists is a milestone that could lead to new areas of study, and prompt a re-evaluation of the fundamental rules governing nonlinear optics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cNonlinear optics is critically important to controlling light for information processing, sensing and signal generation,\u201d said Wenshan Cai, an associate professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering who led the research team. \u201cOur effort substantially expands the scope of nonlinear light-matter interactions in artificially structured media with engineered, unconventional linear and high-order material parameters.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEngineered metamaterials offer unique properties not available in natural materials. This is especially useful in nonlinear optics, where materials with unconventional properties could make a difference anywhere light must be actively controlled. Researchers at multiple institutions have already created optical metamaterials that could be used to produce more efficient solar cells, faster computer chips, improved sensors \u2013 and even cloaking to permit invisibility.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe linear responses of metamaterials have substantially augmented the linear properties available from naturally-occurring materials,\u201d noted Cai, who also holds a faculty position in the Georgia Tech School of Materials Science and Engineering. \u201cIn the same way, the studies of nonlinear metamaterials may have a revolutionary impact on the field of nonlinear optics. The unconventional electromagnetic parameters made possible by metamaterials will provoke us to rethink and re-evaluate many of the established rules of nonlinear optics.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMetamaterials obtain their properties from a repeated unit structure rather than the constituent materials. At the frequency range between visible and infrared light, subwavelength metallic structures can serve as building blocks \u2013 essentially \u201cmeta-atoms\u201d \u2013 to create optical materials with properties that have not been available in the past.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EExperimentally, the researchers struggled to create a negative index material \u2013 which has been a holy grail for metamaterial research \u2013 with a sample size large enough for testing. They had to tailor the refractive indices at both the fundamental and harmonic frequencies simultaneously.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research team was able to demonstrate backward phase-matching by exploiting two distinct modes in a nonlinear plasmonic waveguide, which was built with a thin dielectric spacer of relatively high refractive index sandwiched between two flat silver films. A large dielectric constant in the gap enabled a pronounced separation of the surface plasmon and the bulk plasmon frequencies, while a narrow gap pushed the operating point away from the surface plasmon frequency and helped balance the magnitudes of the refractive indices of the two modes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe waveguide operated with the real part of the mode refractive indices at 3.4 and -3.4 for the fundamental and harmonic waves, respectively. The observed peak conversion efficiency at the excitation wavelength of about 780 nanometers indicated fulfillment of the phase matching condition in which the coherent harmonic wave emerged along a direction opposite to that of the incoming fundamental light, the researchers reported in their paper.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research team made a comprehensive set of measurements to experimentally confirm the phenomenon of backward phase-matching in the waveguide.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe proposed a smart scheme that allowed us to experimentally achieve the backward phase-matching condition in a realistic way,\u201d Cai explained. \u201cExperimental demonstration of backward phase-matching in negative index metamaterials was considered to be extremely challenging, which is why it took nearly ten years to be realized.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPhase matching is a standard technique to achieve efficient frequency generation using nonlinear optics, usually achieved by fine-tuning the orientation or temperature of a nonlinear crystal, Cai noted. In second harmonic generation \u2013 a nonlinear process to double the frequency of light \u2013 phase matching requires that the refractive index of the initial (fundamental) and the doubled (harmonic) frequencies be identical. That way, the fundamental light will gradually be converted to its harmonic along the direction of propagation, and the output harmonic light will co-propagate along the same direction.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to Cai, the research team included first author Shoufeng Lan, a graduate student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. 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The research members on the team have included graduate students, research engineers, and postdoctoral fellows, all of whom serve as another set of eyes to interpret the data and help Facilities see problems in different ways. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cThis program is revolutionary in getting access to data,\u201d said Duncan. \u201cIf we were doing this program for a community outside of campus, it would be difficult to get access to this much data.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EWith so much data, the project continues to grow and the mission evolves. Building a predictive model of campus energy is no easy feat.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cWe keep finding things to do and smaller side projects to work on,\u201d said Duncan. Through thermal network and electric grid modeling of campus, researchers will have greater agility and insight to see where energy is not being used efficiently, as well as analyze the effects of energy system technology upgrades.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EThrough the research effort, areas of improvement will be more visible and enable Facilities to channel resources toward areas of need. The ultimate vision of the research team is a \u201csmart\u201d system that will identify and react to problems and inefficiencies on its own, potentially without human assistance.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cWith any luck, one day soon, campuses across the world can use these tools to manage their facilities resources more efficiently,\u201d said Demyanek.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s campus is home to many research laboratories, but how often is Tech itself the subject of research?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u2019s campus is home to many research laboratories, but how often is Tech itself the subject of research?"}],"uid":"27507","created_gmt":"2015-05-26 15:34:59","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:21","author":"Rachel Isaac","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-05-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-05-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"406711":{"id":"406711","type":"image","title":"Holland Plant 1","body":null,"created":"1449254168","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:36:08","changed":"1475895132","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:12","alt":"Holland Plant 1","file":{"fid":"76143","name":"holland_1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/holland_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/holland_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2968317,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/holland_1.jpg?itok=norKd6On"}},"406721":{"id":"406721","type":"image","title":"Holland Plant 2","body":null,"created":"1449254168","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:36:08","changed":"1475895132","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:12","alt":"Holland Plant 2","file":{"fid":"76144","name":"holland_2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/holland_2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/holland_2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1099236,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/holland_2.jpg?itok=Nmuuw_Ub"}},"406731":{"id":"406731","type":"image","title":"Holland Plant 3","body":null,"created":"1449254168","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:36:08","changed":"1475895132","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:12","alt":"Holland Plant 3","file":{"fid":"76145","name":"holland_3.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/holland_3.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/holland_3.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2136713,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/holland_3.jpg?itok=aIA-BAVH"}}},"media_ids":["406711","406721","406731"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/facilities.gatech.edu\/","title":"Facilities"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.asdl.gatech.edu\/","title":"Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"126801","name":"aerospace systems design laboratory"},{"id":"100921","name":"ASDL"},{"id":"213","name":"energy"},{"id":"3157","name":"Facilities"},{"id":"479","name":"Green Buzz"},{"id":"166890","name":"sustainability"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:stucomm@gatech.edu\u0022\u003ERachel Isaac\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"413801":{"#nid":"413801","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech and Sandia Form Research Partnership","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech and Sandia sign a five-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) that formally establishes a strategic collaboration between the university and the Department of Energy\u2019s National Security Lab. The partnership aligns the two institutions\u2019 shared goal of solving science and technology challenges of national importance.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E The partnership will span several technical focus areas of common interest to Sandia and Georgia Tech researchers, including energy and grid security, advanced manufacturing, computer science and data analytics, microsystems and sensors, cybersecurity and materials science.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe goal of the MOU is to engage talented researchers to work on practical, complex problems early in their academic careers and to introduce new ideas and technologies into the marketplace through jointly developed intellectual property.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPresident G.P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson said the collaboration with Sandia builds upon and expands Georgia Tech\u2019s world-class research capabilities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u201cThis MOU furthers Georgia Tech\u2019s research strategy, which is focused on the pursuit of transformative research, strengthening collaborative relationships and maximizing the economic and societal impact of our research\u003Cem\u003E,\u201d \u003C\/em\u003Esaid Peterson.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech and Sandia have long-standing collaborative relationships with Sandia in many areas, including computer science and advanced computer architectures, energy systems, manufacturing and materials science. Many Georgia Tech students and faculty spend time at Sandia, while Sandia counts many Georgia Tech graduates among its staff members.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E The MOU will provide opportunities for students and faculty to experience research work at a national lab; enable joint recruiting of top graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty; increase transfer of technology from Sandia and the university to the private and federal sectors; and build collaborations that address nationally significant problems.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Future opportunities for joint faculty appointments and for research sabbaticals are expected to further deepen the collaboration.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt is exciting to see the long-term collaboration between Georgia Tech and Sandia move to an even higher level,\u201d said Jill Hruby, vice president for Energy, Nonproliferation \u0026amp; High-Consequence Security at Sandia. \u0026nbsp;\u201cI\u2019m confident the common culture and research interests at our institutions combined with the focus that comes from this MOU, will produce innovative solutions and high quality research.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Collaboration Expands University\u0027s World-class Research Capabilities in Energy and Other Technical Areas"}],"uid":"27869","created_gmt":"2015-06-11 11:50:04","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:37","author":"Allison Caughey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-06-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-06-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"413811":{"id":"413811","type":"image","title":"Energy MOU","body":null,"created":"1449254239","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:37:19","changed":"1475895147","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:27","alt":"Energy MOU","file":{"fid":"202414","name":"security_landing_page.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/security_landing_page_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/security_landing_page_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":25003,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/security_landing_page_0.jpg?itok=5pFEoGuz"}}},"media_ids":["413811"],"groups":[{"id":"1280","name":"Strategic Energy Institute"}],"categories":[{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"213","name":"energy"},{"id":"479","name":"Green Buzz"},{"id":"9727","name":"MOU"},{"id":"128671","name":"research partnership"},{"id":"167571","name":"Sandia"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"417031":{"#nid":"417031","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech among top 100 universities for U.S. utility patents","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech \u003C\/strong\u003Eis\u0026nbsp;among the top 100 universities for the number of U.S. utility patents granted in 2014, according to a list released Wednesday by the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ENational Academy of Inventors\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eand the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EIntellectual Property Owners Association\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe list is based on data from the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EU.S. Patent and Trademark Office\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech ranked No. 25 with 78 patents. Other Georgia universities on the list are: Emory ranked No. 58 with 35 patents and UGA ranked No. 73 with 30 patents.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe top 15 universities:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;University of California\u0026nbsp;System\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMassachusetts Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ETsinghua University (China)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EStanford University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EUniversity of Texas\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECalifornia Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EWisconsin Alumni Research Foundation\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EJohns Hopkins University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EColumbia University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EUniversity of Michigan\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ENational Tsing Hua University (Taiwan)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EKorea Institute of Science Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EUniversity of South Florida\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EUniversity of Pennsylvania\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe Institute of Microelectronics of Chinese Academy of Science\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ol\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"National Academy of Inventors and the Intellectual Property Owners Association Names Top Utility Patent-Receiving Universites"}],"field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u0027s Innovation Scores Big on List of Universities Receiving Utility Patents"}],"uid":"28069","created_gmt":"2015-06-22 10:29:15","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:41","author":"Laura Day","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-06-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-06-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.academyofinventors.com\/pdf\/NAI-IPO-Top-100-Universities-2014.pdf","title":"Complete List of Top 100 Universities"}],"groups":[{"id":"155831","name":"Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute (GTMI)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"7636","name":"competitiveness innovation"},{"id":"215","name":"manufacturing"},{"id":"1543","name":"patents"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELaura Day Reilly, APR\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Tech Manufacturing Institute\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.reilly@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.reilly@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["laura.reilly@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"416931":{"#nid":"416931","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Campaign Georgia Tech Surpasses Initial Goal of $1.5B","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EWhen Campaign Georgia Tech began in 2004, it set an ambitious goal to raise $1.5 billion. With six months remaining, that goal has been surpassed, and just a handful of individual goals remain.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p4\u0022\u003E\u201cKnowing that we hit our overall goal well before the end of the Campaign timetable is exciting,\u201d said John F. Brock III, Tech alumnus and Campaign co-chair. \u201cIt is an impressive accomplishment for Georgia Tech.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EThe Campaign is the largest in the Institute\u2019s history. It is twice the size of the previous campaign, which was twice the size of its predecessor.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cWe are very grateful to the Brocks for their tireless energy and commitment in leading the public phase of Campaign Georgia Tech,\u201d said President G.P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson. \u201cReaching the $1.5 billion goal early is a testimony not only to their leadership, but to the ongoing engagement and loyalty of the entire Georgia Tech community. Together, we are pressing forward to accomplish all of our major Campaign goals so that the entire campus may celebrate the success.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EAs the Campaign continues, generous donations continue to roll in. The Ray C. Anderson Foundation, named for the alumnus devoted to the idea of sustainability in manufacturing, made a commitment to the Scheller College of Business for $5 million in expendable funds over the next decade, resulting in the naming of Scheller\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/scheller.gatech.edu\/centers-initiatives\/ray-c-anderson-center-for-sustainable-business\/index.html\u0022\u003ERay C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business\u003C\/a\u003E. Established in 2013 with seed funding from the Ray C. Anderson Foundation and overseen by Beril Toktay and Howard Connell, the center was originally known as the Center for Business Strategies for Sustainability.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cRay Anderson championed the business case for sustainability,\u201d said Peterson. \u201cHis life\u2019s work to pioneer sustainability in global manufacturing is an inspiration for generations to come. We are honored to continue his legacy through this Center.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003ESince its founding, the Center has been active in launching new research and developing coursework in business sustainability for students at all levels \u2014 undergraduates, MBAs, Ph.D. students, and executives. To support its mission, it continues to build relationships with an extensive network of businesses, other academic institutions, non-governmental organizations, industry groups, and sustain- ability experts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EUnder the leadership of Maryam Alavi, dean and Stephen P. Zelnak Jr. Chair in the Scheller College, the new commitment will ensure and expand the Center\u2019s ability to serve as an unparalleled resource as well as a bridge connecting students to research faculty, entrepreneurs, and executives.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EAnother major goal was hit in May when Mike Anderson, president and CEO of both the Southern Company Charitable Foundation and Georgia Power Foundation, announced a \u003Cbr \/\u003E $5 million gift to establish the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/southern-company-charitable-foundation-gift-create-deans-chair-college-engineering\u0022\u003EDean\u2019s Chair in the College of Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. In announcing the gift, Anderson recognized that Georgia Power and Georgia Tech have been linked for more than 125 years.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cI\u2019m pleased that the most recent commitment from the Southern Company Foundation is directed to what is arguably the largest, most diverse, and finest College of Engineering in the nation, if not the world,\u201d Anderson said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EGary S. May, dean of the College of Engineering, will be the inaugural holder of the Southern Company Dean\u2019s Chair.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cI cannot thank our friends at Southern Company enough,\u201d May said. \u201cI am honored to be the first dean to hold the Southern Company Dean\u2019s Chair and very much value the partnership we have with Southern Company.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EThe gift is structured to provide discretionary funds for the dean to use to continue building on the priorities of the College, which presently include faculty recruitment and retention, graduate student support, student and faculty diversity efforts, and enhancing the student experience on campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cSouthern Company has created a vital, lasting legacy that provides essential resources for recruiting, retaining, and rewarding student and academic leaders,\u201d May said. \u201cThis gift is truly an investment in the future of the College.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003ESouthern Company has a long history of offering support for Georgia Tech, including funding for Georgia Power Professors, research support for the Carbon-Neutral Energy Solutions Lab and the Strategic Energy Institute, and funds for student scholarships.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003ECampaign Georgia Tech will continue unabated until Dec. 31 at 11:59 p.m. To learn more, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.development.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.development.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWith six months remaining, the initial campaign goal has been surpassed and just a handful of individual goals remain.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"With six months remaining, the initial campaign goal has been surpassed and just a handful of individual goals remain."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2015-06-22 09:29:54","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:41","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-06-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-06-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"299961":{"id":"299961","type":"image","title":"Scheller College of Business","body":null,"created":"1449244552","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:55:52","changed":"1475895000","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:00","alt":"Scheller College of Business","file":{"fid":"199508","name":"14c6001-p11-001.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/14c6001-p11-001_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/14c6001-p11-001_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2601064,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/14c6001-p11-001_0.jpg?itok=5LAbXkmU"}},"416981":{"id":"416981","type":"image","title":"Mike Anderson and Gary May","body":null,"created":"1449254269","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:37:49","changed":"1475895155","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:35","alt":"Mike Anderson and Gary May","file":{"fid":"202569","name":"deanmay_southerncompany.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/deanmay_southerncompany_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/deanmay_southerncompany_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":191386,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/deanmay_southerncompany_0.jpg?itok=Ei6ETMtW"}}},"media_ids":["299961","416981"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/development.gatech.edu\/","title":"Office of Development"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11162","name":"Campaign Georgia Tech"},{"id":"351","name":"development"},{"id":"4790","name":"fundraising"},{"id":"479","name":"Green Buzz"},{"id":"2096","name":"philanthropy"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:stacy.braukman@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EStacy Braukman\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOffice of Development\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"416671":{"#nid":"416671","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CoE Dean Presented with PAESMEM Award at White House Ceremony","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Engineering Dean, Gary S. May, was in Washington, D.C. this week to receive his Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM). May is\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2015\/03\/27\/president-obama-honors-outstanding-science-mathematics-and-engineering-m\u0022 rel=\u0022nofollow\u0022\u003Eone of 14 individuals and one organization\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;named as the newest recipients of the PAESMEM. May was accompanied at the ceremony by his wife, LeShelle May, as well as other family members.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I could not be more honored to receive this recognition from President Obama,\u201d said May. \u201cMentoring engineering students and broadening participation among underrepresented groups has been a pillar of my career, and it is truly gratifying for my contributions to be acknowledged. I want to thank the White House and all of the students who have enriched my life in so many ways.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMay created the Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering\/Science (SURE) program, for which he was granted more than $2.7 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Through SURE, he annually hosted minority students to do research at Georgia Tech in the hopes that they would pursue a graduate degree. More than 73 percent of SURE participants enrolled in graduate school. May was also the creator and director of the Facilitating Academic Careers in Engineering and Science (FACES) program, for which he was granted over $10 million from NSF to increase the number of African-American Ph.D. recipients produced by Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe mentors received their awards during a White House ceremony. May is pictured with John Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; and France A. C\u00f3rdova, Director of the National Science Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring is awarded by the White House to individuals and organizations to recognize the crucial role that mentoring plays in the academic and personal development of students studying science and engineering\u2014particularly those who belong to groups that are underrepresented in these fields. 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But what if the Atlanta Fire Rescue Department could determine which buildings are at greatest risk of fire and prioritize inspections to focus on those sites?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe fire department is working to do just that thanks to a summer internship program sponsored by Georgia Tech and Oracle.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe city agency is one of four groups participating in this year\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/dssg-atl.io\u0022\u003EData Science for Social Good\u003C\/a\u003E (DSSG), where 14 undergraduate and graduate students show non-profits and government agencies how data can tackle social and societal problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOther projects include maintaining and improving Atlanta\u2019s urban forest, increasing efficiency for a popular hotline system, and working with Georgia Tech\u2019s WiFi data to understand mobility patterns.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s important to get students involved in real-world projects,\u201d said Christopher LeDantec, co-director of the program and an assistant professor of digital media in the School of Literature, Media and Communication in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. \u201cWe are building out sustainable learning opportunities that allow students and Georgia Tech to have a wider impact in the community. \u201c\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe four students working with Atlanta Fire Rescue shadowed inspectors to learn not only how they work, but also how they create and use data. The students identified hundreds of additional commercial properties at high risk for a fire that should be inspected with greater frequency, said Matt Hinds-Aldrich, a management analyst with Atlanta Fire Rescue working with the student team.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe program is \u201chelping us make more informed and data-driven decisions on how best to allocate our limited resources as we balance protecting residents, visitors and commerce in our community all while remaining fiscally responsible,\u201d Hinds-Aldrich said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile many public agencies and non-profits collect data, staff may be overwhelmed by the volume or may lack the time and capabilities to interpret the information, said Bistra Dilkina, co-director of the DSSG program and an assistant professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering in the College of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe program shows groups how data can work to their advantage, while exposing students to different career paths, Dilkina said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cNonprofits and conservationists need data scientists, too,\u201d she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech received more than a dozen project proposals, but could only staff four. More than 100 students applied for the 10-week paid internship and 14 were selected.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERichard Huckaby, a rising third-year student in computer engineering, joined because he wanted to learn new skills and help people.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe\u2019s part of the team working with the United Way of Greater Atlanta on their 211-hotline system, which is a searchable database of city services. Students will suggest ways to improve and reconstruct the existing call menu to better organize incoming calls and reduce average wait time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere\u2019s more to data science than commercialization or helping large companies,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo conduct their work, students pulled data from multiple sources and had to go through several steps before it was ready for analysis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe urban forest team working with the City of Atlanta and Trees Atlanta relied on tax parcels, thermal maps, city inventories, floodplain data and other sources.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGames and apps are fun, but we\u2019re setting up a system the city and Trees Atlanta can build on in the future,\u201d said Caroline Foster, who will start Georgia Tech\u2019s masters program in Human-Computer Interaction next month.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents from all four teams will present their findings and recommendations during a \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/data-science-for-social-good-atlanta-final-demo-celebration-tickets-17510983824\u0022\u003Epublic demonstration\u003C\/a\u003E scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Ponce City Market.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Atlanta Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program is an intensive, 10-week paid internship experience that places students onto multi-disciplinary teams working under the supervision of a professor on a problem that comes from a partner in the City of Atlanta or a local non-profit company. 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The $1.6 million in seed funding is intended to accelerate promising technologies developed in research laboratories with the goal of improving patients\u2019 lives. This year\u2019s projects include a rehabilitation device for children, a heart drug delivery catheter and a disposable kit that checks for anemia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Coulter program, which partners with the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory, provides annual awards to research teams that develop products with great commercial potential and meet a well-defined health care need. Each research team pairs scientists or engineers with physicians. This year\u2019s amount also includes $100,000 contributed by the Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe were very happy with the number of good projects we saw during this year\u2019s funding round,\u201d said Rachael Hagan, who serves as program director for the Coulter Translational Partnership Program. More than 50 applications requesting funding were received this year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn June, we vetted each application for its potential to achieve commercial success with the help of professional health care consultants in marketing, regulatory, reimbursement and intellectual property to determine the likelihood of receiving commercial follow-on funding for these health care innovations. Projects that have been selected for funding will continue to work with these business experts to commercially de-risk their technologies to ensure successfully exiting the universities.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe project awardees this year were:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAnemoCheck: \u003C\/strong\u003Ea simple, disposable, handheld biochemical device that is inexpensive, accurate and provides a quantitative evaluation of anemia in less than two minutes (principal investigators: Wilbur Lam and Erika Tyburski).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAngioCloud\u003C\/strong\u003E: cloud-based software that assists interventional neurologists with the selection and deployment of flow diverters for the treatment of unruptured brain aneurysms (principal investigators: Frank Tong and Alessandro Veneziani).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECardiovascular MR Imaging: \u003C\/strong\u003Emethod of uploading, displaying, and automatically analyzing cardiovascular magnetic resonance function, viability and perfusion studies (principal investigators: Ernest Garcia, John Oshinski, Gerald Pohost and Anthony Yezzi).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EInvisiCool\u003C\/strong\u003E: gel to alleviate heat-related pain while not otherwise affecting the effectiveness of laser treatments (principal investigators: Jeff Dover, Andrei Fedorov and Craig Green).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKIDS\u003C\/strong\u003E: a low-volume, low-error continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) device for pediatric patients. There are currently no FDA-approved CRRT devices for patients who weigh less than 20 kilograms, and the KIDS technology is being developed to meet this unmet need (principal investigators:\u0026nbsp;Shiva Arjunon and Matt Paden).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELevit Catheter\u003C\/strong\u003E: \u0026nbsp;a drug delivery catheter for localized delivery of therapeutic-seeded hydrogels to the pericardial space (principal investigators: Andres Garcia and Rebecca Levit).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMitraPlug\u003C\/strong\u003E: a transcatheter implant that seeks to \u201cplug\u201d the fluid path, which is seen in patients with mitral regurgitation (principal investigators: Murali Padala and Eric Sarin).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENanocomposite Scintillators: \u003C\/strong\u003Ean imaging replacement for current, expensive crystals (principal investigators: Brooke Beckert, Eric Elder and Jason Nadler).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIC3D\u003C\/strong\u003E: an imaging silicon chip for Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) procedures with improved visualization for physicians (principal investigators: Levent Degertekin and Habib Samady).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E These newly funded academic projects were chosen by a committee composed of Emory doctors, Georgia Tech biomedical engineers and technology transfer representatives from each school. The other half of the selection committee included industry experts, venture capital specialists, serial entrepreneurs and angel investors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis seed funding is similar to venture capital funding, except there are no strings attached,\u201d said Hagan. \u201cOur committee picks projects based on a higher probability of receiving\u0026nbsp; commercial follow-on investment in hopes our best clinical research moves out of our universities to actual patient care.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt is tremendously exciting to reinvigorate the Coulter Translational Program with an investment of over $1.5 million per year,\u201d said Ajit Yoganathan, Regents\u2019 Professor and associate chair for translational research in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. \u201cThe excitement and need for the program was obvious based on the number of initial applications. It demonstrates there is a pipeline of translational projects that has the potential for commercialization at Georgia Tech and Emory. The projects selected for funding cut across various areas of medicine including pediatrics. Funding pediatric technologies is critical, since kids are an underserved population.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;In 2001, the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation made a $25 million grant to the Georgia Tech-Emory biomedical engineering program. In recognition of this grant, the combined department is known as the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory. The department combines Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Engineering with Emory\u2019s School of Medicine. The grant also contains a $10 million endowment to provide ongoing funding specifically for translational research. Translational research is part of a continuum in which research findings are moved from a researcher\u2019s laboratory to a patient\u2019s bedside and community. Each year, co-investigators \u2013 composed of engineering faculty from Georgia Tech and medical staff and faculty from Emory \u2013\u0026nbsp;apply for commercialization funding that may lead to improvements in patient care.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSince our inception, our collaborative biomedical engineering department has leveraged academic, industry and donor support to create some of the best physician and engineering teams in the world,\u201d said Ravi Bellamkonda, chair of the Coulter Department. \u201cOur entrepreneurial spirit and culture combined with the world-class facilities at Georgia Tech and Emory result in a unique environment that fosters innovation.\u0026nbsp; We are fortunate to be able to provide funding to accelerate the development of these promising biomedical technologies so they can reach patients faster and be successfully translated from the laboratory to clinical use.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Coulter Department is the Coulter Foundation\u2019s flagship academic institution. The department\u2019s graduate program is ranked number two by \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u003C\/em\u003E. There are an additional 14 universities with Translational Research Partnership Programs supported by the foundation that include distinguished biomedical research institutions such as Johns Hopkins, Duke, Columbia, and Stanford universities.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Teams chosen to receive funding to accelerate commercialization of medical technologies invented in their labs"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENine Georgia Tech and Emory University biomedical research projects have been chosen to receive funding from the Coulter Translational Research Partnership Program. The $1.6 million in seed funding is intended to accelerate promising technologies developed in research laboratories with the goal of improving patients\u2019 lives. 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The report released Monday will \u201chelp states define their preferred approach for complying with proposed carbon pollution regulations,\u201d said Marilyn Brown, the project\u2019s lead investigator and the Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems in the School of Public Policy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe report, \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/publications\/working-papers\/low-carbon-electricity-pathways-us-and-south-assessment-costs-and\u0022\u003ELow-Carbon Electricity Pathways for the U.S. and the South\u003C\/a\u003E,\u201d examines two key issues: how states can reduce carbon pollution in the most cost-effective way and how different options impact household electricity bills.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTo minimize costs, the South needs to reduce its coal consumption more rapidly, continue to expand its gas-fired power plants, but temper this growth with aggressive policies to increase energy efficiency and renewable energy,\u201d Brown said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe project took a turn when last year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed the first ever carbon pollution standards for existing power plants (known as the Clean Power Plan). Since states have considerable latitude to define their preferred response, they are vigorously debating the pros and cons of different options.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUsing state-of-the-art modeling, Georgia Tech identified least-cost clean power pathways that would lower household electricity bills and reduce carbon pollution. This combination may not seem intuitive to some, but it is good news for states across the South and the nation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis work provides the type of analytic basis that is needed to inform policymaking and will guide the future of the power industry for decades,\u201d said Tim Lieuwen, director of the Strategic Energy Institute at Georgia Tech. \u0022Georgia Tech plays an important role as honest broker in national policy discussions, and we will continue to support decision makers through these types of analyses.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new Georgia Tech report, \u201cLow-Carbon Electricity Pathways for the U.S. and the South,\u201d examines\u0026nbsp;how states can reduce carbon pollution in the most cost-effective way and how different options impact household electricity bills.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech identified least-cost clean power pathways that would lower household electricity bills and reduce carbon pollution."}],"uid":"27918","created_gmt":"2015-07-27 08:17:11","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:15","author":"Laura Diamond","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-07-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-07-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"408421":{"id":"408421","type":"image","title":"Marilyn Brown","body":null,"created":"1449254188","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:36:28","changed":"1507036835","gmt_changed":"2017-10-03 13:20:35","alt":"","file":{"fid":"202185","name":"140923_brown.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/140923_brown_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/140923_brown_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":38907,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/140923_brown_0.jpg?itok=n_eW5fpm"}}},"media_ids":["408421"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/publications\/working-papers\/low-carbon-electricity-pathways-us-and-south-assessment-costs-and","title":"Low-Carbon Electricity Pathways for the U.S. and the South"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"213","name":"energy"},{"id":"479","name":"Green Buzz"},{"id":"167070","name":"serve\u2022learn\u2022sustain"},{"id":"166890","name":"sustainability"},{"id":"83491","name":"utilities"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"106361","name":"Business and Economic Development"},{"id":"71911","name":"Earth and Environment"},{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELaura Diamond\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["laura.diamond@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"430701":{"#nid":"430701","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Intel, Georgia Tech Partner to Diversify Workforce","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn conjunction with an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2015\/08\/04\/fact-sheet-president-obama-announces-new-commitments-investors-companies\u0022\u003Eevent at the White House Tuesday\u003C\/a\u003E, Intel and the Georgia Institute of Technology announced an enhanced partnership to produce a more diverse, qualified workforce for the technology industry. Intel is investing $5 million in Georgia Tech over five years to build a pipeline of underrepresented engineers and computer scientists.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Intel Diversity Scholars Program will recruit and retain underrepresented minority students to STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) majors and prepare them for graduate school. The effort is anticipated to benefit about 1,000 students over five years through mentoring, scholarships and professional development workshops.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEarlier this year, Intel announced a new goal: to achieve full representation of underrepresented minorities and women by the year 2020 in its U.S. workforce, along with a $300 million Diversity in Technology Initiative to help build a workforce pipeline.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFilling the tech industry pipeline with diverse students is critical to increasing the number of diverse engineers and computer scientists in the field,\u201d said Rosalind Hudnell, vice president of human resources and chief diversity officer at Intel. \u201cThe goal of this program is to inspire and support more women and underrepresented minorities to earn technical degrees so we can hire them down the road \u2013 we want to foster those future tech innovators.\u201d \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is a leading producer of women and minority STEM graduates and graduates nearly 10 percent of all African-American Ph.D. engineers in the nation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt is a national imperative that the U.S. continue to enhance the engagement of students of all backgrounds in STEM fields to create a more robust economy,\u201d said Gary May, dean and Southern Company Chair in the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech. \u201cThe higher education and private sectors must combine forces to achieve the impact that is necessary. As a national leader in producing outstanding underrepresented engineering graduates, Georgia Tech is pleased to partner with Intel in this transformative initiative.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe gift will expand several Georgia Tech initiatives already underway, including:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ceed.gatech.edu\/summer-engineering-institute-sei\u0022\u003ESummer Engineering Institute\u003C\/a\u003E. The three-week Summer Engineering Institute hosts rising 11\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E- and 12\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E-graders from around the country. Students learn basic engineering and computer science techniques and gain hands-on experience through working in teams to solve real-world engineering problems.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ceed.gatech.edu\/programs\/undergrad\/rise\u0022\u003ERISE\u003C\/a\u003E. Retaining Inspirational Scholars in Technology and Engineering (RISE) provides financial support to talented underrepresented minority and non-traditional students. The Intel Diversity Scholars program would provide scholarships, with priority going to those whose majors align with Intel\u2019s interests: electrical engineering, computer science and computer engineering.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ceed.gatech.edu\/peer-partner-program-0\u0022\u003EPeer-2-Peer Mentoring\u003C\/a\u003E. This program provides specialized guidance and support to undergraduate students majoring in STEM, while also helping them adjust to the climate and culture at Georgia Tech. Mentors and mentees develop leadership, communication and networking skills.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sure.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESURE\u003C\/a\u003E. Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering (SURE) is a 10-week research program to attract qualified minority students from across the country into graduate school in the fields of engineering and science. In addition to conducting research, participants receive mentoring from faculty and graduate students and participate in professional development and technical seminars.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/focus.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EFOCUS\u003C\/a\u003E. This program invites college juniors and seniors from around the country to attend a three-day event designed to raise awareness of graduate education among underrepresented students. Participants learn about financial resources, visit research laboratories, network with other scholars and receive help with the graduate school application process.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Intel and Georgia Tech program was announced in conjunction with the first-ever White House Demo Day, which celebrates the important role entrepreneurship plays in America\u0027s economy. Unlike a private-sector Demo Day, where entrepreneurs and startups pitch their ideas to funders, the new event invites innovators from around the country to \u0022demo\u0022 their individual stories in Washington, D.C.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Intel Diversity Scholars Program at Georgia Tech will recruit and retain underrepresented minority students to STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) majors and prepare them for graduate school. The effort is anticipated to benefit about 1,000 students over five years through mentoring, scholarships and professional development workshops.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Intel announces gift of $5 million to support Georgia Tech efforts to recruit, retain and graduate underrepresented minorities."}],"uid":"27918","created_gmt":"2015-08-04 08:30:02","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:19","author":"Laura Diamond","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-08-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-08-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"370171":{"id":"370171","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449245856","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:17:36","changed":"1475894344","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:04","alt":"Tech Tower","file":{"fid":"74993","name":"15c6001-p6-001.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/15c6001-p6-001.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/15c6001-p6-001.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":419528,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/15c6001-p6-001.jpg?itok=cUiMOJuK"}},"430721":{"id":"430721","type":"image","title":"Gary May","body":null,"created":"1449254381","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:39:41","changed":"1475895169","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:49","alt":"Gary May","file":{"fid":"202884","name":"gary_may.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gary_may.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gary_may.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":782900,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/gary_may.jpg?itok=kKRGscJ8"}}},"media_ids":["370171","430721"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2015\/05\/06\/georgia-tech-spotlights-african-american-men-stem","title":"Georgia Tech Spotlights African-American Men in STEM"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2014\/06\/13\/georgia-tech-spotlights-women-engineering-washington-dc-media-roundtable","title":"Georgia Tech Spotlights Women in Engineering"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"15791","name":"Pipeline"},{"id":"167258","name":"STEM"},{"id":"70481","name":"underrepresented minorities"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"106361","name":"Business and Economic Development"},{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELaura Diamond\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["laura.diamond@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"429191":{"#nid":"429191","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Students: Get Your Apps Ready for Fellowships","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs the summer draws to a close and with fall semester imminent, now is the time for students at all levels \u2014 undergraduate, graduate, or postdoctoral \u2014 to consider applying for many prestigious fellowships and awards.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cDeadlines will be here soon, and we can help you find out which fellowships may be a good fit and provide feedback and support on your applications,\u201d said Kathryn Meehan, prestigious fellowships advisor. \u201cApplications usually require several weeks of preparation, so we encourage students to make appointments early.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMeehan can provide additional information, timelines, and deadlines for students interested in a number of awards, including the following:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFor Sophomores and Juniors\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor rising sophomores and juniors with either an interest in research or a commitment to public service, these scholarships provide significant funding and enrichment opportunities:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.act.org\/goldwater\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGoldwater Scholarship\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E: For sophomores and juniors with research experience who are studying science, technology, engineering, or math. Tech nominates four students each year for this national competition.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.truman.gov\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETruman Scholarship\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E: For juniors with public service experience and plans for a career in public service.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.udall.gov\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUdall Scholarship\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EFor sophomores and juniors who work with the environment, have a high GPA and plan for careers in an environmental area.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/astronautscholarship.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAstronaut Scholarship\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EFor sophomores and juniors with research experience who are studying science, technology, engineering, or math. Tech nominates two students each year for this national competition. (Despite its name, it is not limited to aspiring astronauts.)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFor Seniors, Master\u2019s Students, and Recent Graduates\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe campus deadline for preliminary applications for the following nationally competitive scholarships is August 31. Students should work with the Fellowships Office to prepare for this deadline.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/rhodesscholar.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERhodes Scholarship\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.marshallscholarship.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMarshall Scholarship\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/winstonchurchillfoundation.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChurchill Scholarship\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gatesscholar.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGates Cambridge Scholarship\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.us-irelandalliance.org\/content\/3\/en\/George%20Mitchell%20Scholarship%20Program%20%7C%20US-Ireland%20Alliance.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMitchell Scholarship\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlso for Seniors and Graduate Students\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/us.fulbrightonline.org\/home.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFulbright Awards\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E: Open to rising seniors and graduate students, offering one-year awards for research, graduate study or an English teaching assistantship in one of more than 140 countries.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nsfgrfp.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENational Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E: Open to seniors, first-year graduate students and first-semester second-year graduate students in science, technology, engineering and math who are U.S. citizens. This three-year award is for those planning a research Ph.D. at a U.S. university. Deadline is in November.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPostdocs and Postgraduate Opportunities\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cies.org\/fulbright-postdoctoralearly-career-grants\u0022\u003EFulbright Postdoctoral Research Fellowships\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E: Preference is for candidates who have received a doctorate within three years of the application deadline or who will receive a doctorate before the grant term begins. Eight awards are available for studies at seven research institutions in Israel.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sites.nationalacademies.org\/pga\/policyfellows\u0022\u003ENational Academies Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowships\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E: Participants\u0026nbsp;spend 12 weeks at the National Academies in Washington, D.C., learning about science and technology policy and the role that scientists and engineers play in advising the nation.\u0026nbsp;Deadline is September 9.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/fellowships.aaas.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowships\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E: For recently graduated postdocs, mid-career professionals, faculty on sabbatical, or retired faculty. Must have a completed Ph.D. or master\u2019s degree with three years of professional experience and U.S. citizenship. Deadline: November 1.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.pmf.gov\/opportunity\/index.aspx\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPresidential Management Fellowship Program\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E:\u0026nbsp;Open to master\u2019s degree and doctoral students who will complete their degree during the coming year. International students are eligible to apply. Deadline is in November.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.marshallscholarship.org\/fellowships\/about\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMarshall Sherfield Postdoctoral Fellowship\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E:\u0026nbsp;One or two years of postdoctoral research at any U.K. university or institute. Though no fellowships will be offered for 2016, it is not too early to start preparing for next year. 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The manufacturing leadership program is designed for those who hold a bachelor\u2019s degree in science or engineering, have at least one year of working experience, and seek advancement to leadership positions in manufacturing. The sustainable electrical energy program is designed for working engineers in the electrical energy and power industry and will be cohort based.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5 class=\u0022p6\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFaculty\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EThe Board also approved the establishment of two new faculty chairs: the William H. Harrison Chair in the School of Architecture, and the Garry Betty\/V Foundation Chair and GRA Eminent Scholar in Cancer Nanotechnology in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. \u003Cstrong\u003EScott Marble\u003C\/strong\u003E was approved to hold the Harrison Chair, and \u003Cstrong\u003ERavindra Kane\u003C\/strong\u003E to hold the Betty Chair.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EIn addition to these two appointments, the following faculty appointments were also approved at the August 12 meeting:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVivek Ghosal\u003C\/strong\u003E, Mary S. and Richard B. Inman Jr. Professorship in Economics\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStanislav Emelianov\u003C\/strong\u003E, Joseph M. Pettit Chair and GRA Eminent Scholar in Electrical and Computer Engineering\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAyanna Howard\u003C\/strong\u003E, Linda J. and Mark C. Smith Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Ch5 class=\u0022p6\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFacilities\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EAs Tech looks toward the renovation of the Van Leer Building, the Board approved the appointment of BLDGS Inc., Atlanta, as the design firm for the Interdisciplinary Design Commons project. The project received a $3.2 million gift from Texas Instruments in April, and will include a new maker space and outdoor plaza for students of all majors and levels of study.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EIn addition, the Board voted to allow for Campus Services to lease space to the west of campus on Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard. The space will provide service and storage facilities for trade shops, vehicle parking, and vehicle maintenance, and will allow for existing space on 14th Street to instead be used for the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute and Boeing Research Center.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5 class=\u0022p6\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBenefits and Retirement\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EThe BOR approved health care plans and premiums for 2016. All premiums will see a slight increase, though not as large as increases in recent years. More information on plans and premiums is available online at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.c.gatech.edu\/benefits2016\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ewww.c.gatech.edu\/benefits2016\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EChanges were also made for University System of Georgia (USG) retirees over the age of 65. Medicare-eligible retirees age 65 and over and Medicare-eligible dependents age 65 and older will enroll in their supplemental health care coverage and receive the USG health care benefit in a new way in 2016. Medicare Part A and B will provide primary coverage the same as today. Supplemental coverage will be provided through the Aon Retiree Health Exchange, and USG will deposit money into a Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) for retirees and\/or dependents to use toward premiums and other eligible out-of-pocket health care expenses.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EThe BOR approved the USG HRA funding of $2,736 per year or $228 per month per 65 and older Medicare-eligible retiree and any 65 and older Medicare-eligible covered dependent(s). In order to receive the USG HRA funding, the retiree and\/or dependent must be enrolled in coverage through the USG plan in 2015 and must purchase coverage through the Aon Retiree Health Exchange in 2016.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003ETo learn more, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.c.gatech.edu\/usgretiree\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ewww.c.gatech.edu\/usgretiree\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, or attend an informational meeting on Friday, August 21, at 10 a.m. in the Student Center Ballroom.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EAt its August 12 meeting, the Board of Regents approved 2016 health care benefit plans, new professional degree programs, endowed school chairs, and several faculty appointments for Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"At its August 12 meeting, the Board of Regents approved 2016 health care benefit plans, new professional degree programs, endowed school chairs, and several faculty appointments for Georgia Tech."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2015-08-17 11:23:41","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:22","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-08-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-08-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"256841":{"id":"256841","type":"image","title":"University System of Georgia","body":null,"created":"1449243856","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:44:16","changed":"1495650034","gmt_changed":"2017-05-24 18:20:34","alt":"University System of Georgia","file":{"fid":"225350","name":"bor200.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bor200.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bor200.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":65945,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/bor200.jpg?itok=yjyEhQi6"}}},"media_ids":["256841"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.usg.edu\/regents\/documents\/board_meetings\/agenda_2015_08.pdf","title":"BOR Meeting Agenda, August 12, 2015"},{"url":"http:\/\/ohr.gatech.edu\/","title":"Office of Human Resources"},{"url":"http:\/\/gov.gatech.edu\/","title":"Office of Government and Community Relations"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4288","name":"benefits"},{"id":"728","name":"Board of Regents"},{"id":"10088","name":"BOR"},{"id":"3157","name":"Facilities"},{"id":"15363","name":"Government and Community Relations"},{"id":"138021","name":"interdisciplinary design commons"},{"id":"2198","name":"Retirement"},{"id":"726","name":"University System of Georgia"},{"id":"1966","name":"usg"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kristen.bailey@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EKristen Bailey\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"438981":{"#nid":"438981","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Ranks Seventh Globally for Engineering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology ranks as the seventh best engineering university in the world, according to the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.shanghairanking.com\/FieldENG2015.html\u0022\u003E2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;The annual rankings have been compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University since 2003. The data used in calculating the rankings is primarily focused on the quality of research, quality of faculty, and academic performance in several broad academic subject matter areas.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s #7 ranking places the Institute within the top 5 percent of global institutions in the field of engineering. Georgia Tech\u2019s computer science program ranked 22nd globally.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChemistry ranked 28th\u0026nbsp;in the world and mathematics came in 38th. Georgia Tech\u2019s overall science programs were ranked in the top 50 in the world, at 46. Georgia Tech\u2019s business and economics program placed within the top 75 worldwide. 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Now the region is an amazing metropolis and the technology business center of China. I was told that at one point they were building one high rise building per day! I cannot vouch for that statement, but it is believable. Shenzhen is in the mainland, just a short drive from Hong Kong, across extraordinary roads and bridges that were not there before this recent transformation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETwo years ago, Georgia Tech became the first American institution to become a member of Shenzhen Virtual University Park.\u0026nbsp; Similar to the Georgia Tech\/Tech Square model back home in Atlanta, the Shenzhen Virtual University Park emphasizes university-industry partnerships. A single facility houses educational institutions, startups, and established companies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe moved to Shenzhen after years of offering masters degrees in Shanghai. That program was very successful; its \u201cCoulter Fellows\u201d graduates are already doing amazing things in industry and academia. With the Coulter Foundation support, we were able to educate many who could not otherwise afford quality education. Moving to Shenzhen involved risks but continues to offer enormous opportunities. We began by offering a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering.\u0026nbsp; We are proud that the program was the first Chinese Ministry of Education-approved program in Shenzhen offered by a U.S. university.\u0026nbsp; Current students in that program hail from mainland China, the U.S., Taiwan, France, India, and Indonesia. Our programs in China are under the extraordinary leadership of Prof. G. Tong Zhou. Without her energy and vision none of our activities would be possible.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe challenge in China is: you do not walk, you must run all the time. Even though we are just beginning to settle into our new role in Shenzhen, we are already talking about bringing the effort to the next level. We are speaking to partners in Tianjin University \u2013 a well-established, technology-oriented institution in China \u2013 about co-locating our activities and increasing collaboration in brand new facilities in Shenzhen under the auspices of the Shenzhen Education Bureau. With that possibility in mind, we met for over three hours with leadership of the Shenzhen Education Bureau who would be the sponsors of the endeavor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe also toured four sites where the facilities are being offered as possible \u201chomes.\u201d It is difficult to describe what we saw. 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The best way to avoid \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2015\/01\/27\/5-tips-avoid-most-common-career-fair-mistakes\u0022\u003Ecommon Career Fair mistakes\u003C\/a\u003E and land a job or internship offer is preparation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELuckily, departments across campus have organized a variety of resources to help students be Career Fair ready.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5\u003EBefore the Career Fair:\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDig up your resume from spring semester and add your summer activities. Did you complete an internship, do research, or hold a leadership position? Be sure your resume is up-to-date and then bring it to \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/career.gatech.edu\/plugins\/content\/index.php?id=440\u0022\u003Ethe Center for Career Discovery and Development\u2019s Fall Resume Blitz\u003C\/a\u003E. Just in time for the Career Fair, the Resume Blitz will be held Sept. 9, 10, and 11 in the Bill Moore Student Success Center from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Stop by with a paper copy of your resume and get advice from many of the same employers that are recruiting on campus this fall.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EFirst impressions matter at career fairs. That\u2019s why Tech\u2019s Campus Closet lends professional attire to students for career-related events. Students must wear business professional attire to the fall Career Fair, but if you don\u2019t have a suit, don\u2019t let that hinder your job search. You can easily borrow a variety of professional attire from Campus Closet by registering at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtcampuscloset.com\/\u0022\u003Ewww.gtcampuscloset.com\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe Student Alumni Association (SAA) leverages alumni resources to assist students with their job searches. 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If you aren\u2019t able to attend this event, then check out these \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtsaa.com\/s\/1481\/39-saa\/index.aspx?sid=1481\u0026amp;gid=39\u0026amp;pgid=3720\u0022\u003Erecorded GRRW events\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELastly, download the Georgia Tech Career Fair App from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/georgia-tech-career-fair-plus\/id689886688?mt=8\u0022\u003EApple Store\u003C\/a\u003E or \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.careerfairplus.gt_ga\u0022\u003EGoogle Play Store\u003C\/a\u003E to have the most updated information about company locations, floor plan, event details, and announcements before and during the event.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ol\u003E\u003Ch5\u003EAfter the Career Fair:\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAside from the usual follow-ups such as applying online and sending thank you notes to recruiters, here are a few more things you can to do to keep your job search alive after the fall Career Fair.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAlthough the fall Career Fair is the largest of the year, there are plenty of other career fairs around campus this fall. 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Applications of this research span all disciplines in science and engineering with particular emphasis on biomedicine, electronics, optoelectronics and photonics, and energy applications. As there can be a learning curve associated with initial proof-of-concept development and testing using cleanroom tools, this seed grant program was developed to expedite the initiation of new graduate students and new research projects into productive activity. Successful proposals to this program will identify a new, currently-unfunded research idea that requires cleanroom access to generate preliminary data necessary to pursue other funding avenues.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProgram Eligibility:\u003C\/strong\u003E This program is open to any current Georgia Tech or GTRI faculty member as project PI. The graduate student performing the research should be in the first 2 years of his\/her graduate studies. Preference will be given to students who are new users of the IEN facilities. The student\u2019s research advisor (project PI) does not need to be a current user of the IEN cleanroom\/lab facilities. Past awardees of a seed grant may submit additional proposals for different students\/projects, but not in consecutive funding cycles.\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is the responsibility of the project PI and student to determine their ability to make use of the awarded time during the grant period. Extensions requested once the project has begun will not be granted.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAward Information:\u003C\/strong\u003E Each seed grant award will consist of free cleanroom access to the student identified in the proposal for 2 (consecutive) billing quarters. Based on current access rates and the academic cap on hourly charges (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cleanroom.ien.gatech.edu\/rates\/\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/cleanroom.ien.gatech.edu\/rates\/\u003C\/a\u003E), this comprises a maximum award of $6000 for the 6 month period. This maximum award amount is still in effect even if IEN non-cleanroom (lab) equipment or electron beam lithography (EBL) is required. The designated student user is expected to only utilize the cleanroom\/tool access while working with the PI on the proposed project. Members of the IEN Advanced Technology Team (ATT) will be available to consult during the project period. The number of awards for each proposal submission date will depend on the number and quality of the proposals, but typically 3-5 awards will be made. 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We have truly become competitive for the very best students.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5 class=\u0022p6\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECollege of Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E$480 million goal\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EFinish line donors: Mary and John Brock\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESee the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering section for information on the Brock gift.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5 class=\u0022p7\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E$45 million goal\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EFinish line donors: Mary and John Brock, who holds bachelor\u2019s (1970) and master\u2019s (1971) degrees in chemical engineering\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EThe Brocks\u2019 commitment established the John F. Brock III School Chair in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, the final remaining school in the College of Engineering to have an endowed school chair. In addition to the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering goal, the Brocks\u2019 commitment also pushed the College of Engineering past its overall $480 million goal.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cThis is a special opportunity that means so much to me,\u201d said Brock, who is serving as Campaign co-chair along with his wife, Mary. \u201cTo be able to make this commitment to the School that nurtured my love of engineering, equipped me with the tools I needed to succeed, and provided opportunities I never would have dreamed of \u2014 it truly is an honor.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5 class=\u0022p6\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E$165 million goal\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EFinish line donor: Steve Chaddick, who holds bachelor\u2019s (1974) and master\u2019s (1982) degrees in electrical engineering\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EChaddick\u2019s estate provision will establish an endowment fund providing unrestricted support for the School, ensuring greater resources for future advancements on important initiatives that may otherwise be out of reach.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cIt was gratifying to be able to help punch through that goal,\u201d said Chaddick. \u201cECE made me who I am, in large measure. I wouldn\u2019t have had the opportunities, the skills, and the knowledge to do the things I\u2019ve done in my career had I not been in that place \u2014 as an undergraduate and a graduate student.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5 class=\u0022p7\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGuggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E$25 million goal\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EFinish line donors: Helen and Roger Krone, a 1978 aerospace engineering alumnus\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EThe Krones\u2019 estate provision will establish a faculty endowment fund that will help the school chair attract and retain the very best faculty in the field.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cThe four years in Aerospace Engineering helped me to realize my dream,\u201d said Krone. \u201cIt is our hope that this gift will help other students realize their dreams.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5 class=\u0022p7\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E$45 million goal\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EFinish line donor: Howard Tellepsen Jr., a 1966 civil engineering alumnus\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003ETellepsen\u2019s estate provision will establish a permanent endowment that will provide unrestricted support to the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, allowing the chair to take advantage of emerging opportunities or to further long-term strategic priorities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cMy entire experience of Georgia Tech has been so positive,\u201d said Tellepsen. \u201cI am truly grateful for the chance to serve Georgia Tech and especially to help the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering to reach even greater success.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EAs Campaign Georgia Tech approaches the final quarter of its 11-year run, six campus units surpassed their Campaign goals during the most recent quarter that ended June 30.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"As Campaign Georgia Tech approaches the final quarter of its 11-year run, six campus units surpassed their Campaign goals during the most recent quarter that ended June 30."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2015-09-14 14:42:41","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:33","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-09-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-09-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/development.gatech.edu\/","title":"Office of Development"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11162","name":"Campaign Georgia Tech"},{"id":"4790","name":"fundraising"},{"id":"14992","name":"Office of Development"},{"id":"2096","name":"philanthropy"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:stacy.braukman@dev.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EStacy Braukman\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOffice of Development\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:dan.treadaway@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EDan Treadaway\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"447581":{"#nid":"447581","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Wordpress Service Offers Easy Website Option","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EHaving an up-to-date, visually pleasing Web presence is essential in most professional industries today. For some Tech employees, though, maintaining a website is one more thing on a long list of tasks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EA new service gives those who aren\u2019t full-time Web developers an easy way to create or maintain a website that shares information about themselves or their work.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EProfessional Web Presence (PWP) lets those without coding and Web development experience create a website with a Georgia Tech theme with just a few clicks.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cWe looked at the Web as it exists on campus and were seeing a lot of sites that were outdated, visually unappealing, and vulnerable to hacks,\u201d said Eric Sembrat, Web manager in the College of Engineering who helped get the PWP system up and running. Sembrat and others in the campus Web development community from the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and College of Sciences took it upon themselves last year to explore solutions in response to requests from faculty and staff in their own colleges.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EPWP issues Wordpress-based sites and comes with pre-set packages, themes, and plug-ins all designed with Georgia Tech users in mind. Site administrators can include additional Georgia Tech users on their site and give them different privileges for editing and updating content. Websites or individual page privileges can also be password-protected for those groups who may want to limit who can view certain information.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EThe system is ideal for those who need a simple site for their work, such as a faculty member. But it is not meant for those wanting or needing more customized options, or a more in-depth website of the scale that a school or college may need.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003E\u201cWe wanted to make something for those who work with the Web as a very small part of their jobs, and have it be as simple as possible so it\u2019s basically self-service,\u201d Sembrat said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EMany of Tech\u2019s websites are built on the open source Drupal platform, which is designed to be user-friendly but still has a learning curve. In the Wordpress system, those who have used a blogging platform or done formatting in Microsoft systems should find it fairly intuitive. A mobile-friendly view even lets users make changes from a tablet or phone. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EThe PWP administrative team handles security updates and patches, and all the themes are built with accessibility in mind. So far, 260 users are working on more than 180 sites created with the system. Some examples of sites built with the system include the InVenture Challenge\u0026nbsp;(\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/inventurechallenge.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Einventurechallenge.gatech.edu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E), Stanley Neural Coding Laboratory\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/stanley.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Estanley.gatech.edu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E), and blog of Gary May, Southern Company Chair and Dean of the College of Engineering (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/deanmay.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Edeanmay.gatech.edu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EThis fall, PWP is taking its training on the road and scheduling information sessions in schools and colleges around campus. The group also hosts a monthly drop-in session at Highland Bakery in the Bradley Building where users can stop by with their laptop to ask questions or learn more. 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Working with popular 28-nanometer FPGA devices made by Altera Corp., the researchers have demonstrated a monolithically-cooled chip that can operate at temperatures more than 60 percent below those of similar air-cooled chips.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to more processing power, the lower temperatures can mean longer device life and less current leakage. The cooling comes from simple de-ionized water flowing through microfluidic passages that replace the massive air-cooled heat sinks normally placed on the backs of chips.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe believe we have eliminated one of the major barriers to building high-performance systems that are more compact and energy efficient,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=163\u0022\u003EMuhannad Bakir\u003C\/a\u003E, an associate professor and ON Semiconductor Junior Professor in the Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cWe have eliminated the heat sink atop the silicon die by moving liquid cooling just a few hundred microns away from the transistors. We believe that reliably integrating microfluidic cooling directly on the silicon will be a disruptive technology for a new generation of electronics.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESupported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research is believed to be the first example of liquid cooling directly on an operating high-performance CMOS chip. Details of the research were presented on September 28 at the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference in San Jose, Calif.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELiquid cooling has been used to address the heat challenges facing computing systems whose power needs have been increasing. However, existing liquid cooling technology removes heat using cold plates externally attached to fully packaged silicon chips \u2013 adding thermal resistance and reducing the heat-rejection efficiency.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo make their liquid cooling system, Bakir and graduate student Thomas Sarvey removed the heat sink and heat-spreading materials from the backs of stock Altera FPGA chips. They then etched cooling passages into the silicon, incorporating silicon cylinders approximately 100 microns in diameter to improve heat transmission into the liquid. A silicon layer was then placed over the flow passages, and ports were attached for the connection of water tubes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn multiple tests \u2013 including a demonstration for DARPA officials in Arlington, Virginia \u2013 a liquid-cooled FPGA was operated using a custom processor architecture provided by Altera. With a water inlet temperature of approximately 20 degrees Celsius and an inlet flow rate of 147 milliliters per minute, the liquid-cooled FPGA operated at a temperature of less than 24 degrees Celsius, compared to an air-cooled device that operated at 60 degrees Celsius.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESudhakar Yalamanchili, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and one of the research group\u2019s collaborators, joined the team for the DARPA demonstration to discuss electrical-thermal co-design.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have created a real electronic platform to evaluate the benefits of liquid cooling versus air cooling,\u201d said Bakir. \u201cThis may open the door to stacking multiple chips, potentially multiple FPGA chips or FPGA chips with other chips that are high in power consumption. We are seeing a significant reduction in the temperature of these liquid-cooled chips.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research team chose FPGAs for their test because they provide a platform to test different circuit designs, and because FPGAs are common in many market segments, including defense. However, the same technology could also be used to cool CPUs, GPUs and other devices such as power amplifiers, Bakir said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to improving overall cooling, the system could reduce hotspots in circuits by applying cooling much closer to the power source. Eliminating the heat sink could allow more compact packaging of electronic devices \u2013 but only if electrical connection issues are also addressed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn a separate research project, Bakir\u2019s group has demonstrated the fabrication of copper vias that would run through the silicon columns that are part of the cooling structure fabricated on the FPGAs. Graduate student Hanju Oh, co-advised with College of Engineering Dean Gary May, fabricated high aspect ratio copper vias through the silicon columns, reducing the capacitance of the connections that would carry signals between chips in an array.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe moment you start thinking about stacking the chips, you need to have copper vias to connect them,\u201d Bakir said. \u201cBy bringing system components closer together, we can reduce interconnect length and that will lead to improvements in bandwidth density and reductions in energy use.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe cooling research was funded by DARPA\u2019s Microsystems Technology Office, through the ICECOOL program. At Georgia Tech, DARPA funds two major cooling and system integration projects, one called STAECool directed by George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Professor Yogendra Joshi, and the other, called SuperCool, that is directed by Bakir. In collaboration with the STAECool effort, Bakir and Joshi, along with Professors Andrei Fedorov and Suresh Sitaraman from the School of Mechanical Engineering, developed a thermal design vehicle to emulate challenging power maps to test the benefits of microfluidic cooling.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have reached an important milestone that we hope to use as a stepping stone to reach other objectives,\u201d said Bakir. \u201cThere is still a big challenge ahead, but we expect this to allow much denser, higher-performance computing systems that will dissipate less power. We can think of many interesting applications for these cooling technologies.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAltera\u2019s principal investigator for the project, Arifur Rahman, said: \u201cFuture high-performance semiconductor electronics will be increasingly dominated by thermal budget and ability to remove heat. The embedded microfluidic channels provide an intriguing option to remove heat from future microelectronics systems.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis research was supported by DARPA-MTO; the contents of the news release are the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official position of DARPA.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECITATION\u003C\/strong\u003E: Thomas E. 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But our Einstein is unique in that he gazes down to a black granite platform with the exact replica of the night sky over Atlanta on December 10, 1948 \u2013 \u0026nbsp;the day of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEngraved on the granite steps are two quotes representing Einstein the scientist and the\u0026nbsp; humanist. \u0026nbsp;Most fittingly, one of the quotes is pulled from Article I of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and reads, \u201cAll human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe excitement surrounding the Einstein project has been, in my experience, unprecedented. What began as an idea, quickly transitioned into a highly successful campaign for resources, and the support continues. Honestly, I have never seen a project generate this much support in such a small amount of time. 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Fittingly they have decided to raise the goal, which will make all our aspirations for the impact of the Einstein piece on the campus and community come true.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUnquestionably, the Einstein Monument at Georgia Tech will become a fitting icon for what we represent: science, technology and the betterment of the human condition.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn Friday, October 23, as thousands of alumni and students converge on campus to celebrate homecoming, we will officially dedicate the final cast of Robert Berk\u2019s Einstein sculpture right here on campus.\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech and Atlanta embody science and civil\/human rights like no other institution and city in the nation. \u0026nbsp;It is fitting that we will be the home of this unique piece of public art. \u0026nbsp;Unquestionably, the Einstein Monument at Georgia Tech will become a fitting icon for what we represent: science, technology and the betterment of the human condition.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"On Friday, October 23, as thousands of alumni and students converge on campus to celebrate homecoming, we will officially dedicate the final cast of Robert Berk\u2019s Einstein sculpture right here on campus."}],"uid":"27165","created_gmt":"2015-10-05 14:23:07","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:43","author":"Susie Ivy","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-10-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-10-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"455641":{"id":"455641","type":"image","title":"Einstein","body":null,"created":"1449256334","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:12:14","changed":"1475895194","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:14","alt":"Einstein","file":{"fid":"203350","name":"b16c6102b_einstein_invitation_09.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/b16c6102b_einstein_invitation_09_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/b16c6102b_einstein_invitation_09_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":652673,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/b16c6102b_einstein_invitation_09_0.jpg?itok=XkMiShu8"}}},"media_ids":["455641"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/arts.gatech.edu\/","title":"Office of the Arts"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/art-genius","title":"The Art of Genius"}],"groups":[{"id":"131901","name":"Provost"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1738","name":"blog"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:susie.ivy@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESusie Ivy\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-385-3782\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["susie.ivy@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"464711":{"#nid":"464711","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Join Georgia Tech\u2019s Solar Decathlon Team","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis year, Georgia Tech students have the chance to compete in the Department of Energy\u2019s biennial Solar Decathlon. The \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.solardecathlon.gov\u0022\u003ESolar Decathlon\u003C\/a\u003E is a competition among collegiate teams to build solar-powered houses. Along the way, participants learn about environmental benefits, comfort, and affordability of energy-efficient homes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince it started in 2002, the program has hosted more than 130 collegiate teams. The program has also grown internationally with expansion into Europe, China, Latin America, and the Middle East.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Solar Decathlon team is currently looking for students with the following backgrounds or interests:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EElectrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science:\u003C\/strong\u003E Renewable energy, Internet of Things, and the ability to build systems\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMechanical engineering, chemical and biomolecular engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E: Hands-on work, designing sustainable energy systems, with preferred experience in thermodynamics\/heat transfer\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMaterials science and engineering, chemical and biomolecular engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E: Phase Change Material or other new materials for use in residential homes\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECivil and environmental engineering, architecture:\u003C\/strong\u003E Sustainable building analysis and construction, hands-on work\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBusiness\u003C\/strong\u003E: Marketing, commercialization, fundraising, operations management, human capital management, and controlling\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents can learn more about the VIP program and Solar Decathlon project by attending an upcoming information session:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EFriday, Nov. 6, 5 \u2013 6:30 p.m. in Klaus 1447\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMonday, Nov. 9, 7 \u2013 8 p.m. in Klaus 2447\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThroughout the semester the team will meet Tuesdays from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Students interested in joining the Solar Decathlon Team can apply\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/secure2.ece.gatech.edu\/vip\/apply\/apply.php\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;or contact Alexandre Poux\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:alex.poux@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ealex.poux@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech team is organized through the Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program. This program joins undergraduate teams with faculty and graduate student advisors to create large-scale design and discovery projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EParticipation in VIP can be registered for academic credit, so the program is able to encourage students to participate for more than one semester. Students gain more exposure to multidisciplinary design projects and professional skills than they would in regular courses. 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Both were interested in the electric vehicle market.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt the same time, Dorrier Coleman was experimenting with electric vehicles as part of his Capstone Design project.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EToday the three are co-founders of TEQ Charging, a startup that invented a power strip that allows multiple electric vehicles to be recharged by a single charging point. They were in Las Vegas as finalists for Tech.Co\u2019s annual Startup of the Year.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EColeman graduated in May, while Lieberman and Wittenstein are still enrolled as mechanical engineering majors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey launched TEQ during \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2015\/08\/17\/students-spend-summer-launching-startups\u0022\u003EStartup Summer\u003C\/a\u003E, which is part of CREATE-X, a Georgia Tech initiative to enhance and support entrepreneurship programs for undergraduate students. The new program is one way the Institute is preparing the nation\u2019s next entrepreneurs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech has given us the opportunity to be where we are right now,\u201d said Lieberman, who is the CEO. \u201cWithout it, we would not have been able to clearly define our business. This definition has allowed us to build a strong business and be a finalist for Tech.Co Startup of the Year.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETEQ eliminates a main source of frustration for electric vehicle drives: seeing one car plugged in to a charging point all day while other drivers wait to connect. The power strip solves that problem by servicing multiple cars at a time. Their patent-pending algorithm and hardware design eliminates the need to run a separate power line to each individual charger. The TEQ app helps vehicle owners locate an open charger.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETEQ is currently in its beta program and expects to hit the market the first quarter of 2016.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELearn more about TEQ \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.teqcharging.com\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"TEQ Charging invented a power strip that allows multiple electric vehicles to be recharged by a single charging point."}],"uid":"27918","created_gmt":"2015-10-05 09:28:57","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:40","author":"Laura Diamond","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-10-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-10-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"455361":{"id":"455361","type":"image","title":"TEQ Charging team","body":null,"created":"1449256319","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:11:59","changed":"1475895199","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:19","alt":"TEQ Charging team","file":{"fid":"203463","name":"teqcharging.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/teqcharging_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/teqcharging_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1895145,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/teqcharging_0.jpg?itok=VNc1oF9J"}},"434591":{"id":"434591","type":"image","title":"TEQ Charging","body":null,"created":"1449256148","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:09:08","changed":"1475895174","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:54","alt":"TEQ Charging","file":{"fid":"202965","name":"final_render.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/final_render_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/final_render_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":681934,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/final_render_0.png?itok=2OCmLQ_x"}}},"media_ids":["455361","434591"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.teqcharging.com\/","title":"TEQ Charging"},{"url":"http:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu","title":"CREATE-X"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"137161","name":"CREATE-X"},{"id":"3472","name":"entrepreneurship"},{"id":"166972","name":"startup summer"},{"id":"166994","name":"startups"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"106361","name":"Business and Economic Development"},{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELaura Diamond\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["laura.diamond@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"466951":{"#nid":"466951","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The infinite ways to move a robot","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003EWant to know what the future looks like? A good place to start is with Georgia Tech\u2019s star-studded research in robotics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGil Weinberg\u2019s robotic prosthesis for drummers made news around the world. Ayanna Howard\u2019s child-sized bot helps children with motor skills disabilities and brought the launch of startup company Zyrobotics. Andrea Thomaz\u2019s Socially Intelligent Machines Lab \u2013 home to Simon, a near-celebrity droid \u2013 has deepened understanding of human-robot interactions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut there\u2019s another dimension of robotics exploration at Tech that\u2019s less known but becoming every bit as impressive. It\u2019s the field of control, which ensures that robots act and react predictably.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMore precisely, control represents the application of control theory, the mathematical underpinnings that guide robot actions and decision-making in situations or dynamic environments. A robot walking across a floor, for example, may seem like an unremarkable event. But the decision and control system that informs this simple action is quite complex \u2013 even more so if a small object is placed in the robot\u2019s way.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf you scan the higher education landscape, you\u2019ll find some of the usual suspects leading the way in controls research. MIT\u2019s Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) and CalTech\u2019s vaunted Division of Control and Dynamical Systems are list-topping laboratories.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003ELeaders in the World of Control Robotics\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf what\u2019s happened in recent years is any indication, Georgia Tech\u2019s name has been added to that upper echelon. Tech has been building one of the strongest, not to mention largest, research groups in control in the country. And the work they\u2019re doing is beginning to capture the attention of others.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA luncheon at Chicago\u2019s Palmer House in early July provided two examples of this rising prominence. At the event, a pair of Georgia Tech faculty \u2013 \u003Cstrong\u003EMagnus Egerstedt\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003EAaron Ames\u003C\/strong\u003E, both researchers in controls \u2013 were presented with two of the five top awards bestowed by the American Automatic Control Council, a consortium of eight societies in the field.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEgerstedt\u2019s receipt of the John R. Ragazzini Education Award certified his status as a thought leader in the field. His area of specialty is swarm robotics, a fascinating way of coordinating systems of many small robots. Each robot works on a task. Through sensors and communication, it is attuned only to what\u2019s happening in its immediate environment; it receives no instruction from a single central decision maker. Hence, the challenge of a swarm: Its sheer size makes centralized command impossible, so its behavior and decision making must be pre-determined through algorithms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDesigning a robot swarm requires deep knowledge of the \u201cswarm intelligence\u201d principles found in nature, and indeed, the field was born through collaborations with biologists. Schools of fish, flocks of birds \u2013 even colonies of bacteria \u2013 all have lessons to impart to legions of robots that work individually toward a larger common goal.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAnd it\u2019s not just the anthills,\u201d Egerstedt says. \u201cHuman societies are also distributed systems where individuals make decisions and communicate with neighbors to solve problems.\u201d (\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bit.ly\/1KP7Q9T\u0022 rel=\u0022nofollow\u0022 data-cke-saved-href=\u0022http:\/\/bit.ly\/1KP7Q9T\u0022\u003EWatch Egerstedt\u2019s TedX talk\u003C\/a\u003E on swarm robotics)\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe thinking is that \u201cwith very simple individual rules, the robots in a swarm can be mobilized to accomplish significant tasks,\u201d he adds. Perhaps they could be deployed in disaster relief situations or used to disarm an environmental hazard. It\u2019s a young field, rife with possibilities, and Egerstedt has been instrumental in shaping it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe same could be said someday about Aaron Ames, an associate professor in both the ME and ECE schools. A new recruit to Georgia Tech \u2013 he arrived in July from Texas A\u0026amp;M \u2013 Ames captured AACC\u2019s Donald P. Eckman Award, which recognizes outstanding young engineers in automatic control. He is distinguished by more than being smart and young (35 this year); his work in bipedal locomotion control is advancing the field humanoid robots with the goal of translating these capabilities to prostheses, exoskeletons and wearable robots.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHaving a robot wash dishes is fine,\u201d Ames says, \u201cbut when you put robots on people, it\u2019s something completely different. For people who can\u2019t walk, you\u2019re giving them the chance to come out of the wheelchair \u2013 and walk.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EMimicking Human Biomechanics\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmes heads the AMBER Lab, which he moved to Tech from Texas. The lab has built multiple robots with a walking style mirroring that in humans. It takes extraordinary effort and iteration not only to mimic human biomechanics, but also to make quick decisions after sensing something different in the environment \u2013 a buckle in the sidewalk, for instance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cWe\u2019ve had millions of years of evolution to achieve this behavior of walking, yet the simplicity and elegance with which humans walk belies something we haven\u2019t yet discovered,\u201d which is how to replicate it in a machine, Ames says. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bit.ly\/1NsJOQW\u0022 rel=\u0022nofollow\u0022 data-cke-saved-href=\u0022http:\/\/bit.ly\/1NsJOQW\u0022\u003E(\u003Cem\u003EWatch a robot-walking demonstration\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E from the AMBER lab\u003C\/em\u003E)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDeveloping control methods to achieve walking on humanoid robots and wearable robots is ambitious enough. But Ames has a side goal: He would like to refine the dynamics of a robot so that it can outrun Olympic gold medalist sprinter Usain Bolt, hailed as the fastest human ever.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI think we can do it in the next five years,\u201d Ames says. \u201cWe\u2019re designing a robot right now to do this. Our motors are fast and powerful enough to make a robot run 30 miles an hour. The technology is there, but we have to integrate the control.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe awards given to Ames and Egerstedt reflect only the latest achievements among Georgia Tech faculty working in control, and both are quick to emphasize that other developments and colleagues are substantive evidence of Georgia Tech\u2019s rising star in the field.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003ETech\u0027s Robotics Stars\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor example, Jeff Shamma, Julian T. Hightower Chair in Systems \u0026amp; Control in ECE (currently on leave), pioneered the use of game theory when designing controllers. Panagiotis Tsiotras, the College of Engineering Dean\u2019s Professor in AE, leads a major multi-university research initiative on high-speed autonomous driving.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnd then there\u2019s the Decision and Control Laboratory, currently the locus for advancing knowledge of control theory across the Institute. Launched in 2008, DCL does a good job sharing developments in the field with students and faculty, but some recognized it could do more.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo Egerstedt and Eric Feron, a Professor in Aerospace Engineering, are leading an effort to have the Lab designated as one of Georgia Tech\u2019s celebrated Interdisciplinary Research Centers. The move would formalize collaborations across all colleges at Georgia Tech and open the door to becoming a worldwide reference center for scholarship in control theory and dynamical systems \u2013 another milestone toward solidifying Georgia Tech\u2019s reputation in a field that is rapidly changing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have an amazing group of faculty in controls,\u201d Egerstedt says. \u201cWe\u2019ve gone from a good program to a top program, and now we have the opportunity to build a brand in this area for Georgia Tech.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe contributions Georgia Tech makes to control and control theory will not only change the field but help shape the next generation of robotics in our lives. 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This year, for the 16th\u0026nbsp;consecutive year, \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u003C\/em\u003E has ranked Tech one of the top 10 public universities. It also has Tech listed at No. 7 among public universities and 35th\u0026nbsp;among all national universities.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5\u003EMilestones in Tech History\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E1885\u003C\/strong\u003E \u2013 On Oct. 13, the Georgia Legislature passed a bill appropriating $65,000 to found a technical school.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E1888\u003C\/strong\u003E \u2013 The Academic Building, known today as the Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans Administration Building or Tech Tower, was completed. 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After the School was removed in 1931, women were unable to enroll at Tech \u2014 with the exception of the WWII years when they were permitted to attend but not earn degrees. It would be 1952 before they could do so.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E1928\u003C\/strong\u003E \u2013 Former student Frank Gordy opened a restaurant called The Yellow Jacket near campus. The name soon changed to The Varsity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E1934\u003C\/strong\u003E \u2013 To boost the state\u2019s economy in the midst of the Great Depression, the Engineering Experiment Station, now known as the Georgia Tech Research Institute, was founded as the nonprofit applied research arm of Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E1948\u003C\/strong\u003E \u2013 The university\u2019s name was changed to the Georgia Institute of Technology, reflecting an increasing focus on technological and scientific research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E1952\u003C\/strong\u003E \u2013 Women were permitted to enroll only in Georgia Tech degree programs not offered at other universities in Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E1961\u003C\/strong\u003E \u2013 Tech became the first university in the Deep South to admit African-American students without a court order. Ford Greene, Ralph A. 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Erskine Love Jr. spearheaded the Institute\u2019s $100 million Centennial Campaign, raising a total of $202.7 million.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E1990\u003C\/strong\u003E \u2013 Georgia Tech-Lorraine opened in Metz, France. Its primary focus is graduate education, sponsored research, and an undergraduate summer program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E1996\u003C\/strong\u003E \u2013 Georgia Tech was the Home of the Olympic Village for the Summer Olympic Games. A substantial amount of construction occurred, including the erection of housing, the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center, and the renovation of the Alexander Memorial Coliseum.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2003\u003C\/strong\u003E \u2013 Technology Square, the heart of the Institute\u2019s internationally recognized innovation ecosystem, opened its doors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2013\u003C\/strong\u003E \u2013 Tech introduced the first accredited Master of Science in Computer Science degree that students can earn exclusively through the massive open online course (MOOC) delivery format \u2014 for a fraction of the cost of on-campus programs.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2015\u003C\/strong\u003E \u2013 The freshman class is record-setting in its diversity and academic prestige. It is 41 percent female and has 35 percent more African-American students than 2014. 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Milor and her students \u2013 T. Liu, C.-C. Chen, and S. Cha \u2013 received the Best Paper Award at ESREF 2015 (European Symposium on Reliability of Electron Devices, Failure Physics, and Analysis), held October 5-9 in Toulouse, France. Milor is a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and leads the Yield Enhancement and Testing Research Group.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe title of the award-winning paper is \u201cSystem-level variation-aware aging simulator using a unified novel gate-delay model for bias temperature instability, hot carrier injection, and gate oxide breakdown,\u201d\u0026nbsp;and it was\u0026nbsp;published in \u003Cem\u003EMicroelectronics and Reliability\u003C\/em\u003E, vol. 55, nos. 9-10, pp. 1334-1340, August-September 2015.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe paper presents software that has been developed to estimate the lifetime of logic circuits due to a variety of front-end-of-line (FEOL) wearout mechanisms. 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The IEN Seed Grant\u2019s primary purpose is to give first or second year graduate students in various disciplines working on original and un-funded research in micro- and nano-scale projects the opportunity to access the most advanced academic cleanroom space in the Southeast. In addition to accessing the high-level fabrication, lithography, and characterization tools in the labs, the students will have a chance to learn cleanroom and tool methodology and to consult with the research staff of the IEN Advanced Technology Team. 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The Office of International Education (OIE) assists students in obtaining international internships, participating in faculty-led study abroad programs, and applying to exchange programs with partner universities. \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile pursuing an international experience might seem intimidating at first, there are many resources available to students who are interested. Here are a few tips to consider when starting the study abroad process: \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChoosing a Program\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith more than 120 study abroad programs, it can be a tough to decide where to go for a semester overseas. The first step is to choose between a Tech faculty-led program and an exchange program. These programs have different things to offer, so it\u2019s important to focus on what you\u2019re looking for in a study abroad experience. Are you set on a specific country? 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The OIE Administered Scholarships Application has three cycles per year, with applications due October 15, January 15, and April 1. It is important to apply early for scholarships \u2014 summer applicants are expected to apply for scholarships by the January 15 cycle.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECurrently, OIE is about 500 students away from sending the 20,000th Tech student abroad. To celebrate, \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/oie.gatech.edu\/GT20kAWAY\u0022\u003EOIE is offering the lucky 20,000th student\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E a free airfare voucher up to $2,000 to apply to their study abroad. #GT20kAWAY\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAside from OIE Administered Scholarships, there are external scholarships students can apply for. 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(You\u2019ve probably seen coverage of Ayanna Howard\u2019s math-tutor bot or Magnus Egerstedt\u2019s dancing humanoids in your Facebook feed.)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut robots are expensive, and not every aspiring engineer can work in the gilded labs of Georgia Tech. And that\u2019s where Egerstedt, the Schlumberger Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, comes in.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAbout a year ago, he had an idea: What if he could break the barriers that keep people out of his field by building a robotics playground for everyone? He mulled over the logistics and, after persuading a few professors and Ph.D. students to join him, he planned the Robotarium.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf all goes according to his designs, the Robotarium will become Georgia Tech\u2019s robot zoo, a home to machines of all shapes and sizes. 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Like Egerstedt, he\u2019s frustrated that so few people have access to pricey hardware \u2013 the linchpin behind most robotics research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThat\u2019s the wall that prevents most academic work from translating to the commercial domain to the everyday-life domain,\u201d Ames says, \u201cand this will break that open. This will tear down that wall.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlong with Ames, Egerstedt also enlisted the help of Professors Raheem Beyah (of ECE), and Eric Feron (from the School of Aerospace Engineering), and Blair MacIntyre (from the School of Interactive Computing) to make the idea a reality. The National Science Foundation awarded the team $2.5a million dollars to kick-start the work.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA few Ph.D. students are also helping outinvolved. Chief among them is Daniel Pickem, who is studying robotic self-assembly under Egerstedt and ECE Professor Jeff Shamma. 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The table offers a glimpse of the Robotarium in miniature, and it allows Egerstedt and his colleagues to anticipate potential problems with a facility that\u2019s accessible to anyone.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA key concern is safety, which is being overseen by Ames.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe first thing that\u2019s going to happen when you open it to the public is someone is going to try to break it,\u201d he acknowledges. He\u2019s already developed an algorithm to prevent robots from colliding with each other, but there\u2019s a lot more work to come.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EToday, there is just the white table. Egerstedt estimates another three to five years could pass before the full Robotarium is complete.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe likes taking the long view. Though he is known for championing novel \u2013 and sometimes untested \u2013 ways to make robotics more accessible, his ideas are informed by his past experiences.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs the professor of one of Georgia Tech\u2019s early massive open online courses (MOOCs), he aimed to make advanced controls coursework available to anyone. After that, he contemplated using the principles of the MOOC for larger projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI was thinking: What does a MOOC look like in research?\u201d he says. (A robot zoo, apparently.)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Crystal Cathedral\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EBut what\u2019s in it for Georgia Tech and the College of Engineering? A lot of exposure, of course, but also the chance to be at the vanguard of robotics. 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This year, in addition to the standard keynote, plenary, presentation and poster sessions, prominent researchers in the area of interconnects will take the stage for a panel debate, presidential style.\u0026nbsp; The topic of the debate, \u201c\u003Cem\u003EIs there a potential for a revolution in on-chip interconnect?\u201d\u003C\/em\u003Ewill explore interconnect scaling solutions for future electronics. Thepanel will consist of six \u201ccandidate\u201d debaters who will open with timed statements of their technical solutions, and will be required to answer questions, also within a time limited format. At the conclusion of the evening event, attendees will have the opportunity to vote on who \u201cwon\u201d the debate for the future of interconnects. Professor Azad Naeemi, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology, will be representing Georgia Tech in the debate with his solution, \u201c\u003Cem\u003ENano\/novel materials or devices to the rescue\u201d.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting\u003C\/strong\u003E (IEDM) is the world\u2019s preeminent forum for reporting technological breakthroughs in the areas of semiconductor and electronic device technology, design, manufacturing, physics, and modeling. 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Both have a \u201cGT\u201d designation, meaning they can count as a free elective for any major.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003ESustainable Community and Systems\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this course, students will explore sustainability from a systems perspective, including physical\/resource balances, ecological\/carbon cycle processes, economic\/financial practices, political\/policy processes, and public participation as they relate to communities in Atlanta and around the world. The course will include case studies in forestry, fracking, climate, and fisheries to demonstrate how these systems interact.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe class will focus on concepts and methods that students can employ in their chosen career path, whether that is research and design at a utility company, engineering for a major city, or environmental and business advising.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECourse Code: GT 2803 HP1, GT 4803 HP1, PUBP HP1, MGT A, or EAS HP1. 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The admitted students have taken an average of more than 10 college-level courses and 96 percent have taken an Advanced Placement calculus course.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut Tech\u0027s holistic review process looks at more than just test scores and academic performance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Just about every applicant can do the work to make it here,\u0022 Clark said. \u0022But, we also have to look at what their impact as a student is going to be, and how they\u2019re living out our campus ideals of progress and service.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia residents were admitted at a higher overall rate of 45 percent; nearly 500 more students applied from within Georgia this year. Out-of-state students were admitted at a rate of 28 percent, and international students at around 9 percent. Legacy students were admitted at a rate of 42 percent.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe number of applicants outside Georgia soared in numerous states, including California (52 percent), New Jersey (57 percent), and Michigan (52 percent). Those accepted span 48 states and 39 countries.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis year, the number of applicants to the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts more than doubled. For the second year, Undergraduate Admission\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2016\/01\/04\/faculty-take-part-undergraduate-admission-process\u0022\u003Ewelcomed faculty from several colleges\u003C\/a\u003E, including Ivan Allen, into the admission process, having them participate in cohort review sessions to help select the best candidates for their programs.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen we talk about wanting to diversify a class, we don\u2019t just mean demographically; we\u2019re talking in terms of curriculum and major selection,\u201d Clark said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs more students apply to Georgia Tech, Clark\u2019s staff faces the challenge of reading more applications per day, reading them with a more nuanced lens, and fighting fatigue that can accompany the workload.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe biggest challenge is building in more time for review \u2014 and making sure we\u2019re reading with fresh eyes,\u201d Clark said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach time decisions are issued, Clark and his staff consider the gravity of their work and the reach of college admission decisions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWith each decision, we guess there is an average of three others in the home with the applicant, and likely a couple of influencers outside of that. When you\u2019re issuing 14,000 decisions, it can easily start to reach around 100,000 people,\u201d he said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn a year where Tech\u0027s total number of applications (for Early Action and Regular Decision admission) is approaching 30,000, that reach will only continue to grow.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Regular Decision deadline is Sunday, Jan. 10. 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The National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsors programs from Alabama to Washington. Other programs are sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), NASA, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the U.S. Department of Energy, the Mayo Clinic, the Department of Defense, among others. Programs are also available abroad either through the NSF or other international organizations or universities.\u0026nbsp;Most domestic programs provide the participating student with a stipend, housing allowance and some travel assistance. Many programs also sponsor professional development seminars and workshops in addition to planned social events or outings. Also, many programs label their summer research as an \u201cinternship,\u201d so don\u2019t forget to include those opportunities in your search.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech has some great on-campus opportunities for summer research. One of those is the SURE program, founded in 1992 by Dr. Gary May, current dean of the College of Engineering. The program is 10 weeks in length for approximately 30 to 40 upperclassmen and women recruited from the Colleges of Computing, Engineering, and Sciences.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnother great research opportunity for the summer is President\u2019s Undergraduate Research Awards. The deadline for summer applications is February 26, 2016.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMost programs have deadlines in early to late February, some as early as mid-January.\u0026nbsp; Many use rolling admission, so apply early and often!\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVisit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.urop.gatech.edu\/summer-research\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.urop.gatech.edu\/summer-research\u003C\/a\u003E for additional information and links to programs. 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All student organizations, as well as individual students unaffiliated with an organization, are eligible to apply.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EApplications are reviewed by GTSF members and prioritized based on the activity\u2019s novelty, philanthropic value, ability to further the mission of the Student Foundation, and feasibility. The event or initiative must take place by Dec. 31, 2016.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Student Foundation\u2019s mission is to enhance the student experience at Georgia Tech by developing future leaders and loyal alumni. Part of that mission is served by providing funding for student-centric initiatives.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe funding comes from the GTSF endowment, which is currently more than $1.1 million. The endowment was started in 1986 with a $100,000 donation from J. 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In that case, the Social Enterprise Career Fair is the place to look.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn Tuesday, Feb. 9, Enterprise to Empower (En2Em) will host the annual Social Enterprise Career Fair from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Klaus Atrium. 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The event is held in the Student Center Ballroom over two days:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ETuesday, February 23, Noon to 4 p.m.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EWednesday, February 24, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information and a list of our participating vendors, visit\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.commencement.gatech.edu\/commencementfair\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.commencement.gatech.edu\/commencementfair\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpring 2016 Commencement \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech will celebrate its 251st Commencement at McCamish Pavilion. The bachelor\u2019s commencement will be held on Saturday, May 7, and split into two ceremonies based on students\u2019 majors. To view the times and major divisions for each ceremony, visit\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.commencement.gatech.edu\/spring2016\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.commencement.gatech.edu\/spring2016\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;Both undergraduate ceremonies will be ticketed events.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Ph.D. and master\u2019s ceremony will take place Friday, May 6, at 7 p.m. and does not require tickets.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe encourage guests to arrive early for general seating.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, we encourage all parents and their guests to share in the excitement of Commencement with their graduates at the President\u2019s Graduation Celebration. Held on Friday, May 6, from 3\u20135 p.m. on Tech Green, families and graduates will have an opportunity to take photos with beloved Tech mascots, meet administrators, faculty, and staff, and share in unique traditions that make Georgia Tech such a cherished institution. 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Advanced 3D TPV-based inductor designs were developed for high Q and high-density inductors, while inorganic nanodielectrics and nanomagneto dielectrics were utilized for further miniaturization of capacitors, inductors and EMI shield structures. Precision panel-level lithography was achieved for accurate microwave impedance matching with less than 5% tolerance. Double-side assembly was also demonstrated with such ultra-thin glass substrates.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s 3D IPD-based diplexers\u003C\/strong\u003E are 4X thinner compared to traditional approaches, with similar performance. With advanced thinfilm and high-density passive components, and design innovations, much superior performance is targeted in the next phase of the R\u0026amp;D program from 2016-2018. Georgia Tech and its partners also demonstrated \u003Cstrong\u003Eultra-miniaturized LTE and WLAN modules\u003C\/strong\u003E with its 3D IPAC approach with double-side integration of LNA, switch and filters. Good model-to-hardware correlations were seen from the module characterization of LNA gain and entry-to-exit insertion loss, illustrating the performance benefits of 3D IPAC modules. In the next phase, Georgia Tech is extending this concept further to complete PAMiD module integration with integrated thermal and shielding structures for LTE FDD\/TDD, 5G and mm wave applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about Georgia Tech\u2019s Integrated Passives and Actives, please contact Prof. Rao Tummala at \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:rao.tummala@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Erao.tummala@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E or Dr. P.M. 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The LIGO Observatories are funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), and were conceived, built, and are operated by Caltech and MIT. The discovery, accepted for publication in the journal \u003Cem\u003EPhysical Review Letters\u003C\/em\u003E, was made by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (which includes the GEO Collaboration and the Australian Consortium for Interferometric Gravitational Astronomy) and the Virgo Collaboration using data from the two LIGO detectors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere are \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/gravitational-waves-observed\u0022\u003E12 Georgia Institute of Technology faculty members, postdoctoral researchers and students\u003C\/a\u003E in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. The team is led by Associate Professor Laura Cadonati, who also chairs the LIGO Data Analysis Council. In this role, she coordinates and guides the activities of hundreds of scientists around the world who work together to analyze the data coming out of the LIGO detectors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is a groundbreaking discovery that will open a new field of gravitational wave astronomy where gravitational waves will be a new probe to explore the mysteries of the universe,\u201d said Cadonati, who has been a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration for 14 years.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBased on the observed signals, LIGO scientists estimate that the black holes for this event were about 29 and 36 times the mass of the sun, and the event took place 1.3 billion years ago. About three times the mass of the sun was converted into gravitational waves in a fraction of a second \u0026shy;\u2013 with a peak power output about 50 times that of the whole visible universe. By looking at the time of arrival of the signals \u0026shy;\u2013 the detector in Livingston recorded the event seven milliseconds before the detector in Hanford \u0026shy;\u2013 scientists can say that the source was located in the Southern Hemisphere.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech researchers conducted various analyses over the span of six months toward the confirmation of the first gravitational wave detection. They examined the large amount of data collected by the two detectors and performed investigations to ensure that the observed signal wasn\u2019t due to false noise from the instrument or environment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOnce the signal was extracted from the LIGO data, the Georgia Tech team was able to compare it with hundreds of its simulations of binary black hole mergers. This helped confirm that the signal indeed originated from two black holes, nearly equal in mass, that were spinning on their respective axes as they orbited and collided, forming a single, spinning black hole. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese binary black hole simulations were produced by the Georgia Tech numerical relativity team, under the leadership of Deirdre Shoemaker, associate professor and director of Georgia Tech\u2019s\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cra.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E Center for Relativistic Astrophysics\u003C\/a\u003E. They solved Einstein\u2019s field equations to model sources of gravitational waves using high-performance computing facilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen we saw the initial signal, we knew something that strong could only be from colliding black holes,\u201d said Shoemaker. \u201cMy group and I immediately went to our bank of theoretical predictions and searched for one that looked similar. After many years of computer modeling, we were finally able to compare our expectations with something that nature actually produced.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to general relativity, a pair of black holes orbiting around each other lose energy through the emission of gravitational waves, causing them to gradually approach each other over billions of years, and then much more quickly in the final minutes. During the final fraction of a second, the two black holes collide into each other at nearly one-half the speed of light and form a single more massive black hole, converting a portion of the combined black holes\u2019 mass to energy, according to Einstein\u2019s formula E=mc\u003Csup\u003E2\u003C\/sup\u003E. This energy is emitted as a final strong burst of gravitational waves. It is these gravitational waves that LIGO has observed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the coming months, as LIGO continues its observing schedule, data will be streamed directly to the PACE computing cluster at Georgia Tech. The team will continue to exploit this new window of the universe with the construction of additional computing facilities and deployment of the LIGO analyses on the Open Science Grid.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe discovery was made possible by the enhanced capabilities of Advanced LIGO, a major upgrade that increases the sensitivity of the instruments compared to the first generation LIGO detectors, enabling a large increase in the volume of the universe probed\u2014and the discovery of gravitational waves during its first observation run. The US National Science Foundation leads in financial support for Advanced LIGO. Funding organizations in Germany (Max Planck Society), the U.K. (Science and Technology Facilities Council, STFC) and Australia (Australian Research Council) also have made significant commitments to the project. Several of the key technologies that made Advanced LIGO so much more sensitive have been developed and tested by the German UK GEO collaboration. Significant computer resources have been contributed by the AEI Hannover Atlas Cluster, the LIGO Laboratory, Syracuse University, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. \u0026nbsp;Several universities designed, built, and tested key components for Advanced LIGO: The Australian National University, the University of Adelaide, the University of Florida, Stanford University, Columbia University in the City of New York, and Louisiana State University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELIGO research is carried out by the LSC, a group of more than 1000 scientists from universities around the United States and in 14\u0026nbsp;other countries.\u0026nbsp;More than 90 universities and research institutes in the LSC develop detector technology and analyze data; approximately 250 students are strong contributing members of the collaboration. The LSC detector network includes the LIGO interferometers and the GEO600 detector. The GEO team includes scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, AEI), Leibniz Universit\u00e4t Hannover, along with partners at the University of Glasgow, Cardiff University, the University of Birmingham, other universities in the United Kingdom, and the University of the Balearic Islands in Spain.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELIGO was originally proposed as a means of detecting these gravitational waves in the 1980s by Rainer Weiss, professor of physics, emeritus, from MIT; Kip Thorne, Caltech\u2019s Richard P. 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The event, which features technology startups from across Georgia, celebrates ATDC\u2019s 36-year legacy of helping entrepreneurs launch successful startups in the state. It will be held Thursday, May 12, from 1:30 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re extremely proud of the companies we will be presenting this year at Showcase; they represent a diverse array of technologies that are providing real solutions in different markets ranging from financial technology and advanced manufacturing, to agriculture and information security, among others,\u201d said Jennifer Bonnett, ATDC\u2019s acting general manager. \u201cThe Showcase is a fun and engaging way to show investors, entrepreneurs, and others these successful companies are innovative leaders in their fields and creating jobs right here in Georgia.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach year, ATDC member companies that have met rigorous growth milestones are selected to graduate from the startup incubator\u2019s ATDC Signature program. The 2016 graduating companies are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESynapp.io: \u003C\/strong\u003EThe company\u2019s data validation technology in the email compliance and deliverability space monitors the health of email contact lists and automates data maintenance\u0026nbsp;to prevent email deliverability challenges.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EZoompf:\u003C\/strong\u003E This startup\u2019s technology continuously audits its clients\u2019 entire websites for the common causes of slow performance to provide prioritized, easy-to-fix steps to solve those issues as they occur.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENextInput:\u003C\/strong\u003E The company is a producer and marketer of next-generation, pressure-sensitive touch technology for smartphones, tablets, laptops, automotive touch zones, and many other touch-related applications.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about the Showcase or to RSVP, please visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/atdcstartupshowcase.com\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/atdcstartupshowcase.com\u003C\/a\u003E. The cost to attend the event is $25 per person (early bird until April 12); $50 between April 13 and May 11, and $75 at the door. Students and faculty of any Georgia university enter free with valid ID.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout ATDC:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) is one of the longest-running and largest university-based startup incubators in the country. Founded in 1980, ATDC has graduated more than 160 companies from its ATDC Signature program. To date, those companies have attracted roughly $2 billion in investments. ATDC, which also has programs in Savannah, Athens, and Augusta, is a unit of the Enterprise Innovation Institute, the chief economic development arm of the Georgia Institute of Technology. For additional information, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.atdc.org\/\u0022\u003Ewww.atdc.org\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The event features some of the most promising technology startups from across Georgia."}],"uid":"28137","created_gmt":"2016-02-11 19:32:12","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:42","author":"P\u00e9ralte Paul","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-02-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-02-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"499501":{"id":"499501","type":"image","title":"2016 ATDC Startup Showcase","body":null,"created":"1455332400","gmt_created":"2016-02-13 03:00:00","changed":"1475895258","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:18","alt":"2016 ATDC Startup Showcase","file":{"fid":"204676","name":"unspecified-1.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/unspecified-1.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/unspecified-1.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":120917,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/unspecified-1.jpeg?itok=g2zdV0DN"}}},"media_ids":["499501"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/atdcstartupshowcase.com\/","title":"2016 ATDC Startup Showcase"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"139","name":"Business"}],"keywords":[{"id":"13454","name":"advanced technology development center"},{"id":"4238","name":"atdc"},{"id":"167495","name":"startup showcase"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"106361","name":"Business and Economic Development"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFor media inquiries, contact:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELaura Diamond\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404.894.6016\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["peralte.paul@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"505231":{"#nid":"505231","#data":{"type":"news","title":"National Science Foundation awards StarMobile $500K funding grant","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStarMobile, a leading codeless, cloud-based solution centered on faster, simpler, and lower-cost delivery of enterprise mobility, has been awarded a $500,000 Phase IIB\u0026nbsp;Small Business Innovation Research\u0026nbsp;(SBIR) grant from the\u0026nbsp;National Science Foundation\u0026nbsp;(NSF).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe startup, which is incubating in Georgia Tech\u2019s Advanced Technology Development Center\u2019s (ATDC) Signature program, said it will continue its work toward enabling rapid mobilization of enterprise applications. ATDC works with entrepreneurs looking to build successful technologies in Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStarMobile also is a graduate of Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;VentureLab\u0026nbsp;startup incubator, ranked No. 2 in North America. VentureLab, a sister incubation program to ATDC in Tech\u2019s Enterprise Innovation Institute (EI2), works with Georgia Tech faculty, students, and staff to help them validate and commercialize their research and ideas into viable companies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERaghupathy Sivakumar, StarMobile\u2019s co-founder and chief technology officer, is a telecommunications, computer systems, and software professor at Georgia Tech and the Wayne J. 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Smith Chair professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology\u2019s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the company is commercializing assistive technology that enables children with limited mobility to operate tablet computers, smartphones, toys, gaming apps, and interactive robots.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are extremely excited about the opportunities that this NSF SBIR grant provides,\u201d said Howard, who is the company\u2019s chief technology officer. \u201cIt helps Zyrobotics to continue to evolve as a leader in inclusive smart mobile technologies by enhancing our ability to develop accessible learning systems that\u0026nbsp;engage and empower children with special needs and enhance their quality of life.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESpecifically, the Phase II project aims to focus on the development of an accessible educational platform that combines mobile interfaces and adaptive educational tablet applications (apps) to support the requirements of children with special needs. While tablet devices have given those children an interactive experience that has revolutionized their learning, in its proposal, Zyrobotics notes that while\u0026nbsp;some\u0026nbsp;tablet devices are intuitive in use and easy for lots of kids, those with disabilities are largely overlooked due to difficulties in effecting pinch-and-swipe gestures.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis project thus addresses a direct need in our society by providing an integrated educational experience, focused on math education that addresses the diverse needs of children, while providing a solution for variations found in their disabilities,\u201d the company wrote in its grant proposal. \u201cThis SBIR Phase II project addresses an unmet need by developing an innovative solution to enable children with motor disabilities access to mobile devices and apps that could engage them fully into the educational system.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this next phase, Howard and her team plan to design accessible math apps geared to children with or without disabilities in kindergarten through 12th grade. The company also plans to\u0026nbsp;design another set of apps that adapt educational content and provide feedback to parents and teachers based on real-time analytics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe company says it sees ample market opportunity for its products both domestically and abroad. Here in the United States, children with disabilities are entitled to a free and appropriate public education, and Zyrobotics sees its products as addressing that need from both a commercial and societal standpoint. Worldwide, more than\u0026nbsp;93 million children live with a disability.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen founded, the company went through Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;VentureLab\u0026nbsp;startup incubator, ranked No. 2 in North America. VentureLab, a unit of Tech\u2019s Enterprise Innovation Institute (EI\u003Csup\u003E2\u003C\/sup\u003E), works with Georgia Tech faculty, students, and staff to help them validate and commercialize their research and ideas into viable companies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EZyrobotics is now part of Tech\u2019s Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), a sister startup incubator program that serves all of Georgia. Zyrobotics, with the help of ATDC\u2019s SBIR program, was able to receive its Phase I award in 2015, laying the groundwork for the Phase II grant.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cZyrobotics is a wonderful Georgia Tech startup, based on the fine research in Dr. Howard\u2019s lab, and enhanced by a very successful journey through the NSF I-Corps program,\u201d said Keith McGreggor, VentureLab\u2019s director. \u201cThis is a great example of how the research done in the classroom and lab, followed by idea validation, can lead to real breakthroughs that are designed to have a lasting impact on the lives touched by the technologies that Dr. Howard has created.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2014 P\u00e9ralte C. 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In a mock building fire, test subjects followed instructions from an \u201cEmergency Guide Robot\u201d even after the machine had proven itself unreliable \u2013 and after some participants were told that robot had broken down.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research was designed to determine whether or not building occupants would trust a robot designed to help them evacuate a high-rise in case of fire or other emergency. But the researchers were surprised to find that the test subjects followed the robot\u2019s instructions \u2013 even when the machine\u2019s behavior should not have inspired trust.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research, believed to be the first to study human-robot trust in an emergency situation, is scheduled to be presented March 9 at the 2016 ACM\/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2016) in Christchurch, New Zealand.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPeople seem to believe that these robotic systems know more about the world than they really do, and that they would never make mistakes or have any kind of fault,\u201d said Alan Wagner, a senior research engineer in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute\u003C\/a\u003E (GTRI). \u201cIn our studies, test subjects followed the robot\u2019s directions even to the point where it might have put them in danger had this been a real emergency.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the study, sponsored in part by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the researchers recruited a group of 42 volunteers, most of them college students, and asked them to follow a brightly colored robot that had the words \u201cEmergency Guide Robot\u201d on its side. The robot led the study subjects to a conference room, where they were asked to complete a survey about robots and read an unrelated magazine article. The subjects were not told the true nature of the research project.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn some cases, the robot \u2013 which was controlled by a hidden researcher \u2013 led the volunteers into the wrong room and traveled around in a circle twice before entering the conference room. For several test subjects, the robot stopped moving, and an experimenter told the subjects that the robot had broken down. Once the subjects were in the conference room with the door closed, the hallway through which the participants had entered the building was filled with artificial smoke, which set off a smoke alarm.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen the test subjects opened the conference room door, they saw the smoke \u2013 and the robot, which was then brightly-lit with red LEDs and white \u201carms\u201d that served as pointers. The robot directed the subjects to an exit in the back of the building instead of toward the doorway \u2013 marked with exit signs \u2013 that had been used to enter the building.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe expected that if the robot had proven itself untrustworthy in guiding them to the conference room, that people wouldn\u2019t follow it during the simulated emergency,\u201d said Paul Robinette, a GTRI research engineer who conducted the study as part of his doctoral dissertation. \u201cInstead, all of the volunteers followed the robot\u2019s instructions, no matter how well it had performed previously. We absolutely didn\u2019t expect this.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers surmise that in the scenario they studied, the robot may have become an \u201cauthority figure\u201d that the test subjects were more likely to trust in the time pressure of an emergency. In simulation-based research done without a realistic emergency scenario, test subjects did not trust a robot that had previously made mistakes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese are just the type of human-robot experiments that we as roboticists should be investigating,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/ayanna-maccalla-howard\u0022\u003EAyanna Howard\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and Linda J. and Mark C. Smith Chair in the Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cWe need to ensure that our robots, when placed in situations that evoke trust, are also designed to mitigate that trust when trust is detrimental to the human.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOnly when the robot made obvious errors during the emergency part of the experiment did the participants question its directions. In those cases, some subjects still followed the robot\u2019s instructions even when it directed them toward a darkened room that was blocked by furniture. \u003Cbr \/\u003EIn future research, the scientists hope to learn more about why the test subjects trusted the robot, whether that response differs by education level or demographics, and how the robots themselves might indicate the level of trust that should be given to them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research is part of a long-term study of how humans trust robots, an important issue as robots play a greater role in society. The researchers envision using groups of robots stationed in high-rise buildings to point occupants toward exits and urge them to evacuate during emergencies. Research has shown that people often don\u2019t leave buildings when fire alarms sound, and that they sometimes ignore nearby emergency exits in favor of more familiar building entrances.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut in light of these findings, the researchers are reconsidering the questions they should ask.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe wanted to ask the question about whether people would be willing to trust these rescue robots,\u201d said Wagner. \u201cA more important question now might be to ask how to prevent them from trusting these robots too much.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeyond emergency situations, there are other issues of trust in human-robot relationships, said Robinette.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWould people trust a hamburger-making robot to provide them with food?\u201d he asked. \u201cIf a robot carried a sign saying it was a \u2018child-care robot,\u2019 would people leave their babies with it? Will people put their children into an autonomous vehicle and trust it to take them to grandma\u2019s house? We don\u2019t know why people trust or don\u2019t trust machines.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to those already mentioned, the research included Wenchen Li and Robert Allen, graduate research assistants in Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Computing.The researchers would like to thank Larry Labbe and the Georgia Tech Fire Safety Office for their support during this research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESupport for this research was provided by the Linda J. and Mark C. Smith Chair in Bioengineering, and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) under contract FA9550-13-1-0169. 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A similar approach could also be used to protect networked industrial control systems in oil and gas refineries, manufacturing facilities, wastewater treatment plants and other critical industrial systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research, reported February 23 at the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium in San Diego, was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF). While device fingerprinting isn\u2019t a complete solution in itself, the technique could help address the unique security challenges of the electrical grid and other cyber-physical systems. The approach has been successfully tested in two electrical substations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have developed fingerprinting techniques that work together to protect various operations of the power grid to prevent or minimize spoofing of packets that could be injected to produce false data or false control commands into the system,\u201d said Raheem Beyah, an associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. \u201cThis is the first technique that can passively fingerprint different devices that are part of critical infrastructure networks. We believe it can be used to significantly improve the security of the grid and other networks.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe networked systems controlling the U.S. electrical grid and other industrial systems often lack the ability to run modern encryption and authentication systems, and the legacy systems connected to them were never designed for networked security. Because they are distributed around the country, often in remote areas, the systems are also difficult to update using the \u201cpatching\u201d techniques common in computer networks. And on the electric grid, keeping the power on is a priority, so security can\u2019t cause delays or shutdowns.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe stakes are extremely high, but the systems are very different from home or office computer networks,\u201d said Beyah. \u201cIt is critical that we secure these systems against attackers who may introduce false data or issue malicious commands.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeyah, his students, and colleagues in Georgia Tech\u2019s George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering set out to develop security techniques that take advantage of the unique physical properties of the grid and the consistent type of operations that take place there.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor instance, control devices used in the power grid produce signals that are distinctive because of their unique physical configurations and compositions. Security devices listening to signals traversing the grid\u2019s control systems can differentiate between these legitimate devices and signals produced by equipment that\u2019s not part of the system.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnother aspect of the work takes advantage of simple physics. Devices such as circuit breakers and electrical protection systems can be told to open or close remotely, and they then report on the actions they\u2019ve taken. The time required to open a breaker or a valve is determined by the physical properties of the device. If an acknowledgement arrives too soon after the command is issued \u2013 less time than it would take for a breaker or valve to open, for instance \u2013 the security system could suspect spoofing, Beyah explained.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo develop the device fingerprints, the researchers, including mechanical engineering assistant professor Jonathan Rogers, have built computer models of utility grid devices to understand how they operate. Information to build the models came from \u201cblack box\u201d techniques \u2013 watching the information that goes into and out of the system \u2013 and \u201cwhite box\u201d techniques that utilize schematics or physical access to the systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cDevice fingerprinting is a unique signature that indicates the identity of a specific device, or device type, or an action associated with that device type,\u201d Beyah explained. \u201cWe can use physics and mathematics to analyze and build a model using first principles based on the devices themselves. Schematics and specifications allow us to determine how the devices are actually operating.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers have demonstrated the technique on two electrical substations, and plan to continue refining it until it becomes close to 100 percent accurate. Their current technique addresses the protocol used for more than half of the devices on the electrical grid, and future work will include examining application of the method to other protocols.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBecause they also include devices with measurable physical properties, Beyah believes the approach could have broad application to securing industrial control systems used in manufacturing, oil and gas refining, wastewater treatment and other industries. Beyond industrial controls, the principle could also apply to the Internet of Things (IoT), where the devices being controlled have specific signatures related to switching them on and off.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAll of these IoT devices will be doing physical things, such as turning your air-conditioning on or off,\u201d Beyah said. \u201cThere will be a physical action occurring, which is similar to what we have studied with valves and actuators.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to those already mentioned, the research included graduate students David Formby, the paper\u2019s first author; Preethi Srinivasan and Andrew Leonard.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis research was supported by the National Science Foundation under grant number 1140230. 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Many of Georgia Tech\u2019s largest competitions take place during spring semester, giving students an opportunity to showcase their ideas and get the funding and resources they need to turn them into a reality.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor those interested in competing or just seeing what ideas Tech students have this semester, mark your calendars for one or more of the following opportunities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/inventureprize.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EInVenture Prize\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECompetition Date: \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMarch 16, 7:30 p.m. \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStarted in 2009, the InVenture Prize is now the largest undergraduate invention competition in the U.S. It is held annually on Georgia Tech\u2019s campus and is open to all Georgia Tech students and recent graduates. The competition includes three rounds, and the final round is televised live from the Ferst Center for the Arts by Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB). The final round includes cash prizes and free U.S. patent filing by Georgia Tech. Last year\u2019s winning team was FlameTech Grill Defender, a multidisciplinary team of business, computer science, and mechanical engineering students who created a device to detect unsafe levels of gas in grills.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELearn about this year\u2019s finalists \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.inventureprize.gatech.edu\/previous-competitions\/2016\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/accinventure.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAtlantic Coast Conference (ACC) InVenture Prize \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECompetition Date: April 5-6\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis year is \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2016\/02\/25\/brains-over-brawn-acc-competition-focuses-student-entrepreneurship\u0022\u003Ethe inaugural ACC InVenture Prize\u003C\/a\u003E competition. Inspired by and similar to Georgia Tech\u2019s InVenture Prize, the competition will host the final round at Georgia Tech\u2019s Ferst Center for the Arts. Each university in the ACC will host a preliminary competition and send the winner to this ACC final. On the first day, each team will give a quick pitch to a panel of judges. The judges will select the top five teams to continue to the second day of the competition, which will be televised. The prizes include $15,000 for 1st place, $10,000 for 2nd place, and $5,000 for the People\u2019s Choice Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETickets for the final round of the ACC InVenture Prize can be requested \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/accinventure.gatech.edu\/acc-inventure-prize-ticket-request-form\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/scheller.gatech.edu\/i2s\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIdeas to Serve (I2S)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECompetition Date: April 8, 6 p.m. \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Ideas to Serve competition is for Georgia Tech students and recent graduates who are in the early stages of a product or service idea focused on creating a better world. The competition is organized by the Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship and gives students with socially minded ideas access to prize money, mentors, and social entrepreneurs. The final event is a poster showcase held at the Scheller College of Business.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents interested in participating in I2S should fill out the Intent to Compete form by March 4. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/centers-initiatives\/ile\/i2s\/\u0022\u003EView a full timeline of I2S events for this semester\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELast year\u2019s winner, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/news-events\/latest-news\/2015\/articles\/ideas-to-serve-competition-winners-2015.html\u0022\u003ETeam Smile Bright\u003C\/a\u003E, had an idea for a toothbrush that was designed to clean effectively without the need for fine motor movements, made to help people with developmental or intellectual disabilities. The team won the 1st Place prize of $5,000.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EConvergence Innovation Competition (CIC)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECompetition Date: April 12\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe CIC is held each fall and spring semester. The competition focuses on mobile app development, but students without developer experience can submit ideas or contribute to non-development aspects of projects, such as design and user experience. During fall semester the categories are campus-focused, while for the spring competition the categories are chosen by industry partners. This spring, the theme is Connected Living, with three categories: Connected Home, Connected Car, and Connected Communities. 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Another paper focusing on the details of programming FPAA devices was also published on the Xplore site. In addition a third paper, detailing a high-level open-source programming toolset developed by Hasler and her team for programming analog arrays, has also been published online in the Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENovel Techniques\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETraditionally, analog technology has been used primarily for hard-wired circuits such as sensors that interface between digital devices and the real world; examples include the circuits that detect and reproduce sound in cell phones and other devices. Analog circuits are also used extensively in electronics to regulate and optimize power use. These single-function circuits cannot perform software-based computation, using hardware gates and switches, in the manner of digital integrated circuits.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHasler\u2019s team, however, has developed techniques that perform computation using an analog-style physical architecture by reliably positioning electrons in an FPAA\u2019s connective structure. This approach stands in contrast to FPGAs, which process electrons through floating gates in ways similar to conventional digital semiconductors such as memory chips or central processing units.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne advantage of FPAAs is that they\u0027re non-volatile, Hasler explained, meaning they retain data even when power is turned off. This is similar to flash memory technology, such as the solid-state drives and storage cards commonplace today. The use of non-volatile memory reduces power consumption, in contrast to the higher power needs of the volatile SRAM configurations typically used in FPGAs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn addition to being non-volatile, our analog architecture lets us do something fairly radical \u2013 we can compute using the routing fabric of the chip, exploiting areas that are usually considered just dead weight,\u201d Hasler said. \u201cTo help do this, we\u0027ve developed highly efficient switches that can be programmed on, off, or in-between \u2013 partially on and partially off. This flexibility provides both increased computation capabilities and reduced power consumption.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMilliwatts or Microwatts\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe present FPAA device can operate on less than 30 milliwatts \u2013 thousandths of a watt, Hasler explained. That level approaches three orders of magnitude less than a conventional digital configurable chip. Further design advances in analog arrays could bring their power needs down into the microwatt range \u2013 millionths of a watt.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo program the analog environment of the new device, researchers manipulate electrons in precise ways. Using electron-injection and electron-tunneling techniques, they erase data by lowering the number of electrons at specific locations in the device structure to the lowest possible value. Then they encode new data by increasing the number of electrons located at a given location up to an exact value.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis complex approach makes possible a highly dense chip structure that offers many parameters \u2013 meaning programmable variables that can exist in a large number of different states and offer many shadings of behavior. It is this structural density that allows greater computing capability for a given degree of physical size and power input.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur FPAA chip has roughly half a million of these programmable parameters,\u201d Hasler said. \u201cThey can be used as a switch in a digital manner \u2013 using the lowest possible value for \u2018off\u2019 or the highest possible value for \u2018on\u2019 \u2013 or we can achieve even more rich behavior using intermediate values.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA New Toolset\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe FPAA device includes a small amount of built-in digital circuitry that supports communication within the chip and also helps run the programming infrastructure. Utilizing these support features, the team has developed an extensive set of high-level programming tools to take advantage of the new chip.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmong other things, the new toolset is designed to make working with analog arrays accessible to those familiar with digital designs like FPGAs, which are programmed using comparable high-level tools. The new toolset can both simulate and program the FPAA reconfigurable device. A paper detailing these high-level tools has been published online.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur toolset uses high-level software developed in the Scilab\/Xcos open-source programs, with an analog and mixed-signal library of components,\u201d Hasler said. \u201cGeorgia Tech undergraduates are already using these tools in classes in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering that cover mixed-signal and analog devices and tools.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne area in which the analog approach is notably powerful involves command words \u2013 voice recognition technology used in devices like smartphones to do such things as wake up circuits from an off state, Hasler said. Like traditional analog sensing circuits, an FPAA offers excellent context-aware capability at extremely low power states.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHasler said that she has talked with several companies about potential applications of the FPAA in commercial devices. A significant number of FPAA chips has already been produced, but plans for potential large-scale manufacture of the chips have not been finalized. The key technologies in the FPAA system-on-chip are patent pending.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe believe that analog technology offers very powerful ways to look at physical computing, with considerable potential for commercial, neuromorphic, military and other applications,\u201d Hasler said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECITATIONS\u003C\/strong\u003E:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESihwan Kim, et al., \u201cIntegrated Floating-Gate Programming Environment for System-Level ICs,\u201d (IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, 2015). \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1109\/TVLSI.2015.2504118\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1109\/TVLSI.2015.2504118\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1109\/TVLSI.2015.2504118\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESuma George, et at., \u201cA Programmable and Configurable Mixed-Mode FPAA SoC,\u201d (IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, 2016). \u003Ca 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The bachelor\u2019s commencement will be held on Saturday, May 7, and split into two ceremonies based on students\u2019 majors. To view the times and major divisions for each ceremony, visit\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.commencement.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.commencement.gatech.edu\/\u003C\/a\u003E Both undergraduate ceremonies will be ticketed events.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Ph.D. and Master\u2019s Ceremony will take place Friday, May 6, at 7 p.m. and does not require tickets. We encourage guests to arrive early for general seating.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, we encourage all parents and their guests to share in the excitement of Commencement with their graduates at the President\u2019s Graduation Celebration. Held on Friday, May 6, from 3\u20135 p.m. on Tech Green, families and graduates will have an opportunity to take photos with beloved Tech mascots, meet administrators, faculty, and staff, and share in unique traditions that make Georgia Tech such a cherished institution. 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Of that number, around 25 percent were offered admission (between \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2016\/01\/09\/number-early-action-applicants-hits-record-high\u0022\u003Eearly action\u003C\/a\u003E and regular decision rounds).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe academic profile of accepted students continues to be more impressive each year. This year, the average SAT is 1445 (out of 1600), with 10 college-level courses completed.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5\u003EThe Continued Rise\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u2019s application and admission rates are comparable to those of some of Tech\u2019s public university peer institutions, including the University of North Carolina, University of Michigan, and University of Virginia. In the past four years alone, the number of applications to Georgia Tech has more than doubled, and the admit rate has dropped by more than half\u0026nbsp;\u2014 meaning next year\u2019s freshmen and this year\u2019s seniors came from drastically different applicant pools.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs applications increase, more students are hearing \u201cno\u201d from Georgia Tech \u2014 a message that is not necessarily pleasant to deliver. Last year\u2019s incoming class was larger than anticipated, which means this year\u2019s class size goal is a little smaller in order to balance Tech\u2019s overall student population. Tech accepted about 1,000 fewer students this year, with the goal of a class size of 2,800 freshmen.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe selectivity is a blessing and a curse,\u201d said Rick Clark, director of Undergraduate Admission. \u201cOur staff gives great care to these decisions, and it\u2019s not always fun. We have to remind ourselves that these are all amazing kids, and they have plenty of other great options.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe admission rate for in-state students is higher than the overall rate, at 35 percent, while international students were accepted at a rate of 10 percent. Students from 299 Georgia high schools are included in the admitted pool.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdmission saw growth this year in strategic areas where it has devoted additional time or resources. One of those places is California, where it now has a full-time admission counselor and is able to have a presence in panel discussions and other college recruiting events. Another is in Latin American countries, where Admission staff participated in \u201cconsortium travel,\u201d which lets representatives from similar peer institutions travel together to meet with prospective students and high school staff.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn its second year of partnership with \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/admission.gatech.edu\/aps\u0022\u003EAtlanta Public Schools\u003C\/a\u003E (APS), Georgia Tech offered admission to a student from every APS high school. Last year, five students enrolled at Tech in the first year of the program, which provides a scholarship to all APS valedictorians and salutatorians for four years of in-state tuition and mandatory fees.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMary Tipton Wooley, senior associate director for Undergraduate Admission, equates the admission process more to matchmaking than one-sided acceptance. No longer is admission simply about being able to be successful at Georgia Tech. It is now more a process of identifying mutual fits for prospective students and the Institute.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5\u003EReinforcing the Resources\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis year, Undergraduate Admission worked with faculty in five of Tech\u2019s six colleges to identify the best candidates for each area. Faculty members are able to apply their expertise by taking a more nuanced looks at applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdditionally, seven temporary seasonal staff members joined the team to help carry the extra load of applications. Hiring temporary staff allows Tech\u2019s permanent staff to maintain relationships with applicants and high school counselors across Georgia and beyond.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTheir presence allows our staff to actually call people back in the midst of our busiest season,\u201d Clark said. \u201cThey are crucial to our work and maintaining customer service amidst the volume increase and time compression. If you have a prospective student emailing with a question and not getting an answer back quickly, that\u2019s a problem.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5\u003EYielding the Class\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow that students have been offered admission, the task becomes getting them to choose Georgia Tech among the many offers they have received. Clark believes the Georgia Tech community is essential at this point in the process.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPart of the success we have had in recent years is from students, faculty, and staff encouraging those they know to come to Georgia Tech,\u201d he said. \u201cIf someone on social media from your area says they\u2019ve been accepted, or you know someone personally, congratulate them. 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Research with the best chance of commercialization or demonstrating the most impact toward resolving an industry need receives a cash prize \u2013 up to $5,000 this year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInitial cybersecurity research concepts were presented at the inaugural Fall Demo Day, held \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gtcybersecuritysummit.com\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EOct. 28 at the Georgia Tech Cyber Security Summit\u003C\/a\u003E, where more than 300 attendees viewed and voted on the best research work from Georgia Tech and GTRI. The top five finalists now advance to the finale. All finalists represent graduate students \u2013 some of whom have been working on their projects for many years.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt means a great deal for me to know that my research can have a huge positive impact outside of the lab,\u201d says \u003Cstrong\u003EMusheer Ahmed\u003C\/strong\u003E, a graduating PhD student (advised by Professor Mustaque Ahamad) whose patented, data analytics system assigns risk scores to healthcare providers and already has caught the eye of other incubator programs interested in its potential. \u201cAll students strive for this but never know if that will materialize with their work. I hope the momentum will continue and my work can be commercialized.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnother team \u2013 \u201cIDforWeb\u201d -- hopes to gather validation from the Demo Day judges that they have an easy-to-use platform for secure transactions and communication authentication. IDforWeb seeks to create \u201ckiller apps\u201d that improve public key infrastructure (PKI) with new ease of use.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u0027m glad that people believe the 10+ year-old PKI usability problem is an important problem to solve,\u0026nbsp;and agree with us that new technologies like smartphones and\u0026nbsp;blockchains offer some new angle,\u201d said \u003Cstrong\u003EPak Ho Chung\u003C\/strong\u003E, a researcher in the School of Computer Science, referring to the Fall audience that voted them through to the Spring Finale.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAll projects that will be presented at Demo Day represent a broad range of solutions for healthcare, e-commerce, application development and more, says \u003Cstrong\u003EBo Rotoloni\u003C\/strong\u003E, co-director of the IISP who also leads the information and cyber sciences directorate for the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe investors coming to judge our first Demo Day are going to see unique ideas by Georgia Tech and clever solutions to existing and emerging challenges. We believe one of academia\u2019s roles is to explore big ideas, prove the potential, and create new market spaces. Several of these finalists do that well.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDue to limited space, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/tiny.cc\/demoday16\u0022\u003Eregistration is encouraged\u003C\/a\u003E for the event.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe IISP Demo Day Spring \u201916 Finalists are\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0022Cybersecurity Inspired Health Insurance Fraud Detector\u0022\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EMusheer Ahmed\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Advisor: Mustaque Ahamad\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www2.ece.gatech.edu\/cap\/PARS\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E \u003Cem\u003E\u0022PARS: A Uniform and Open-source Password Analysis and Research System\u0022\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EShukun Yang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Advisor: Raheem Beyah\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wenke.gtisc.gatech.edu\/papers\/dangnull.pdf\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E \u003Cem\u003E\u0022Preventing Use-after-free with Dangling Pointers Nullification\u0022\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EByoungyoung Lee \u003C\/strong\u003Eand\u003Cstrong\u003E Chengyu Song\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Advisor: Taesoo Kim\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0022Tying Public Key to Person with \u2018idforweb\u2019 \u0022\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EPak Ho Chung, Yeongjin Jang \u003C\/strong\u003Eand\u003Cstrong\u003E Mark Wisneski\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Advisor: Wenke Lee\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wenke.gtisc.gatech.edu\/papers\/ucognito.pdf\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E \u003Cem\u003E\u0022UCognito: Private Browsing without Tears\u0022\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EMeng Xu \u003C\/strong\u003Eand\u003Cstrong\u003E Yeongjin Jang \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Advisor:\u0026nbsp; Taesoo Kim and Wenke Lee\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJudges are\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERobin Bienfait\u003C\/strong\u003E, chief enterprise innovation officer, Samsung\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPaul Conley\u003C\/strong\u003E, managing director, Paladin Capital Group\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Lee\u003C\/strong\u003E, senior associate, Osage Partners\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGlenn McGonnigle\u003C\/strong\u003E, general partner, TechOperators\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESig Mosley\u003C\/strong\u003E, managing partner, Mosley Ventures\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EA fraud detection system for healthcare claims\u2026 Ways to evaluate safer passwords\u2026. 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Georgia Tech will receive $3.5 million over five years for this role.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe NNCI is comprised of 16 sites, located in 15 states and involving 27 universities. This national network provides researchers from academia, government and companies with access to university user facilities with leading-edge fabrication and characterization tools, instrumentation and expertise within all disciplines of nanoscale science, engineering and technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe 16 network sites, announced by NSF in September 2015, will receive $81 million over five years. As one of the NNCI sites, the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nnci.net\/nnci-sites\/southeastern-nanotechnology-infrastructure-corridor-senic\/\u0022\u003ESoutheastern Nanotechnology Infrastructure Corridor\u003C\/a\u003E (SENIC) combines state-of-the-art nanotechnology fabrication and characterization resources and expertise at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, an academic collaboration between North Carolina A\u0026amp;T State University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe goal of the NNCI Coordinating Office is to increase the visibility, impact and efficiency of the network and its sites as a national nanotechnology infrastructure resource,\u201d said Oliver Brand, director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ien.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIEN\u003C\/a\u003E and professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Brand, who will direct the NNCI Coordinating Office, an interactive web portal will assist users in finding NNCI fabrication and characterization resources to meet their research needs. The initiative will use the expertise of site staff to facilitate programs and share best practices in education and outreach, social and ethical implications, and computational modeling and simulation across the network and help provide linkages with other national and international nanotechnology resources.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to Brand, David Gottfried, IEN principal research scientist, will serve as deputy director of the NNCI Coordinating Office; Nancy Healy, a senior academic professional at IEN, will coordinate the NNCI education and outreach programs; Azad Naeemi, an associate professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, will coordinate the NNCI modeling and computation activities; and Jameson Wetmore, an associate director within the Center for Nanotechnology in\u0026nbsp;Society at Arizona State University, will facilitate the NNCI societal and ethical implications programs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWith the support of the NNCI Coordinating Office at Georgia Tech, the NNCI sites can now truly function as a national network of user facilities, which we expect to lead to American innovations with economic and societal benefits,\u201d said Lawrence Goldberg, NSF NNCI program director.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESupported by the Coordinating Office, the NNCI will train a globally competitive nanotechnology workforce and provide efficient access to resources for innovation and commercialization of nanotechnology. 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He described the chaotic environments they face and explained the protective gear they wear.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI was really surprised they didn\u2019t have sensors or technology to help them,\u201d Braun said. \u201cWhat they did have seemed really crude.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBraun teamed up with Tyler Sisk, an electrical engineering major, and together they invented FireHUD. A heads-up-display attaches to a firefighter\u2019s mask and measures heart rate, respiratory rate, blood oxygen level, body temperature, external temperature and other vital signs. This information will help firefighters determine whether they are overexerting themselves and are at risk for cardiac arrest.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2016\/03\/17\/firehud-wins-2016-inventure-prize\u0022\u003Einvention won first place in last month\u2019s Georgia Tech InVenture Prize\u003C\/a\u003E, which rewards students with cash prizes and free patent filings for inventions that aim to solve societal problems. Now FireHUD will represent the Institute in the inaugural \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/accinventure.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EACC InVenture Prize\u003C\/a\u003E. This contest, which will be held on campus Tuesday and Wednesday, involves student startups and inventions from each of the 15 universities in the Atlantic Coast Conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFriends since middle school, Braun and Sisk previously worked together on Science Olympiad projects and once built a robotic arm.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor this invention, they were inspired by the health bar displays found in video games.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI play, and it was the first thing that came to mind because you can keep track of all your vitals,\u201d Braun said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey also wanted a way to share this information with officials on the scene. The device transmits data to the incident commander, who can view it on a computer through an app.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe device itself is about the size of a cell phone. It doesn\u2019t make the mask noticeably heavier or impede vision, said David Phillips, a member of the Fairburn Fire Department who has tried out the invention.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of the biggest risks firefighters face is overexerting themselves because most don\u2019t recognize when they are putting themselves in danger, Phillips said. FireHUD lets firefighters know when they are in harm\u2019s way so they can take steps to be safe, he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe idea is awesome and it really could save a firefighter\u2019s life,\u201d Phillips said. \u201cYou do wonder how we went this long without something like this.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBraun and Sisk started working on the invention last summer. The original design had the heads-up-display outside the mask but it was too difficult to read, Sisk said. They moved it inside the mask and used a near-eye display, which is meant to be looked at up close.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBraun and Sisk fine-tuned and improved the design through Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/i2p.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EIdea to Prototype\u003C\/a\u003E class.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe class provides students with undergraduate research credit and a grant to build functional prototypes based on their ideas. It is part of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECREATE-X\u003C\/a\u003E, an array of programs and initiatives designed to build entrepreneurial confidence among Georgia Tech students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents in the program talk with potential customers to discover what they need and want. During the fall semester, Braun and Sisk spent nearly every weekend visiting fire departments to learn from firefighters how to improve the device.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey are in the course again this semester and are still talking with firefighters. They\u2019ve learned firefighters don\u2019t like the flashlight currently on the device, so Sisk said they will likely remove it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA key point in the customer discovery process came when they visited the Georgia Public Safety Training Center in Forsyth. Several firefighters tried on the device, and one of trainers wore it in a burning building to see how it worked and make sure the electric components didn\u2019t melt.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVisiting the center remains one of the highlights of the entire invention process, Braun said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSeeing their faces and excitement as they tried on the masks was amazing,\u201d he said. \u201cI think it was then that we realized this can really save lives.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe device measures biometric data with a sensor that goes in a firefighter\u2019s ear, and the heads-up-display uses a microcontroller. While earlier iterations were 3D printed, the current design uses Teflon and fiberglass, which makes it able to withstand high temperatures.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team built much of the devices in Sisk\u2019s basement. They did some 3D printing in the Invention Studio \u2013 a student-run, design-build-play maker space on campus \u2013 where Sisk is one of the prototyping instructors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBraun and Sisk are still improving the device and will soon file for the patent, a prize that came with winning the Georgia Tech competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOver the past couple of weeks, FireHUD was featured on FireRescue1, one of the nation\u2019s premier firefighting websites, and highlighted as an emerging technology in the internal newsletter of a leading manufacturer of firefighting equipment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur goal is to keep working on FireHUD,\u201d Sisk said. \u201cWe want to manufacture this and make it a reality for firefighters.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe two students who invented FireHUD, a device to help keep firefighters safe, will represent Georgia Tech in the inaugural ACC InVenture Prize competition taking place on campus Tuesday and Wednesday.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"FireHUD will represent Georgia Tech in the inaugural ACC InVenture Prize competition."}],"uid":"27918","created_gmt":"2016-04-04 08:32:43","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:14","author":"Laura Diamond","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-04-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-04-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"517891":{"id":"517891","type":"image","title":"FireHUD closeup","body":null,"created":"1459274540","gmt_created":"2016-03-29 18:02:20","changed":"1475895282","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:42","alt":"FireHUD closeup","file":{"fid":"205192","name":"firehudcloseup.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/firehudcloseup_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/firehudcloseup_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":22701,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/firehudcloseup_0.jpg?itok=h-jO31_F"}},"505261":{"id":"505261","type":"image","title":"ACC InVenture Prize logo","body":null,"created":"1456760341","gmt_created":"2016-02-29 15:39:01","changed":"1522856406","gmt_changed":"2018-04-04 15:40:06","alt":"","file":{"fid":"204818","name":"accinventureprizelogo.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/accinventureprizelogo.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/accinventureprizelogo.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":138374,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/accinventureprizelogo.jpg?itok=16t43Zo-"}},"514731":{"id":"514731","type":"image","title":"FireHUD - 2016 InVenture Prize winner","body":null,"created":"1458923790","gmt_created":"2016-03-25 16:36:30","changed":"1475895277","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:37","alt":"FireHUD - 2016 InVenture Prize winner","file":{"fid":"205071","name":"firehudfirstplace.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/firehudfirstplace_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/firehudfirstplace_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1949660,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/firehudfirstplace_0.jpg?itok=IS_EC8_a"}}},"media_ids":["517891","505261","514731"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/accinventure.gatech.edu\/","title":"ACC InVenture Prize"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"171868","name":"ACC InVenture Prize"},{"id":"137161","name":"CREATE-X"},{"id":"3472","name":"entrepreneurship"},{"id":"12350","name":"Georgia Tech InVenture Prize"},{"id":"166994","name":"startups"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"},{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELaura Diamond\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003EMedia Relations\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003C\/p\u003E@LauraRDiamond","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["laura.diamond@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"516941":{"#nid":"516941","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Women Take Lead on Campus through SWE","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EInternational Women\u2019s Day on March 8 may have passed, but with all of March being Women\u2019s History Month, there is a monthlong focus on females. Here at Georgia Tech, women may be outnumbered, but their presence on campus does not reflect it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of Tech\u2019s leading groups of women is the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). With more than 530 members, it is the second largest SWE section in the nation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEstablished at Georgia Tech in 1958, SWE gives women the opportunity to form a tight-knit community where they can develop their interests in engineering and find support as they pursue professional goals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo support professional development, SWE provides its members with technical development workshops, networking, and the opportunity to attend regional and national conferences.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe technical development workshops give members the chance to expand their knowledge beyond their major. The most recent event taught attendees how to code a personalized website using Microsoft\u2019s Choose to Code program. Other events have involved introductions to Excel, AutoCAD, and Georgia Tech\u2019s Invention Studio.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt SWE conferences, members can meet with potential employers and explore career fairs featuring hundreds of businesses. The events are held around the country at the regional and national level. Georgia Tech will host the 2017 Region D conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI got my summer internship by attending the SWE regional conference in Nashville,\u201d said Hannah Chen, an industrial engineering major and secretary for SWE at Tech. \u0022After I attended the company\u0027s information session at the conference, I decided to approach one of the recruiters. I told her that I was interested in a summer internship and handed her my resume. She was impressed that I took the initiative to speak with her and the company ended up hiring me.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESWE focuses on empowering not only current members, but also the next generation of women in STEM fields through internal and external outreach events. One Saturday each month, girls in middle school or high school are invited to campus to participate in STEM-related activities. Similar activities are provided for elementary school students at a local charter school, Centennial Academy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI wish I had something like this when I was in high school,\u201d Chen said. \u0022Seeing older women in STEM fields makes it less intimidating to pursue a degree in engineering. It\u2019s important for girls to know that they will have the support of other women in their field.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EExternal outreach events are typically held off campus. SWE\u2019s EAGLE7 Engineering Events teach children about various types of engineering and what they really involve, and SWE members answer the questions of younger students who are considering engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMembers of SWE also have the opportunity to form strong social networks through events such as the annual Engineer\u2019s Ball, ice skating at Atlantic Station, or meeting graduate students who are part of Grad SWE.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInterested students can learn more or join SWE at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.swe.gtorg.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.swe.gtorg.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E. The organization accepts applicants regardless of major. Students are also welcome to stop a SWE meeting, held weekly on Tuesdays from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in Room 117 of the Student Services (Flag) Building.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWith more than 530 members, Georgia Tech\u0027s chapter of the Society of Women Engineers is the second largest in the nation.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"With more than 530 members, Georgia Tech\u0027s chapter of the Society of Women Engineers is the second largest in the nation."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2016-03-25 11:10:54","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:09","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-03-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-03-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"517481":{"id":"517481","type":"image","title":"Society of Women Engineers","body":null,"created":"1458924055","gmt_created":"2016-03-25 16:40:55","changed":"1475895282","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:42","alt":"Society of Women Engineers","file":{"fid":"205179","name":"picture1.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/picture1_2.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/picture1_2.png","mime":"image\/png","size":351295,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/picture1_2.png?itok=JY6RjMYY"}},"517491":{"id":"517491","type":"image","title":"Society of Women Engineers","body":null,"created":"1458924055","gmt_created":"2016-03-25 16:40:55","changed":"1475895282","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:42","alt":"Society of Women Engineers","file":{"fid":"205180","name":"picture2.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/picture2_1.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/picture2_1.png","mime":"image\/png","size":538031,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/picture2_1.png?itok=NQYpKB_V"}},"517501":{"id":"517501","type":"image","title":"Society of Women Engineers","body":null,"created":"1458924055","gmt_created":"2016-03-25 16:40:55","changed":"1475895282","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:42","alt":"Society of Women Engineers","file":{"fid":"205181","name":"picture3.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/picture3_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/picture3_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1571195,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/picture3_0.png?itok=ItLbEr8j"}}},"media_ids":["517481","517491","517501"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.swe.gtorg.gatech.edu\/","title":"Society of Women Engineers"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"169435","name":"Society of Women Engineers"},{"id":"166847","name":"students"},{"id":"168724","name":"swe"},{"id":"973","name":"women"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:stucomm@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJulia Faherty\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"521911":{"#nid":"521911","#data":{"type":"news","title":"FireHUD Advances to ACC InVenture Prize Finals","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo Georgia Tech students who invented a device to help keep firefighters safe advanced to the final round of the inaugural ACC InVenture Prize competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EZack Braun, a computer engineering major, and Tyler Sisk, an electrical engineering major, will compete against students from for four other universities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ACC InVenture Prize awards cash prizes to undergraduate students whose innovations aim to solve world problems and make our lives more comfortable. Each of the 15 universities in the Atlantic Coast Conference selected a team of student entrepreneurs for the competition, which is taking place at Georgia Tech. A preliminary round held Tuesday evening narrowed the field to five finalists.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBesides FireHUD, the other finalists are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBioMetrix from Duke University. This team, led by two women, invented a way to keep athletes and sports teams healthier. Their wearable sensor adheres to the skin, collects data and uses cloud services to quantify rehabilitation progress and provide real-time feedback to reduce athletic injuries.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECommuniGift from University of North Carolina. This three-member team created a gift-purchasing platform that enables children celebrating their birthday to invite their guests to give to a child in need instead of buying something for the birthday boy or girl. Gifts are sent directly from retail sites to sponsoring non-profits, which distribute the items.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EContraline from University of Virginia. This five-member team is developing a male contraceptive that is long-lasting, non-hormonal and reversible. The non-surgical process is safe, effective and more appealing than condoms or vasectomies, inventors said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMocean from Boston College. This three-person team developed a real-time music application that allows an unlimited number of people to play a song at the exact same time. It enables anyone with a smart device to become a live radio station.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe five teams will pitch their inventions before a live audience and panel of judges tonight starting at 8 p.m. in the Ferst Center for the Arts. Georgia Public Broadcasting will air the show live and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gpb.org\/acc-inventure-2016\u0022\u003Estream it here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe winner will receive $15,000 and the second-place finisher will take home $10,000. A $5,000 People\u2019s Choice Award will go the fans\u2019 favorite invention.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe competition is sponsored by the ACC Academic Consortium, which supports academic initiatives among member universities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe tournament is modeled after Georgia Tech\u2019s InVenture Prize, which started in 2009 to leverage the maker culture and encourage students to push their ideas even further.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBraun and Sisk -- who are both from Newnan, Ga. -- advanced to the ACC contest after winning Tech\u2019s InVenture Prize last month. The first-place prize in that competition included $20,000 and a free U.S. patent filing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2016\/04\/04\/keeping-firefighters-safe\u0022\u003Einvention is a heads-up-display\u003C\/a\u003E that attaches to a firefighter\u2019s mask and measures heart rate, respiratory rate, blood oxygen level, body temperature, external temperature and other vital signs. This information will help firefighters determine whether they are overexerting themselves and are at risk for cardiac arrest.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe device also transmits data to the incident commander on the scene, who can view it on a computer through an app.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"The Georgia Tech students will compete against teams from Boston College, Duke University, University of North Carolina and University of Virginia."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFireHUD advances to ACC InVenture Prize finals, which will take place tonight on campus. The team of two Georgia Tech students will compete against teams from Boston College, Duke University, University of North Carolina and University of Virginia. The competition will award $30,000 in cash pizes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Student inventors from Georgia Tech, Boston College, Duke University, University of North Carolina and University of Virginia will compete in the ACC InVenture Prize finale."}],"uid":"27918","created_gmt":"2016-04-06 08:15:47","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:17","author":"Laura Diamond","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-04-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-04-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"505261":{"id":"505261","type":"image","title":"ACC InVenture Prize logo","body":null,"created":"1456760341","gmt_created":"2016-02-29 15:39:01","changed":"1522856406","gmt_changed":"2018-04-04 15:40:06","alt":"","file":{"fid":"204818","name":"accinventureprizelogo.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/accinventureprizelogo.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/accinventureprizelogo.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":138374,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/accinventureprizelogo.jpg?itok=16t43Zo-"}}},"media_ids":["505261"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/accinventure.gatech.edu\/","title":"ACC InVenture Prize"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"171892","name":"competitions"},{"id":"3472","name":"entrepreneurship"},{"id":"166994","name":"startups"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"106361","name":"Business and Economic Development"},{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"},{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELaura Diamond\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003EMedia Relations\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E@LauraRDiamond\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["laura.diamond@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"522331":{"#nid":"522331","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Duke, University of Virginia and Georgia Tech Win Big at ACC InVenture Prize","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStudent inventors from Duke University, the University of Virginia and Georgia Tech triumphed at the ACC InVenture Prize, a new competition that celebrates entrepreneurship.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBioMetrix from Duke won first place and $15,000. This team, led by two women, invented a way to keep athletes and sports teams healthier. A wearable sensor adheres to the skin, collects data and uses cloud services to quantify rehabilitation progress and provide real-time feedback to reduce athletic injuries.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EContraline from UVA finished second and earned $10,000. This five-member team is developing a male contraceptive that is long-lasting, non-hormonal and reversible. The non-surgical process is safe, effective and more appealing than condoms or vasectomies, inventors said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnd Georgia Tech\u2019s FireHUD scored $5,000 as winners of the People Choice Award, which went to the fans\u2019 favorite invention. The team invented a device to help keep firefighters safe.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/accinventure.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EACC InVenture Prize\u003C\/a\u003E, which taps into the startup culture growing on college campuses, was held at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach of the 15 universities in the Atlantic Coast Conference sent a team of students to the competition. The group was narrowed to five finalists that competed during Wednesday\u2019s live finale. The other two teams were from Boston College and the University of North Carolina.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe contest is sponsored by the ACC Academic Consortium, which supports academic initiatives among member universities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERafael L. Bras, Georgia Tech\u2019s provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs, said leaders were looking to celebrate the strong academics found in all the ACC schools and agreed that the InVenture Prize was a way to accomplish that goal.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe event was modeled after \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/inventureprize.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s InVenture Prize\u003C\/a\u003E, which rewards undergraduate students with cash prizes for innovations that aim to solve the world\u2019s big problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFireHUD won Georgia Tech\u2019s InVenture Prize last month.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EZack Braun, a computer engineering major, and Tyler Sisk, an electrical engineering major, i\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2016\/04\/04\/keeping-firefighters-safe\u0022\u003Envented a head-up-display\u003C\/a\u003E that attaches to a firefighter\u2019s mask and measures heart rate, respiratory rate, blood oxygen level, body temperature, external temperature and other vital signs. 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effort.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESystem designers must increasingly worry about removing heat, an unwanted byproduct of watching a YouTube video, shooting a selfie, or updating a Facebook page.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the same way that physical limits on the size of transistors may throttle the performance growth promised by Moore\u2019s Law (the expectation that computer processing power will double about every two years), the challenge of removing heat from ever-smaller transistors also poses a threat to continued efficiency improvements. The resulting tradeoffs will affect everything that relies on integrated circuits \u2013 from mobile phones and tablets all the way up to high-performance computers and data centers the size of football fields.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt Georgia Tech, researchers are addressing these thermal challenges in broad and bold ways. Their efforts include designing chips that operate with less power, providing new forms of cooling, and optimizing data center operations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe challenges on the small scale are very different from the challenges at the large scale,\u201d said Yogendra Joshi, a professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, whose research group studies thermal challenges in a comprehensive way. \u201cEveryone wants more capabilities in the devices they are using, but there are tradeoffs to be made at each level.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERead the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rh.gatech.edu\/features\/cooler-runnings\u0022\u003Ecomplete feature\u003C\/a\u003E on the Research Horizons website\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAt Georgia Tech, researchers are addressing thermal challenges for electronic equipment in broad and bold ways. 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Signing on behalf of Institut Lafayette were co-presidents and Georgia Tech faculty members, Abdallah Ougazzaden and Bernard Kippelen. The visit followed bilateral talks between French President Fran\u00e7ois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel during the 18\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E Franco-German Ministerial Council meeting held in Metz, France on April 7th.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Institut Lafayette and German-based AIXTRON sign agreement following the 18th Franco-German Ministerial Council meeting held in Metz, France on April 7, 2016."}],"uid":"28490","created_gmt":"2016-04-12 18:25:07","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:21","author":"Andrea Gappell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-04-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-04-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"523851":{"id":"523851","type":"image","title":"Institut Lafayette and AIXTRON Sign Agreement","body":null,"created":"1460732400","gmt_created":"2016-04-15 15:00:00","changed":"1475895293","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:53","alt":"Institut Lafayette and AIXTRON Sign Agreement","file":{"fid":"205425","name":"april7lafayette.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/april7lafayette_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/april7lafayette_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":667706,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/april7lafayette_0.png?itok=S2xyzlIv"}}},"media_ids":["523851"],"groups":[{"id":"54809","name":"Georgia Tech-Europe (GTE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"162801","name":"18th Franco-German Miisterial Council"},{"id":"29771","name":"Abdallah Ougazzaden"},{"id":"171912","name":"Angela Merkel"},{"id":"2431","name":"Bernard Kippelen"},{"id":"2050","name":"france"},{"id":"171913","name":"Francois Hollande"},{"id":"98061","name":"institut lafayette"},{"id":"1802","name":"international"},{"id":"14487","name":"Lafayette Institute"},{"id":"3445","name":"Metz"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:%20andrea.gappell@gtl.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EAndrea Gappell, Marketing Manger, Georgia Tech-Lorraine\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["andrea.gappell@gtl.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"529901":{"#nid":"529901","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Health Is Star (Again) at Spring Capstone Design Expo","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt was a big night for health at spring\u0027s Capstone Design Expo, as teams targeting medicine and wellness took home nearly half of the event awards.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Expo\u0027s overall winner, Hub Hygiene, was an interdisciplinary team that aimed to reduce bloodstream infection rates. The group showed off a device that cleans a needleless IV connector.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn recent years, health-centric projects have grabbed center stage at the Expo, which is in some ways a compass for Georgia Tech at large. The Expo began as an exhibition for mechanical engineering alone, but it now hosts hundreds of students and reflects the Institute-wide emphases on real-world applicability and human needs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach Capstone Design Expo showcases senior projects from about a dozen Georgia Tech schools (most of them in the College of Engineering). The idea is for students to create prototypes that solve problems, though projects at the Expos are as diverse as the students themselves.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMany teams work with big-name sponsors \u2013 The Coca-Cola Company, Ford Motor Company, The Home Depot \u2013 to tackle corporate issues like supply chains. Some groups strike out on their own, designing new inventions that sometimes become foundations for full-fledged startup companies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOther universities host similar events, but Georgia Tech\u2019s version stands out thanks to heavy alumni involvement and participation from around the Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETeam Purrfect Engineering, which designed a better way to make paper tunnels for pet-toy company Dezi \u0026amp; Roo, worked in the Invention Studio to create a prototype.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt just looked like such an interesting project,\u201d said team member Joseph Tenpenny. Thanks to his mechanical engineering team\u2019s work and its Invention Studio creation, Dezi \u0026amp; Roo has a more efficient manufacturing process for its cat tunnels.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETeam Second Self, which won the industrial engineering prize, boasted a different kind of Georgia Tech connection: Its sponsor was a brewery owned by two Tech alumni. And plenty of graduates attended the Expo as either visitors or judges, giving students a chance to network and show off their skills.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA Georgia Tech alum who\u2019s now attending medical school came by our table and said [our project] is really interesting,\u201d said Shirin Kale, a biomedical engineering senior and member of the Infinitis team. Her group, which designed an IUD that\u2019s easier and more comfortable to insert than current models, eventually won the prize for best interdisciplinary project.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETwelve teams, out of 110 total, ultimately earned awards at the spring Expo. But with so many students competing, prizes aren\u2019t always the point.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe biomedical engineering team All-in-Vein, which developed an automated system to check for IV infiltrations, was sponsored by Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta. Infiltrations happen when IV catheters slip from veins and leak fluid, and because they affect up to 50 percent of pediatric patients, they can mean big trouble.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlthough graduation is just a couple weeks away for the All-in-Vein members, they plan to continue their work, said group member Kaci Crawford.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe were really encouraged after getting our provisional patent,\u201d she explained.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJudges finished assessing spring Expo teams by 7 p.m., and by 8:30, the evening\u2019s awards, photographs and speeches were all over. 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Such attacks use code embedded in highly-ranked sites to drive traffic to sketchy websites selling fake drugs, counterfeit handbags and plagiarized term papers \u2013 or installing drive-by malware.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new technique, known as Semantic Inconsistency Search (SEISE), uses natural language processing to spot the differences between a compromised site\u2019s expected content and the malicious advertising and promotional code. Using SEISE, the researchers found 11,000 infected sites among non-commercial top-level sponsored .edu, .gov and .mil domains worldwide, and are working to extend the method to other domains.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research was supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation and Natural Science Foundation of China. It will be described in a presentation May 25, 2016 at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in San Jose. SEISE was developed by researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Indiana University and Tsinghua University in China.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe basic idea behind promotional infection is to attack websites that are highly-ranked and to leverage their importance to promote various things, most of them illegal,\u201d explained \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/abdul-r-beyah\u0022\u003ERaheem Beyah\u003C\/a\u003E, who is the Motorola Foundation Professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cThe bad content is nested into the prominent site to leverage the traffic of that domain. That gives the attackers a doorway to whatever they are promoting.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEssentially, said Beyah, the attackers are stealing the site\u2019s good name, even if they don\u2019t install malware or otherwise inflict harm on web visitors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe attackers essentially become part of the prominent website\u2019s brand and share in the ranking they have,\u201d he added. \u201cIt\u2019s like setting up operations inside a well-known coffee shop chain. The attacker leverages the brand by becoming co-located with it.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe promotional attacks can be difficult to detect, especially if they don\u2019t contain malicious computer code. But the semantic differences between the host site and the attacker\u2019s code can tip off the SEISE algorithm. Once it has characterized the content expected on a website \u2013 educational information on an .edu page, for example \u2013 the pitches for gambling or inexpensive prescription drugs become obvious.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf you are visiting the website for a prestigious university, you don\u2019t expect to see information promoting casino gambling,\u201d said Beyah. \u201cIf we expect one thing from the website and see something significantly different, there is a huge semantic gap that we can detect.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESEISE doesn\u2019t have to review an entire site to determine what should be there; it can sample the pages to learn context that makes attacker terms stand out. Because their domain purposes are clear and well established, the researchers began with education and government websites. They now hope to extend the automated approach to commercial and other domains whose intended purposes may be less consistent.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are trying to figure out how to get the context right for these domains so we can help companies detect these infections,\u201d Beyah said. \u201cThere\u2019s no reason to believe that the commercial domains are any less attractive to attackers than the non-commercial ones.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeyah and Georgia Tech Ph.D. student Xiaojing Liao began the work by using Google searches to find sites with known \u201cbad words\u201d denoting illicit products. They then utilized natural language processing to find terms associated with these known bad words, which were then used to train the SEISE before it was sent out to analyze 100,000 domains for the presence of the illicit terms. The approach identified 11,000 infected sites with a false detection rate of just 1.5 percent and coverage of more than 90 percent.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESEISE found promotional infections on the websites of top U.S. universities and government agencies, though the problem was truly worldwide, with three percent of .edu and .gov sites infected. Of the infected websites noted, 15 percent were in China and six percent were in the United States.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESites are infected using proven attack techniques such as SQL injection, URL redirection and phishing to compromise the credentials of users, Beyah said. Though central websites of the organizations may be secure, pages of individual users and units may be more vulnerable \u2013 and still provide the prestige of the overall domain.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EExisting techniques for detecting promotional infections rely on examining redirects and following links, or observing how sites change over time. But those techniques aren\u2019t scalable and can\u2019t be automated in the same way as the new semantic gap approach, Beyah said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers want to share their technique with the larger security community, and are discussing how best to make the algorithm available. \u201cOur study shows that by effective detection of infected sponsored top-level domains (sTLDs), the bar to promotion infections can be substantially raised,\u201d the authors wrote in their paper.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAbout those 11,000 compromised webpages? The researchers are attempting to contact the operators of all 11,000 of them to share the bad news. \u201cWe have spent a lot of time contacting those folks and letting them know what we have found,\u201d Beyah said. \u201cWe\u2019re still in the process of doing that because there are so many.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis work was supported by the National Science Foundation through Grants CNS-1223477, CNS-1223495 and CNS-1527141 and by the Natural Science Foundation of China through Grant 61472215. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E177 North Avenue\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAtlanta, Georgia 30332-0181 USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contact\u003C\/strong\u003Es: John Toon (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) (404-894-6986) or Ben Brumfield (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ben.brumfield@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eben.brumfield@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) (404-385-1933).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBy detecting semantic inconsistencies in content, researchers have developed a new technique for identifying promotional infections of websites operated by government and educational organizations. 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A doctor straps a listening device to it, and the noises you hear coming out of it are cringe-worthy. \u201cCrackle! Krglkrglkrgl! Snap!\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYour knee isn\u2019t breaking; it\u2019s only bending, and in the future, those sounds could help doctors determine whether the convalescing joint is healthy yet, or if it needs more therapy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearch engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing a knee band with microphones and vibration sensors to listen to and measure the sounds inside the joint.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt could lead to a future device to help orthopedic specialists assess damage after an injury and track the progress of recovery.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFormer NCAA athlete\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOmer Inan has suffered knee pain himself and had been thinking about developing such a device for some time. 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Inan leads a team of 17 researchers, including Georgia Tech faculty in ECE and Applied Physiology and graduate students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDelightfully gross\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen he heard the first recordings of crackly grinding in early experiments, Inan was delighted. \u201cIt was a lot louder than expected and a lot clearer,\u201d he said. That meant instant progress.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo others, it just sounds gross. \u201cIt\u2019s a little bit like some kind of Halloween stuff happening. You\u2019re listening to your bones rubbing on each other, or maybe cartilage,\u201d Inan said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDoctors call the joint cracking \u201ccrepitus,\u201d which rings oddly of \u201cdecrepit.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESome 100 years ago, physicians thought that racket might contain a message and listened to it with large stethoscopes. Now, Inan hopes that in the future, medical research will build on the acoustical sensing technology his group is designing, and eventually decode the sound into useful patterns.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECurrently, the researchers are graphing out the recorded audio and matching it to the joint\u2019s range of motion to see where exactly in the leg\u2019s extending and bending the knee creates creaks and pops. The result has peaks and squiggles that resemble an electrocardiogram or other physiological signal.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe acoustic pattern an injured knee produces is markedly different from that of an intact knee. \u201cIt\u2019s more erratic,\u201d Inan said. \u201cA healthy knee produces a more consistent pattern of noises.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBattlefield knee injuries\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf paired with medical research, Inan\u2019s acoustic device could lead to inexpensive, wearable monitors, which could benefit athletes who have overburdened their knees, and elderly patients who have slipped and fallen, but DARPA\u2019s interest is to cut down on repeat battlefield knee injuries and help get soldiers back to duty safely.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhat most people don\u2019t know is that musculoskeletal injuries of the knees and ankles are among the top reasons for discharge for active duty service members,\u201d Inan said. Backpacks weighing up to 100 pounds press down on soldiers, as they march for dozens of miles over tricky terrain, climb over obstacles on battlefields, and crouch in cramped spots for hours.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEven without a fall or contortion, a soldier can land in surgery then in rehab. The problem may seem fixed months later, but too often it\u2019s not, and too often that\u2019s because of re-injury.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELike professional athletes, soldiers can be overly eager to leap back into the fray. \u201cThey were there in the first place because they wanted to help our country, so they want to get back to it,\u201d Inan said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOvercoming challenges\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter surgery and therapy, that knee may feel like new, but when a fervent soldier jumps back onto it, weaknesses from the injury kick in. 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Winnefeld Jr. \u2013\u0026nbsp;former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Professor, Sam Nunn School of International Relations, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn July 25 - 29, Georgia Tech will welcome senior executives from industry and government for an intensive four-day program on cybersecurity risks.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"On July 25 - 29, Georgia Tech will welcome senior executives from industry and government for an intensive four-day program on cybersecurity risks."}],"uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2016-05-25 12:47:27","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:46","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-05-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-05-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"540161":{"id":"540161","type":"image","title":"Cybersecurity Leadership Program for Executives 2016","body":null,"created":"1464706800","gmt_created":"2016-05-31 15:00:00","changed":"1475895329","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:29","alt":"Cybersecurity Leadership Program for Executives 2016","file":{"fid":"89579","name":"cybersecurity2016.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/cybersecurity2016.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/cybersecurity2016.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1346103,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/cybersecurity2016.jpg?itok=bWvXla2V"}}},"media_ids":["540161"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/pe.gatech.edu\/cyberleaders\/","title":"Cybersecurity Leadership Program"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.hypepotamus.com\/people\/cybersecurity-ceo-professor\/","title":"Retired Admiral Prepares CEOs to Battle Cybersecurity Threats"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"171725","name":"Admiral James Winnefeld"},{"id":"172071","name":"cubersecurity leadership program"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStory contact:\u003Cbr \/\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003EDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E404.894.1720\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProgram contact:\u0026nbsp;kristen.anderson@pe.gatech.edu\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"540301":{"#nid":"540301","#data":{"type":"news","title":"VentureLab nanotechnology startup wins TechConnect Innovation Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFullScaleNANO, an early-stage company that automates nanomaterial imaging and measurement and a VentureLab portfolio startup, received the\u0026nbsp;TechConnect Innovation Award\u0026nbsp;at the TechConnect World Innovation Conference \u0026amp; Expo May 22-25 in Washington, D.C.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENanoMet\u2019s technology was developed at Georgia Tech by\u0026nbsp;Chin-Hui Lee, co-founder and a professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The company also joined VentureLab, the incubator at Georgia Tech for startups created by faculty, students, and staff. VentureLab works with those startups to help them commercialize research into viable companies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe created the algorithms that allow us to process thousands of images, faster and with better overall reliability,\u201d Lee said. \u201cThis is a new frontier in science that we hope will lead to faster and more cost-effective innovation for industry.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe company is headquartered in Tallahassee, Florida, but its software development team hub is in Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe TechConnect Innovation Awards identify the top 15 percent of submitted technologies. Innovation rankings are based on the potential positive impact of the technology on a specific industry sector. Submissions come from global academic technology transfer offices, early-stage companies, small business innovative research awardees, and government and corporate research laboratories.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFullScaleNANO won for its NanoMet automated nanomaterials software that measures and characterizes thousands of nanomaterials in seconds.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are honored to receive this award that recognizes our innovative approach to measuring and characterizing nanomaterials, essential particles that are used in today\u2019s product innovations, from medicine to manufacturing,\u201d said Jeffrey Whalen, CEO and co-founder.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENanomaterials are tiny particles that can\u2019t be seen with the naked eye. The only way they can be viewed is by taking pictures with an electron microscope that contains a built-in camera. Measuring and characterizing these images is a slow, manual process \u2014 done one by one using a ruler \u2014 that takes hours, Whalen said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENanoMet speeds up the task, using an automated system that processes images in seconds, takes thousands of measurements, and provides objective quality assurance, enabling a shorter time to market. NanoMet \u201csees\u201d every individual pixel in an electron microscope image to properly identify the exact edges of nanomaterials, providing a repeatable process that saves time and money.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENanomaterials are used or being evaluated in a variety of products from batteries to shampoos and in a number of industries from food and medicine to electronics and the environment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.understandingnano.com\/nanomaterials.html\u0022\u003EIn medicine alone\u003C\/a\u003E, applications being developed for nanoparticles include delivery of chemotherapy drugs directly to cancer tumors, resetting the immune system to prevent autoimmune diseases, and delivering drugs to damaged regions of arteries to fight cardiovascular disease. Other industry uses include producing hydrogen from water, reducing the cost of producing fuel cells and solar cells, and cleaning up oil spills, water pollution, and air pollution.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Startup\u0027s technology was built on Georgia Tech research."}],"uid":"28137","created_gmt":"2016-05-26 10:38:13","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:46","author":"P\u00e9ralte Paul","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-05-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-05-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"540311":{"id":"540311","type":"image","title":"Chin-Hui Lee","body":null,"created":"1464706800","gmt_created":"2016-05-31 15:00:00","changed":"1475895329","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:29","alt":"Chin-Hui Lee","file":{"fid":"89585","name":"chl.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/chl.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/chl.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":21802,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/chl.jpg?itok=bc6to4Ed"}},"540321":{"id":"540321","type":"image","title":"Jeffrey Whalen","body":null,"created":"1464706800","gmt_created":"2016-05-31 15:00:00","changed":"1475895329","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:29","alt":"Jeffrey Whalen","file":{"fid":"89586","name":"jeffrey_whalen.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jeffrey_whalen.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jeffrey_whalen.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":128407,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/jeffrey_whalen.jpeg?itok=m40esJA-"}}},"media_ids":["540311","540321"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/fullscalenano.com\/","title":"FullScaleNANO"},{"url":"http:\/\/venturelab.gatech.edu\/","title":"GT VentureLab"},{"url":"http:\/\/users.ece.gatech.edu\/chl\/","title":"Chin-Hui Lee"},{"url":"http:\/\/techconnectworld.com\/World2016\/participate\/innovation\/awards.html","title":"TechConnect Innovation Award"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"139","name":"Business"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"}],"keywords":[{"id":"172072","name":"Chin-Hui Lee"},{"id":"172073","name":"FullScaleNANO"},{"id":"107","name":"Nanotechnology"},{"id":"166994","name":"startups"},{"id":"4193","name":"venturelab"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"106361","name":"Business and Economic Development"},{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022BasicParagraph\u0022\u003EFor media inquiries, contact:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELaura Diamond\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404.894.6016\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor inquiries about the\u0026nbsp;School of Electrical and\u0026nbsp;Computer Engineering, contact:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPhone: 404.894.2906\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["peralte.paul@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"544131":{"#nid":"544131","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Acquires Historic Biltmore","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Foundation Inc. (GTF) has reached an agreement to purchase the historic Biltmore on West Peachtree Street in Midtown Atlanta from an affiliate of Novare Group for an undisclosed price.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The Biltmore is\u0026nbsp;already a vibrant\u0026nbsp;component of what the Georgia Tech Foundation, the Institute and its partners have previously built in creating the innovation neighborhood of Technology Square,\u0026rdquo; said Gary T. Jones, chairman of the Georgia Tech Foundation. \u0026ldquo;This simply strengthens what is one of the country\u0026rsquo;s most energetic technology ecosystems and is a wonderful example of the connections and collaborations between startups, business leaders and Georgia Tech faculty, students and researchers. It\u0026rsquo;s a great honor for the Georgia Tech Foundation to own this well-known Midtown landmark and to continue to\u0026nbsp;be a part of Technology Square\u0026nbsp;as it serves as\u0026nbsp;a magnet for Georgia\u0026rsquo;s entrepreneurial community.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;For many years, the Biltmore has served as the historic anchor in Midtown Atlanta,\u0026rdquo; said G.P. \u0026ldquo;Bud\u0026rdquo; Peterson, president of the Georgia Institute of Technology. \u0026ldquo;When you cross the Fifth Street bridge connecting\u0026nbsp;our\u0026nbsp;main campus with Tech Square, it is the first thing you see. We are proud to be able to incorporate it as a part of Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;The acquisition of the Biltmore, combined with the state\u0026rsquo;s generous support of\u0026nbsp;our business incubator program, the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), positions Georgia Tech to further expand the number of companies we serve. We look forward to integrating this iconic structure into our growing entrepreneurial ecosystem, where it will help us accommodate additional innovation centers and startups that want to take advantage of the energy, expertise and technologies at Georgia Tech, as well as the collaborative spirit in one of the South\u0026rsquo;s most thriving innovation neighborhoods.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It has been a privilege to restore and operate this Atlanta icon, and we are proud of the work done in preserving a landmark for the community and creating a premier creative office and elegant event space,\u0026rdquo; said Jim Borders, president, Novare Group. \u0026ldquo;With the building effectively 100 percent occupied, the timing was right to bring The Biltmore to market. We had significant interest from several qualified groups, and we are very pleased that Georgia Tech will carry the flag into the future.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWilliam Candler, son of Coca-Cola magnate Asa Candler, was the local financier behind the Biltmore project, purchasing the land for the hotel in 1921 with his proceeds of the sale of the Coca-Cola Company and incorporating the Atlanta Biltmore Hotel Company in conjunction with the New York-based Biltmore hotel chain. The Atlanta Biltmore opened in 1924 and served as the cultural and social center of Atlanta for decades. The Biltmore fell into disrepair in the 1980s when it was closed for a failed conversion into apartments.\u0026nbsp; Novare purchased the property in January of 1998 and adapted the building into loft office space, and the elegant ballrooms that were a part of the original Biltmore were restored to their former glory.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe building, which has approximately 290,000 square feet of loft office, retail and ballroom space, is directly across West Peachtree Street from Technology Square, a multi-block part of the Georgia Tech campus that is home to the Scheller College of Business, the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center, the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center, the Advanced Technology Development Center and the to-be-developed High Performance Computing Center, now known as \u0026ldquo;Coda.\u0026rdquo; The Georgia Tech Foundation has worked with Georgia Tech over the past 15 years to develop Technology Square.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Biltmore is occupied predominantly by engineering firms, energy companies and late-stage technology startups. The largest tenants are Pindrop, SouthStar Energy Services and Kimley-Horn and Associates. The acquisition does not include the Biltmore Residences, which are privately owned condominiums.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The purchase of this property will not affect the historical status of the building,\u0026rdquo; said Al Trujillo, president of the GTF. \u0026ldquo;We will continue the legacy of appropriate financial and operational stewardship of this remarkable treasure.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJay O\u0026rsquo;Meara of CBRE marketed The Biltmore on behalf of Novare Group.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUpdate\u003C\/strong\u003E: The sale of The Biltmore to the Georgia Tech Foundation was completed on October 5, 2016.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe acquisition of the Biltmore, combined with the state\u0026rsquo;s generous support of\u0026nbsp;our business incubator program, the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), positions Georgia Tech to further expand the number of companies the Institute serves, said G.P. \u0026ldquo;Bud\u0026rdquo; Peterson, president of the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The acquisition of the Biltmore will help Georgia Tech accommodate additional innovation centers and startups."}],"uid":"27918","created_gmt":"2016-06-13 09:06:17","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:53","author":"Laura Diamond","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-06-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-06-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"544121":{"id":"544121","type":"image","title":"The Biltmore","body":null,"created":"1465826400","gmt_created":"2016-06-13 14:00:00","changed":"1475895336","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:36","alt":"","file":{"fid":"90838","name":"biltmore.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/biltmore.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/biltmore.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":210845,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/biltmore.jpeg?itok=Yf8g-oBx"}}},"media_ids":["544121"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3472","name":"entrepreneurship"},{"id":"170368","name":"innovation neighborhood"},{"id":"2002","name":"Tech Square"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"106361","name":"Business and Economic Development"},{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELaura Diamond\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMedia Relations, Institute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-6016\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E@LauraRDiamond\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["laura.diamond@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"546231":{"#nid":"546231","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Understanding Rogue Ocean Waves May be Simple After All","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAn international team of scientists has developed a relatively simple mathematical explanation for the rogue ocean waves that can develop seemingly out of nowhere to sink ships and overwhelm oil platforms with walls of water as much as 25 meters high.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe waves stem from a combination of constructive interference \u0026ndash; a known wave phenomenon \u0026ndash; and nonlinear effects specific to the complex dynamics of ocean waves. An improved understanding of how rogue waves originate could lead to improved techniques for identifying ocean areas likely to spawn them, allowing shipping companies to avoid dangerous seas. Furthermore, new insights into the unsolved problem of wave breaking and into the wave manifestation of light are to be gained, according to the researchers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBased on an analysis of the two famous real world Andrea and Draupner rogue waves observed at different oil platforms in the North Sea over the course of a decade, and the recently observed Killard rogue wave at a site for marine renewable energy off the coast of Ireland, the research was reported this week in the journal \u003Cem\u003EScientific Reports\u003C\/em\u003E. The work was done by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, University College Dublin, and the Institut FEMTO-ST CNRS-Universit\u0026eacute; de Franche-Comt\u0026eacute;.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We saw similar wave behaviors at all three rogue wave sites,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cee.gatech.edu\/people\/Faculty\/511\/overview\u0022\u003EFrancesco Fedele\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cee.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;We found that the main mechanism responsible for generating these waves is the constructive interference of elementary waves due to directional dispersive focusing enhanced by second-order bound nonlinearities.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERogue waves have been observed in oceans around the world. They typically last only 20 seconds or so before disappearing, and are different from tsunami waves that can travel great distances after being created by underwater earthquakes or landslides.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEarlier research had suggested a phenomenon known as \u0026ldquo;modulational instability\u0026rdquo; to explain the rogue waves. That theory had been demonstrated in laboratories, but didn\u0026rsquo;t adequately explain the complex three-dimensional waves that were being measured in the open ocean without boundaries to constrain them. As a result, energy is not \u0026lsquo;trapped\u0026rsquo; as in a long unidirectional channel. Instead, it is free to flow and spread directionally diminishing any exchange mechanisms between neighboring waves, Fedele said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThough ocean waves have a predominant direction, in the open ocean, waveforms from other directions can arrive. In rare conditions, those waves arrive in an organized way or almost in phase, leading to an unusual case of constructive interference that can double the height of the resulting wave.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBut this doubled height still cannot explain the size of the rogue waves observed in the North Sea \u0026ndash; and elsewhere. That difference can be accounted for by the nonlinear nature of the waves, which are not sinusoidal \u0026ndash; but instead have rounded troughs, along with sharp peaks that result from the water being pushed upward against the pull of gravity.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;You have to account for the nonlinearity of the ocean, which is manifested in the lack of symmetry between the crests and the troughs,\u0026rdquo; said Fedele, who also has an appointment in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. \u0026ldquo;These nonlinear effects can produce an enhancement of 15 to 20 percent in wave height, which adds onto the effects of constructive interference.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUsing advanced mathematical techniques, the researchers modeled how waves could combine in very unusual circumstances to produce the Draupner and Andrea rogue waves measured at two different oil platforms in the North Sea in 1995 and 2007 and the Killard rogue wave observed in 2014 off the coast of Ireland. Their model\u0026rsquo;s predictions match the waves measured.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We describe the complex energy flow of a wave field by what we call its directional spectra,\u0026rdquo; said Fr\u0026eacute;d\u0026eacute;ric Dias, a professor at University College Dublin. \u0026ldquo;What we have shown is that by combining knowledge of this spectra and using mathematics that accounts for second-order nonlinearities, we can reproduce the measured rogue waves almost exactly.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile ocean waves can differ from other waveforms, the research team gained important insights from the optical community and the study of how light waves interact.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;These are fascinating results,\u0026rdquo; said John Dudley, a professor at the Institut FEMTO-ST CNRS-Universit\u0026eacute; de Franche-Comt\u0026eacute;. \u0026ldquo;There are many different effects that can cause wave amplification, but it is essential as a scientist to keep an open mind and to keep looking for new possible explanations. It is not for us to tell Nature how to work \u0026ndash; we must follow where it leads us, even if it means changing our ideas.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research has been the basis for a new rogue wave model that could be used to identify ocean areas where nonlinear effects could give rise to the waves and to provide new insights into the unsolved problem of wave breaking. That could give shipping companies and others as much as an hour\u0026rsquo;s warning to avoid those areas.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the end, Fedele said, the formation of the rogue wave is simply chance: the rare combination of waves in what turns out to be a bad place for ships or oil platforms. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s just a bad day at the ocean,\u0026rdquo; he added.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn future work, Fedele hopes to apply the model to optical waves.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;What we would like to do next is show that there are wave groups in the ocean and in optics that behave in the same way,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;There is an underlying physical entity which is the wave group. We see a wave packet, a travelling group of waves that grows in amplitude to reach a maximum before it decays.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to those already mentioned, the research team included graduate student Joseph Brennan and postdoctoral researcher Sonia Ponce de Leon.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECITATION\u003C\/strong\u003E: Francesco Fedele, et al., \u0026ldquo;Real world ocean rogue waves explained without the modulational instability,\u0026rdquo; (Scientific Reports, 2016). \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/srep27715\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/srep27715\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003E177 North Avenue\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EAtlanta, Georgia 30332-0181 USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relation Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (404-894-6986) (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Ben Brumfield (404-385-1933) (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ben.brumfield@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eben.brumfield@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAn international team of scientists has developed a relatively simple mathematical explanation for the rogue ocean waves that can develop seemingly out of nowhere to sink ships and overwhelm oil platforms with walls of water as much as 25 meters high.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A team of scientists has developed a relatively simple mathematical explanation for the rogue ocean waves that can develop seemingly out of nowhere."}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2016-06-20 20:09:04","changed_gmt":"2017-02-06 15:18:28","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-06-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-06-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"546221":{"id":"546221","type":"image","title":"Rogue Wave - 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Do they want to get a head start on planning for the fall semester? The summer is a great time for students to use their time to investigate possible research areas and projects of interest.\u0026nbsp;For example, we always suggest students do a little homework before contacting a faculty member concerning research projects.\u0026nbsp;One efficient and effective way to accomplish this is to review the research of their major or another interesting field of study at Georgia Tech. Read about what faculty members are doing and take notes \u2026 or at least download a few of their papers from the Georgia Tech library to read. 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Many faculty members ask to see a student\u2019s resume in order to learn more about their experience and leadership skills.\u0026nbsp;In some cases, students may also have the opportunity to volunteer in the lab.\u0026nbsp;This is another good way to get a foot in the door.\u0026nbsp;Many labs will be hosting undergraduates from other universities, high school students, and often teachers during the summer.\u0026nbsp;As a result, additional opportunities to be a part of a volunteer project might be available.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information on how to get involved in on-campus research, visit the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program website at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.urop.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.urop.gatech.edu\/\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The summer is a great time for students to use their time to investigate possible research areas and projects of interest.\u00a0"}],"uid":"27244","created_gmt":"2016-06-10 09:21:55","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:53","author":"Sara Warner","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-06-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-06-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1298","name":"Parent and Family Programs"}],"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":""}},"543711":{"#nid":"543711","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Family Weekend 2016","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESeptember 30 \u2013 October 2, 2016\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Join with other Yellow Jacket families from around the world as we host Georgia Tech\u2019s Family Weekend on \u003Cstrong\u003EFriday, September 30 - Sunday, October 2, 2016\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Parent \u0026amp; Family Programs collaborates with numerous campus partners and local vendors every fall to welcome families for a special weekend. Year after year, we look forward to celebrating what makes Georgia Tech a great place to be with more than 3,000 students and families members from around the world. Last year we had families from 44 states and eight countries attend!\u0026nbsp;This exciting weekend of activities includes a special presentation by President Peterson, stimulating presentations by faculty and staff, College and School receptions, GT Family Night at the Georgia Aquarium, student performances, a special performance with Arts@Tech, Family Weekend Tailgate prior to the GT vs. Miami football game, a Jazz Brunch with Vice President and Dean of Students John Stein, community service, and much more!\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Family Weekend is a great way to spend time with your student, celebrate the beginning of the academic year, and enjoy the Georgia Tech community! We look forward to seeing you at Family Weekend! Registration goes live on August 1. 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When you\u2019re building this complicated system\u2026 and you\u2019re writing software for it, and it\u2019s interfacing with peripherals like switches and push-buttons, trying to figure out where something is going wrong can be a pretty daunting task,\u201d says Johnson, who spends a fair amount of time repairing robots that break during final projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis kind of practical experience teaches students to solve problems by breaking them down into smaller parts of the whole. With the support of teaching assistants and staff members like Johnson, students learn to eliminate areas that are properly working and how best to find where exactly the breakdown lies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYou actually use the equipment, and through measuring these circuits that we learn about in class and by looking at them on the oscilloscope [an instrument with which one can observe varying signal voltages], we\u2019re able to see, \u2018OK, this is a high-pass filter\u2026 this is a square wave,\u2019\u201d says Morell.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents\u2019 exposure to high-powered lab equipment is set to increase dramatically. A new maker space, made possible by a Texas Instruments gift, will provide them with access to cutting-edge technologies and an exciting place to interact with equipment outside of class.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESai Sathiesh Rajan, a third-year ECE student, says the maker space will be \u201ca way to get practical skills, like soldering, and exposure to components, like oscilloscopes, before their third year [of ECE classes].\u201d Such skills are highly sought after, and useful earlier on in ECE studies than the current curriculum generally offers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe senior design course is one reason that greater hands-on experience is valuable. 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He will also talk about two other alternatives such as panel level fan out with chip-first and chip-last options. This presentation will describe the promise and future of embedding and fan-out technologies in relation to package size, thickness, interconnect length, I\u0027O pitch and production costs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProf. Rao Tummala is a Distinguished and Endowed Professor Chair at Georgia Tech. He is well known as an industrial technologist, technology pioneer, and educator. He is the father of LTCC and many System-on-Package Technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInterconnecting Wafer-Level packaging, 3D, and manufacturing, the International Wafer-Level Packaging Conference (IWLPC) has been at the forefront of packaging technology evolution. 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He has been a member of the faculty since 2001, and leads the Georgia Robotics and Intelligent Systems Laboratory (GRITS Lab), which focuses research on control and coordination of complex networks such as multi-robot systems, mobile-sensor networks, and cyber-physical systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are excited to welcome Magnus into the role of executive director for IRIM.\u0026nbsp;His enthusiasm and vision, coupled with his leadership ability and passion to support faculty, make him the obvious choice to serve in the role,\u201d said Stephen E. Cross, executive vice president for Research. \u201cHis work over the years has served to enhance Tech\u2019s reputation as a thought leader in the robotics and intelligent machines space.\u0026nbsp;I look forward to working with him.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI am honored to have the opportunity to serve as the next executive director of IRIM,\u201d Egerstedt said. \u201cIRIM has a bright future as a research leader and industry partner, and I am looking forward to charting the course for the next phase of robotics at Georgia Tech.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEgerstedt emerged as the top candidate from an internal search to replace the founding executive director of IRIM, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/team\/faculty\/christensen\u0022\u003EHenrik I. 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He has all the right skills to secure the continued growth of the robotics efforts at Georgia Tech.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEgerstedt will begin his duties at IRIM on Aug. 1, and will continue to lead the GRITS Lab in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in philosophy from Stockholm University and master\u2019s and doctoral degrees in engineering physics and applied mathematics, respectively, from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. After completing his Ph.D., Egerstedt was a postdoctoral scholar at Harvard University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHenrik helped build a world-class robotics program at Tech. Magnus has both the leadership skills and outstanding research in this area to continue IRIM\u2019s growth and impact on the robotics field,\u201d said Gary S. 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These signals are produced by semiconductors, capacitors, power supplies and other components, and can currently be measured up to a half-meter away from operating IoT devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy comparing these unintended side-channel emissions to a database of what the devices should be doing when they are operating normally, researchers can tell if malicious software has been installed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe will be looking at how the program is changing its behavior,\u201d explained \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/alenka-zajic\u0022\u003EAlenka Zajic\u003C\/a\u003E, the project\u2019s principal investigator and an assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E at the Georgia Institute of Technology. \u201cIf an Internet of Things device is attacked, the insertion of malware will affect the program that is running, and we can detect that remotely.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe four-year project will also include two faculty members from Georgia Tech\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E: Professors \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/people\/9736\/milos-prvulovics\u0022\u003EMilos Prvulovic\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/people\/9739\/alessandro-orsos\u0022\u003EAlessandro Orso\u003C\/a\u003E. Also part of the project will be a research team from Northrop-Grumman, headed by Matthew Welborn. Details of an early prototype of the side-channel technique, called \u201cZero-Overhead Profiling\u201d because the monitoring doesn\u0027t affect the system being observed, were presented July 20th at the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWithin the next four years, an estimated 30 billion IoT devices will be in operation, doing everything from controlling home heating and air conditioning to sensing and managing critical infrastructure. The devices are usually small with limited processor power and memory. Their limited computing capabilities means they can\u2019t run the kinds of malware protection software found on laptop computers, and they cannot use virtualization and other technology to protect the system software even when an application is taken over by an attacker. This means that once attackers compromise the internet-connected application, they typically \u201cown\u201d the entire IoT device and can even make it falsely respond to traditional queries about its own security status.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The main challenge from a security perspective is to make these devices secure so somebody can\u0027t take them over,\u0022 explained Zajic. \u0022There will be a lot of processing power out there that needs to be monitored, but you can\u0027t just put traditional security software on that processor because is doesn\u0027t have enough power for both the security software and the tasks the device is supposed to be doing.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EZajic and Prvulovic pioneered research on measuring side-channel signals emitted from devices. These emissions differ from the signals the devices were intended to produce for communicating information across the Internet to other devices. The researchers have already shown that they can pick up the signals close to the devices using specially designed antennas, and one project goal is to extend the range to as much as three meters.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022When a processor executes instructions, values are represented as ones and zeroes, which creates a fluctuation in the current,\u0022 Zajic said. \u0022That creates changes in the electromagnetic field we are measuring, providing a pattern for what each part of the program looks like on a spectrum analyzer.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKey to detecting changes in the signals is getting a \u0022before\u0022 recording of what these signals should look like to draw a comparison with an \u0022after\u0022 set of signals for each combination of device and software. The researchers plan to evaluate each IoT device, sampling and recording its typical operation to create a database. To avoid recording overwhelming amounts of data, the system will take periodic samples from different stages of program loops.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022If somebody inserts something into the program loop, the peaks in the spectrum will shift and we can detect that,\u0022 Zajic said. \u0022This is something that we can monitor in real time using advanced pattern-matching technology that uses machine learning to improve its performance.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDetecting malware, however, is more of a challenge.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe technique is currently 95 percent accurate at profiling \u2013 pinpointing the exact point in the IoT program code that is currently executing,\u201d explained Prvulovic. \u201cHowever, detection of malware is a much more difficult problem. Profiling is about identifying which part of the program is the best match for the signal, whereas malware detection is about detecting, with sufficient confidence, that the signal does not match any part of the original program, even when the malware is designed to resemble the original code of the application.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EZajic and Prvulovic have been studying a wide range of devices to determine the emissions produced.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have more than one source on a circuit board, so we have been trying to localize the sources so we can build an antenna to give us the best possible signal,\u201d said Zajic. \u201cThere are multiple places on the board where you connect to the same information, though it may be modulated at different frequencies.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUltimately, researchers expect the project \u2013 dubbed Computational Activity Monitoring by Externally Leveraging Involuntary Analog Signals (CAMELIA) \u2013 to be capable of monitoring several IoT devices simultaneously. That will require development of advanced processing techniques able to differentiate signals from each device, and new antennas able to pick up the signals from a greater distance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECAMELIA is part of a DARPA program called Leveraging the Analog Domain for Security (LADS), which is investing in six different initiatives to address IoT security. The Georgia Tech-Northrop Grumman project is the only one of the projects led by an academic institution.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe research is supported by the DARPA LADS program under contract FA8650-16-C-7620. 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robotics research videos on YouTube.\u0026nbsp;Donated by \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/clinton-w-kelly-iii\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDr. Clinton W. Kelly III\u003C\/a\u003E, a member of the College of Computing\u2019s advisory board and a longtime benefactor of Georgia Tech,\u0026nbsp;the diverse collection of videos\u0026nbsp;covers an extended period of time and offers a behind-the-scenes look at different aspects of the earlier days of unmanned vehicle and other robotics research conducted across multiple institutions, companies, and funding agencies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EKelly\u2019s distinguished career includes serving as\u0026nbsp;director of the U.S. Strategic Computing Program and executive director of the Information Science and Technology Office\u0026nbsp;at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDARPA\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). Subsequently, he served as the CTO for\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.saic.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESAIC\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Science Applications International Corporation). He has also held a number of advisory positions with universities, including Duke, CMU, and Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/youtu.be\/mG_ZKXo6Rlg\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Efirst video in the series\u003C\/a\u003E features the Leg Lab, established at CMU by Marc Raibert and later moved to MIT. The Leg Lab developed robots that ran and maneuvered like animals and formed the basis for the company \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bostondynamics.com\/bd_about.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBoston Dynamics\u003C\/a\u003E, which was founded by Raibert in 1992. The video shows some of the early examples of legged robots from monopods to quadropeds.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThrough a collaborative effort, led by Henrik I. Christensen, IRIM\u2019s founding\u0026nbsp;executive\u0026nbsp;director, and Josie Giles, marketing and communication manager, IRIM will regularly publish additional video clips from the collection on YouTube to offer the general public a unique insight into the foundational work on robotics technologies.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBackground\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EFor additional information about the relationship between Kelly and IRIM, visit\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/outreach\/kellylecture\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/outreach\/kellylecture\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe videos cover an extended period of time and offer a behind-the-scenes look at different aspects of the earlier days of unmanned vehicle and other robotics\u0026nbsp;research\u0026nbsp;conducted across multiple institutions, companies, and funding agencies.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The videos cover an extended period of time and offer a behind-the-scenes look at different aspects of the earlier days of unmanned vehicle and other robotics research conducted across multiple institutions, companies, and funding agencies."}],"uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2016-07-25 18:40:21","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:22:08","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-07-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-07-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/mG_ZKXo6Rlg","title":"Leg Lab Video"},{"url":"http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/","title":"Center for Robotics \u0026 Intelligent Machines"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/clinton-w-kelly-iii","title":"Clinton W. Kelly, III"}],"groups":[{"id":"142761","name":"IRIM"}],"categories":[{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"115691","name":"Clinton Kelly"},{"id":"81491","name":"Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM)"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"},{"id":"2352","name":"robots"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39521","name":"Robotics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJosie Giles\u003Cbr \/\u003EIRIM Marketing Communications Mgr.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:josie@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejosie@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"558041":{"#nid":"558041","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech to Co-lead NSF Center for Advanced Electronics Through Machine Learning with UIUC and NCSU","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been chosen to lead a new center that aims to speed up the design and verification of microelectronic circuits and systems, reducing development cost and time-to-market for manufacturers of microelectronic products, especially integrated circuits. The Center, co-led by researchers from Georgia Tech and North Carolina State University, is funded for five years through the National Science Foundation\u2019s Industry\/University Cooperative Research Centers (I\/UCRC) program.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E Integrated circuits, or chips, power everything from smart watches to supercomputers. The semiconductor industry \u2013 perennially one of America\u2019s top exporters - has begun searching for new ways to increase performance while reducing chip size and development cost.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E The Center for Advanced Electronics through Machine Learning (CAEML) seeks to accelerate advances by leveraging machine-learning techniques to develop new models for electronic design automation (EDA) tools, which semiconductor companies use to create and verify chip designs for mass-production.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u201cWhen products fail qualification testing, it is usually attributed to shortcomings in the models employed by the EDA tools,\u201d said Elyse Rosenbaum, principal investigator and a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Illinois. \u201cMany products have to go through at least one re-spin before entering the marketplace, resulting in the loss of money and time.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E Currently, chip manufacturers struggle to optimize power, performance, reliability, and cost in their designs, because the analysis is too computationally intensive to execute in a timely manner. CAEML researchers aim to overcome current limitations by employing behavioral models, which look at the behavior, or output, of a chip instead of the internal processes described by physical models most commonly used in today\u2019s designs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E The CAEML team will create a systematic method for generating behavioral models, which the industry has had only limited success with in the past. The work will draw on deep networks, associative memories, and other research areas within the field of machine learning.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E Researchers will take a comprehensive approach, developing a methodology that is applicable to large systems, with the understanding that most microelectronic systems are comprised of more than just a single chip. Even a \u201csystem on a chip\u201d consists of a package as well as the semiconductor chip, and the system performance is highly affected by the interactions between the two, according to Madhavan Swaminathan, a professor and CAEML site director at Georgia Tech.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u201cWith the interface between the chip and the package disappearing through integration, e.g. System in Package technologies, systems need to designed, modeled, and optimized holistically,\u201d said Swaminathan. \u201cOur goal in CAEML is to address systems in such a way that intellectual property can be protected and re-spins minimized.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs an I\/UCRC, CAEML will collaborate closely with companies, who will help evaluate and select projects. The corporate connections will help researchers better understand the real-world problems faced by manufacturers and provide a pipeline of ideas between academia and industry. They also will help fund the center\u2019s work; currently, 11 companies have committed a total of $550,000 for the first year. NSF will contribute an additional $450,000 per year.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E The collective goal is to create a system to make the design evaluation process much easier, says Paul Franzon, a professor of electrical engineering and CAEML site lead at NC State.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u201cI like to say that a silicon chip is the most complex artifact made by man,\u201d Franzon said. \u201cThere are billions of components in a chip-- it is mind-boggling. We\u2019re creating models that help deal with these complexities, so that when we design chips, we design them to work the first time.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/publish.illinois.edu\/advancedelectronics\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVisit the CAEML Program Website Here\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003EFor more information, contact Dr. Madhavan Swaminathan (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:madhavan.swaminathan@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emadhavan.swaminathan@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Center for Advanced Electronics through Machine Learning (CAEML) seeks to accelerate advances by leveraging machine-learning techniques to develop new models for electronic design automation (EDA) tools create and verify chip designs for market."}],"uid":"27863","created_gmt":"2016-08-02 14:22:40","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:22:12","author":"Christa Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-08-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-08-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"558021":{"id":"558021","type":"image","title":"Madhavan Swaminathan","body":null,"created":"1470161828","gmt_created":"2016-08-02 18:17:08","changed":"1475895361","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:56:01","alt":"Madhavan Swaminathan","file":{"fid":"206714","name":"madhavanswaminathan_official_inst_photo.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/madhavanswaminathan_official_inst_photo.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/madhavanswaminathan_official_inst_photo.png","mime":"image\/png","size":267955,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/madhavanswaminathan_official_inst_photo.png?itok=Z4KZ1FXL"}}},"media_ids":["558021"],"groups":[{"id":"197261","name":"Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"}],"keywords":[{"id":"39591","name":"computational modeling"},{"id":"94171","name":"Electronics Packaging"},{"id":"9167","name":"machine learning"},{"id":"24251","name":"Madhavan Swaminathan"},{"id":"167954","name":"semiconductor fabrication"},{"id":"166968","name":"the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"168380","name":"the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["madhavan.swaminathan@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"560521":{"#nid":"560521","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Undergraduate Research and Student Innovation: The Skills to Shape Our World","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChristopher Reaves, Ph.D.\u003Cbr \/\u003E Director, Undergraduate Research and Student Innovation\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAllyson Tant \u003Cbr \/\u003E Program Coordinator, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf your student is ready for a challenge, likes working beyond the traditional boundaries of coursework, and wants to participate in something \u201chands-on,\u201d then undergraduate research is a must. Georgia Tech is a leading research university and provides extraordinary opportunities for students to enter the exciting world of discovery and innovation. In Georgia Tech\u2019s strategic plan, President G. P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson states, \u201cOur role is not only to solve problems, but to shape our world.\u201d Undergraduate research at Georgia Tech helps students acquire this experience, helping them create their own path and set them apart from others.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOpportunities for research experience are available year-round, either for course credit or for pay. Research classes for credit count toward free electives in most majors and discipline-specific electives in others. Faculty mentors may hire students as research assistants, or students may receive funding through the President\u2019s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/urop.gatech.edu\/pura\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/urop.gatech.edu\/pura\u003C\/a\u003E. Options for research also include full-time summer experiences, both on- and off-campus, and international research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile open to all students, students planning to pursue graduate degrees or a future career in research and development industries should consider a more robust research experience: the Research Option \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/urop.gatech.edu\/research-option\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/urop.gatech.edu\/research-option\u003C\/a\u003E. This thesis-based program provides an opportunity to get first-hand experience in substantive research, culminating in the production of a thesis paper. It is an excellent way to gain valuable skills and experience into applied or basic research, thus bolstering their graduate school preparation. In addition, many scientific and technical firms favor graduates possessing these practical skills.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo take the student research initiative even further, the Institute has placed an increasing emphasis on students thinking and acting innovatively, hence the creation of the InVenture Prize Competition \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.inventureprize.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.inventureprize.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E. Starting with the student\u2019s own idea, faculty mentors help lead students through a process that culminates in a final, on-stage competition which is broadcast live on public television. From idea to innovation, concept to prototype, problem to solution, the InVenture Prize Competition helps develop individuals who not only have the technical know-how, but also are entrepreneurially savvy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents can also attend Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) workshops, participate in the annual Undergraduate Research Spring Symposium, and learn how to find funding for research. Advising is also available for students as they look for research opportunities. Students of all years (freshman through senior) can also participate in student research or innovation organizations \u2013 the Student Advisory Board for Undergraduate Research (SABUR), \u003Cem\u003EThe Tower \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gttower.org\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ehttp:\/\/gttower.org\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech\u2019s undergraduate research journal, or the Startup Exchange \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/startupexchange.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/startupexchange.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E, a hub for entrepreneurship.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor additional information, visit the UROP website at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.urop.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.urop.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E. Student may also follow us on Facebook or contact us at \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:urop@gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Europ@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"If your student is ready for a challenge, likes working beyond the traditional boundaries of coursework, and wants to participate in something \u201chands-on,\u201d then undergraduate research is a must."}],"uid":"27244","created_gmt":"2016-08-09 09:24:29","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:22:16","author":"Sara Warner","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-08-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-08-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1298","name":"Parent and Family Programs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["parents@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"562011":{"#nid":"562011","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Researchers Develop a Low-power Always-on Camera With Gesture Recognition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESmart devices that wake up with voice commands have gained popularity in recent years, and now researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have taken it one step farther: an always-on camera.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDesigned with a combination of low-power hardware and energy efficient image processing software, the always-on camera is capable of watching for specific types of movement without draining batteries or running up electricity bills.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Right now cameras are very hard to run on passive power just because they burn so much power themselves,\u0026rdquo; said Justin Romberg, a professor in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. \u0026ldquo;This combination of efficient signal processing and a novel hardware design lowers the power requirement and means that some of these other options to power it might be open.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research, which was highlighted at the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design Aug. 8-10, was sponsored by Intel Corp. and the National Science Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile reducing the frame rate of a camera plays a role in lowering power demands, to achieve the power savings needed for this project, the researchers programmed the camera to track motion in a more generalized way that still preserved crucial details about what was being tracked. That requires much less power to process than tracking individual pixels throughout the entire field of view.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;What this camera is actually looking at is not pixel values, but pixels added together in all different ways and a dramatically smaller number of measurements than if you had it in a standard mode,\u0026rdquo; Romberg said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe always-on camera was primarily designed as a way to wake up devices. But its ability to recognize specific gestures expands the possibilities \u0026ndash; such as a camera that wakes up with a specific pattern or movement almost like a secret handshake.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We wanted to devise a camera that was capturing images all of the time, and then once you have a particular gesture \u0026ndash; like you write a Z in the air \u0026ndash; it\u0026rsquo;s going to wake up,\u0026rdquo; said Arijit Raychowdhury, an associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. \u0026ldquo;To make that work without affecting the battery life, we wanted it to be so low power that you can power it with harvested ambient energy, such as with a photovoltaic cell.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EProgramming a camera to recognize specific gestures and wake up only when needed is also a way of conserving total system energy,\u0026nbsp;Raychowdhury\u0026nbsp;said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Simple motion detection is a well-studied area of research, and there are commercial products that support motion detection,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;But the problem is that a camera that can just detect motion \u0026ndash; and not specific patterns in motion or gestures \u0026ndash; is going to wake up more often, even when it doesn\u0026rsquo;t need to.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESuch a low-power camera could be useful in a range of applications, especially for camera systems in remote locations where efficiency is crucial.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;If you have a camera in the field, you want them to use as little energy as possible and only record events when necessary,\u0026rdquo; Romberg said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOther applications include specialized surveillance, robotics and consumer electronics with hands-free operation, and the researchers are already working on adding wireless functionality to transmit images and data with an antenna.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Cameras are being added to more and more devices\u0026nbsp;these days, but they don\u0026rsquo;t have much interactivity,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;Raychowdury\u0026nbsp;said. \u0026ldquo;What we are studying are smart cameras that\u0026nbsp;can look at something specific in the environment at extreme energy-efficiencies\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;process\u0026nbsp;the\u0026nbsp;data for us.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis material is based upon work supported by Intel Corp. and the National Science Foundation under Grant No. CRII 1464353. 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That was Jonathan Walker\u2019s challenge when it came to preparing for the 2015 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI mean, it took me several weeks to condense two and a half year\u2019s research into one slide and a short talk,\u201d said Walker, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering. \u201cInitially, there were so many little things I wanted to include. 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(AWS) to its growing list of members and launched four new working groups.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAWS is the most recent company to sign on to the research center, which now includes the following members from around the world:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAirWatch by VMware (U.S.)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAmazon Web Services (U.S.)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAT\u0026amp;T (U.S.)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBrambles (Australia)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECisco (U.S.)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECorning (U.S.)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EFlex (formerly Flextronics) (Singapore)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIBM (U.S.)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EInfor (U.S.)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMerial [Sanofi] (France)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESamsung (South Korea)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EStanley Black and Decker (U.S.)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EUSAA (U.S.)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EWipro (India)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are pleased to welcome AWS to the board of CDAIT,\u201d said Jeff Evans, chairman of CDAIT\u2019s Executive Advisory Board (EAB). \u201cAWS is the latest company to place a high value on Georgia Tech\u2019s breadth of expertise and depth of experience in technological research in the fields that impact the Internet of Things.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmazon Web Services will be represented on the CDAIT EAB by Mark Ryland, chief solutions architect, World Wide Public Sector Team, AWS.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are delighted to join Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for the Development and Application of Internet of Things Technologies to further explore the huge potential of IoT technologies,\u201d said Ryland. \u201cThis is a focus area for us, as our customers are eager to unlock that potential. The AWS Cloud plays a key role in easily and securely connecting devices, managing their state and providing analytics on the potentially massive amounts of data they produce, with automatic scaling to meet any customer\u2019s needs.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECDAIT has also launched four new working groups tackling education, chaired by Margaret Loper of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI); startup ecosystem, chaired by Tech Square Ventures\u2019 Blake Patton; thought leadership, chaired by Cisco\u2019s Scott Puopolo; and research, chaired by Kenji Takeuchi of Flex.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese new groups are busy pulling together deliverables that will move the needle in the Internet of Things space worldwide,\u201d said Alain Louchez, managing director of CDAIT. \u201cOur vision of the center has always been focused on effective collaboration between university and industry, and we are extremely pleased with our progress in this regard.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Executive Advisory Board is scheduled to meet Dec. 7, 2016, at Georgia Tech in Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout CDAIT \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECDAIT (pronounced \u0022sedate\u0022) is a global, non-profit, partner-funded center located in Atlanta that fosters interdisciplinary research and education while driving general awareness about the Internet of Things. 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Student members of the task force also gathered feedback directly from the student body to form a list of issues for the Institute to consider.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAfter reviewing the collective research findings and the consultant\u2019s report, the task force outlined 11 recommendations that fall into four broad categories: programs; trainings; physical spaces; and planning and assessment,\u201d said Ervin.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe 11 recommendations can be summarized as follows (not ranked by priority):\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch6\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPrograms \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h6\u003E\u003Cp\u003E1. \u003Cstrong\u003EChallenge \u003C\/strong\u003E\u2013 Expand OMED\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/omed.gatech.edu\/challenge\/\u0022\u003EChallenge\u003C\/a\u003E enrollment from 75 to 175 underrepresented minority and women students per program over the next three years. Challenge helps prepare incoming freshmen for a successful college career, both academically and socially, during a five-week intensive summer program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E2. \u003Cstrong\u003EFASET \u003C\/strong\u003E\u2013 Orient all new students and their parents, families, and guests to issues of diversity and inclusion and share campus resources that support Georgia Tech\u2019s commitment to diversity. At least one new session at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/nssp.gatech.edu\/content\/769\/orientation-programs\u0022\u003EFASET\u003C\/a\u003E will highlight the successes of underrepresented students, faculty, and staff at the Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E3. \u003Cstrong\u003EIntercultural Student Programs\u003C\/strong\u003E \u2013 Create and support collaborative intercultural student programs that foster interactions and learning among diverse student communities at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E4. \u003Cstrong\u003EReporting System \u003C\/strong\u003E\u2013 Create a data infrastructure or submission tool that allows students to submit information detailing any experienced discrimination on campus. Submissions would remain anonymous.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch6\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETrainings\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h6\u003E\u003Cp\u003E5. \u003Cstrong\u003ECommunity Orientation and Training \u003C\/strong\u003E\u2013 Launch online and in-service training for faculty and staff that addresses issues of gender and ethnic diversity, equity, and inclusion within the student experience. Following this training, faculty and staff will serve as ambassadors for an equitable and inclusive Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E6. \u003Cstrong\u003ECultural Inclusivity Leadership Training \u003C\/strong\u003E\u2013 Expand and modify leadership training for leaders of student organizations to include modules on cultural inclusivity and managing student diversity. Incorporate these modules into \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/enrichment.gatech.edu\/gt-1000-first-year-seminar\u0022\u003EGT 1000\u003C\/a\u003E classes and other opportunities.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E7. \u003Cstrong\u003EGreek Education\u003C\/strong\u003E \u2013 Create a subcommittee of fraternity and sorority members who will plan programming on issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, and sexual assault for members of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/greek.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGreek Life\u003C\/a\u003E. This subcommittee will also be tasked with evaluating the current state of Greek Life at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch6\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPhysical Spaces \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h6\u003E\u003Cp\u003E8.\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Multicultural Center \u2014\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Create spaces where all students feel welcome on campus, in support of students\u2019 overall adjustment and well-being.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch6\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPlanning and Assessment\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h6\u003E\u003Cp\u003E9. \u003Cstrong\u003EStrategic Plan \u003C\/strong\u003E\u2013 Examine how student diversity is operationalized through Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/about\/strategic-plan\u0022\u003EStrategic Plan\u003C\/a\u003E. Prioritize and fund proposals that enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion experiences for students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E10. \u003Cstrong\u003ECampus Climate Assessment \u003C\/strong\u003E\u2013 Conduct a broad-based campus climate assessment by an independent entity to obtain a deeper understanding of the concerns and experiences of all students at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E11. \u003Cstrong\u003EInstitutional Climate Change and Growth\u003C\/strong\u003E \u2013 Establish a joint student advisory group to advise and recommend actions that enhance diversity and inclusion experiences among Tech students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI applaud the work of the Black Student Experience Task Force members who volunteered their time and experience to create a more inclusive academic environment,\u201d Peterson said. \u201cDiversity is a community value at Georgia Tech, and embracing different perspectives is critical to the success and vitality of our campus community. These recommendations will help us enhance a culture of close collaboration, global perspective, and intercultural respect.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Black Student Experience Task Force comprised 13 student, faculty, and staff members. Student Government Association President Nagela Nukuna was one of those members: \u0022Working with such a dedicated group of student leaders and administrators on the task force helped push forward the recommendations. Finding actionable solutions to a problem that also is a societal issue was not easy, but I think we\u0027re taking great steps toward progress.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMoving forward, an implementation team from Institute Diversity, Student Life, and Undergraduate Education will meet regularly to monitor progress on these recommendations. Additionally, the Student Intercultural Advisory Committee was recently established to offer guidance on diversity and inclusion and to participate in these implementation meetings in the future.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor any questions about the Black Student Experience Task Force and\/or its recommendations, email \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:institutediversity@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Einstitutediversity@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E. For more information, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/diversity.gatech.edu\/blackstudentexperiencetaskforce\u0022\u003Ediversity.gatech.edu\/blackstudentexperiencetaskforce\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Black Student Experience Task Force presented its 11 recommendations to President G.P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson late last spring. 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With the Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/careerdiscovery.gatech.edu\/careerfair\/\u0022\u003ECareer Fair\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;coming up Sept. 12\u201313, there are many opportunities to land a job or internship.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHow can students stand out and impress the recruiters? Career Development Advisor Dennis Lindsay offers some tips to avoid the most common career fair mistakes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch companies. \u003C\/strong\u003E\u201cWhen you show knowledge of the company and express interest, the recruiter is assured that your interest is genuine,\u201d said Lindsay. \u201cIf you get to the Career Fair and see a company that you\u2019re interested in but you didn\u2019t research beforehand, step aside and use your smartphone to quickly research the basics.\u201d\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBe professional. \u003C\/strong\u003EAlthough this may seem obvious enough, professionalism is more than just attire. \u201cRecruiters need to see students as young professionals, not as college students,\u201d said Lindsay. Avoid clumping in groups with your friends, and resist the urge to grab all of the free items. \u201cStudents are attracted to the freebies, but it is not professional to trudge through with a bag full of stuff.\u201d \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGo early in the day. \u003C\/strong\u003E\u201cRecruiters are burned out by the end of the day, and some employers might pack up early,\u201d said Lindsay. He recommends getting to the fair as early as possible to catch recruiters when they are most alert and engaged.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFollow Up. \u003C\/strong\u003E\u201cDon\u2019t wait too long to follow up with the recruiter,\u201d said Lindsay. To stand out from the crowd, students should say something memorable\u0026nbsp;that they can refer to in the follow-up, to help recruiters remember the conversation. \u201cTake notes after speaking with the recruiters. Ask for their business cards and take notes on the back.\u201d\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDon\u2019t tell yourself \u201cno.\u201d \u003C\/strong\u003E\u201cIf a company is known as an aerospace company, that does not mean they are only recruiting aerospace engineers,\u201d said Lindsay. \u201cCompanies are multi-faceted and need people in many different areas.\u201d Lindsay encourages students to treat the fair like a strategic networking event. \u201cIf the recruiter is not recruiting for the area you\u2019re interested in, then ask for a contact in your field. If all else fails, ask for a human resources contact.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ol\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Career Fair will be held Sept. 12\u201313 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Campus Recreation Center. Visit the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/careerdiscovery.gatech.edu\/careerfair\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Career Discovery and Development\u003C\/a\u003E website for more information about the fair and participating companies. 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In all, Georgia Tech people are participating in more than 20 sessions during Dragon Con, starting today.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EComputing and\u0026nbsp;Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty, as well as alumni,\u0026nbsp;are contributing to the growth of the Southeast\u0027s largest pop-culture convention\u0026nbsp;with technical talks on several tracks, including the video game industry\u0026nbsp;and the electronic frontiers forum.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/app.core-apps.com\/dragoncon16\/events\/view_by_day?tracks=4b2cac1389e104018b21678be376df59\u0026amp;type=\u0022\u003EVideo Gaming\u0026nbsp;track\u003C\/a\u003E, with six panels that\u0026nbsp;include\u0026nbsp;GT experts,\u0026nbsp;will feature\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EBlair MacIntyre\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor of Interactive Computing, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMaribeth Gandy\u003C\/strong\u003E, Ph.D. CS \u201812 and director of the Interactive Media Technology Center (IMTC), as panelists examining the history and future of\u0026nbsp;\u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/app.core-apps.com\/dragoncon16\/event\/4b2cac1389e104018b21678be3ce2622\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EVirtual Reality in Video Gaming\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0022\u0026nbsp;They are also among a group of experts discussing \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/app.core-apps.com\/dragoncon16\/event\/4b2cac1389e104018b21678be39a5517?\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EEmerging Technologies and the Future of Gaming\u003C\/a\u003E\u201d\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;the potential impact of augmented reality, projection mapping and wearable displays on gaming experiences. Gandy\u0027s final panel is \u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/app.core-apps.com\/dragoncon16\/event\/4b2cac1389e104018b21678be39ab700\u0022\u003EGoing to School for Video Games\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELaura Levy\u003C\/strong\u003E, IMTC research scientist, is\u0026nbsp;a panelist on \u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/app.core-apps.com\/dragoncon16\/event\/4b2cac1389e104018b21678be399cf49\u0022\u003EWomen in the Game Industry\u003C\/a\u003E\u0022 and \u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/app.core-apps.com\/dragoncon16\/event\/4b2cac1389e104018b21678be3f09689\u0022\u003EUnusual Jobs in the Video Game Industry\u003C\/a\u003E\u0022 and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EBen Jacobs\u003C\/strong\u003E, part of the\u0026nbsp;Georgia\u0026nbsp;Assistive Technology program\u0026nbsp;at Georgia Tech, will be on the panel \u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/app.core-apps.com\/dragoncon16\/event\/4b2cac1389e104018b21678be39a467d\u0022\u003EGaming with Disabilities\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn the Science track,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Cressler\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, will discuss \u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/app.core-apps.com\/dragoncon16\/event\/4b2cac1389e104018b21678be3b86145\u0022\u003EThe Many Miracles of the Microelectronics Revolution\u003C\/a\u003E\u0022 for non-technical audiences.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EAaron Lanterman\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, will give an overview of synthisized\u0026nbsp;music in pop culture\u0026nbsp;and the evolving technology behind it at the panel\u0026nbsp;\u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/app.core-apps.com\/dragoncon16\/event\/4b2cac1389e104018b21678be39d7ee6\u0022\u003EFifty Years of Music Synthesis\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EComputer science major\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EChad Ramey\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;is teaming with GT Computing Alumnus\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EChris Grayson\u003C\/strong\u003E, MS CS \u201813 and CEO of Web Sight.IO, for two panel sessions on hacking culture. These panel sessions are set for Saturday and Sunday and are part of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/app.core-apps.com\/dragoncon16\/events\/view_by_day?day=Sep++2\u0026amp;tracks=4b2cac1389e104018b21678be3775d4b\u0026amp;type=\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EElectronic Frontiers Forum\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;track.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERamey is also set to share with audiences advancements in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/app.core-apps.com\/dragoncon16\/event\/4b2cac1389e104018b21678be3b88961?\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Erobotics\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/app.core-apps.com\/dragoncon16\/event\/4b2cac1389e104018b21678be398af74?\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewearable tech\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and the secrets behind cooking\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/app.core-apps.com\/dragoncon16\/event\/4b2cac1389e104018b21678be3b80a0c?\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ethe perfect steak\u003C\/a\u003E. Grayson is also participating on the \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/app.core-apps.com\/dragoncon16\/event\/4b2cac1389e104018b21678be3996726\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EEncrypt the Entire Web!\u003C\/a\u003E\u201d panel.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring the 15th Annual Dragon Con parade, Saturday at 10 a.m. and televised for the first time (Atlanta CW Ch.\u0026nbsp;69), costume creations by Industrial Design students\u0026nbsp;\u2013\u0026nbsp;under the direction of professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EStephen Sprigle\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u2013\u0026nbsp;will be featured. The students created cosplay outfits for five disabled, wheelchair-bound children, who will wear them in the parade and be escorted by the students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECon attendees have 10\u0026nbsp;hours to recover from the\u0026nbsp;jam-packed downtown parade before the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/app.core-apps.com\/dragoncon16\/event\/4b2cac1389e104018b21678be3f48d43\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Geekapalooza Comedy Tour\u003C\/a\u003E, which includes members from across campus.\u0026nbsp;They will perform at the\u0026nbsp;Hilton\u0026nbsp;at 10 p.m. Saturday and\u0026nbsp;show\u0026nbsp;off the\u0026nbsp;group\u0027s\u0026nbsp;unique brand of GT\u0026nbsp;humor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor Georgia Tech folks attending Dragon Con, a meet up is being planned. \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDetails on the Tech meet up, and the 20+\u0026nbsp;panels from Georgia Tech, will be updated throughout the weekend on the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/558206791056819\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGT@DragonCon Facebook page\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECybersecurity, robotics, wearable computers, virtual reality, and space travel are among the topics faculty, students, and alumni will address during the convention, which is expected to draw more than 70,000 attendees. 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The team is comprised of 43 students, both undergraduates and graduates, including several engineering students and computer science students, 11 architecture students, and four business students. 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If your son or daughter has an entrepreneurial spirit or is simply interested in learning more about the transformation from an idea to an invention to a potential startup company, there are several GT programs, competitions, and organizations to stimulate such innovation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; The \u003Cstrong\u003E2017 InVenture Prize\u003C\/strong\u003E is starting now! The InVenture Prize is Georgia Tech\u2019s annual innovation competition for undergraduate students. Six individual students or student teams will have the opportunity to pitch their inventions to a panel of judges and 1000+ screaming fans in the final round of the competition, which is filmed live and aired on Georgia Public Broadcasting. Total prize money is $35,000, including a US patent. 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Changing the technology that has permeated virtually every facet of the human condition is not going to happen without enormous effort and investment.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I believe Georgia Tech has the right expertise at the right time and is uniquely positioned to help lead a response to this challenge today.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"As the 2015 president of the IEEE Computer Society, Tom Conte, professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s Schools of Computer Science and Electrical \u0026 Computer Engineering, is leading a national initiative to rethink how computers compute.  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Admit it. Cybersecurity has crossed your mind at least once this week, even today, perhaps in the last hour. Can you trust that link? What else is in this download? Will this security update actually make a difference?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELet\u2019s solve it together.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/iisp.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EInstitute for Information Security \u0026amp; Privacy\u003C\/a\u003E invites students of any major, any year to bring cybersecurity research ideas to Fall \u201916 Demo Day. Projects may be ideas in formation, research underway or completed projects.\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents will display a poster about their idea on Sept. 28 at the Georgia Tech Cyber Security Summit, where audience vote by 300+ attendees determines which ideas will be invited back to the Spring \u201917 Demo Day Finale. At that point, students deliver a 5-minute presentation about their idea for a chance to win up to $7,000 from venture capitalists. Everyone walks away with generous advice from seasoned business investors. Someone walks away with cash to launch the next cybersecurity solution.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The Institute for Information Security \u0026amp; Privacy wants to move good ideas to market,\u0022 says \u003Cstrong\u003EWenke Lee\u003C\/strong\u003E, co-director. \u0022We know industry leans on academic researchers to raise new ideas and we lean on industry to take solutions to the public. Our hope is that by introducing students to business mentors early in the research timeline that we can help them naturally build productive relationships and reduce time to market. All students participating in Demo Day will benefit from the insight and critique of those closest to industry needs today.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProjects in the areas of public policy, business risk management, cyber-physical systems, privacy, or computer science are welcome. Deadline to register is Sept. 19. All students or teams must \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/iisp.gatech.edu\/demo-day\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ecomplete the registration form by Sept. 19\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELast year\u2019s winner of the IISP Demo Day, \u003Cstrong\u003EMusheer Ahmed\u003C\/strong\u003E (Ph.D. CS \u201916) has since collected more than $400,000 for his idea \u2013 FraudScope, a software algorithm for healthcare fraud detection. Ahmed continues to work with his Ph.D. advisor \u003Cstrong\u003EMustaque Ahamad\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor of computer science, on the idea.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAll students who enter Fall \u201916 Demo Day also will be eligible for another exciting prize -- an all-expense paid trip to the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.rsaconference.com\/about\/rsac-security-scholar\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERSA Conference\u003C\/a\u003E in Silicon Valley (Feb. 13-18, 2017). Only students who participate in Demo Day will be considered to go.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5\u003EHurry, the deadline is Monday, Sept. 19! Walk-ins cannot be accepted.\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/iisp.gatech.edu\/demo-day\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/iisp.gatech.edu\/demo-day\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute for Information Security \u0026amp; Privacy invites students of any major, any year to bring cybersecurity research ideas to Fall \u201916 Demo Day. Projects may be ideas in formation, research underway or completed projects and from the areas of public policy, business risk management, cyber-physical systems, privacy, or computer science.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Institute for Information Security \u0026 Privacy invites students of any major, any year to bring cybersecurity research ideas to Fall \u201916 Demo Day."}],"uid":"27490","created_gmt":"2016-09-14 16:15:52","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:22:37","author":"Tara La Bouff","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-09-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-09-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"576831":{"id":"576831","type":"image","title":"Fall \u002716 Demo Day","body":null,"created":"1473884311","gmt_created":"2016-09-14 20:18:31","changed":"1475895386","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:56:26","alt":"Fall \u002716 Demo Day","file":{"fid":"207245","name":"demo_day_sign_1600x900_08-01.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/demo_day_sign_1600x900_08-01.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/demo_day_sign_1600x900_08-01.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":668919,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/demo_day_sign_1600x900_08-01.jpg?itok=mgLdi51Z"}},"451391":{"id":"451391","type":"image","title":"IISP logo","body":null,"created":"1449256280","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:11:20","changed":"1475895192","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:12","alt":"IISP logo","file":{"fid":"203339","name":"instituteforinformationsecurityprivacy-outline-black874.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/instituteforinformationsecurityprivacy-outline-black874_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/instituteforinformationsecurityprivacy-outline-black874_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":88082,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/instituteforinformationsecurityprivacy-outline-black874_0.jpg?itok=JGV2BzFy"}}},"media_ids":["576831","451391"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1404","name":"Cybersecurity"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"571231":{"#nid":"571231","#data":{"type":"news","title":"2016-2017 Georgia Tech Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN) Seed Grant Program: Information and Request for Applications","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProgram Description\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech IEN is an Interdisciplinary Research Institute (IRI) comprised of faculty and students interested in using the most advanced fabrication and characterization tools, and cleanroom infrastructure, to facilitate research in micro- and nano-scale materials, devices, and systems. Applications of this research span all disciplines in science and engineering with particular emphasis on biomedicine, electronics, optoelectronics and photonics, and energy applications. As there can be a learning curve associated with initial proof-of-concept development and testing using cleanroom tools, this seed grant program was developed to expedite the initiation of new graduate students and new research projects into productive activity. Successful proposals to this program will identify a new, currently-unfunded research idea that requires cleanroom access to generate preliminary data necessary to pursue other funding avenues.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProgram Eligibility\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGeorgia Tech Applicants\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis program is open to any current Georgia Tech or GTRI faculty member as project PI. The graduate student performing the research should be in the first 2 years of his\/her graduate studies, and preference will be given to students who are new users of the IEN facilities. The student\u2019s research advisor (project PI) does not need to be a current user of the IEN cleanroom\/lab facilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EExternal (non-Georgia Tech) Applicants\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERecent funding from the NSF to create the Southeastern Nanotechnology Infrastructure Corridor (SENIC, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/senic.gatech.edu\/\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/senic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/senic.gatech.edu\/\u003C\/a\u003E) as part of the NNCI has allowed IEN to open this program to external (not affiliated with Georgia Tech) users currently at an academic institution in the southeastern US. The graduate student performing the proposed research cannot be a current user of the IEN facilities. The student\u2019s research advisor (project PI) may have a current project in place for use of the IEN cleanroom\/lab facilities, but this is not a requirement. If awarded, a specialized service agreement will need to be arranged with the user\u2019s home institution.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPast awardees of a seed grant may submit additional proposals for different students\/projects, but not in consecutive funding cycles. It is the responsibility of the project PI and student to determine their ability to make use of the awarded time during the grant period. Extensions requested once the project has begun will not be granted.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAward Information\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach seed grant award will consist of free cleanroom access to the student identified in the proposal for 2 (consecutive) billing quarters. Based on current access rates and the academic cap on hourly charges (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cleanroom.ien.gatech.edu\/rates\/\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/cleanroom.ien.gatech.edu\/rates\/\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/cleanroom.ien.gatech.edu\/rates\/\u003C\/a\u003E), this comprises a maximum award of $6000 for the 6 month period. This maximum award amount is still in effect even if IEN non-cleanroom (lab) equipment, electron beam lithography (EBL), or tools in the Materials Characterization Facility (MCF) are required. The designated student user is expected to only utilize the cleanroom\/tool access while working with the PI on the proposed project. Members of the IEN processing staff will be available to consult during the project period. The number of awards for each proposal submission date will depend on the number and quality of the proposals. A short report describing the research activities is required midway and at the completion of the award period.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESubmission Schedule\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis Seed Grant program is offered in two competitions each year with due dates on April 1 and October 1. While it is expected that research activity will begin on June 1 and December 1, respectively, there is flexibility in scheduling the 2 quarters of research work, as long as they conform to the IEN billing quarters.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProposal Requirements (2 pages max)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe proposal (submitted as a PDF file of no more than 2 pages) should do the following:\u003Cbr \/\u003E1. Provide a project title.\u003Cbr \/\u003E2. Identify the research problem and specify the proposed methods.\u003Cbr \/\u003E3. Indicate the IEN research tools necessary to conduct the research. If assistance is needed with this component, staff members of the IEN are available for consultation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E4. Describe the relationship of this research to the PI\u2019s other research activity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E5. Identify the PI and the graduate student involved (including year of graduate work), and if there will be a mentoring relationship with the PI\u2019s other students. Note if there are collaborative relationships with Georgia Tech faculty that bear on this research project.\u003Cbr \/\u003E6. Specify the potential for follow-on funding based on the results of this initial work.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESubmit the PDF file by the specified due date to Ms. Amy Duke (\u003Ca class=\u0022form-submit\u0022 href=\u0022mailto:amy.duke@ien.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eamy.duke@ien.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EReview Criteria\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProposals will initially be reviewed by IEN staff for technical feasibility within the 6-month time frame. Rating of proposals will be done by a review committee of Georgia Tech faculty, with final selection of awardees by IEN staff.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information, please contact Dr. David Gottfried\u003Ca class=\u0022form-submit\u0022 href=\u0022mailto:dsgottfried@gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E dsgottfried@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(404) 894-0479.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"This seed grant program was developed to expedite the initiation of new graduate students and research projects into productive activity. 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Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) are adapting optical techniques from the photonics telecom arena to enhance U.S. electronic warfare (EW) capabilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOptical approaches provide greatly increased frequency coverage and long distance low-loss transfer of analog signals when compared to traditional radio frequency (RF) systems, resulting in substantial performance improvements. Chip-scale integrated photonics also allows for the potential of extensive reductions in size, weight and power (SWaP) needs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cU.S. warfighters may soon face adversary systems that use signals outside the traditional EW spectrum, which creates a need for broadband frequency responses beyond the capabilities of conventional RF and digital equipment,\u201d said Chris Ward, a senior research engineer who leads GTRI\u0027s EW photonics development program. \u201cPhotonic advances originating in the telecom world have given us the ability to provide EW, radar and other military systems with unique and advanced performance capabilities.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPhotonics technology uses photons \u2013 particles of light \u2013 to carry wideband signals used in communications, radar and other applications over optical fiber efficiently over large distances. Photonics-based systems transmit data with far less signal loss than conventional metallic conductors, and encounter little or no electromagnetic interference while propagating through fiber.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMoreover, optical technology can be described as \u201cfrequency agnostic\u201d \u2013 meaning a fiber-optic cable can carry signals of virtually any RF frequency, given the constraints of the electrical-to-optical and optical-to-electrical conversion process. Electric, current-carrying cables of conventional RF and digital systems can only function within narrow bandwidths on the order of gigahertz (GHz). Most optical components operate with more than 1,000 times the bandwidth, on the order of terahertz (THz).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor example, Ward explained, a user needing to process signals over 100 gigahertz (GHz) of bandwidth can easily find an optical carrier that functions at a center frequency of 193 THz, meaning that only 0.05 percent of total system bandwidth is used. By contrast, RF components using metal conductors typically consume 10 percent to 20 percent of available bandwidth per signal.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere is an enormous benefit to operating in the optical domain.\u201d he said. \u201cIt is typically very difficult for digital and RF electronics to cover a large spectrum instantaneously \u2013 they have to switch between multiple components in order to cover a variety of bandwidths. The engineering challenges involved in extending these traditional approaches are becoming increasingly difficult in terms of costs, schedules and SWaP. In contrast, the ability for a single optical component to perform its function over a large spectrum decreases system complexity and enables modular architectures that can be used to address future requirements.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EToday, Ward explained, sophisticated commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) photonic components, capable of cutting-edge data\/signal transport, are widely available. GTRI researchers are using these devices in the development of novel EW architectures that have strong performance advantages.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWard and his team have produced optical transceivers that can interface readily with existing digital or RF EW equipment. Employing novel photonic integrated circuits (PICs), researchers are building increased performance and flexibility into EW components. The team is currently focused on packaging PICs for integration into existing EW systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere are several challenges in adapting photonics technology for highly specialized EW needs,\u201d Ward said. \u201cBut the benefits in terms of the ability to effectively counter future threats, along with substantial cost reduction and greatly improved SWaP factors, make optical approaches highly promising for these applications.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E177 North Avenue\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAtlanta, Georgia 30332-0181 USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (404-894-6986) (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) or Ben Brumfield (404-385-1933) (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ben.brumfield@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eben.brumfield@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: Rick Robinson\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPhotonics, the technology that helps drive today\u2019s telecommunications systems, offers major advances in the area of signal transmission. 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With the proliferation of embedded sensors and computational devices across so many areas of human activity, we\u0026rsquo;re no longer talking even about a tsunami of data\u0026mdash; it\u0026rsquo;s bigger than that,\u0026rdquo; said Georgia Tech School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) \u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Bader\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E[\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SHVIRjwAPKg\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EClick here to see GT Computing\u0026#39;s new HPC video\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Supercomputing gives us the ability to make all this data work for us, inform us, and teach us. Georgia Tech is exceptionally well-positioned to work with a variety of partners to leverage HPC to the fullest extent of its capabilities, from building hardware to developing software and algorithms for these new supercomputers, to finding and analyzing the data that\u0026rsquo;s everywhere around us. It\u0026rsquo;s an exciting time,\u0026rdquo; said Bader.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESponsored by the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ieee.org\/index.html\u0022\u003EIEEE Computer Society\u003C\/a\u003E, and the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sighpc.org\/\u0022\u003EACM Special Interest Group on HPC\u003C\/a\u003E (SIGHPC), the SC conference attracts leading scientists, engineers, researchers, educators, programmers, system administrators, and developers from across the globe.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlong with staffing a booth (2543) during the exposition portion of the event, the Georgia Tech team will be \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sc16.supercomputing.org\/organization\/?inst=Georgia%20Institute%20of%20Technology\u0022\u003Eparticipating in a number of ways\u003C\/a\u003E at SC including paper and poster presentations, workshops, and panel discussions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of the papers being highlighted this year was actually presented at last year\u0026rsquo;s SC event. The paper written by students of CSE Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ESrinivas Aluru,\u003C\/strong\u003E \u0026ldquo;A Parallel Connectivity Algorithm for De Bruijn Graphs in Metagenomic Applications,\u0026rdquo; is being recognized with the first-ever \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/583818\/paper-honored-first-earn-acm-results-replicated-badge\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EACM \u003Cem\u003EResults Replicated\u003C\/em\u003E award\u003C\/a\u003E and badge.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother expected highlight this week at SC is the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/583904\/rikens-k-computer-continues-top-graph-500-list-worlds-fastest-supercomputers\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Elatest top 500 list of supercomputers\u003C\/a\u003E. Known as the Graph 500, the bi-annual list is developed by a small cadre of recognized supercomputing experts, including Bader, and details the fastest and most powerful computers in the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of the major challenges facing the further development of supercomputing is the looming end of Moore\u0026rsquo;s Law. To meet this challenge, SC is organizing the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sc16.supercomputing.org\/presentation\/?id=wksp105\u0026amp;sess=sess106\u0022\u003E1st International Workshop on Post-Moore Era Supercomputing\u003C\/a\u003E (PMES). 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I was just excited to share what I\u0026rsquo;ve been working on and hear about the other fascinating things that are being done by women in STEM.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech ADVANCE was a sponsor of the summit, and Randall was a member of the organizing committee.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Two College of Computing professors and one College of Computing student participated in panels during the Women\u0027s Leadership Summit."}],"uid":"33939","created_gmt":"2016-11-10 21:39:45","changed_gmt":"2016-11-30 17:39:32","author":"David Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-11-10T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-11-10T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"583768":{"id":"583768","type":"image","title":"IEEE\/WIE Women\u0027s Leadership Summit","body":null,"created":"1478813876","gmt_created":"2016-11-10 21:37:56","changed":"1478813876","gmt_changed":"2016-11-10 21:37:56","alt":"","file":{"fid":"222560","name":"WIE.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/WIE.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/WIE.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":566168,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/WIE.jpeg?itok=0xzmpxui"}},"61093":{"id":"61093","type":"image","title":"Dana Randall","body":null,"created":"1449176308","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:58:28","changed":"1475894531","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:11","alt":"Dana Randall","file":{"fid":"191271","name":"dana-randall.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dana-randall.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dana-randall.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":16094,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/dana-randall.jpg?itok=JEErgXO9"}}},"media_ids":["583768","61093"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1187","name":"IEEE"},{"id":"10626","name":"WIE"},{"id":"14107","name":"ADVANCE Women in Engineering"},{"id":"714","name":"ADVANCE"},{"id":"1235","name":"women in engineering"},{"id":"4476","name":"Women\u0027s Leadership Conference"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDavid Mitchell\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer I\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.mitchell@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"583896":{"#nid":"583896","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Launches Two Programs to Boost Cybersecurity Degree Production and Research ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute for Information Security \u0026amp; Privacy (IISP) at the Georgia Institute of Technology announced a $5-million scholarship fund and the creation of a new Ph.D. fellowship program dedicated to emerging cybersecurity ideas. 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Imlay chair of software at the School of Computer Science. \u0026ldquo;We want to ensure that bright students with forward-thinking ideas receive the funding to pursue their work. The workforce needs them.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECyberCorps\u0026reg; Scholarship for Service supports national security\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe NSF\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iisp.gatech.edu\/cybercorps-scholarship-service\u0022\u003ECyberCorps\u0026reg; Scholarship for Service\u003C\/a\u003E will financially support undergraduate, master\u0026rsquo;s and doctoral students who agree to work for the U.S. government after graduation. CyberCorps\u0026reg; provides tuition and a stipend to students in exchange for commitments to serve a federal, state, local or tribal government organization for a period equal to the length of their scholarship. Typically, undergraduate and master\u0026#39;s students can be funded for up to two years, while doctoral students can be funded for three years.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECyberCorps\u0026reg; is open to students who are enrolled in the Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Public Policy or International Affairs departments at Georgia Tech who demonstrate strong interest in the field of cybersecurity. Scholarship recipients receive internship opportunities prior to graduation, professional development, and employment placement assistance in addition to full tuition, health insurance, book allowance and travel to government job fairs and internships. Students may apply at any time of the year via \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iisp.gatech.edu\/cybercorps-scholarship-service\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.iisp.gatech.edu\/cybercorps-scholarship-service\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECybersecurity Fellowship Program funds emerging ideas\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe second effort \u0026ndash; the IISP \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iisp.gatech.edu\/cybersecurity-fellowship-program\u0022\u003ECybersecurity Fellowship Program\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026ndash; is a new program to support doctoral students from any Georgia Tech unit whose innovative research ideas are under-funded or unfunded. 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