{"58076":{"#nid":"58076","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Schwan Named Computing\u0027s 6th Regents\u0027 Professor","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKarsten Schwan has been named a Regents\u0027 Professor by the University System of\nGeorgia Board of Regents.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchwan, who joined the Georgia Tech computer science faculty in 1988, directs the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cercs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS)\u003C\/a\u003E in the College of Computing. Now the College\u0027s sixth Regents\u0027 Professor, he is a member of the School of Computer Science\u0027s systems research group, working in high performance, real-time and ubiquitous applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Regents\u0027 Professorships are granted by the Board of Regents to outstanding tenured, full professors, based on excellence in research and contributions to their profession and to Georgia Tech,\u0022 Institute President Bud Peterson wrote to Schwan in announcing the appointment. \u0022This honor is evidence of the outstanding reputation you have developed among your peers not only at Georgia Tech but throughout the research community. Your innovative scholarship and noteworthy achievements have helped Georgia Tech to become one of the premier research universities in the world.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/people\/karsten-schwan\u0022 target=\u0022_self\u0022\u003ESchwan\u003C\/a\u003E earned both his master\u0027s and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. He deferred much of the credit for his appointment to his fellow CERCS researchers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022A big part of receiving this honor,\u0022 Schwan said, \u0022is due to my excellent colleagues and collaborators who, by helping to create CERCS and thereby pooling their talents and activities, have been able to attain a degree of national prominence and impact that would otherwise not have been possible.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cercs.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_self\u0022\u003ECERCS\u003C\/a\u003E has established itself in three major research areas: cloud computing, high performance computing and multicore systems. The center works in collaboration with major industry partners such as Hewlett Packard, IBM, Intel and NVidia.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKarsten Schwan has been named a Regents\u0027 Professor by the University System of Georgia Board of Regents. \u003Cem\u003ESource: Office of Communications\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27174","created_gmt":"2010-06-15 09:35:36","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:47","author":"Mike Terrazas","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-06-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-06-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"46487":{"id":"46487","type":"image","title":"Karsten Schwan","body":null,"created":"1449174448","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:27:28","changed":"1475894421","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:21"}},"media_ids":["46487"],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[],"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:stefany@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EStefany Wilson\n\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECollege of Computing\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-7253\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}