{"669339":{"#nid":"669339","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Former Computing Dean Shares OMSCS Success Story with 100th Audience","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA decade has passed since the College of Computing launched its groundbreaking Online Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS) program. And in that time, former dean and program co-founder Zvi Galil has been asked to speak about the program repeatedly.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis summer, he delivered his 100th talk at the National University of Singapore, where he also met with faculty, administrators, Ph.D. students, and postdoctoral fellows. Afterward, he joined a local meet-up group for OMSCS students. Singapore has the highest concentration of OMSCS students globally \u2014 \u0026nbsp;30 students per million residents. At the same time, the U.S. comes in with 24 per million.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The OMS Singapore group has been very helpful to me,\u0022 said student Serge Nino Martin. \u0022I was able to meet fellow students and alumni even before I started my classes officially. It is great to network with \u0022like-minded\u0022 people who are very interested in learning more about computer science.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis is what these groups are supposed to do, accordingly to Galil.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Our local meet-up groups allow students who are not in Atlanta to build their community, to share ideas, and to network,\u0022 Galil said. \u0022The university and the meet-up group provided me with wonderful hospitality.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAbout a third of current OMSCS students live outside the U.S., with large numbers in China, India, Canada, South Korea, and Singapore. The program also enrolls more than 300 students in Central and South America and more than 450 in Africa.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter he visited Singapore, Galil gave his 101st talk at Tel Aviv University, where he previously served as president. His fall schedule will take him to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he will meet up with Charles Isbell, former dean of computing at Georgia Tech and current provost at UW \u2013 Madison.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFormer dean and co-founder of the groundbreaking Online Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS) program, Zvi Galil, recently celebrated his 100th talk on the program\u0027s success, highlighting its global reach and community-building efforts. He marked the occasion with an audience in Singapore, which has the highest concentration of OMSCS students worldwide.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Former dean and co-founder of the groundbreaking Online Master of Science in Computer Science OMSCS program, Zvi Galil, recently celebrated his 100th presentation on the program\u0027s success."}],"uid":"32045","created_gmt":"2023-09-01 13:04:50","changed_gmt":"2023-09-01 13:09:45","author":"Ben Snedeker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-08-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-08-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"671568":{"id":"671568","type":"image","title":"A smile from former College of Computing dean and OMSCS co-founder, Zvi Galil, while he speaks with students.","body":null,"created":"1693573508","gmt_created":"2023-09-01 13:05:08","changed":"1693573508","gmt_changed":"2023-09-01 13:05:08","alt":"A smile from former College of Computing dean and OMSCS co-founder, Zvi Galil, while he speaks with students.","file":{"fid":"254653","name":"Zvi-at-center-smile-newwebsize (1).jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/09\/01\/Zvi-at-center-smile-newwebsize%20%281%29.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/09\/01\/Zvi-at-center-smile-newwebsize%20%281%29.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":26405,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/09\/01\/Zvi-at-center-smile-newwebsize%20%281%29.jpeg?itok=xaZsN36P"}}},"media_ids":["671568"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"431631","name":"OMS"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"10199","name":"Daily Digest"},{"id":"11075","name":"The Whistle"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAnn Claycombe, Communications Director\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Computing\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Eann.claycombe@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}