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Picture of the Month
September 10
Elementary Student
Weekend Workshop ICE Programs
CCB 345
September 13-14
Career Fair
Klaus Atrium
September 27
C21U Launch Event
Atlanta, GA
September 27
Commencement Fair
Barnes & Noble
September 28
Commencement Fair
Barnes & Noble
Improving Mental Health in Liberia
Ellen Zegura (CS) spent part of her summer in Liberia, training a cadre of nurses in the
computational tools that will help them improve mental health for the nation's 3.8 million
residents. In recent years Liberia has emerged from a long period of brutal civil war, and
Georgia Tech is partnering with The Carter Center to build the country's mental health
infrastructure; The Carter Center coordinates training of mental health professionals, and
Georgia Tech provides the technological expertise required to give those professionals the tools
and digital infrastructure they'll need in the field. In August, Zegura traveled to the Liberian
capital of Monrovia to train the program's first graduating cohort of 21 mental health nurses.
Read more about this Computing for Good (C4G) project on the C4G blog or on The Carter
Center's website. Photo by P. Rohe/The Carter Center
Proposed Contracts for April 2011
Total
3
$ Amount
$1,005,000
IC
CS
CSE
2%
8%
90%
Newly Awarded Contracts for April 2011
Sponsor
Value
PI
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$31M
Total new research
awards in the College
of Computing during
FY2011
Countries represented
in Georgia Tech's Fall
2011 freshman class
Financial Dashboard for April 2011
$25,067,882
Companies registered
for the Sept. 13-14 CoC
Career Fair
38
Research News
2011 YTD New
Awards
75
Co-PIs
Title
90
Georgia counties
represented in GT's
2011 freshman class,
60% of which are instate students
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SSRL
$176,961
Calton Pu
None
Malware Persistence in OS
Kernels
DARPA
$745,892
Mark Riedl
None
Automated Scenario
Creation/Adaptation
Technology
NSF
$185,320
Nina Balcan
None
Collaborative Research:
Algorithms & Mechanisms
for Pricing Influence
Grants/Gifts Received for April 2011
This month various groups
at CoC are pursuing
partnerships with the
following companies:
AApple
Bomgar
Google
Sponsor
Value
PI
Co-PIs
Title
INgage Networks
Intel
$66,000
Hyesoon Kim
None
Power Predications
Kaneva
Liberty Mutual
Financial Dashboard for May 2011
2011 YTD New
Awards
Microsoft
Proposed Contracts for May 2011
Total $ Amount
$26,545,802
6
$1,645,909
Norfolk Southern
CoC
CS
RIM
C21U
49%
37%
2%
12%
Pariveda Solutions
Steelcase
Suntrust
Newly Awarded Contracts for May 2011
Yahoo!
Sponsor
Value
PI
Co-PIs
Title
Air Force
$543,650
Patrick
Traynor
None
Characterizing and
Implementing Efficient
Primitives for Privacy
Preservation
ETRI
$78,000
Thad Starner
None
Interface Textiles:
Integrating Conductive Ink
and Conductive Embroidery
Army
$162,695
Charles Isbell
None
Intelligent Tutoring Agents
in Adaptive Training
Environments
NSF
$279,806
Janet
Kolodner
None
Intergovernmental
Personnel Act (IPA) for
Janet Kolodner
Fujitsu
$81,000
Calton Pu
None
Experimental Study of NTier Application Systems
Performance (Phase 3)
Boeing
$150,000
Henrik
Christensen
None
Boeing Wing Assembly
Kitware/DARPA
$120,000
Irfan Essa
Mike Stilman
Human Robot Instruction
for Perceptual Teamwork
Bonavision
$19,442
Henrik
Christensen
None
Cognitive Robotics for
Sustainable Education &
Training
Grants/Gifts Received for May 2011
Sponsor
Value
PI
Co-PIs
Title
Microsoft
$100,000
Nina Balcan
None
Microsoft Faculty Fellowship
GTF
$1,000
Milos
Prvulovic
None
Hesburgh Fellowship
SAIC
$50,000
Merrick Furst
None
SAIC Entrepreneurship
Flashpoint Teams
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Financial Dashboard for June 2011
FY2011 Total New
Awards
Proposed Contracts for June 2011
Total $ Amount
$31,020,203
9
$2,900,784
IC
CS
RIM
CSE
12%
46%
35%
7%
Newly Awarded Contracts for June 2011
Sponsor
Value
PI
Co-PIs
Title
APHL
$117,000
Santosh
Vempala
None
C4G Open Source Lis
Project
Navy
$851,176
Ron Arkin
Frank Dellaert
Primate-Inspired Ground
Vehicle Control
DARPA
$126,488
David Bader
None
Benchmarking the IBM
PERCS Architecture
Arthur Blank
Foundation
$25,000
Amy
Bruckman
None
Glitch Game Testers
Summer 2011
Grants/Gifts Received for June 2011
Sponsor
Value
PI
Co-PIs
Title
Nokia
$60,000
Karsten
Schwan
None
Cloud 4 Users
Intel
$25,000
Ada
Gavrilovska
None
Heterogeneous & Multicore
Platforms
Financial Dashboard for July 2011
2012 YTD New
Awards
Proposed Contracts for July 2011
Total $ Amount
$2,143,815
6
$3,256,987
IC
CS
CoC
CSE
GTISC
19%
33%
1%
36%
11%
Newly Awarded Contracts for July 2011
Sponsor
Value
PI
Co-PIs
Title
Alfred Sloan
Foundation
$50,000
Chris Peikert
None
Sloan Fellowship
NSF
$50,000
Calton Pu
None
Rapid: Automating
Emergency Data and
Metadata Management
Navy
$309,000
Wenke *Lee
None
A Malware Network
Intelligence Gathering and
Analysis Framework
NSF
$448,645
Frank Dellaert
None
Ultra-Sparsifiers for Fast
and Scalable Mapping and
3D Reconstruction
US Dept. of
Defense
$1,042,883 Ron Arkin
None
Getting it Right the First
Time: Predicted
Performance Guarantees
DARPA
$175,000
Frank Dellaert
None
Plug-And-Play Navigation
Algorithms and Software
Using Factor Graphs
Toyota
$135,000
Mike Stilman
None
Task Order 6: Optimal
Dexterous Manipulation
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People@CoC
Ammar Talks WAM Continuum at Stockholm's KTH Royal Institute
Mostafa Ammar (CS) delivered a talk at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm,
Sweden, on June 10 as part of its ACCESS Distinguished Lecture Series. The Royal Institute's
ACCESS Centre is devoted to interdisciplinary study of networked systems, or "finding ways to
facilitate communication between people, systems and machines." The talk was titled "Living
in the WAM Continuum: Unified Design and Operation of Wireless and Mobile Networks," and
video is available online for viewing.
CUNY Workshop Invites Peikert as a 'Face of Modern Cryptography'
Chris Peikert (CS) is an invited speaker at the upcoming "Faces of Modern Cryptography"
workshop, Sept. 9 at City University of New York (CUNY). Sponsored by CUNY's Center for
Algorithms and Interactive Scientific Software, this year's event focuses on two emerging
areas of research: lattice-based cryptography and leakage-resilient cryptography. The one-day
conference will feature five 50-minute addresses by leading international experts in those two
areas.
CISTP Fellow Lukasik Publishes IEEE Paper on Arpanet Origins
Steve Lukasik, distinguished research fellow at Georgia Tech's Center for International
Strategy, Technology and Policy, wrote the featured cover article in the July-September IEEE
Annals of the History of Computing, titled "Why the Arpanet Was Built." Lukasik served as
deputy director of ARPA when Arpanet was conceived and then as director during the
network's launching years. The paper is a summation of the history Lukasik relayed in a joint
GTISC/CISTP lecture in 2008.
Bader a Summer Speaker In Demand on Supercomputing
David Bader (CSE) delivered several invited lectures over the summer, beginning with one on
"Accelerating Real-World Applications" at the AMD Fusion Developer Summit 2011, June 14 in
Bellevue, Wash. Next up was a birds-of-a-feather presentation at the 26th International
Supercomputing Conference, held June 19-23 in Hamburg, Germany. At the conference, Bader
co-presented the second Graph 500 Benchmark release of the world's fastest supercomputers;
the Graph 500 Benchmark list is intended to complement the older Top 500 list with dataintensive applications. Finally, Bader gave a keynote talk on "Opportunities and Challenges in
Massive Data-Intensive Computing,'' at the NSF Workshop on Data Intensive Computing,
Graphs and Combinatorics in Bio-Informatics, Finance and National Security, held at the City
University of New York on Staten Island, July 26-27. The workshop addressed current topics in
data-intensive computing, such as computational-statistical, graph-theoretic and combinatoric
approaches in bio-informatics, financial data analytics, linguistics and national security.
ARC Center to Host Delft Institute's Vallentin, Sept. 25-Oct. 22
The ARC Center will host Frank Vallentin, assistant professor of optimization and system
theory at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, for a series of visiting lectures
to be held from Sept. 25 to Oct. 22. Vallentin's specialty is developing usable techniques to
solve hard combinatorial optimization problems in a continuous setting, drawing motivation
from computational applications to biology and the social sciences, typically involving large
amounts of data. During his visit, he will give a series of five lectures, starting with an ARC
colloquium on Sept. 26 titled, "New Applications of Semidefinite Programming: Discrete
Geometry and Harmonic Analysis."
GVU Picks Winners of 2011-12 Research & Engagement Grants
The GVU Center has announced the winners of its 2011-12 GVU Research and Engagement
Grants competition. The program's objective is to support research activities involving faculty
and students from the many disciplines represented in GVU, specifically supporting bold new
work that, by its preliminary nature, would be difficult to fund through ordinary channels.
From 17 proposals, grant recipients were chosen from Ivan Allen College, Tennenbaum
Institute, College of Sciences and College of Computing. Financial support for winning
proposals will be provided by both GVU and the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT).
This year's grant recipients are:
• Mike Best (IC) and Angela Dalle Vacche, "New Media Nollywood"
• Rahul Basole and John Stasko (IC), "Visual Analytics for Innovation Ecosystem Intelligence"
• Richard Catrambone (IC) and Mark Guzdial (IC), "Driving Advances in Computing
Education Through Application of Educational Psychology Principles
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• Clint Zeagler and Thad Starner (IC), "Electronic Textiles Swatch Book Workshops"
CoC Sees Solid Representation at CVPR 2011
Three College of Computing papers were presented at the 2011 IEEE Computer Vision and
Pattern Recognition (IEEE CVPR), the world’s leading conference on computer vision, held
June 21-23 in Colorado Springs, Colo. The papers included:
• "Learning to Recognize Objects in Egocentric Activities," by Ph.D. student Alireza Fathi
(CS), Xiaofeng Ren and James Rehg (IC)
• "Auto Directed Video Stabilization with Robust L1 Optimal Camera Paths,” by Ph.D. student
Matthias Grundmann (CS), Vivek Kwatra, and Irfan Essa (IC)
• "Structure From Motion for Scenes With Large Duplicate Structures,” by Ph.D. student
Richard Roberts, Sudipta Sinha, Richard Szeliski and Drew Steedly
GT Posts Another Strong Performance at Silver Anniversary IPDPS
Georgia Tech demonstrated its technical leadership at the 25th IEEE International Parallel and
Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), May 16-20 in Anchorage, Alaska. As the 25th year
planning chair of IPDPS, David Bader (CSE) packed the program with a gala celebration, two
panels on "Looking Back" and "What's Ahead?" in parallel computing, and a special, limitededition IEEE compendium DVD with the 25 years of proceedings. Four papers from Georgia
Tech were presented, including two from the College of Computing:
• "Enriching 3-D Video Games on Multicores," by Romain Cledat (CS) , Tushar Kumar
(ECE), Jaswanth Sreeram (CS) and Santosh Pande (CS)
• "The Impact of Soft Resource Allocation on n-Tier Application Scalability," Qingyang Wang
(CS), Simon Malkowski (CS), Deepal Jayasinghe (CS), Pengcheng Xiong (CS), Calton
Pu (CS), Yasuhiko Kanemasa, Motoyuki Kawaba, and Lilian Harada
Additionally, Bader served as co-chair of the co-located 10th IEEE High Performance
Computational Biology (HiCOMB) workshop. Ada Gavrilovska (CS), Hyesoon Kim (CS) and
Rich Vuduc (CSE) served on the IPDPS 2010 Program Committee. Gavrilovska served on the
program committee of the 1st Workshop on Communication Architecture for Scalable Systems.
Karsten Schwan (CS) served on the program committee of the 7th Workshop on HighPerformance, Power-Aware Computing. Jeffrey Vetter (CSE) served as the workshop co-chair
of the 5th Workshop on Multithreaded Architectures and Applications (MTAAP), and Bader
served on its program committee.
Finally, Ph.D. student Vipin Sachdeva (CSE) was selected to present his research,
"p2MATLAB: Productive Parallel MATLAB for the Exascale," at the IPDPS Ph.D. forum.
More College papers appeared at IPDPS' co-located workshops:
• HCW: "A Waterfall Model to Achieve Energy Efficient Task Mapping for Large Scale GPU
Cluster," by Zhihui Du, Wenjie Liu, Xiao Yu, David A. Bader (CSE), Chen Xu
• MTAAP: "Tracking Structure of Streaming Social Networks," David Ediger (ECE), Jason Riedy
(CSE), David A. Bader (CSE), Henning Meyerhenke (CSE)
Bader is an IPDPS Steering Committee member and next year's symposium will be held May
21-25, 2012, in Shanghai, China.
Ph.D. Student Kim Takes Student Research Prize at CHI 2011
Ph.D. student Hyungsin Kim (HCC) took first prize at ACM CHI 2011 Student Research
Competition, held May 7-12 in Vancouver, for her paper and poster, "Exploring Technological
Opportunities for Cognitive Impairment Screening." Kim received a gold medal and was
recognized at the closing session at CHI 2011, and will also receive an award plaque, $500
prize and two-year complimentary ACM membership with a subscription to ACM's Digital
Library. Kim now is eligible to compete in the ACM-wide Grand Finals of Student Research
Competition, where the winners of several ACM conferences compete for more prizes and
recognition.
Bader Receives Award for International Computing Collaboration
David Bader (CSE) and German professor Ulrich R�de, Friedrich-Alexander University of
Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, received an award under the Bavaria California Technology
Center (BaCaTeC) program to support an international collaboration in scientific computing
between the Bavarian and Georgian research groups. On June 2, Bader was welcomed by
Bavarian Minister of State Emilia M�ller and her delegation at a private reception hosted by
the Consular General of the Federal Republic of Germany, Lutz G�rgens and Ulrike G�rgens.
Other BaCaTeC-supported researchers from Georgia Tech invited to meet the Bavarian
minister include Kurt Frankel (EAS), Uzi Landman (Physics), Mark Borodovsky (CSE) and
Michael Perdue (EAS).
Ph.D. Student Yang Earns Best Student Paper Prize, Yahoo! KSC Award
Ph.D. student Shuang-Hong Yang (CSE) earned Best Student Paper honors at the 2011 ACM
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SIGIR (Special Interest Group � Information Retrieval) conference, held July 24-28 in Beijing.
Yang's paper, "Collaborative Competitive Filtering: Learning Recommender using Context of
User Choice," proposes Collaborative Competitive Filtering (CCF), a framework for learning
user preferences by modeling the choice process in recommender systems. Yang's coauthors
include Hongyuan Zha (CSE), as well as Bo Long and Alexander Smola (Yahoo! Labs) and
Zhaohui Zheng (Yahoo! Labs Beijing). Yang also recently won a Yahoo! Key Scientific
Challenge award. In addition to providing $5,000 in unrestricted research funding, the award
also affords exclusive access to key Yahoo! datasets, as well as the opportunity to collaborate
with Yahoo! scientists. Yang's award was in the research area of computational advertising.
Selections for 2011-12 ARC Fellowships Anything But Random
The Algorithms & Randomness Center (ARC) and ThinkTank recently announced the winners
of its fellowships for the 2011-12 year. The recipients, proposed projects and mentors include:
• Prateek Bhakta (CS), "Markov Chain Convergence in Discrete and Continuous
Spaces" (mentor: Dana Randall, CS)
• Daniel Dadush (ISYE), "Towards Faster Integer Programming" (Santosh Vempala, CS )
• Sara Krehbiel (ACO/CS), "Threshold Lattice Cryptography" (Chris Peikert, CS)
• Chun-Hung Liu (Math) and Peter Whalen (ACO/Math), "Tiny Robots: a Resource Allocation
Problem" (Robin Thomas, Math)
• Ning Tan (ACO/Math) "Constraint Satisfaction Problems with Global Constraints" (Prasad
Raghavendra, CS)
• Camilo Ortiz (ISYE), "Implementation of Fast First-Order Methods for solving Large-Scale
Convex Optimization Problem" (Renato Monteiro, ISYE)
• Pushkar Tripathi (CS), "Simple Randomized Algorithms for Assignment Problems" (Vijay
Vazirani, CS)
Winners were selected by a panel including Ton Dieker (chair, ISYE), Alexandra Boldyreva
(CS), Santanu Dey (ISYE), Vladimir Koltchinskii (Math), Milena Mihail (CS) and Dana
Randall (CS). More information is on the ARC website.
Goodman Co-Authors Article, Book Chapter on Digital Privacy Concerns
Sy Goodman (CS), along with fellow Georgia Tech professor Dan Breznitz and grad student
Michael Murphree (both IntA), published an article in the June issue of IEEE Computer titled
"Ubiquitous Data Collection: Rethinking Privacy Debates." The article is a discussion about the
ubiquitous collection, dissemination, and processing of data, and the risks those practices
involve. Goodman also published, along with Patrick Traynor (CS) and former graduate
students Andrew Harris and Frank Park, a chapter titled "Emerging Privacy and Security
Concerns for Digital Wallet Deployment" in the book, Privacy in America: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives (Scarecrow Press, 2011).
Personnel Announcements
Charles "Chip" Phillips has joined CoC as a part-time Instructor effective 5/16/11. His email
address is phillips@cc. Welcome Chip!
Dave Lillethun has joined CoC as a part-time Instructor effective 5/16/11. His email address
is davel@cc. Welcome Dave!
Olufisayo Omojokun has joined CoC as a Lecturer effective 5/16/11. His email address is
omojokun@cc. Welcome Olufisayo!
Anthony McCoy is now the Facilities Manager II for the College of Computing Bldg. (CCB).
Congratulations Anthony!
Joshua Jones has joined CoC as a Temporary Research Scientist I in IC effective 5/24/11. His
email address is joshua.jones@cc. Welcome Joshua!
Anthony Lockett has joined CoC as an Administrative Professional III in IC/GVU effective
6/2/11. His email address is alockett@cc, phone number is 4-0075 and is located in TSRB
214A. Welcome Anthony!
Julie Reynolds has joined CoC as a Tech Temp in CS effective 6/7/11. Her email address is
jreynold@cc and is located in KACB 3415. Welcome Julie!
Jeffrey Hubbs has joined CoC as an IT Support Professional Sr. in TSO effective 6/9/11. His
email address is jhubbs@cc, phone number is 5-3188 and is located in CCB 234. Welcome
Jeff!
Adam Allred was promoted to Research Technologist I effective 6/1/11. His position is joint
with GTISC & TSO. Congratulations Adam!
Alexander Hood has been hired permanently as an Administrative Professional I in CoC's
Office of Outreach Enrollment and Community and CoC's Institute for Computing Education
effective 6/20/11. His email address is ahood@cc, phone number is 4-6858 and is located in
CCB 305/349. Congratulations Al!
Gregory Anderson has been hired permanently as a Building Coordinator I in CoC's Facilities
department effective 6/20/11. His email address is ganderso@cc, phone number is 5-2298 and
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is located in KACB 1219. Congratulations Greg!
Chris Grayson has joined CoC as a Research Scientist I in CS effective 6/30/11. His email
address is cgrayson3@gatech.edu and is located in KACB 3201. Welcome Chris!
Troy Peace has joined CoC as an Academic Program Coordinator I in Community effective
7/6/11. His email address is tpeace@cc, phone number is 5-2378 and is located in CCB 350.
Welcome Troy!
Stephen Williams has joined CoC as a Temporary Research Scientist I in IC effective 7/8/11.
His email address is swilliam@cc and is located in the RIM Center of the 2nd floor of CCB.
Welcome Stephen!
Justin Law has joined CoC as a Graphic Designer in Communications effective 7/13/11. His
email address is jlaw@cc, phone number is 5-2317 and is located in CCB 142. Welcome Justin!
Nina White has joined CoC as an Administrative Professional Sr. in IC/RIM effective 7/18/11.
Her email address is nwhite@cc, phone number is 5-3300 and is located in CCB 217. Welcome
Nina!
Mayur Naik has joined CoC as an Assistant Professor in CS effective 7/18/11. His email
address is mayur.naik@cc.gatech.edu, phone number is 5-4746 and is located in KACB 2320.
Welcome Mayur!
Stephanie Tofighi has joined CoC as an Administrative Professional III in IC effective
7/26/11. Her email address is stephanie.tofighi@cc. Welcome Stephanie!
Pak Ho "Simon" Chung has joined CoC as a Post-Doc in CS effective 8/2/11. His email
address is pchung@cc and is located in KACB 3119. Welcome Simon!
Marshini Chetty has joined CoC as a Post-Doc in IC effective 8/4/11. Her email address is
marshini@cc and is located in TSRB. Welcome Marshini!
James Suh has joined CoC as an Application Developer I in CS effective 8/15/11. His email
address is jsuh@cc and is located in KACB 3201. Welcome James!
Margaret "Meg" Poitevint has joined CoC as a Development Associate in Development
effective 8/22/11. Her email address is mpoitevi@cc, phone number is 5-7210 and is located in
CCB 162. Welcome Meg!
Alex Snoeren has joined CoC as a Visiting Associate Professor in CS effective 8/22/11. His
email address is alex.snoeren@cc and is located in KACB 3222. Welcome Alex!
Gabriel Loh's last day at CoC was 5/15/11.
Renata LeDantec's last day at CoC was 5/20/11.
Don Schoner's last day at CoC was 5/20/11.
Bobby Strickland's last day at CoC was 5/20/11.
Kathy Cheek's last day at CoC was 5/31/11.
Elizabeth Collums' last day at CoC is 6/29/11.
Louise Russo's last day at CoC was 7/8/11.
Alexine Bennett's last day at CoC was 8/8/11.
Logan Moon's last day at CoC was 8/19/11.
General News
C21U to Formally Launch with Sept. 27 Event, Panel Discussion
The Center for 21st Century Universities, led by former College of Computing Dean Rich
DeMillo (CS), will formally launch its activities with a Sept. 27 event featuring keynote
speaker Jonathan Cole (former Columbia University provost and author of The Great American
University) and a panel of educational innovators. The event is a chance for faculty, students,
staff and anyone with an interest in higher education to hear a cast of leaders from industry
and academia share their ideas about the future of higher education and the disruptions in
store for American universities. Chronicle of Higher Education editor Jeffrey Selingo will
moderate the panel, which includes Stephen Cross, GT executive vice president for research;
Devin Fidler, research manager for technology horizons at the Institute for the Future; Alan
Kay, president of the Viewpoints Research Institute; Roger Shank, executive director and
founder of Engines for Education and chairman and CEI of Socratic Arts; and Lynne
Weisenbach, vice chancellor for educator preparation at the University System of Georgia.
CoC to Host Nobel Laureate Aaron Ciechanover on Oct. 4
Nobel Prize-winning biologist Aaron Ciechanover will visit Georgia Tech for a lecture, “Drug
Development in the 21st Century: Are We Going to Cure all Diseases?,” to be held Oct. 4 at
6:30 p.m. in the College of Management auditorium. Ciechanover is Distinguished Research
Professor in the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at Technion, the Israel
Institute of Technology. In 2004, he shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry with professors
Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation, a
mechanism by which the cells of most living organisms cull unwanted proteins. Ciechanover
also shared the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, the second-most prestigious
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prize in life sciences and medicine, and the Israel Prize, the highest recognition bestowed by
the State of Israel. He is a member of the Israeli National Academy of Sciences and
Humanities, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences of the Vatican and the American Philosophical
Society.
C21U Offers GT’s First Massive Open Online Course
This fall the Center for 21st Century Universities is offering Georgia Tech’s first Massive Open
Online Course (MOOC), open to anyone in the world and available for credit to Georgia Tech
students. Centered on the subject of instructional technology, the MOOC is a form of
computer-mediated learning, with each week’s lecturer providing course materials and
discussion topics on that week’s theme. Learners contribute to the class by building on the
topics discussed, researching the topics further, then creating their own relevant content in the
form of blog posts, video responses and discussions—which other students then comment on,
critique, connect and share, creating create a community of content shared by all. For more
information, visit the C21U website or the MOOC’s website.
GVU Welcome Back and Ice Cream Social
On Thursday, Aug. 25, GVU hosted its traditional Ice Cream Social to welcome back students
and faculty after the summer and kick off the GVU Brown Bag series. GVU Acting Director
Keith Edwards (IC) used the event to give new students a short overview of GVU's activities,
call for applications for the Foley Scholars Fellowships and provide more information on the
GVU Research and Engagement Grants. For more information, visit
http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/lectures.
Summer Upgrades for CCB Data Center, LAWN Network
Over the summer, the CCB 247 Data Center room received a major upgrade by having its
power capacity increased by a factor of six, allowing TSO to accommodate the College's
increase in research and instructional server computing. TSO extends its thanks to GTISC for
its financial contribution in this project.
In May and July, OIT upgraded wireless network access points in CoC buildings (TSRB, KACB
and CCB) to provide better range and higher throughput. TSRB was in the most need, so all
access points were upgraded, while in KACB only the classroom wing access points were
upgraded. In CCB, most but not all areas were upgraded.
Grad Orientation Primer Available
In August at the CoC graduate student orientation, TSO presented information from the "Fall
2011 CoC Graduate Orientation Primer," which details information and resources that incoming
graduate students will find useful as they become familiar with the computing environment at
Georgia Tech. The PDF version is available on the TSO website.
TSO Warns Students, Employees to Always Ignore Phishing Emails
Please be on the lookout for and delete email messages that request your username,
password or other sensitive information including credit card numbers. These types of email
messages are known as "phishing" attempts. Neither OIT nor TSO will ever ask for your
password or credit card information in an email.
CoC In the News
To help Compiler readers stay informed of the latest College of Computing media coverage,
we share the month's headlines from the CoC website. Below are links to all headlines from
May 2011 to August 2011 (most recent headlines at the top).
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How the Internet Got Its Hourglass Shape
Three Cheers for Internet Tiers
Using Technology to Improve Mental Health in Liberia
OpenStudy Takes OCW People's Choice Award
Making E-Readers More Flexible Than Paper
Internet Architecture's Hourglass Shape
Tiered Pricing Comes to the Internet
Wireless Communications When Cell Phones, Internet Are Down
Back to the Future with Distance-Based Internet Pricing
GT Researchers Demo and Deploy Disaster Communications System
LifeNet Enables Wireless Communications When Internet Goes Down
Where IPs Go to Die
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Network Could Help Disaster Communications
FCC Contest Stimulates Development of Apps to Help Keep ISPs Honest
Robots to the Rescue
Georgia Tech Researchers to Demo and Deploy Disaster Communications
System
Study Shows How the Internet's Architecture Got its Hourglass Shape
Georgia Tech Study Confirms Benefits of Tiered Pricing for Internet Service
'Rescue' Robots Could Save Lives In Fires
Teens “Paid To Play” Video Games Impact Computer Science Education
Research
Gingrich: Twitter Account Has 1.3 Million Followers
Researcher Teaches Computers to Detect Spam More Accurately
CyberCulture: OpenStudy | ChinesePod | TwoChop
Contest Shines Light on Broadband Providers' Tactics
Georgia Tech Project Arms Consumers Against Restrictive ISPs
Intel Invests $30M to Help Cloud Speak to Average Joe
Surfing the New Education Wave
FCC Measures Actual Internet Speeds in USA
U.S. Broadband Closer to Advertised Speeds-Study
ISPs Provide Broadband Speeds as Advertised, FCC Says
Navigate the Booming Computer Science Market
Can Robots Be More Ethical Than Soldiers?
Contest Shines Light on Broadband Providers' Tactics
Intel Invests $30M in New Science and Technology Centers
Personal Robot Gives Paralyzed Man Daily Help
Ground-Based 'Bots Swarm to Assemble a Landing Pad for Their
Quadcopter Friend
How Data and Analytics Can Improve Education
Robotic Materials Handling Comes of Age
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July
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'Robots for Humanity' Helps Quadriplegic Perform Daily Tasks
Replacing Lost Abilities with a Robot
Inside the Innards of a Nuclear Reactor
New Tools to Measure Home Broadband Connections Now Available
OpenStudy: Make the World Your Study Group
Robots Help Disabled Towards Independence
Measurement Lab Introduces a New, Hardware-Based Tool
Balcan Named 2011 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow
Robot Helps Quadriplegic Scratch an Itch
Robots as Surrogates for the Disabled
Robots for Humanity Help Around the House, Scratch Your Itch
Robots For Humanity Allows Quadriplegic To Perform Daily Tasks
Engineers: PROTECT IP Act Would Break DNS
Reading Software Facilitates Document Interaction
Pi-Stacking Better Without the Aromatics?
Doin' the Robot
Developing Scripts to Teach Social Skills: Can the Crowd Assist the Author?
Facebook to Open Atlanta Office
Weaving a New Web
LiquidText Software Designed for Active Reading
June
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z Obama Commanding Robot Revolution, Announces Major Robotics
Initiative
z Obama Taps Georgia Tech President for National Manufacturing Steering
Committee
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Free Service Courteous.ly Tells Emailers (Nicely) When to Back Off
Swarming Robot Teams to Map, Survey Buildings
Battling Inbox Overflow With 'Courteous.ly'
Caffeine! And Other Ways To Manage Your Busy Schedule From Jeffrey
Hayzlett
Different Strokes For Different Sea Critters
Do You Know How You're Shaping Traffic?
The Robots Are Coming
OpenStudy Wants to Turn World Into 'One Big Study Group'
ShaperProbe Reveals Traffic Shaping Among Major ISPs
Hackers Fight Rivals, FBI to Control Botnets
'Brains Collide' During Hackathon for Climate Change, Disaster Relief
First Human-Dolphin Communication ... Then Human-Alien?
Computing Professor Develops Email Etiquette Software
Can a Gmail Tool Make Us More Considerate Email Senders?
We, Robots
Protect IP Copyright Bill Faces Growing Criticism
Do We Need An AppTo Make E-mail More Civil? Apparently, Yes
Courteous.ly Lets People Know When Your Inbox Is Swamped
Netspeak - Innovations In On-line Learning
New Tool Shows Would-Be Emailers If You're Swamped On Gmail
3-D Printers The Next Big Home Accessory?
InfraGard Cyberattack A Lesson In Password Protection
Taking Email Etiquette to the Next Level
Congress Considers Controversial DNS Filtering Bill
Our Big Idea: Open Social Learning
Courteous.ly Tells Contacts When You're Too Busy to Answer Email
Robot First Responders Could Map Out a Building Before Humans Enter
May
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z Researchers Develop Robotic Vehicles to Search and Send Floor Map to
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Tool Reveals ISP Traffic-Shaping
Georgia Tech-Based Startup Wins Business Competition
New "ShaperProbe" Tool Detects ISP Traffic Shaping
The Growing Role of Gaming in Education
Georgia Tech's ShaperProbe Detects ISP Traffic Manipulation
Genomics on the Petascale
Humans and Dolphins Could Soon Understand One Another Better
Now, a Technology-Laden Robot That Does All the Household Work
Robots With Decentralised Teamwork Help Map Dangerous Environments
Trimensional App Turns the iPhone Into a 3D Scanner
Autonomous Robots Could Collaborate On Mapping Hazardous
Environments
Mini-Bots Cooperate to Map Out Building Interiors
Tiny Robots Map Buildings -- Without Help
Georgia Tech Team Tries to Open Up Net
Georgia Tech's Blair MacIntyre and Alex Hill Discuss Augmented Reality
University Engineers Advance Robotic Autonomy, Demonstrate Autonomous
Vehicles with Advanced Collaborative Exploration and Mapping Capabilities
Autonomous Vehicles Collaborate To Map Buildings
Technology Army of Robots Work Together To Map Unknown Spaces
Kermit Helps Households Monitor and Manage Their Internet Speed
Christensen Joins Board of Robotics Technology Consortium
Scientists Plan To Chat With Dolphins
Scientists Plan To Create Dolphin Translator
Kermit Helps Households Monitor and Manage Their Internet Speed
Language to Communicate with Dolphins Under Development
Talk To A Dolphin And It Might One Day Talk Back
Parents, Need to Throttle Timmy's Xbox While You Work from Home?
Divers Attempt to Communicate With Wild Dolphins, Using A Two-Way
Translation Device
Georgia Tech Launching New Accelerator Program
A Machine That Lets Us Talk to Dolphins?
Fostering Entrepreneurship and Innovation Within Georgia Tech
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Georgia Tech, Imlay Launch Startup Venture
Underwater Translator May Finally Let Us Talk to Dolphins
Researchers Developing Dolphin Telephone
Georgia Tech Announces New Programs to Foster Entrepreneurship and
Innovation
10 Open Education Resources You May Not Know About (But Should)
Talking to the Wall
Powerful Scientific 3-D Scanner Is Now a 99-cent iPhone App
Augmented Reality Event: Innovators Compete for Top Industry Award
Print A 3D Model of Your Face Using Your iPhone
Playing Well With Others
Teaching Your Children Well
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