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Picture(s) of the Month
Hamming
It Up for
Boot-Up
October 2
GTISC Cyber Security
Summit
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October 3
ARC ThinkTank's
Anniversary Lectures
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Undergraduate computing
students were introduced to
each other and a new semester
at the CoC during this year's
Boot-Up event, hosted by the
Office of Diversity and
Community and Student
Services. New students enjoyed
refreshments and had a chance
to meet with CoC groups and
community members. Part of the
event found participants in
groups performing sketches
about their first term at Tech.
See More College of Computing
Photos on the Website
October 4
GTISC Distinguished
Lecture - Dr. Gary Flake
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October 8-9
Fall Recess (students)
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October 11
IT Opportunities at
Lowe's & Interviewing
Skills Workshop
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October 16
UROC Research Option
Info Session for
Students
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Research News
YTD New Awards
$2,838,052
October 19
Alumni Homecoming
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Proposed Contracts for August 2007
Total $ Amnt
8
IC
CS
CSE
GTISC RIM CoC
$5,745,606 12% 26% 12% 12%
26% 12%
Newly Awarded Contracts for August 2007
Sponsor
NSF
Value
$300,000
PI
Nick
Feamster
Co-PIs
None
Title
CT-T: Collaborative Research:
Towards an Accountable Internet
Architecture
NSF
$291,636
Melody
Jackson
None
HCC: Collaborative Research:
Continuous Control
Brain-Computer Interfaces
NSF
$90,000
Haesun
Park
None
SGER: Effective Network Anomaly
Detection Based on Adaptive
Machine Learnin
NSF
$325,000
Mostafa
Ammar
None
NBD: Routing in Multi-Layer
Networks
October 23
Resume Writing &
Interview Skills
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October 25
GVU 15 Anniversary
Celebration and
Symposium
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October 30
Fall Festival
+145%
MSCS enrollment
growth since 2006 -
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NSF
$50,000
David Bader Jeffrey Vetter
Collaborative Research: CRI:IAD:
Development of a Research
Infrastructure
NSF
$210,534
Frank
Dellaert
None
RI: Collaborative Research:
Bio-Inspired Navigation
NSF
$51,330
Ashok Goel
None
SGER: Towards a Computational
Model of Biological Analogies in
Innovative...
NSF
$898,955
Keith
Edwards
None
Physical and Digital for Fluid
Collaboration
NSF
$175,000
Jun Xu
None
CCT-ISG: Collaborative Research:
Accurate Network Anomaly
Detection
NSF
$225,612
Jim Jiao
Hongyuan Zha Optimal Cross Parameterizations
of Surfaces: Computational
Methods and Sci...
North Carolina
A&T State
Univ
$40,100
Maureen
Biggers
None
NSF
$800,000
Douglas
Blough
Mustaque
Ahamad, Ling
Liu
CT-T: Medvault-Ensuring Security
and Privacy for Electronic Medical
Record
NSF
$279,000
Nick
Feamster
None
Collaborative Research:
NETS-NBD: SCAN: Statistical
Collaborative Analysis
NSF
$150,000
Hongyuan
Zha
Haesun Park
Computational Methods for
Nonlinear Dimension Reduction
NSF
$568,144
Calton Pu
None
CT-T: Collaborative Research:
Adaptive Attacks and Defenses in
Denial of...
Growing At Pace: Technologies to
Support Early Detection of
Development
Closed Contracts for August 2007
Sponsor
Value
PI
Co-PIs
Title
Clark Atlanta
University
$52,999
Michael
Nelson-Palmer
Sy
Goodman
NSF
$424,000
Mary-Jean
Harrold
None
ITR: Gamma: Improving the
Quality of the Next Generation
of Software Systems
North Carolina
State
University
$308,849
Colin Potts
None
ITR: Encoding Rights,
Permissions, & Obligations: IT
Privacy
NSF
$81,661
Milos Prvulovic
None
General - Purpose Memory
Tracking for Reliable, Secure,
and Fast Computing
NSF
$300,000
Richard Lipton
None
Research into the complexity
Theory of Games and
Polynomials
University of
California,
Berkeley
$42,610
Melody Jackson
None
Human-Centered Design of
Context-Aware Computing:
Scalability, Usability
NSF
$149,800
Calton Pu
None
Cyber Physical Systems:
Architecture study and
Research Challenges
Curriculum Development and
Research in Information
Assurance
most growth of all
degrees
$2M
Amount the Georgia
Tech Sting Racing
Team will win if it
finishes first at the
DARPA Urban
Challenge on Nov 3
$25M
CoC 2010 goal for the
Georgia Tech Capital
Campaign
This month various
groups at CoC are
pursuing partnerships
with the following
companies:
Boeing Company
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Citadel Investment
Group, LLC
Community Foundation
Silicon Valley
Evolution Robotics, Inc.
GE
IBM Corporation
Intel Corporation
Macy's
Microsoft Corporation
Motorola
Nokia Americas
Scientific-Atlanta
Foundation, Inc.
Sony Electronics, Inc.
Telchemy Incorporated
Yahoo!
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NSF
$65,502
Ling Liu
None
SGER: Distributed Spatial
Partitioning Algorithms for
Scalable Processing
Health
Research
$30,765
Melody Jackson
None
D3Box - Training System for
Brain-Computer Interface
Control of 3D Applicat
NSF
$412,031
Kishore
Ramachandran
Gregory
Abowd
Exploration of Middleware
Technologies for Ubiquitous
Computing with…
NSF
$324,999
Mostafa Ammar
Ellen
Zegura
ITR: Message Ferrying:
Mobility-Assisted Data Delivery
in Highly…
GVU Center to Host 15th Anniversay
Celebration and Symposium
On October 25, 2007 the GVU Center will celebrate
its 15th anniversary by hosting the GVU 15
Anniversary Celebration and Symposium. The day
long event will start with invited keynote speakers
Genevieve Bell and Andy van Dam, followed by
GVU Impact Awards Ceremony recognizing
significant contributions to the GVU research
community. Director's Keynote and Research
Showcase will conclude the symposium. The
celebration will conclude with an Alumni Reunion BBQ.
View the event on the GVU Website
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Students: Explore a Second Life Experience with Augmented Reality
The Georgia Tech Library is teaming up with College of Computing Associate Professor Blair
MacIntyre to explore the virtual world of Second Life. All students are invited to join in on
Georgia Tech’s Augmented Reality Island October 9th and October 29th at 10:00 p.m. and
November 14th at 8:00 p.m.
Read the Georgia Tech Second Life Blog
STAR Center Launches, Holds Summer Institute
On May 30, 2007, the Samsung Tech Advanced Research (STAR) Center was opened with an
informal ceremony attended (among others) by Dean Rich DeMillo and Dr. Ilpyung Park,
Vice-President, Software Labs, Samsung. In addition to carrying out research of mutual
interest, the center will organize short courses and thematic workshops on site in Samsung, S.
Korea, aimed at skills training of Samsung engineers. The first STAR Summer Institute on
"Software Architectures" was held June 11 through June 20, on the Georgia Tech campus.
The summer institute was attended by 25 top Samsung engineers who came in from South
Korea, and taught by faculty from the College of Computing and featured external panelists
invited from industries to share their experiences.
Visit the STAR Center Website
Mark Guzdial Co-Chairs, John Stasko Keynotes, and GT Hosts ACM
International Computing Education Research Workshop
Professor and Director of Undergraduate Programs Mark Guzdial Co-Chaired the International
Computing Education Research Workshop which was held at Georgia Tech from September
15-16. The keynote speaker was Professor John Stasko. The workshop had 70 attendees from
the US, England, Finland, Germany, and Australia, more than doubling previous years. Papers
were presented by Associate Professor Amy Bruckman, Professor Mark Guzdial and Grad
Students Sarita Yardi and Lana Yarosh.
Visit the Workshop Website
People@CoC
Ling Liu Delivers Tutorials on Data Privacy
Associate Professor Ling Liu delivered an invited tutorial titled "Protecting Location Privacy in
Mobile Computing Systems: Architecture and Algorithms" on September 9 at the Thirteenth
Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM Mobicom 2007),
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held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The project is currently supported by NSF CyberTrust
program.
View the Conference Website
Professor Liu also gave a tutorial titled "From Data Privacy to Location Privacy: Models and
Algorithms," at the 33rd International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB2007), held
on September 23-28 at the University of Vienna, Austria.
View the Conference Website
Ling Liu To Keynote IEEE International Conference
Associate Professor Ling Liu will give a keynote address titled ''Towards Mobile Internet:
Privacy Threats and Granular Computing Challenges," at the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Granular Computing (GrC 2007), to
be held on November 2-4 in Silicon Valley, California.
View the Conference Website
Constantine Dovrolis To Co-Chair ACM/USENIX Conference
Associate Professor Constantine Dovrolis is the Program Co-Chair for the ACM/Usenix Internet
Measurement Conference (IMC'07), to be held in San Diego, California from October 24-26.
IMC is the premier forum for presentation of research on Internet measurement: both on new
techniques, and empirical studies that contribute to the understanding of the Internet. The
conference covers a wide array of techniques from software tools to mathematical models, and
these are applied to understand a variety of network issues from security, to topology and
routing, to network traffic
and performance, and even user behavior.
View the Conference Website
Sy Goodman Chairs Committee for the National Research Council, To
Speak at NATO and AFEI
Professor Sy Goodman, joint with the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, recently
chaired a committee for the National Research Council that released a report titled"Towards a
Safer and More Secure Cyberspace," which will be available in print later this year from the
National Academies Press. The uncorrected copy is currently available for purchase as a PDF
Download.
View the Publication on the National Academies Press Website
Sy will also be giving a talk at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) early this month
and will be speaking at the Cyber Deterrence Conference hosted by the Association for
Enterprise Integration (AFEI) from November 1-2.
Haesun Park Appointed to New CSE Position
The Computational Science and Engineering Division has appointed Professor Haesun Park to
the newly created position of Associate Chair for Graduate Studies. Haesun will have overall
responsibility for all aspects of the Division's participation in the School of Computer Science
and the new CSE graduate programs.
View Professor Park on the Website
Personnel Announcements
Harley John Hamilton has joined CoC as a Sr. Research Scientist in IC effective 8/1/07. His
email address is hjh@cc, phone number is 5-1570 and is located in TSRB 241.
Yi Pan has joined CoC as an Affiliate (Visiting Scholar) in CSE effective 8/1/07.
Ron Ferguson has become an Adjunct Assistant Professor and Temporary Instructor effective
8/15/07.
Mark Borodovsky has become a joint Professor associated with Biomedical Engineering
(BME) and CSE.
Luis Rademacher has joined CoC as a Post Doc in CS working with Santosh Vempala
effective 8/9/07.
Navin Goyal has joined CoC as a Post Doc in CS working with Santosh Vempala effective
8/21/07.
Brian Boddy has joined CoC as a Tech Temp in Financial Services.
Zhenyue Zhang has joined CoC as a Tech Temp in CSE working with Hongyuan Zha effective
8/20/07.
Brian Lynch's last day at CoC was 7/31/07.
Shelia Warren's last day as a Tech Temp in Student Services was 8/24/07.
Olin Shivers' last day at CoC was 8/14/07.
Jim Jiao's last day at CoC was 8/15/07.
Administrative News
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Board of Regents Approves New International Dual Degree
The Board of Regents has recently approved a Dual Degree Masters Program in Embedded
Software to be administered jointly by the College of Computing and Korea University (KU),
Seoul, South Korea. The College of Computing won the bid to run this program as a result of
an open competition held by the Ministry of Information and Communication of the South
Korean Government. The program is fully funded by the South Korean Government. Dr. Leo
Mark, Director for International and Graduate Programs at the College of Computing and Dr.
Umakishore Ramachandran, Director of Korean Programs for the College of Computing will
oversee the programs operations, growth and future development.
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