Issue 20 | January 2008 View in a Web browser
Picture(s) of the Month Black Hat or White Hat Hacker?Keith Edwards and other computing faculty and staff wear many hats at the College of Computing, shown here on faculty hat picture day, sponsored by Tucker Balch.
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Research News
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People@CoC Computing Names Two New Distinguished Professors Gregory Abowd and Santosh Vempala have been named Distinguished Professors of Computing, effective December 1, 2007. A distinguished professorship carries the same status and benefits as a named, endowed chair, and is intended to recognize and honor exceptional faculty members in strategic fields. It gives me great pleasure to bestow what is a rather new and exclusive academic designation from Georgia Tech to certain faculty in the Colleges of Computing, Engineering, and Sciences. Only a limited number of these professorships will be established. Vijay Vazirani and Adam Kalai Invited to give talk at Game Science Conference Computing faculty members Vijay Vazirani and Adam Kalai have been invited to give talk in the "Game Science Conference in Honor of Ehud Kalai on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday." The conference is being organized by the Center for the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem held on December 16-18, 2007. The title of Vijay Vazirani's talk is "New Market Models and Algorithms" and Adam Kalai will be talking on "The Myth of the Folk Theorem." Santosh Vempala to speak at MSR India Theory Day 2007 Computing Distinguished Professor and Director, Algorithms and Randomness Center and ThinkTank Santosh Vempala has been invited to speak at the first Microsoft Research (MSR) India Theory Day to be held in Bangalore on Saturday, December 22, 2007. He will be speaking on "Spectral Algorithms for Learning and Clustering: PCA and Beyond." The MSR India Theory Day 2007 is being jointly organized by Microsoft Research India and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). Vijay Vazirani's book on Game Theory Published Professor Vijay V. Vazirani has published his book titled "Algorithmic Game Theory." Other authors involved with the book were Noam Nisan of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tim Roughgarden of Stanford University and Eva Tardos of Cornell University. More than 40 of the top researchers in this field have written chapters that go from the foundations to the state of the art. Milena Mihail and Vijay Vazirani to give Plenary Talks Computing faculty members Milena Mihail and Vijay Vazirani are going to give Plenary Talks at two different conferences. Milena Mihail has been invited to give plenary talk at the 5th Workshop On Algorithms And Models For The Web-Graph (WAW2007). Vijay Vazirani will be talking at the 3rd International Workshop On Internet And Network Economics (WINE 2007). The two conferences are being held at University of California at San Diego during Dec. 11-14, 2007. Computing Student David Dagon and Associate Professor Wenke Lee To Present Paper at NDSS 2008 College of Computing PhD student David Dagon and Associate Professor Wenke Lee are going to present a paper titled "Corrupted DNS Resolution Paths: The Rise of a Malicious Resolution Authority" at the 15th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), going to be held at the Dana on Mission Bay, San Diego, CA between February 10 and 13, 2008. Also involved in this research were Niels Provos of Google, Inc. and Christopher P. Lee, a College of Engineering graduate student. Personnel Announcements Erica Edwards has joined CoC as a Financial Manager II in CS effective
12/10/07. Her email address is eedwards@cc, phone number is 5-4490 and
is located in KACB 3414.
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Administrative News New Website for IPRE The Institute for Personal Robots in Education launched a new website in December that will contain software, curricula, hardware details, publications, and other information as the program evolves. December marked the end of the fall term and the first official semester the College of Computing taught Intro to CS with personal robots – a major curriculum change made possible by IPRE and our sponsor, Microsoft. TSO News and Support information Website Beginning January 2, 2008, the majority of TSO announcements will be made via the CC-TSO-Availability list and the TSO Support Web Page. This will serve to cut down on the number of emails regarding TSO activities and maintenance. Some announcements may still be sent to the Faculty, Staff, and Student lists as needed. The TSO Support page can be found Here. This page contains quite a bit of useful information including systems notices regarding maintenance and unplanned outages as well as news and announcements about TSO. If you want system notices delivered to you directly via email, you must join the CC-TSO-Availability List by going Here and clicking on “subscribe to this list” and then clicking on “Subscribe” and input your email address. |
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