Issue 10 | February 2007

BREAKING NEWS - The College Now Has Schools!

As of February 1st the Board of Regents has approved school status to our divisions of Interactive & Intelligent Computing and Computing Science & Systems. Names will be changing to the School of Interactive Computing and the School of Computer Science. An official announcement is forthcoming.

New Face of Computing Symposium

Planning for the March 2nd New Face Symposium is in full swing and is generating an exciting level of response from industry, government, media, and peer academic institutions. Visit the website for details or read the current agenda.

Student iMovie Competition

Twelve student teams have signed up so far for the CoC iMovie Competition, sponsored by Apple. Fifteen teams will shoot five-minute movies that creatively answer the question "what is the new face of computing?" and compete for MacBooks, iPods, and iPod Shuffles. Winning videos will be screened and announced at a red carpet premiere after the symposium on March 2nd in the Klaus Atrium. For more information, click here.

Thanks to Financial Services the Compiler will provide research contract and monetary gift information each month for the CoC and its associated research centers. The numbers will always be from 2 months prior to ensure the data is final and correct. The statistics below are for December 2006.

• YTD New Awards:  $13,313,807   (%53 increase from last year)

• YTD Proposals Submitted:  78   (%59 increase from last year)

Proposed Contracts*
Total	Dollar Amount	CSE	CSS	IIC
22	$7,920,891	9%	9%	82%
* December 2006

Newly Awarded Contracts*
Sponsor	Value	PI	Co-PI's	Title
Korea University	$6,000,000	Leo Mark	None	Korean Dual Degree Program
* December 2006
Grants/Gifts Received*
Donor	Amount	PI	Co-PI's	Description
Telchemy	$10,000	Mostafa Ammar	Constantine Davrolis	VoIP and IPTV Network Performance
* December 2006

Come to the GTISC Open House

GTISC will hold an open house on Tuesday, February 13 from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the KACB third floor west wing. The open house will include student demos of research projects in attack detection, virtualization, and other areas.

GTISC Cyber Security Meeting

GTISC recently hosted the 2007 National Science Foundation (NSF) Cyber Trust PI meeting at the Renaissance Hotel in Midtown. About 250 top faculty members, scientists, and researchers from NSF-sponsored programs investigating solutions to problems in computer security converged at Georgia Tech on January 28-30. Attendees discussed their research with colleagues and interacted with industry and funding agency program officers. The meeting included 150 posters presenting current cyber security research and panel forums charting future directions.

CoC Hosts IBM Cell Programming Workshop at Georgia Tech

The College of Computing at Georgia Tech will host an IBM Cell Programming Workshop on Tuesday, February 6, 2007. Facilitated by Hema Reddy, Cell Solutions Engineer at IBM Cell Ecosystem & Solutions Enablement, the workshop consists of a series of lectures and hands-on exercises in a Cell development environment to familiarize the students with Cell basic programming skills. For more information, click here.

ARC Announces Spring Colloquium

The Algorithm & Randomness Center ThinkTank recently announced the spring edition of their Theory of Computation Colloquium. For details or to be added to the ARC ThinkTank mailing list, click here.

CSE Sponsors High-Performance Computing Seminar Series

The Computational Science and Engineering division is sponsoring a High-Performance Computing seminar series during the Spring 2007 semester. The seminar schedule is online here and announcements of upcoming seminars will be disseminated through the "CSE-seminar" mailing list. To subscribe to CSE-seminar, click here.

First Call for ACMSE 2007 Registration

Registration is now open for the 45th ACM Southeast Conference, in cooperation with SIGAPP and corporate partner Microsoft. ACMSE will be held on March 23-24, 2007 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, but presenters must register no later than February 12, 2007. To register for the conference, click here and select the registration link.

CoC Personnel Announcement For January

Camille Chapman Rondeaux has joined CoC as a Tech Temp in Student Services working with Leo Mark effective 1/9/07. Her email address is rondeaux@cc.gatech.edu and she is located in CCB 120.

Sham Navathe To Give Distinguished Lecture in Systems Biology

Dr. Jeffrey Skolnick and the Center for the Study of Systems Biology will host Computing Science & Systems Professor Sham Navathe on Tuesday, February 6, 2007 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM in the IBB Suddath seminar room 1128. The title of Navathe's talk will be "Text Mining Biomedical Literature for Knowledge Discovery About Genes."

David Bader Chairs 2007 SPEC Benchmark Workshop

Computational Science & Engineering (CSE) Professor David Bader served as program chair for the 2007 SPEC Benchmark Workshop, recently held on January 21, 2007, in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), in Austin, Texas. The 2007 SPEC Benchmark Workshop brings together benchmark developers and users in industry and academia. SPEC has more than 60 member companies and publishes several hundred different performance results each quarter spanning across a variety of system performance disciplines. For more information, click here.

Tenure Track Faculty Position Application Deadline

Remember that the application deadline for tenure track faculty positions is MARCH 1, 2007! Most hiring decisions will be made by May 1, 2007, but for more information, click here.

Communications Survey Results Are Available

Thank you to the 43 CoC faculty and 383 students who participated in our Internal
Communications Survey:   View results of the faculty survey  View results of the student survey

Nominate Students for ODK Honor Society

Omicron Delta Kappa is a national Leadership Honor Society and the Georgia Tech campus chapter is requesting nominations for student members. Please consider any CoC students who are juniors or seniors, and who are also leaders in one or more of the following areas:

• Scholarship
• Athletics
• Campus and Community Service, Social and Religious Activities, and Campus Government
• Journalism, Speech, and Mass Media
• Creative and Performing Arts

Please submit names either to Maureen Biggers or to Eric Southard. To view current ODK student members, click here.

50

Number thus far of registered attendees for The New Face of Computing Symposium next month

$7K

Value of prizes Apple will award for the student iMovie Competition

25%

Current chance of winning Apple hardware for students participating in the iMovie Competition

This month various groups at CoC are pursuing partnerships with the following companies:
· Goldman, Sacs & Co.
· Google
· Schumberger
· Microsoft, Inc.