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Issue 35 | June/July/August 2009 View in a Web browser
Picture of the Month
Summer Is For Camping
Kayla Oden, a rising sixth grader at McClesky Middle School in Marietta, works on her "amusement park" robot at one of the Georgia Computes!/CEISMC computer camps held in the College of Computing this summer. Kayla and her classmates built robots using the PicoCricket system and programmed them with the Pico Blocks picture-based programming language.
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Research News
This dashboard represents three months of activity (April, May, June 2009). Each month is listed separately.
YTD New Awards
| $19,985,167 |
| (47% increase from last year) |
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Proposed Contracts for June 2009
Total |
$ Amount |
IC |
CS |
CSE |
GVU |
RIM |
GTISC |
| 10 |
$2,991,981 |
51% |
6% |
29% |
4% |
10% |
0% |
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Newly Awarded Contracts for June 2009
Sponsor |
Value |
PI |
Co-PIs |
Title |
| ETRI |
$60,000 |
Thad Starner |
None |
Textile Interfaces and Tactile Feedback |
Grants/Gifts Received for June 2009
Donor |
Amount |
PI |
Co-PIs |
Description of Gift/Donation |
| Google |
$60,000 |
James Rehg |
None |
Categorizing Video |
YTD New Awards
(May 2009)
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Proposed Contracts for May 2009
Total |
$ Amount |
CoC |
IC |
CS |
CSE |
| 15 |
$7,294,328 |
59% |
1% |
10% |
30% |
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Newly Awarded Contracts for May 2009
Sponsor |
Value |
PI |
Co-PIs |
Title |
| Navy |
$10,811 |
Mustaque Ahamad |
None |
Hunter Commercial |
| University of Texas |
$30,000 |
Wenke Lee |
None |
Framework for Integrated Adaptive & Proactive Defenses |
| NSF |
$383,162 |
George Biros |
None |
Petascale Algorithms for Particulate Flows
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| NSF |
$68,975 |
George Biros |
None |
DDDAS-TMRP: MIPS: A Real-Time Measurement Inversion |
| Stottler Henke Associates Inc. |
$30,000 |
Ashwin Ram |
None |
STTR: Tools Enabling Lessons Learned Access and Reachback |
Grants/Gifts Received for May 2009
Donor |
Amount |
PI |
Co-PIs |
Description of Gift/Donation |
| Yahoo |
$5,000 |
Alexander Gray |
None |
CSE-Corp. Aff Pgm |
| Google |
$70,000 |
Constantine Dovrolis |
None |
CS-Network Neutrality Violations |
YTD New Awards
(April 2009)
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Proposed Contracts for April 2009
Total |
$ Amount |
GVU |
GTISC |
IC |
CS |
RIM |
CSE |
| 18 |
$18,383,936 |
12% |
0.1% |
2% |
39% |
2% |
45% |
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Newly Awarded Contracts for April 2009
Sponsor |
Value |
PI |
Co-PIs |
Title |
| Hitachi Limited |
$142,763 |
Melody Moore-Jackson |
None |
A Clinical Trial for Evaluating the Safety and Effectiveness of AAC |
| BAE Systems |
$5,000 |
Thad Starner |
Melody Moore-Jackson |
Brainsign: Recognizing Produced Language from Brain Signals |
| Intel Corp. |
$60,000 |
Ling Liu |
None |
Multi-Model Secure Location Determination and Verification |
| Oak Ridge National Lab |
$30,000 |
Jeffrey Vetter |
Richard Fujimoto |
Geneva 2: Design Patterns for Heterogeneous Parallel Architectures |
| U.S. Dept. of Defense |
$91,748 |
Rich Vuduc |
None |
Algorithms and Software with Tunable Parrallelism |
| Oak Ridge National Lab |
$487,158 |
Matthew Wolf |
Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, Greg Eisenhauer |
Research Foundations for Exascale Computing Systems |
| iRobot Corp. |
$100,000 |
Jim Rehg |
None |
Pedestrian Detection From a Packbot UGV |
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People@CoC
Personnel Announcements
Edward “Jason” Riedy has joined CoC as a Research Scientist II in CSE effective 6/1/09. His email address is jason.riedy@cc.gatech.edu, phone number is 5-3388 and is located in KACB 1323. Welcome Jason!
Doru-Cristian Balcan has joined CoC as a Post-Doc in IC effective 7/1/09. His email address is dbalcan@cc and is located in TSRB 237. Welcome Doru!
Joi Adams has returned to CoC as an Accountant III in IC effective 6/8/09. Her email address is joi@cc, phone number is 5-6452 and is located in CCB 220 (RIM Center). Welcome back Joi!
Jennifer Whitlow has joined CoC as a Tech Temp in Community effective 6/1/09. Her email address is jwhitlow@cc, phone number is 5-2441 and is located in CCB 105. Welcome Jennifer!
Dawn Rutherford has joined CoC as a Program Coordinator II in International Programs effective 5/19/09. Her email address is drutherf@cc, phone number is 5-3134 and is located in CCB 136. Welcome Dawn!
Ian McClendon has joined CoC as a Research Scientist I in IC effective 5/11/09. His email address is imcclend@cc and is located in TSRB (Brain Lab – 2nd floor). Welcome Ian!
Meredith Goodman has joined CoC as a Tech Temp in Community effective 5/18/09. Her email address is mgoodman@cc. Welcome Meredith!
Luis Rademacher’s last day at CoC was 7/31/09. Best wishes Luis!
Lisa Osbeck’s last day at CoC was 6/30/09. Best wishes Lisa!
Matt Schaffer’s last day at CoC was 6/12/09. Best wishes Matt!
Patricia LaHay’s last day at CoC was 6/9/09. Best wishes Patricia!
Dwight Kitchings’ last day at CoC was 6/3/09. Best wishes Dwight!
Annika Kleinwaechter’s last day at CoC was 5/19/09. Best wishes Annika!
Camille Rondeaux’s last day at CoC was 5/20/09. Best wishes Camille!
Summer Almost Over for Compiler
The Compiler will return on Sept. 1 with its full menu of content. Please send all submissions to mterraza@cc.
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Aug. 3
FASET Satellite Registration
CCB States Lab
vcal ical
Aug. 3
College of Computing Information Session
CCB 360
vcal ical
Aug. 11
Fall 2009 Transfer FASET
vcal ical
Aug. 12
Fall 2009 FASET
vcal ical
Aug. 12
Late (Phase II) Registration for Fall Semester
vcal ical
Aug. 13
FASET Satellite Registration
CCB States Lab
vcal ical
Aug. 17
Fall Semester Classes Begin
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47%
Increase of fiscal 2009 research award dollars over fiscal 2008
$19.98
Total dollar amount (in millions) of research awards for FY09
85.7%
Percentage of 2009 BSCS grads who had jobs before graduation
142
Number of countries represented in the 2009 Imagine Cup finals (GT's own Team Curious won the MashUp category)
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