Don't Miss the New Face of Computing Symposium Online!

If you or others you know were unable to attend the new face of computing symposium Friday, the day-long event was webcast live and will be available shortly in the arichive on the symposium website. Tune in next week!

Research News

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 tables below are for January 2007.

YTD New Awards: $15,574,663 (%52 increase from last year)

Proposed Contracts

Total	Dollar Amount	IC	CS	CSE
22	$14,791,964	35%	65%	0%
* January 2007

Newly Awarded Contracts

Sponsor	Value	PI	Co-PIs	Title
Pennsylvania State/Univ Park, PA	$44,774	Hongyuan Zha	None	CAMLET: A combined AB-Initio Manifold Learning Toolbox for Nanostructure
NSF	$146,342	Hongyuan Zha	None	Matrix Algorithms for Data Clustering and Nonlinear Dimension
Nokia Research	$101,602	Gregory Abowd	None	Collaborative Capture and Sharing of Family Experiences
Scientific Systems, Co.	$30,000	Wenke Lee	None	Computer Network Defense Technologies
NSF	$400,000	Subhash Khot	None	CAREER: New Directions in Inapproximability and Probailistically
NSF	$400,000	Nick Feamster	None	CAREER: Improving Network Operations with a View From the Edge
NSF	$400,000	Charles Isbell	None	CAREER: Activity Discovery for Programmable and Personalized Environments

Grants/Gifts Received

Donor	Amount	PI	Co-PIs	Description of Gift/Donation
Sprint Nextel	$1,000	Jun Xu	None	CSS - Streaming Algorithms
Logic Box, Inc.	$35,000	Greg S. Eisenhauer	Sudhakar Yalamanchili	CERCS - IUCRC - Eisenhauer Yalamanchili
IBM	$40,000	David Bader	None	CSE - STI Ctr of Competence
IronCAD	$12,000	Jarek Rossignac	None	IIC - Visualization Tech - Rossignac
CETL/Clint Lyle	500	Gregory Abowd	None	ICD - Hesburgh Fell - Abowd

GVU Interactivity@GT Event a Huge Success

Avenue A | Razorfish sponsored I@GT for the second consecutive year. Students discussed their work with more than 40 industry guests (some of whom were Georgia Tech alumni) from 30 companies and organizations, including AT&T, Turner Entertainment, Georgia Public Broadcasting, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and IBM. The change to an all-day format allowed undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to both maximize their time with industry representatives and participate at times that were conducive to their schedules. View photos and further details on the GVU website.

GTISC Open House Images Posted

GTISC hosted an Open House event on February 13th at its new location in the Klaus Advanced Computing Building. Photos from the event are available at the GTISC Website.

Administrative News

Student iMovie Competition Videos

LIGHTS...CAMERA...ACTION! In January, we asked the students of the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, "what does 'The New Face of Computing' mean to you?" Eleven teams of student filmmakers responded with digital film shorts they shot and edited in one week, those films will be presented to the Georgia Tech community at the Red Carpet Premier and Awards Ceremony.

The three teams who produce the best shorts, as judged by a panel of computing and media experts, will win big prizes, including Apple Macbooks® and iPods®. Judging criteria includes message, overall quality, and technical excellence, and the winners will be announced the evening of March 2, 2007. Watch the movies now.

CoC Award Nominations Can Be Submitted Until February 23

Team 7, led by Beth York, took 1st place, team 4, The New face of Computing, led by Josh Cuneo took 2nd, and team 3, Defining the New Face of Computing, led by Eric Bolten, took 3rd place. Team 7, Scripted also took the People's Choice Award with 200 votes - a 52% share. Watch the movies now.