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Issue 17 | September/October 2007   View in a Web browser

Picture(s) of the Month

Hamming It Up for Boot-Up

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



Research News

YTD New Awards

$2,838,052

Proposed Contracts for August 2007

Total

$ Amnt

IC

CS

CSE

GTISC RIM

CoC

8 $5,745,606 12% 26% 12% 12% 26% 12%


Newly Awarded Contracts for August 2007

Sponsor

Value

PI

Co-PIs

Title

NSF $300,000 Nick Feamster None 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
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 Growing At Pace: Technologies to Support Early Detection of Development
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...


Closed Contracts for August 2007

Sponsor

Value

PI

Co-PIs

Title

Clark Atlanta University $52,999 Michael Nelson-Palmer Sy Goodman Curriculum Development and Research in Information Assurance
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
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), 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

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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+145%

MSCS enrollment growth since 2006 - 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!