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Vazirani Helps Organize Theoretical CS Workshops

College of Computing — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0400

Computing Science & Systems division Professor Vijay Vazirani recently co-organized an NSF-sponsored workshop at Princeton University, and will host another in March at Caltech.

Robots Given Same Rights As Humans By 2056

College of Computing — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0400

Henrik Christensen, director of the Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at Georgia Tech says "conscious robots would want to have rights and they probably should."

How To Play Videogames For A Living

College of Computing — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0400

Georgia Tech students invited to intern at top companies eventually land full-time employment in the industry.

Subramaniam Wins Best Student Presentation Award

College of Computing — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0400

The first-year Ph.D. student from the College's Computing Science and Systems (CSS) division was honored at the 39th International Symposium on Microarchitecture in Orlando, Florida.

ARC ThinkTank Faculty Present Theoretical Advances

College of Computing — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0400

Members of the Algorithms & Randomness Center and ThinkTank presented numerous papers at the 47th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science.

Student Team Takes 2nd In Global Hacker Contest

College of Computing — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0400

College of Computing undergraduates and graduates placed 2nd in the U.S. and 5th overall at the annual International Capture the Flag competition.

Tech Participates In Unusual Research

College of Computing — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0400

GVU Director Beth Mynatt says Georgia Tech will collaborate with IBM on technology that helps doctors and nurses monitor patients with long-term problems at home.

Top Universities Continue Software Intellectual Property Reform

College of Computing — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0400

Georgia Tech is one of the seven leading U.S. universities to help IBM advance the state-of-the-art in software and prove the benefits of collaborative innovation with the open source community.

Georgia Tech & IBM Plan Collaboration

College of Computing — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0400

Tech and seven top universities will embark on a series of collaborative software research projects, making the results of such work in fields like privacy, security and medical decision-making freely available.

Tech Wins IBM Shared University Research Award

College of Computing — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0400

The College of Computing will test high performance computing, gaming and digital content applications on Cell BE technology, as well as port and optimize key Cell libraries for data, video and image processing.

Igniting Robotics Industry With New Applications

College of Computing — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0400

The College of Computing will use Microsoft's® Robotics Studio for creating robotic software for a wide variety of hardware platforms.

Software For Surgical Planning

College of Computing — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0400

College of Computing Professor Jarek Rossignac helped develop an innovative computer system that allows surgeons to design and test cardiac procedures before they enter the operating room.

Are Gadgets Built to Fail?

College of Computing — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0400

College of Computing Dean Rich DeMillo says what you buy today is obsolete tomorrow and that manufacturers are simply responding to what the market requires.

Pioneering Petascale Computing In Biological Sciences

College of Computing — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0400

Associate Professor David Bader is helping the National Science Foundation take supercomputing to the next level by enabling scientists to take advantage of these extraordinarily powerful machines.

Exploring Online Virtual Communities

College of Computing — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0400

Universities like Georgia Tech are using these virtual environments as real world platforms that can be informative but also educational.