2009 News

Augmented Reality: What It Is & Will Become

mterraza — 2009-11-20T14:40:09Z

At its core, augmented reality is all about changing our view of the world by merging our environmental surroundings with digital data and media. “The key is that the virtual content be registered (or aligned) with the right parts of the physical world,” says Blair MacIntyre, associate professor in Interactive Computing and director of the school’s Augmented Environments Lab. Source: Laptop Mag

GT Supercomputer Powered By Graphics Processor

mterraza — 2009-11-19T14:56:57Z

Georgia Tech researchers building an experimental new supercomputer say graphics processors may help pave the way toward future exascale machines, which would be 1,000 times faster than today's most powerful supercomputers. Professor Jeffrey Vetter of Computational Science and Engineering leads the project, funded by a $12 million NSF grant. Source: NetworkWorld

Green IT: Shrinking Computing's Energy Demands

mterraza — 2009-11-20T14:25:51Z

To help understand and reduce power consumption by data centers, Georgia Tech has launched Green IT. Corralling expertise from the College of Computing, College of Engineering and Office of Information Technology, the consortium is a multidisciplinary effort that looks at how to build large-scale systems that use less power. Source: HPCwire, Scientific Computing

Petascale Could Provide Insight Into Genomic Evolution

mterraza — 2009-11-20T14:28:48Z

Even on today's fastest parallel computers, it could take centuries to analyze genome rearrangements for large, complex organisms. That is why a three-university research team, led by Professor David Bader of Computational Science and Engineering, is focusing on future generations of petascale machines. Source: Scientific Computing, R&D Mag

GT Launches Experimental Green IT Initiative

lrusso — 2009-11-18T14:07:24Z

ATLANTA (November 18, 2009) - The biggest challenge in computing today, some experts say, is not processing power, but power consumption. In 2007, the Environmental Protection Agency forecasted that as of 2011, data centers will be responsible for 2 percent of all power consumption in the U.S., and some predictions foresee those levels rising to almost 6 percent by 2020. To help understand and reduce power consumption, the Georgia Institute of Technology has launched Green IT. Source: GT Communications & Marketing

GT Announces New Online MS InfoSec Degree

mterraza — 2009-11-18T14:41:57Z

Beginning in Fall 2010, the College of Computing's NSA- and DHS-certified Master of Science in Information Security will be offered through a distance format. The program, which allows students to select either a technical or policy specialization, is targeted primarily toward working professionals, both in the United States and abroad. Source: GovInfoSecurity.com

GT Uses Supercomputing For Insight Into Evolution

mterraza — 2009-11-19T14:30:47Z

With $1 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding, Professor David Bader of Computational Science and Engineering will lead a three-university team in studying how next-generation high performance computers can determine evolutionary relationships among organisms using massive amounts of genomic data. Source: HPCwire.com

Grant to Develop Petascale Computational Tools Could Revolutionize Understanding of Genomic Evolution

lrusso — 2009-11-17T19:39:51Z

ATLANTA, GA (November 17, 2009) – Technological advances in high-throughput DNA sequencing have opened up the possibility of determining how living things are related by analyzing the ways in which their genes have been rearranged on chromosomes. However, inferring such evolutionary relationships from rearrangement events is computationally intensive on even the most advanced computing systems available today. Source: Office of Communications

GT Researchers Attack Cellphone Malware

mterraza — 2009-11-17T14:28:20Z

With the help of a $450,000 NSF grant, assistant professors Patrick Traynor and Jonathon Giffin will focus on detecting and repairing mobile botnet attacks, rather than preventing them. "Since mobile phones typically lack security features found on desktop computers, such as antivirus software, we need to accept that the mobile devices will ultimately be successfully attacked," Giffin said. "Therefore our research focus is to develop effective attack recovery strategies." Source: CampusTechnology.com

Mobile Botnets Show Disruptive Potential

mterraza — 2009-11-16T16:09:25Z

Using a software-simulated cellular network, Assistant Professor Patrick Traynor of Computer Science recently showed that in a network of about 1 million subscribers, a mobile botnet infecting just 12,000 phones could disrupt 93 percent of traffic. Source: NewScientist.com

Georgia Tech Creates New Online Master's Degree in Information Security

lrusso — 2009-11-17T15:41:41Z

ATLANTA, GA (November 16, 2009) – The College of Computing today announced the creation of a new Master of Science in Information Security available online in a distance learning format, a flexible degree option for working information security professionals who want more than industry certification. Georgia Tech is the only university of its class certified by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education that offers the degree in an online format. Source: Office of Communications

Researchers Building Tools to Clean Up Smartphones

mterraza — 2009-11-12T15:55:28Z

Right now the way most consumers deal with a virus-infected smartphone is by buying a new one. Two School of Computer Science assistant professors, Jonathon Giffin and Patrick Traynor, will use their new $450,000 NSF grant to find ways wireless carriers could repair phones remotely. Source: DarkReading.com

Smartphone Worms, Malware in Researchers' Sights

mterraza — 2009-11-12T15:47:18Z

With a $450,000 NSF grant, assistant professors Jonathon Giffin and Patrick Traynor of Computer Science hope to find ways for mobile phone carriers to monitor their networks for evidence of cyber attacks--and stop them. "While a single user might realize that a phone is behaving differently, that person probably won’t know why," Traynor says. "But a cell phone provider may see a thousand devices behaving in the same way and have the ability to do something about it." Source: NetworkWorld.com

Remote Repair For Infected Phones

mterraza — 2009-11-11T20:28:20Z

With a new, $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, assistant professors Jonathon Giffin and Patrick Traynor ultimately want to develop a remote repair method that would enable service providers to clean malicious code off an infected device without the device having to be brought into a service center. Source: SC magazine

GT Researchers Work to Secure Cellphones

mterraza — 2009-11-11T14:38:43Z

Assistant Professors Jonathon Giffin and Patrick Traynor have received a three-year $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop tools that improve the security of mobile devices and the networks on which they operate. Together with a team of graduate students, the two are developing methods of identifying and remotely repairing mobile devices that may be infected with viruses or other malware. Source: Atlanta Business Chronicle