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A Brief History of Augmented Reality

<p>Associate Professor Blair MacIntyre of Interactive Computing talks about his 18 years of working in the field of augmented reality and various applications for the technology. <i>Host: TacticalTransparency.com</i><br /></p>

Home Is Where the Smart Is

<p>The Aware Home, a research initiative based in the College of Computing, is not science fiction--it's a real-life laboratory where assistive technologies for groups like the elderly and special-needs children are tested in an actual home environment. <i>Source: CNN</i><br /></p>

Georgia Tech Still in World Top 10 for Tech Schools

<p>Georgia Tech held on to its No. 8 ranking among the world's engineering and information technology universities, according to a list published by U.S. News &amp; World Report on June 18. The rankings are based on data from the THE-QS World University Rankings. <i>Source: U.S. News &amp; World Report</i><br /></p>

Alumna & Ph.D. Student Wins Law Writing Award

<p>Incoming Ph.D. student (and Georgia Tech bachelor’s and master’s graduate) Casey Fiesler has received a 2009 Burton Award for an article she published in the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law. <i>Source: Office of Communications</i><br /></p>

ARhrrr: Zombies Meet Augmented Reality

<p>Though there’s not yet a commercially available mobile phone that will play it, Associate Professor Blair MacIntyre’s zombie-filled first-person shooter game run off the NVidia Tegra platform already is drawing rave reviews. <i>Source: Gizmodo </i><br /></p>

Teaching Robots the Rules of War

<p>Though many years in the future, military robots programmed to act ethically could be even more ethical in battlefield situations than soldiers, since machines would not fall prey to the desire for revenge. On the flip side, neither would they feel sympathy or empathy, says Professor Ron Arkin of Interactive Computing. <i>Source: New Scientist</i><br /></p>

A Reduced Role for StratCom?

<p>Whatever part the U.S. Strategic Command will play in securing U.S. networks, cyber threats from foreign governments are "keeping a lot of people awake at night," says Professor Mustaque Ahamad, director of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center. <i>Source: Omaha World-Herald </i><br /></p>

Safeguarding Your Mobile Networks

<p>Assistant Professor Patrick Traynor of Computer Science advises users to remain vigilant against new and emerging cybersecurity threats, particularly those directed toward mobile devices, for which effective protection measures have not yet been devised. <i>Source: SC Magazine </i><br /></p>

Cybersecurity Bottleneck: Few PhDs

<p>As part of his June 10 testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives' Science and Technology Committee and Research and Science Education Subcommittee, Professor Sy Goodman, joint with Computer Science and the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, said one threat is a dearth of cybersecurity professors who can train tomorrow's security specialists. <i>Source: GovInfoSecurity.com </i><br /></p>

Don't Legislate Cybersecurity Education

<p>Despite the cybersecurity warnings to Congress of Professor Sy Goodman, joint with Computer Science and the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Washington should not legislate what gets taught about IT security, according to a Cornell professor. <i>Source: Chronicle of Higher Education </i><br /></p>

Wireless Devices Next Big Cybersecurity Targets

<p>Cybersecurity experts weigh in on the June 10 Capitol Hill testimony delivered by Professor Sy Goodman, joint with the Computer Science and the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, who warned of a possible “tsunami of insecurity.” <i>Source: NextGov.com</i><br /></p>

Blair MacIntyre on Mobile AR & Mirror Worlds

<p>One of the original pioneers of augmented reality discusses the potential he sees in smart phones to mediate meaningful AR experiences. <i>Source: UgoTrade.com</i><br /></p>

Computing/ME Team Makes MS Imagine Cup Finals

<p>A two-person Computing and mechanical engineering team has been selected as a finalist in the 2009 Imagine Cup, the global contest sponsored by Microsoft in which student teams from around the world create applications that address the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals. <i>Source</i>: <i>Office of Communications</i><br /></p>

Goodman Warns of Cyber Threats in Hill Testimony

<p>On June 10, Professor Sy Goodman, joint with the School of Computer Science and the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, briefed the U.S. House of Representatives' Science and Technology Committee and Research and Science Education Subcommittee during its hearing on "Cyber Security R&amp;D." <i>Source</i>: <i>Office of Communications</i></p>

Escape from the 'land of blood and tears'

<p>A mobile video kiosk designed and created by Georgia Tech students and faculty is traveling around Liberia, giving traumatized residents of the war-torn country an opportunity to have their stories heard and recorded for posterity. <i>Source</i>: <i>CNN</i></p>

Civic-minded Computing Course Tackles Social Issues

<p>Santosh Vempala, a professor at Georgia Tech’s College of Computing, is the father of a course called Computing for Good that turned students loose last year on solving social, medical and business problems here and around the world. <i>Source</i>: <i>Atlanta Journal-Constitution</i><br /></p>

Can Computer Nerds Save Journalism?

<p>At the Georgia Institute of Technology, a three-year-old program in "computational journalism" helps computer-science majors study how journalists gather, organize and utilize information, then take these workflows and see how technology can make the processes easier. <i>Source</i>: <i>Time</i><br /></p>

Petascale is Coming Down the Pike

<p>Supercomputing is on the cusp of a new era, offering researchers processing power never seen before. Professor David Bader has been heavily involved in promoting awareness of petascale computing. “First and foremost, this is a scale of system that has not been seen before,” he says. <i>Source</i>: <i>Genome Technology</i></p>

Obama to Appoint Cybersecurity Czar

<p></p> <p>Computing Professor Mustaque Ahamad, director of Georgia Tech’s Information Security Center (GTISC), is heartened by President Barack Obama’s plan to focus on internet security and says the initiative could mean good things for Atlanta. <i>Source</i>: <i>Atlanta Journal Constitution</i></p>

U.S. Trails Europe, Asia in Robotics Research Funding

<p>Robotics Professor Henrik Christensen and other researchers from around the country descended on Washington to meet with a group of lawmakers to present a “Robotics Roadmap” for the 21st century. <i>Source</i>: <i>Atlanta Journal-Constitution</i></p>