2009 Media Coverage
Augmented Reality: What It Is & Will Become
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
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
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
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 Announces New Online MS InfoSec Degree
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
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
GT Researchers Attack Cellphone Malware
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
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
Researchers Building Tools to Clean Up Smartphones
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
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
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
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
Improving Mobile Device Security
As mobile phones begin functioning more like mini-computers, they also take on more security risks. That's why School of Computer Science assistant professors Jonathon Giffin and Patrick Traynor recently received a $450,000 grant from the National
Science Foundation to work toward developing safer mobile devices and
telecommunication networks that serve such devices. Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Randall Delivers AMS Lecture at NSC's Fort Discovery
Professor Dana Randall of Computer Science delivered the American Mathematical Society's 2009 Arnold Ross Lecture, "Domino Tilings of the Chessboard: An Introduction to Sampling and Counting," Oct. 29 at the National Science Center's Fort Discovery in Augusta, Ga. Following her lecture, many high school students in attendance tested their math knowledge with a mock game show, "Who Wants to Be a Mathematician?" that paid out real cash prizes. Source: AMS.org
IT Pros Head to the Classroom
With a $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the College of Computing has launched "Operation Reboot." The program pairs a laid-off IT professional with an existing high school teacher for at least one year, allowing the IT professional to learn the ins and outs of a classroom, and the teacher to get an education in IT. "We will transform these IT workers' identity into that of a computing teacher," said Barbara Ericson, director of computer-science outreach for the College. Source: Computerworld
Biros Paper Earns Viewpoint on Physics Site
A paper coauthored by Associate Professor George Biros (CSE) has been highlighted with a "Viewpoint" commentary on the American Physical Society website. The site selects certain papers published in the journals Physics and Physical Letters, and publishes Viewpoint pieces to explain the paper's impact to a wider audience. Biros' paper, "Why Do Red Blood Cells Have Asymmetric Shapes Even In a Symmetric Flow," was published in Physics in October. Source: APS.org
Tech's New (Augmented) Reality
In many tech circles, augmented reality is the Next Big Thing. But for AR apps to move beyond "cute" and start living up to the hype, they need to ramp up their scale, says Associate Professor Blair MacIntyre of Interactive Computing. He envisions a world where all available AR information can be accessed through a single application. Source: Montreal Gazette
HP, NVidia Team Up In GT HPC Project
Hewlett-Packard and NVidia are providing key technologies in the $12 million, NSF-funded project to deploy experimental high-performance computing systems that's being led by Jeffrey Vetter, joint professor in Computational Science & Engineering and at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Source: eWeek.com
GT Gets $12M To Build Supercomputer
A $12 million NSF grant will help Georgia Tech turbocharge its research capabilities involving high-performance computing. "Our goal is to develop and deploy a novel, next-generation system for the computational science community," said Jeffrey Vetter, joint professor in Computational Science & Engineering and at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Vetter is the lead investigator for the grant, which also involves the University of Tennessee and corporate partners Hewlett-Packard and NVidia. Source: Atlanta Business Chronicle
The Mathematics of Passion
In the October 2009 issue of Verge, an arts and events magazine in Augusta, Ga., Professor Dana Randall of
Computer Science says she wants to change the perception of
mathematics. Far from simply crunching numbers, Randall talks about her
work as solving--even "study[ing] the aesthetics" of--patterns and
puzzles. On Oct. 29 in Augusta's Fort Discovery, she will deliver the American Mathematical Society's annual Arnold Ross Lecture, titled "Domino Tilings of the Chessboard: An Introduction to Sampling and Counting." Source: Verge Magazine
