Press Releases
GT Launches Experimental Green IT Initiative
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
Grant to Develop Petascale Computational Tools Could Revolutionize Understanding of Genomic Evolution
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
Georgia Tech Creates New Online Master's Degree in Information Security
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
Georgia Tech Focuses on Experimental Systems and Computational Sciences at SC09
ATLANTA – November 11, 2009 – The Georgia Institute of Technology, an
emerging leader in high-performance computing research and education,
will be showcasing scientific research at the technical edge at next
week's SC09, the international conference on high-performance
computing, networking, storage and analysis scheduled for Nov. 14-20,
2009, at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon. Source: Office of Communications
Making Mobile Devices, Cellular Networks More Secure
ATLANTA – November 10 2009 – Patrick Traynor and Jonathon Giffin, also an assistant professor in the
School of Computer Science, recently received a three-year $450,000
grant from the National Science Foundation to develop tools that
improve the security of mobile devices and the telecommunications
networks on which they operate. These Georgia Tech faculty, together
with a team of graduate students, are developing methods of identifying
and remotely repairing mobile devices that may be infected with viruses
or other malware. Source: Office of Communications
Georgia Tech Team Secures NSF Track 2 Award to Develop Future Generation High Performance Computing System
ATLANTA – October 21 2009 – The Georgia Institute of Technology today
announced its receipt of a five-year, $12 million Track 2 award from
the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Office of Cyberinfrastructure
to lead a partnership of academic, industry and government experts in
the development and deployment of an innovative and experimental
high-performance computing (HPC) system. Source: Office of Communications
Georgia Tech Broadens, Diversifies Computing Education
ATLANTA (October 6, 2009) — Georgia Computes!, a statewide program aimed at expanding the pipeline of computer science students and teachers at all education levels in Georgia, received a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to extend the program for two more years. Source: Office of Communications
Georgia Tech to Transform Unemployed Technology Workers into High School Computing Teachers
ATLANTA (September 17, 2009)— Through a recent $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the Georgia Tech College of Computing will mitigate the stress of joblessness for unemployed information technology (IT) professionals over the next three years. Operation Reboot, as the project is aptly titled, will transform an initial set of 30 IT workers in Georgia into high school computing teachers. The initiative began September 1. Source: Office of Communications
Georgia Tech, CDC Develop Web-Based Tool to Boost Safety of African and Caribbean Blood Supply
ATLANTA – December 9, 2008 – The Georgia Tech College of Computing, with the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, has developed a Web-based tool for tracking blood safety.
The tool is expected to help developing countries improve the adequacy
and safety of their national blood supplies through better monitoring
and evaluation. Source: Office of Communications
Georgia Tech Announces Plans For New Manycore Computing Research Center
AUSTIN, Texas (SC08) – November 18, 2008 – The Georgia Institute of
Technology, a national leader in high-performance computing research
and education, announced plans to create the Georgia Tech
Center for Manycore Computing, a joint research center of the Colleges of Computing and Engineering that will pursue innovations in
computer architecture. Source: Office of Communications
High Performance Computing Heavyweights Join Georgia Institute of Technology
AUSTIN, Texas (SC08) – November 17, 2008 – Georgia Tech, a national leader in high performance computing research
and education, announced the addition of six distinguished researchers
to its current roster of experts and luminaries in supercomputing. Source: Office of Communications
Georgia Tech Enters the Spotlight at Supercomputing Conference
ATLANTA (November
11, 2008)—The Georgia Institute of Technology will command a significant presence at
next week’s SC08, the international conference on high-performance computing,
networking, storage and analysis being held Nov. 15-21 at the Austin Convention
Center in Austin, Texas. Source: Office of Communications
Georgia Tech Information Security Center Releases Emerging Cyber Threats Forecast for 2009
ATLANTA (October 15, 2008) – The Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC), a national leader in information security research and education, today announced the release of the GTISC Emerging Cyber Threats Report for 2009, outlining the top five areas of security concern and risk for consumer and enterprise Internet users for the coming year. Source: Office of Communications
The Future is Exascale: HP Award Will Lay Groundwork for Next Generation Computers
ATLANTA, GA. (September 17, 2008) - While most personal computers today can process a few hundred thousand calculations per second, computer scientists at the College of Computing are laying the groundwork for exascale machines that will process more than a million trillion – or 1018 – calculations per second. Source: Office of Communications
Schwan Wins HP Labs Innovation Research Award
Computer science Professor Karsten Schwan has won an HP Labs Innovation Research Award, which fund strategic joint research projects between academic research institutions worldwide and HP Labs. The award provides project funding of up to $100,000 for one year and is renewable for a total of up to three years. Source: Hewlett-Packard Company
Georgia Tech to Analyze Massive Data Sets Using Visual Analytics
ATLANTA (August 6, 2008)—Enormous amounts of data are being generated in health care, computational biology, homeland security and other areas, but analyzing these massive and unstructured data sets has proven cumbersome and difficult. An emerging research field known as data and visual analytics is helping sift through such mountains of information to find and put together individual pieces of a picture. Source: Office of Communications
Georgia Tech, Bryn Mawr College and Microsoft Fund New Curriculum Using Personal Robots at 28 Schools
ATLANTA (August 6, 2008)—Through the Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE)—a partnership between Georgia Tech College of Computing, Bryn Mawr College and Microsoft Research—28 high schools and universities are being provided the opportunity to enhance their introductory Computer Science curriculum using personal robots as a context for teaching foundational computing skills. Winners will share $250,000 and receive paperback book-sized robots called Scribblers, enhanced with special IPRE hardware technology, along with the IPRE software and class text. Source: Office of Communications
Multithreaded Supercomputer Seeks Software For Data-Intensive Computing
RICHLAND, Wash. (July 14, 2008) -- Georgia Tech is part of a multi-institutional collaboration that received $4 million from the U.S. Department of Defense to develop software for the newest generation of supercomputers. This was announced today by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Sony Group, Toshiba and IBM Renew Cell Broadband Engine™ Center of Competence with Georgia Tech
ATLANTA (July 9, 2008) — The Georgia Tech College of Computing today
announced the renewal of the Sony Group-Toshiba-IBM Center of
Competence, based on Georgia Tech’s exceptional work in research for
the Cell Broadband Engine™ technology. (Beyond3D Forum, Campus Technology, EDN, EETimes, Electronic News, Electronics Weekly, MarketWatch, PR-Inside.com, RTTNews, SuperComputingOnline.com, Tech-On!, TMCnet)
Media Power Donates $5M to GVU Center
ATLANTA (May 28, 2008) –– Media Power Inc., a global developer of
high technology products, today announced it is donating $5 million
over the next five years to Georgia Tech's GVU Center for research and
educational activities in Augmented Reality (AR) and mobile computing.
Christensen to Lead National Team in Roadmapping Robotics Growth
Henrik I. Christensen, KUKA Chair of Robotics at CoC, will head a group of academic leaders from 11 universities in an effort to develop a unified research agenda for robotics across government, industry and academia, Georgia Tech and Carnegie Mellon University announced today in a joint statement.
Georgia Tech and Top Italian Universities Launch Dual Master’s Programs
The College of Computing and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering are partnering with two leading Italian universities, the University of Trento and the Politecnico di Torino, to offer dual master’s degrees in computer science and electrical and computer engineering.
Georgia Tech Creates New Ph.D. Program in Computational Science And Engineering
The Colleges of Computing, Engineering, and Sciences at Georgia Tech today announced the creation of a new doctoral degree in Computational Science and Engineering (CSE), a cooperative, truly interdisciplinary effort between the three academic units spearheaded by the Computational Science and Engineering division in the College of Computing.
Georgia Tech to Offer First Truly Interdisciplinary Robotics Ph.D. in the U.S.
The Colleges of Computing and Engineering at Georgia Tech today
announced the nation’s first truly interdisciplinary doctoral degree in
robotics to be offered at Georgia Tech. The program, which starts fall
semester of 2008, was developed through Georgia Tech’s Center for
Robotics and Intelligent Machines (RIM@Georgia Tech).
First Book on Petascale Computing Launched at SC07
The College of Computing at Georgia Tech and Chapman & Hall/CRC
Press today announced the launch of “Petascale Computing: Algorithms
and Applications”, the first published collection on petascale
techniques for computational science and engineering, at the SC07
conference.
Georgia Tech-SAIC Sting Racing Team Departs for DARPA Urban Challenge
The College of Computing at Georgia Tech today announced that the Sting
Racing team, a collaboration between Georgia Tech and Science
Applications International Corporation [NYSE: SAI], has left for
Victorville, Calif. to compete in the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Urban Challenge semifinals and finals events
with their fully autonomous vehicle entry, Sting 1.
GTISC Releases 2008 Cyber Threats Forecast
The GTISC Emerging Cyber Threats Report for
2008, released at the annual GTISC Security Summit on
Emerging Cyber Security Threats and Countermeasures, outlines the top five areas of security concern and risk for consumer and
enterprise Internet users for the coming year.
Georgia Tech Sting Racing Team Selected as Semi-Finalist in DARPA Urban Grand Challenge
The College of Computing at Georgia
Tech today announced that the Sting Racing team competing in the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Urban Challenge has passed its site
visit and is one of 36 teams judged technologically capable of competing in the final round.
Georgia Tech High Performance Computing Pioneer Joins Nation's Brightest Engineers to Tackle Green Issues
College of Computing Associate Professor David A.
Bader is one of eighty-three of the nation's brightest young engineers who have
been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) 13th
annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium.
College of Computing Hosts Workshop to Drive Innovation in Cell Broadband Engine Processor Research
Georgia Tech Leadership in Cell/B.E. Processor Research Includes Status as One of the First Universities to Receive IBM QS20 Blade Servers
College of Computing at Georgia Tech Hosts New Face of Computing Symposium
More than 200 corporate executives, industry leaders and technologists from across the country attended the New Face of Computing Symposium. Richard A. DeMillo, John P. Imlay Dean of the College of Computing at Georgia Tech joined featured speaker, Craig Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Officer at Microsoft Corporation, for an onstage discussion focused on computing’s impact across industries, societies and cultures.
College of Computing at Georgia Tech Announces Creation of Two Schools
School of Computer Science and School of Interactive Computing Mark Higher Education’s First Step Toward Creating Sub-disciplines in Computing
Computing Awarded NSF Grant to Broaden CS Pipeline
The College of Computing will receive $2 million from the National Science Foundation to expand the pipeline of quality students and faculty at all educational levels and increase the participation of historically under-represented groups.
Georgia Tech Scores RoboCup 2007 for Atlanta
The Georgia Institute of Technology has been selected to host the world’s most renowned research competition among custom-built robots and their designers.
College of Computing Designated First STI Center of Competence Focused on Cell Processor
Sony, Toshiba and IBM selected the College of Computing at Georgia Tech as a partner to build a community of programmers and broaden industry support for the Cell BE processor.
College of Computing Debuts Transformational Change To Undergraduate Computer Science Education
Innovative Threads™ Curriculum focuses on best preparing students for successful and sustainable careers in a competitive global economy.
Symantec Sponsors Student Competition for Usable Security at College of Computing at Georgia Tech
The College of Computing receives support from the industry leader in security technology for its innovative academic effort to design real-world security solutions.
Microsoft Partners With College Of Computing At Georgia Tech And Bryn Mawr College To Form Institute For Personal Robots In Education
Joint industry and academic partnership to apply robotics technology to undergraduate computer science education.
Georgia Tech Robotics Program Energized By New Robotics And Intelligent Machines Center
The new Robotics and Intelligent Machines Center is an interdisciplinary effort, leveraging the strengths and expertise of the Colleges of Computing and Engineering, and the Research Institute at Georgia Tech.
College of Computing Selected to Host RoboCup 2007 at Georgia Tech
As the emerging leader in robotics, the College of Computing will gladly open its doors to more than 2,000 high school and university students, faculty, and staff from around the world for the most prestigious robotics competition.
Georgia Tech Information Security Center To Host Identity Management Summit
Keynote Address and Executive Panel to Discuss Escalating Concerns and Solutions to Online Identity Theft.
College of Computing at Georgia Tech and KUKA Robotics Collaborate to Lead Robotics Education and Innovation
Global Leader KUKA Robotics Sponsors Appointment of International Robotics Expert Dr. Henrik Christensen
College of Computing at Georgia Tech, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and UT-Battelle Collaborate to Advance U.S. High-Performance Computing
College of Computing at Georgia Tech, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and UT-Battelle Collaborate to Advance U.S. High-Performance Computing
Renowned Cyber Security Expert Howard Schmidt Joins Georgia Tech
The College of Computing at Georgia Tech, a national leader in education and research that creates real-world computing breakthroughs to drive social and scientific progress, today announced that Howard A. Schmidt
Georgia Tech Information Security Center Raises Awareness of Wireless Security Issues
Summit Brings Technology Stakeholders Together to Examine Wireless Security Challenges Facing Consumers and Enterprises (Nov. 2005)
College of Computing at Georgia Tech Teams Up with Cisco on New Supercomputing Platform
High-Performance Computing Cluster Will Support College’s Expanded Research in Multi-scale Modeling and Other Areas
The College of Computing at Georgia Tech Announces New Computational Science and Engineering Division
The College of Computing at Georgia Tech Announces New Computational Science and Engineering Division: Giving supercomputing the attention it deserves.
Toyota USA Foundation Awards $130,000 Grant for Computing Education Program at Georgia Tech
Funds to Help Increase the Presence of Computer Science in Georgia Public High Schools
