Press Releases

Georgia Tech Announces Plans For New Manycore Computing Research Center

plahay — 2008-11-18T16:44:30Z

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

plahay — 2008-11-17T18:24:29Z

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

plahay — 2008-11-12T15:11:02Z

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

lrusso — 2008-10-28T13:23:50Z

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

lrusso — 2008-10-01T16:51:23Z

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

lrusso — 2008-08-14T13:19:22Z

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

lrusso — 2008-08-14T18:17:35Z

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

lrusso — 2008-08-11T16:12:27Z

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

lrusso — 2008-07-14T17:00:59Z

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

lrusso — 2008-07-14T15:14:02Z

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

plahay — 2008-06-04T14:23:34Z

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

plahay — 2008-04-25T20:50:02Z

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

plahay — 2008-04-03T16:56:45Z

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

rashmi — 2008-02-13T20:42:27Z

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.

rashmi — 2008-02-11T14:22:54Z

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).