Computer Science/Information Technology and Security

Computer science Ph.D. students Shauvik Roy Choudhary, Shuang Hao and Chengwei Wang are three of 30 students nationwide awarded the 2012 Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Program award. 

The program rewards the best of those research proposals submitted by doctoral students to address seven different scientific challenges which Yahoo! believes are critical to fueling innovation on the Web.

Pindrop Security is using "acoustic fingerprint" technology developed in the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) to address security concerns of the telephone network.  Shown are (left to right) assistant professor Patrick Traynor, GTISC director Mustaque Ahamad and Pindrop CEO Vijay Balasubramaniyan. (Photo: Justin Law)

How can you be sure that an incoming phone call is really from a customer and not an overseas criminal intent on fraud? For major financial services companies, that’s a growing concern as the telephone system adopts Internet technologies – and the security issues that come with them.

Five College of Computing students won poster session awards at the 2012 Georgia Tech Research & Innovation Conference (GTRIC) on Tuesday, Feb. 7.

The winners, all graduate students in the School of Computer Science, were each awarded $1,500 travel grants in order to present their posters at professional meetings. The students and their winning projects were:

Craig Mundie spoke at Georgia Tech on Thursday, October 27, 2011.

Before a packed auditorium in the middle of Georgia Tech’s
Homecoming week, Microsoft’s Research Chief Strategy Officer—and two-time Tech
alumnus—Craig Mundie, EE 1971, MS CS 1972, laid out a technology-enhanced
vision of the future. And that future, he said, is not so far away.

“This is the beginning of an era of computing that we think
will be substantially different,” said Mundie, delivering the College of
Computing’s John P. Imlay Lecture in the College of Management’s LeCraw
Auditorium.

Associate Professor Michael Best (left) of the School of Interactive Computing works with undergraduate computer science major Nikea Davis, as they monitor social media activity in Liberia connected to the country's presidential election on Oct. 11, 2011.

ATLANTA – Oct. 11, 2011 – Today the citizens of Liberia will participate in just their second presidential election since the country emerged from a brutal civil war in 2003, and in such an environment the specter of violence or other unrest is never far away. But what if social media, a Georgia Tech professor is asking, could identify and even help prevent dangerous situations from occurring?

Nick Feamster, assistant professor at Georgia Tech's College of Computing and researcher at the Georgia Tech Information Security Center offers his expertise on the Epislon data breach and what users and custodians can do to protect their data.Com

When it comes to broadband speeds, U.S. Internet service providers (ISPs) largely deliver on their promises, says a report issued today by the Federal Communications Commission, but “throughput” is only one of several metrics listed in the report that affect network performance. ISPs should provide a broadband “nutrition label”—easy-to-understand information about service-limiting factors—and users need better ways of measuring the performance their ISPs are delivering, concludes a study from the Georgia Tech College of Computing.

The GT Flatliners presented three solutions. This one, the problem oriented approach, was the top finisher. It arranged the clinical data by problem so that the physician could hone in on relevant information to the particular problem the patient is presenting.

Key to the future efficiency of the United States’ health care system is effective implementation of new technologies, such as electronic medical records (EMRs), as well as dovetailing those technologies with the human care and decision-making that is so critical to good medicine.

Assistant Professor Nick Feamster of the School of Computer Science has been recognized by Technology Review magazine as one of the world’s top innovators under the age of 35 for his research in computer networks.

The Georgia Tech College of Computing today announced that Assistant Professor Nick Feamster of the School of Computer Science has been recognized by Technology Review magazine as one of the world’s top innovators under the age of 35 for his research in computer networks.

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 2011, outlining the
top three areas of security risk and concern for consumer and business Internet
and computer users. The report was released today at the annual GTISC Security
Summit on the Evolving Nature of Cyber Security Threats. The summit gathers
leading industry and academic leaders who have distinguished themselves in the
field of cyber security.

The road to exascale computing is a long one, but the Georgia
Institute of Technology, a new leader in high-performance computing
research and education, continues to win new awards and attract new
talent to drive technology innovation. From algorithms to architectures
and applications, Georgia Tech's researchers are collaborating with top
companies, national labs and defense organizations to solve the complex
challenges of tomorrow's supercomputing systems.