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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Oak Ridge Associated Universities will fund a series of high-performance computing grants for faculty and student teams. Thomas Zacharia, part-time professor in the Computational Science and Engineering Division and associate laboratory director for ORNL's Computing and Computational Sciences Directorates, said We all become stronger if we can bring the best of what the lab has to offer coupled with the best of what the university community has to offer.
NO IMAGE NONE NO FILE ('research', 'news') () http://www.oakridger.com/stories/031808/new_258979111.shtml The Oak Ridger array(47223=>47223) turbulence-study-uses-world92s-largest-supercomputer-for-open-science-research http://old.cc.gatech.edu:8080/COC/coc/news/turbulence-study-uses-world92... Turbulence Study Uses World's Largest Supercomputer for Open-Science Research 2008/03/17 11:59:58.240 GMT-4 2499/12/31 2008/03/17 12:02:17.088 GMT-4 2008/03/17 11:58:08.122 GMT-4P.K. Yeung, adjunct professor in the Computational Science and Engineering Division and a leading scholar in the field of turbulence, is working on a study that, when completed, is expected to be a truly unique resource for the international research community and will play a key role in helping re-establish U.S. leadership in large-scale turbulence studies.
For the past 2 years, a response to an RFP has netted two unrestricted grants of about $40,000 for Associate Professor Frank Dellaert of the School of Interactive Computing to develop new online three-dimensional mapping technologies for Microsoft's Virtual Earth. Dellaert says the RFP application process is far less cumbersome than some federal grant applications, which require technical proposals 15 to 60 pages long. With Microsoft, you write one page of text; there is no budget, just a back-of-the-envelope calculation. It's extremely painless.
Distinguished Professor and Dean of Computing Richard DeMillo has been re-elected to the Computing Research Association (CRA) Board of Directors. DeMillo's new three-year term begins July 1, 2008. Two other CoC affiliates also are current CRA Board members: Professor Mary Jean Harrold of the School of Computer Science and alumna Annie I. Anton, a three-time graduate of the College of Computing (Ph.D. 1997, M.S. 1992, and B.S. 1990).
A robot that can pick up objects and hand them to people suffering from degenerative diseases, co-created by Assistant Professor Charlie Kemp of the Robotics and Intelligent Machines Center (RIM@GT), was unveiled March 12 at a conference in Amsterdam. Kemp, who is also director of Georgia Tech's Center for Healthcare Robotics, said his team focused on the ways the robot could interact with humans, not act like one. How can you make robots that are actually useful? That was bugging me, Kemp said. And it's a hard question to answer that's why I'm happy with this.
