{"121181":{"#nid":"121181","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Spring Brings Personnel Change Announcements","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWithin the past few weeks, Georgia Tech has announced three noteworthy changes to College of Computing and Office of Information Technology (OIT) leadership.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELance Fortnow will become chair of the School of Computer Science on July 1. Fortnow is currently a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Northwestern University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019m excited to join Georgia Tech, a leading center for computer science, at a time when computing is making such a great impact on science and society,\u201d Fortnow said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to his primary faculty appointment at Northwestern, he also has a courtesy appointment at the Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences Department in the Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Fortnow\u2019s research spans computational complexity and its applications, most recently to micro-economic theory.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnnie Ant\u00f3n will become chair of the School of Interactive Computing on July 1. She is currently a professor of computer science at North Carolina State University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnt\u00f3n earned three computing degrees from Georgia Tech, completing her bachelor\u2019s in 1990, master\u2019s in 1992 and PhD in 1997.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer current research focuses on the specification of complete, correct behavior of software systems that must comply with privacy and security regulations. She is founder and director of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/theprivacyplace.org\u0022\u003EThePrivacyPlace.org\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe School of Interactive Computing \u2013\u2013 the only school of its kind in the nation \u2013\u2013 is a unique resource for Georgia Tech and the country,\u201d Ant\u00f3n said. \u201cI am honored to return to \u2018Ma Tech\u2019 and to partner with Dean Galil and the entire Tech community in aspiring to and achieving new levels of excellence.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJames \u201cJim\u201d O\u2019Connor, who has served as interim vice president and chief information officer for the past 18 months, has been tapped to lead the Institute\u2019s OIT on a permanent basis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs vice president, O\u2019Connor will oversee the services, initiatives and policies originating from the seven directorates \u2014 including information security, academic and research technologies, telecommunications, architecture and infrastructure, resource management, information technology services and enterprise information systems \u2014 that comprise OIT.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOver the past 17 years, I\u2019ve had the privilege of working alongside many exceptional colleagues, both within OIT and across the Institute,\u201d O\u2019Connor said. \u201cI look forward to continuing those partnerships to provide our campus with technologies that foster education, scholarship, research, administration, communications and community.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWithin the past few weeks, Georgia Tech has announced three noteworthy changes to College of Computing and Office of Information Technology (OIT) leadership.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Within the past few weeks, Georgia Tech has announced three noteworthy changes to College of Computing and Office of Information Technology (OIT) leadership."}],"uid":"27445","created_gmt":"2012-04-02 10:14:25","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:11:56","author":"Amelia Pavlik","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-04-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-04-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1259","name":"Whistle"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"27641","name":"annie anton"},{"id":"654","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"28961","name":"james o\u0027connor"},{"id":"27561","name":"lance fortnow"},{"id":"9299","name":"Office of Information Technology"},{"id":"166941","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"166848","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}