{"408071":{"#nid":"408071","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT Computing Shines at Premier Conference in \u2018City of Pearls\u2019","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech professors and researchers from the College of Computing gathered this week in the historic Indian city of Hyderabad to present their latest findings at the leading conference on parallel computing, where they earned one of four \u201cBest Paper\u201d awards.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFrom May 25-29, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) held the 29\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E annual International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) in India.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~saluru\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESrinivas Aluru\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E returned to his home city as the invited program chair, a role held last year by the School of Computational Science and Engineering Chair \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/fac\/bader\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDavid A. Bader\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearchers from around the world submitted nearly 500 papers for possible inclusion in the conference agenda. 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