{"51699":{"#nid":"51699","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Xu Receives 2006 IBM Faculty Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E(August 20, 2006)--\u003C\/strong\u003ECongratulations to Associate Professor Jun (Jim) Xu, who has been selected to received a 2006 IBM Faculty Award for making fundamental contributions to performance evaluation methodologies. Valued at $30,000, the award is highly competitive and is offered in recognition of the quality of faculty programs and their importance to industry.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u00a0\u003Cbr \/\u003EXu is part of the College\u0027s Computing Science \u0026amp; Systems (CSS) division, as well as the Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS) and the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC). His current research focuses on developing new techniques to address security problems within Internet infrastructure and applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIBM Faculty Awards recognize outstanding faculty achievement, and are renewable annually. But in keeping with the competitive spirit of the program, renewal nominations must be submitted and supported by an IBM technical sponsor, and evaluated in the same process and criteria as first-time awards.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about Jun Xu, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www-static.cc.gatech.edu\/~jx\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about the IBM Faculty Awards program, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www-304.ibm.com\/jct09002c\/university\/scholars\/facultyawards\/index.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Computing Associate Professor Jun Xu is receiving the honor\u00a0for fundamental contributions to performance evaluation methodologies.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:46:51","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:08","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-08-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-08-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"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":""}}}