The 2005-2006 Undergraduate Awards included:

• Outstanding Freshman - Jeffrey David Starker II
• Outstanding Sophomore - Joshua Isaac Silver
• Outstanding Junior - Kathy Pham
• Outstanding Undergraduate - Robert Ian Fitzpatrick
• Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant - Blake Patrick O’Hare
• Outstanding Undergraduate Research Assistant - Andrew Russell Guillory
• The Dave & Carrie Armento Scholarship - Joseph Chester Hardy
  Established to award an African-American computer science major who is a Georgia resident.
• The Bierne M. Prager Scholarship - James Richard Bailey
  Established to award an undergraduate student from Shelby County, Tennessee.

*Fifty-nine CoC undergraduate students qualify to graduate with honors this spring.

The 2005-2006 Graduate Awards included:

• Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant - Ryan Riegel
• Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant - Xiaotong Zhuang
• The Donald V. Jackson Fellowship - Mitchell Halpin
  This Fellowship supports the master’s program and is awarded to a well-rounded computer science student who best embodies values of academic excellence and leadership.
• The Marshall D. Williamson Fellowship - Summer Adams
  This Fellowship supports the master’s program and is awarded to a well-rounded student who best embodies values of academic excellence and leadership.

The 2005-2006 Research Awards included:

• Outstanding Junior Faculty Research - Jun (Jim) Xu
• Outstanding Senior Faculty Research Award - Dana Randall and Gregory Abowd
• The Raytheon Faculty Fellowship - Subhash Khot
  This Fellowship is an annual $20,000 seed grant designed to foster and encourage collaborative activities among CoC faculty members and to further promote a sense of community within the college.

The 2005-2006 Faculty Awards included:

• William A. “Gus” Baird Faculty Teaching Award - Charles Isbell
  This award is to honor a faculty member who is recognized by his or her peers for excellence in teaching.

• The Peter A. Freeman Faculty Award – Richard Fujimoto
  This award is presented annually to a member of the faculty who has demonstrated the entrepreneurial spirit for which the founding Dean, Peter A. Freeman, was known.

• The Dean’s Award – Mark Guzdial, Charles Isbell, and Tom Pilsch
  This award was given for their dedication and implementation of the Threads™ Program, CoC’s revolutionary approach to undergraduate education.

• Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Advisor Award – Mostafa Ammar
  This award is presented by the Georgia Institute of Technology to recognize the achievements of a faculty member’s doctoral students who completed all degree requirements from January 1, 2001, to December 31, 2005.

The 2005-2006 Staff Awards included:

• Outstanding Support and Service - LerVerne Davis (Accountant III), Ylonda Moore (Administrative Coordinator), and Becky Wilson (Academic Advisor I).

The 2005-2006 Corporate Awards included:

The College of Computing also recognized this year’s generous supporters which include:

The 2005-2006 Industrial Partner’s Association

AFLAC
Armedia, LLC
Auto Trader
Care Centric
Cisco Systems
Cox Interactive Media
Federated Department Stores, Inc.
Google
Harris Corporation
Intel Corporation
Internet Security Systems
Lockheed Martin
LSI Logic
Manheim Interactive
Mercury
Microsoft
Orasi
Patient Care Technologies, Inc.
Pixar
SAIC
SPI Dynamics
TCS America
Telcordia Technologies