{"69306":{"#nid":"69306","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Study Confirms Benefits of Tiered Pricing for Internet Service","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EATLANTA \u2013 Aug. 17, 2011 \u2013\u003C\/strong\u003E Wholesale broadband providers can enhance their profit margins by instituting a small number of pricing \u201ctiers,\u201d concludes a new study by Georgia Tech College of Computing researchers, and those companies that already do so should be satisfied to learn they are likely implementing near-optimal pricing structures.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERecently U.S. Internet service providers (ISPs) have begun charging consumers based on the amount of data they send and receive. Eventually, ISPs might offer tiered pricing that charges customers depending on the time of day they send and receive traffic (as cellular providers already do) or the physical distance a user\u2019s data must travel. Theoretically an ISP could earn the greatest profit through a near-infinite number of tiers, but the study shows that by instituting just a few tiers\u2014perhaps three or four\u2014the provider could realize nearly all of those profits.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo investigate the effect of tiered pricing on ISP profitability, Associate Professor Nick Feamster and his colleagues studied how charging customers different prices depending on the distance the traffic must travel would affect an ISP\u2019s profits. They studied pricing practices in \u201ctransit\u201d Internet service providers\u2014essentially high-capacity service offered by large providers, often to corporate or other large consumers (such as smaller ISPs). The research is described in a paper, \u201cHow Many Tiers? Pricing in the Internet Transit Market,\u201d to be presented at SIGCOMM 2011, Aug. 15-19 in Toronto.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe price of Internet transit service continues to plummet as competition among major providers becomes more fierce,\u201d Feamster said. \u201cAs a result, providers are abandoning the \u2018all you can eat\u2019 pricing model in favor of more sophisticated pricing structures that more accurately reflect the cost of carrying that traffic. When it comes to destination-based pricing, we found that ISPs indeed can maximize profits by slicing up their service offerings into multiple tiers. Fortunately, they can achieve near-optimal profit gains with only three or four tiers.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo arrive at this finding, the research team first developed an economic model that could predict how an ISP\u2019s profits would be affected by varying its number of pricing tiers. In developing this model, one of the major challenges is that predicting ISP profits typically requires knowledge of costs, revenue and how customer traffic demand would vary as the ISP changed its pricing strategy. The team developed a model that can predict how profits change in response to different tiered pricing strategies\u2014armed only with knowledge of network configurations and current customer traffic demands.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe talked to both operators and customers to find out how transit providers are pricing bandwidth,\u201d said Ph.D. candidate Vytautas Valancius, the research paper\u2019s primary author. \u201cThe traffic itself was the one thing we had, but we didn\u2019t have the ISPs\u2019 pricing, nor did we have information about the precise cost to the ISP for carrying traffic.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EISPs could create a different pricing tier for each traffic flow, depending on its destination, but in practical application, a large number of tiers is difficult both for the ISP to manage and for customers to understand. In fact, Valancius said, just a few tiers yield nearly all of the benefit. The researchers also confirmed that transit providers whose costs for carrying traffic vary widely (depending on where it is destined) would enjoy the greatest benefit from tiered pricing. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOne of the most interesting aspects of this work is that network operators can use this model to design pricing tiers for their own customers, using only knowledge of current traffic demands,\u201d Feamster said. \u201cThrough our conversations with network operators, we found that many ISPs\u2019 pricing structures are still based on rough intuition, as opposed to thorough empirical analysis. We have developed the first economic model that takes real traffic data as input to understand the impact of tiered, destination-based pricing on an ISP\u2019s profit. ISPs can use this model to either confirm their current practices or design new pricing structures.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe study focused on how tiered pricing can benefit ISPs, but Valancius added that a future direction for the research would be to apply the same model to study tiered pricing in consumer ISPs, delving more deeply into \u201cuser surplus\u201d, which would capture the value consumers get from the service they are receiving, relative to the price they are paying.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information on this and other Georgia Tech papers at SIGCOMM 2011, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtsigcomm.com\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewww.gtsigcomm.com\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Pricing traffic based on data destination can yield greater profit for ISPs"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWholesale broadband providers can enhance their profit margins by \ninstituting a small number of pricing \u201ctiers,\u201d concludes a new study by Nick Feamster (\u003Cem\u003EComputer Science\u003C\/em\u003E) and colleagues. \u003Cem\u003ESource: Office of Communications \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Broadband providers can enhance profit margins by instituting a small number of pricing \u201ctiers,\u0022 researchers found."}],"uid":"27174","created_gmt":"2011-08-15 11:37:53","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:09:55","author":"Mike Terrazas","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-08-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-08-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"65456":{"id":"65456","type":"image","title":"Nick Feamster","body":null,"created":"1449176831","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:07:11","changed":"1475894579","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:59","alt":"Nick Feamster","file":{"fid":"193222","name":"091201R007_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/091201R007_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/091201R007_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4993716,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/091201R007_0.jpg?itok=Pgr83ysI"}}},"media_ids":["65456"],"groups":[{"id":"1217","name":"Digital Lounge - Digital Life"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"3388","name":"Broadband"},{"id":"14002","name":"internet modeling"},{"id":"14001","name":"internet pricing"},{"id":"10637","name":"nick feamster"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:bstreich@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EBrendan Streich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-313-5944\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bstreich@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"66305":{"#nid":"66305","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech-Based Startup Wins Business Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPindrop Security, a new company based on technology developed by School of Computer Science researchers to verify caller ID, has won the 2011 GRA\/TAG Business Launch Competition. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECosponsored by the Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) and the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG), the competition facilitates connections between the younger entrepreneurial community and more seasoned entrepreneurs. Pindrop, founded by primary researcher and Ph.D. student Vijay Balasubramaniyan, beat out three other finalists to claim the $50,000 cash first prize, as well as more than $200,000 in donated services from the Atlanta business community. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOriginally called \u201cPinDr0p,\u201d the technology works by analyzing audio imprints left on calls by the multiple networks\u2014cellular, voiceover IP, public switched telephone networks\u2014through which they travel. It uses these imprints to positively identify the calling phone with high accuracy. Equally important is that the identification is made within 15 seconds of initial call placement.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBalasubramaniyan developed Pindrop in collaboration with School of Computer Science and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtisc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Information Security Center\u003C\/a\u003E (GTISC) faculty, including Assistant Professor Patrick Traynor and Professor and GTISC Director Mustaque Ahamad. Earlier this year, TAG named Pindrop Security a Georgia Top 40 Innovation Company, and it also finished second in the 2011 Startup Riot.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWinning the prize feels great, particularly because there were 88 other great companies competing for it,\u201d Balasubramaniyan said. \u201cIt provides great validation for the technology, the efforts of the team and the market potential. Georgia is a great place to start and build a security-focused technology company, and we\u2019re pleased to work with the local community to support economic growth and development as we expand our reach into the financial services, government and consumer markets.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGTISC researchers are leaders in understanding emerging cyber security threats and in developing innovative techniques that can provide effective solutions for real-world problems,\u201d said Ahamad. \u201cPindrop is just another example of this, and it will help maintain Atlanta\u0027s reputation as a security industry hub.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBalasubramaniyan said the company\u2019s next step will be to use its GRA\/TAG competition winnings to hire staff, with plans underway for the next software release in the fourth quarter of this year. For more information, visit the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.pindropsecurity.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EPindrop Security website\u003C\/a\u003E or \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/@pindropsecurity\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Efollow the company on Twitter.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPindrop Security, a new company based on technology developed by School \nof Computer Science researchers to verify caller ID, has won the 2011 \nGRA\/TAG Business Launch Competition. \u003Cem\u003ESource: Office of Communications\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Pindrop technology uses audio imprints to ID calls traveling through multiple global networks."}],"uid":"27174","created_gmt":"2011-05-26 10:55:29","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:45","author":"Mike Terrazas","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-05-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-05-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"39933":{"id":"39933","type":"image","title":"Klaus Advanced Computing Building","body":null,"created":"1449174136","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:22:16","changed":"1475894241","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:37:21"}},"media_ids":["39933"],"groups":[{"id":"1217","name":"Digital Lounge - Digital Life"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"10567","name":"Georgia Tech Information Security Center"},{"id":"2678","name":"information security"},{"id":"11017","name":"Mustaque Ahamad"},{"id":"13274","name":"patrick traynor"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBrendan Streich\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Tech College of Computing, Office of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:bstreich%40cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ebstreich@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-7253\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bstreich@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"65059":{"#nid":"65059","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech to Pursue \u0027Transparent Internet\u0027 With $1M Google Focused Research Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EATLANTA \u2013 March 22, 2010 \u2013 What if Internet users could click a button and determine whether their service was being artificially slowed down? Or if the government were censoring their content? In the name of Internet transparency, a team of Georgia Tech researchers will use a $1 million Google Focused Research Award to provide Internet users around the world with just those kinds of tools.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe two-year unrestricted award (with a third-year option for an additional $500,000) will fund a range of activities that together are intended to make Internet access more transparent for the billions of network subscribers around the globe. At the end of the project, the team hopes to provide a suite of web-based, Internet-scale measurement tools that any user around the world could access for free. With the help of these tools, users could determine whether their ISPs are providing the kind of service customers are paying for, and whether the data they send and receive over their network connections is being tampered with by governments and\/or ISPs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cCommunity collaboration is a big part of this project,\u201d said Wenke Lee, Professor in the School of Computer Science and a principal investigator on the grant. \u201cUltimately we hope this project will help create a \u2018transparency ecosystem,\u2019 where more and more users will take advantage of the measurement tools, which in turn will improve the accuracy and comprehensiveness of our analysis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFor example,\u201d Lee continued, \u201csay something happens again like what happened in Egypt recently, when the Internet was essentially shut down. If we have a community of Internet user-participants in that country, we will know instantly when a government or ISP starts to block traffic, tamper with search results, even alter web-based information in order to spread propaganda.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELee\u2019s fellow PI on the award is Nick Feamster, Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science. The two are joined by co-PIs Mustaque Ahamad, Professor in the School of Computer Science and Director of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center; Patrick Traynor, Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science; and Henry Owen, Professor in the School of Electrical \u0026amp; Computer Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe project, funded under Google\u2019s 2-year-old Focused Research program, will analyze Internet access along three main properties: reachability from a variety of access networks; performance of user networks, particularly in comparison to the performance promises made by Internet service providers (ISPs); and integrity of information moving through these networks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Feamster, some 60 nations (including the United States) censor some access to information on the Internet. Moreover, the total number of worldwide users (currently estimated at 1.9 billion) is expected to double within the next decade. Finally, at least 4.5 billion people subscribe to cellular networks, accessing through their mobile devices everything from online banking services to streaming music and video. Both \u201ctraditional\u201d Internet connections and cellular-based networks will be covered by the tools the researchers hope to create.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cRegardless of what policies an ISP or government takes on issues like censorship and net neutrality, we believe those policies should be transparent,\u201d Feamster said. \u201cIn addition to new network measurement and security monitoring algorithms, we want to create and deploy a \u2018transparency watchdog\u2019 system that uses monitoring agents to keep constant tabs of network performance and availability in strategic Internet locations around the world.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E###\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Georgia Tech College of Computing\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech College of Computing is a national leader in the creation of real-world computing breakthroughs that drive social and scientific progress. With its graduate program ranked 10th nationally by U.S. News and World Report, the College\u2019s unconventional approach to education is defining the new face of computing by expanding the horizons of traditional computer science students through interdisciplinary collaboration and a focus on human centered solutions. For more information about the Georgia Tech College of Computing, its academic divisions and research centers, please visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EContact\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBrendan Streich\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDirector of Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Computing at Georgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:bstreich@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ebstreich@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-313-5944\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Two-year project will provide tools for users worldwide to monitor their Internet Service Providers\u2019 performance"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team of Georgia Tech researchers will use a $1 million Google award to provide Internet users around the world with tools to measure their Internet Service Providers\u0027 performance, as well as detect whether their data is being tampered with. \u003Cem\u003ESource: Office of Communications\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Researchers will develop tools to measure network performance, detect data censorship."}],"uid":"27174","created_gmt":"2011-03-22 08:50:10","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:26","author":"Mike Terrazas","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-03-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-03-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"65456":{"id":"65456","type":"image","title":"Nick Feamster","body":null,"created":"1449176831","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:07:11","changed":"1475894579","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:59","alt":"Nick Feamster","file":{"fid":"193222","name":"091201R007_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/091201R007_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/091201R007_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4993716,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/091201R007_0.jpg?itok=Pgr83ysI"}}},"media_ids":["65456"],"groups":[{"id":"1217","name":"Digital Lounge - Digital Life"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"11883","name":"internet censorship"},{"id":"12429","name":"network performance"},{"id":"10637","name":"nick feamster"},{"id":"166941","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"10893","name":"wenke lee"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBrendan Streich\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDirector of Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech College of Computing\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E(404) 313-5944\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bstreich@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"63162":{"#nid":"63162","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CSE Doctoral Student Wins Marshall Sherfield Fellowship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoshua Dillon, a Ph.D. student in Computational Science \u0026amp; \nEngineering, has been selected for a prestigious two-year Marshall \nSherfield Fellowship at the University of Cambridge.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDillon, who is advised by Assistant Professor Guy Lebanon, works in \nmachine learning, computational statistics and information \nvisualization. At Cambridge he will work with Zoubin Ghahramani, \nprofessor of information engineering in the Department of Engineering.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u201cI am primarily interested in exploring the statistical theory aspects \nof machine learning and how these insights can be exploited for more \nefficient and effective data modeling and prediction,\u201d said Dillon, who \ngrew up on a small farm in Michigan and earned his bachelor\u2019s and \nmaster\u2019s degrees from Michigan Technological and Purdue universities, \nrespectively. \u201cI am interested in large-scale data problems, primarily \ntext analysis, as well as modeling challenges present in image \nprocessing, biological data and social structure.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Tech has had more students win the Marshall Sherfield award than\n any other U.S. university. The fellowships have been offered since \n1998 when they were begun to mark the 50th anniversary of the Marshall \nPlan, and the awards are part of the distinguished \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.marshallscholarship.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMarshall Scholarships\n program\u003C\/a\u003E. Georgia Tech now has two Marshall awards this year; 2009 \ngraduate Nick Wellkamp was named a Marshall Scholar in November and will\n go to Oxford University next fall.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoshua Dillon, a Ph.D. student in Computational Science \u0026amp; Engineering, has been selected for a prestigious two-year Marshall Sherfield Fellowship at the University of Cambridge. \u003Cem\u003ESource: Office of Communications\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"CSE Ph.D. student Joshua Dillon wins two-year postdoctoral fellowship to study at the University of Cambridge."}],"uid":"27174","created_gmt":"2010-12-14 12:27:55","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:54","author":"Mike Terrazas","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-12-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-12-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"63163":{"id":"63163","type":"image","title":"Joshua Dillon","body":null,"created":"1449176649","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:04:09","changed":"1475894554","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:34","alt":"Joshua Dillon","file":{"fid":"191760","name":"Josh_Dillon.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Josh_Dillon_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Josh_Dillon_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":141548,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Josh_Dillon_0.jpg?itok=oBQtEBIO"}}},"media_ids":["63163"],"groups":[{"id":"1217","name":"Digital Lounge - Digital Life"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"167034","name":"student awards"}],"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":""}},"60622":{"#nid":"60622","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Student Receives Astronaut Scholarship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe very first Space Shuttle pilot, Robert Crippen, will present\nGeorgia Tech Junior Joy Buolamwini with a $10,000 scholarship from the\nAstronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF) during a public presentation and\nceremony, Friday, September 3 at 11:00 a.m. in the Klaus Advanced Computing Building, Georgia Tech Campus. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe award ceremony will coincide with a presentation by Crippen,\na four flight veteran, who has logged more than 565 hours in space, orbited the\nearth 374 times and traveled more than 9.4 million miles. The lecture is free\nand open to the public. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt is my honor to be presenting Joy with the Astronaut\nScholarship Foundation Award,\u201d said Crippen, \u201cJoy is a bright, up-and-coming\nforerunner in the field of computer science and she will be one of the many\nleaders who will keep the United States at the leading edge of breakthrough\ntechnology.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EBuolamwini is majoring in computer science and holds a 4.0\nGPA. She has worked on a data tracking system for Google-sponsored research and\nis interested in developing affordable mobile technology to propel economic\ndevelopment in West African nations. Buolamwini is also interested in health\ncare applications of computer technology. She plans to earn a Ph.D. in computer\nscience and pursue \u201cresearch with an entrepreneurial spirit.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Astronaut Scholarship is the largest monetary award\ngiven in the United States to science and engineering undergraduate students\nbased solely on merit. Twenty of these prestigious awards were dispersed this\nyear through ASF to outstanding college students majoring in science,\nengineering or math. More than $3 million in scholarships have been awarded to\ndate with $204,000 to Georgia Tech students alone. These well-rounded students\nexhibit motivation, imagination and intellectual daring, as well as exceptional\nperformance, both in and out of the classroom.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECrippen was selected\nas a NASA Astronaut in September 1969. After serving as a member of the Astronaut\nsupport crew for Skylab 2,3 and 4, he was named Pilot for the first Shuttle \u003Cem\u003EColumbia\u003C\/em\u003E, STS-1, and served as the\nspacecraft commander for STS-7, STS-41C and STS-41G. STS-1 was the first\nspacecraft to launch with wings using solid rocket boosters, as well as the first\nwinged reentry vehicle to return to a conventional runway landing. Crippen, a retired Navy captain, later served as\ndirector, NSTS Operations, at NASA\u0027s Kennedy Space Center, and as KSC director\nfrom 1992 to January 1995. He then served as president of Thiokol Aerospace\nGroup in Utah and now resides in Florida. Crippen serves on the Board of\nDirectors for the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation and was inducted into the\nU.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on November 10, 2001. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Astronaut Scholarship Foundation is a non-profit\norganization established by the Mercury Astronauts in 1984. Its goal is to aid\nthe United States in retaining its world leadership in science and technology\nby providing scholarships for exceptional college students pursuing degrees in\nthese fields. Today, more than 80 Astronauts from the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab,\nSpace Shuttle and Space Station programs have joined in this educational\nendeavor.\u0026nbsp; For more information,\ncall 321-455-7015 or log on to \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.astronautscholarship.org\/\u0022\u003Ewww.AstronautScholarship.org\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe very first Space Shuttle pilot, Robert Crippen, will present\nGeorgia Tech Junior Joy Buolamwini with a $10,000 scholarship from the\nAstronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF) during a public presentation and\nceremony, Friday, September 3 at 11:00 a.m. in the Klaus Advanced Computing Building, Georgia Tech Campus.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"CoC Junior Joy Buolamwini will receive the award from the first Space Shuttle pilot, Robert Crippen."}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2010-08-26 09:37:57","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:19","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-08-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-08-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"60621":{"id":"60621","type":"image","title":"Joy Buolamwini","body":null,"created":"1449176281","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:58:01","changed":"1475894525","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:05","alt":"Joy Buolamwini","file":{"fid":"191176","name":"10C2092-P1-145.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/10C2092-P1-145_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/10C2092-P1-145_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1253604,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/10C2092-P1-145_0.jpg?itok=LR-tnC4A"}}},"media_ids":["60621"],"groups":[{"id":"1217","name":"Digital Lounge - Digital Life"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4482","name":"Astronaut Scholarship"},{"id":"10479","name":"Joy Buolamwini"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStefany Sanders\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDirector of Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Computing at Georgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-312-6620\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["stefany@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"48201":{"#nid":"48201","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Professor Howard Schmidt Named National Cyber Czar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPresident Barack Obama has\nappointed Howard Schmidt, adjunct faculty member in the Georgia Tech\nInformation Security Center (GTISC) in the College of Computing, as the new\nWhite House cybersecurity coordinator. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Howard is one of the world\u0027s leading authorities on computer\nsecurity, with some 40 years of experience in government, business and law\nenforcement,\u0022said John Brennan, assistant to the president for Homeland\nSecurity and Counterterrorism, in an e-mail announcing the appointment last\nmonth. \u0022Howard will have regular access to the president and serve as a key\nmember of his National Security Staff.\u0026nbsp; He will also work closely with his\neconomic team to ensure that our cybersecurity efforts keep the nation secure\nand prosperous.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAt\nTech, Schmidt has helped set up the GTISC industry advisory board. He has worked on\na research project to evaluate the cyber security policies of various United\nStates stakeholders. He has also given lectures on security policies and\nstrategies.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESchmidt\npreviously served as former chief security strategist for the US CERT Partners Program\nand former special advisor to the White House for Cyberspace Security under\nPresident George W. Bush. He joined Tech in 2006 to work with GTISC to improve the state of\ninformation security by lending his vast knowledge and expertise in this\ngrowing technological area.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Schmidt\u0027s\ndistinguished career as an information security advocate includes leadership\npositions with both public and private sector organizations. He has served on\nthe President\u0027s Critical Infrastructure Protection Board, was an augmented\nmember of the President\u0027s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology and\nheld executive positions with the Information Systems Security Association, the\nInformation Technology Information Sharing and Analysis Center, the National\nInstitute of Standards and Technology and the Information Security Privacy\nAdvisory Board. Schmidt also served as vice president and chief security\nstrategist for eBay and chief security officer for Microsoft Corporation,\nforming and directing the computer giant\u0027s Trustworthy Computer Security\nStrategies Group.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPresident Barack Obama has appointed Howard Schmidt, adjunct faculty member in the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) in the College of Computing, as the new White House cybersecurity coordinator.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"President Obama names Howard Schmidt cybersecurity coordinator."}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2010-01-06 12:33:18","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:04","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-01-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-01-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"48203":{"id":"48203","type":"image","title":"thumbnail Howard Schmidt Named National Cybersecurity Coordinator","body":null,"created":"1449175379","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:42:59","changed":"1475894455","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:55","alt":"thumbnail Howard Schmidt Named National Cybersecurity Coordinator","file":{"fid":"101285","name":"schmidt.obama_.100.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/schmidt.obama_.100_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/schmidt.obama_.100_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":28820,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/schmidt.obama_.100_0.jpg?itok=bekEiGvV"}},"48202":{"id":"48202","type":"image","title":"Howard Schmidt Named National Cybersecurity Coordinator","body":null,"created":"1449175379","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:42:59","changed":"1475894455","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:55","alt":"Howard Schmidt Named National Cybersecurity Coordinator","file":{"fid":"101284","name":"P121709LJ-0023.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/P121709LJ-0023_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/P121709LJ-0023_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":134100,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/P121709LJ-0023_0.jpg?itok=0BXRNE5R"}}},"media_ids":["48203","48202"],"groups":[{"id":"1217","name":"Digital Lounge - Digital Life"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"344","name":"cyber"},{"id":"1404","name":"Cybersecurity"},{"id":"8184","name":"czar"},{"id":"2254","name":"gtisc"},{"id":"463","name":"obama"},{"id":"169269","name":"schmidt"},{"id":"167055","name":"security"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStefany Wilson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003ECollege of Computing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-7253\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["stefany.wilson@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"59769":{"#nid":"59769","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Transforming Noise into Music with Urban Remix","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis Saturday, June 26, artists and visitors to Atlanta\u2019s Art on the Beltline will participate in a public exhibition that takes the sounds we hear every day and transforms them into music. The show, titled Urban Remix, allows the public to record sounds from all along Atlanta\u2019s newest public place using their iPhone or Android device and upload them to the show\u2019s website. Once there, the sounds will be remixed into a concert by local musician Recompas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s about pausing and thinking about the sounds that make up our environment and how those sounds are special from one neighborhood to another,\u201d said Carl DiSalvo, assistant professor in the Digital Media program at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUrban Remix is a project devised by Georgia Tech professors Jason Freeman of the Center for Music Technology in the College of Architecture, Michael Nitsche of the Digital Media program in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and DiSalvo.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re exploring how new media lets people participate in art in new ways,\u201d added DiSalvo.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEarlier this month DiSalvo, Freeman and graduate student Stephen Garrett took Urban Remix to the City Centered Festival in San Francisco, where they brought visitors to record sounds from the city\u2019s Tenderloin neighborhood. After uploading them to the project\u2019s website, San Francisco musician Ken Ueno mixed them into a performance piece. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis weekend, they\u2019ll be taking their show to Atlanta\u2019s Art on the Beltline exhibition, an ongoing event through October, designed to entice people to experience this 22-mile loop of rail that aims to revitalize city life.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn a few weeks, middle school students from the Atlanta Public School district will be using Urban Remix as well as another musical iPhone app created at Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for Music Technology, ZOOZBeat, at the Woodruff Arts Center.\u0026nbsp; In addition to learning how to use the sounds in their environment with Urban Remix, they\u2019ll also use ZOOZBeat to create music. In addition, they\u2019ll learn about DJ and VJ cultural practices and receive other lessons on music and listening.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cThrough Urban Remix, we want to encourage people to listen to the sounds around them, to discover the hidden music in our neighborhoods, and to collaborate to shape and share that music,\u201d said Freeman.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo experience Urban Remix, visit: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/urbanremix.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/urbanremix.gatech.edu\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo hear an Urban Remix concert from San Francisco\u2019s City Centered Festival, visit: \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/urbanremix.gatech.edu\/sites\/ur.edu\/files\/ken-ueno-remix.mp3\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/urbanremix.gatech.edu\/sites\/ur.edu\/files\/ken-ueno-remix.mp3\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo see a map of where sounds were recorded at San Francisco\u2019s City Centered Festival, visit: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/urbanremix.gatech.edu:8080\/urbanremix-webapp\/?projectid=1086\u0026amp;latitude=37.7727\u0026amp;longitude=-122.41\u0026amp;zoom=14\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/urbanremix.gatech.edu:8080\/urbanremix-webapp\/?projectid=1086\u0026amp;latitude=37.7727\u0026amp;longitude=-122.41\u0026amp;zoom=14\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EParticipants in Atlanta\u0027s Art on the Beltine will get a chance to turn everyday sounds in to music.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Participants in Atlanta\u0027s Art on the Beltine will get a chance to turn everyday sounds in to music."}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2010-06-22 18:07:28","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:25","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-06-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-06-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"59767":{"id":"59767","type":"image","title":"Sewer Remix","body":null,"created":"1449176227","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:57:07","changed":"1475894265","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:37:45","alt":"Sewer Remix","file":{"fid":"190985","name":"UR-CityCentered-Glide1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/UR-CityCentered-Glide1_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/UR-CityCentered-Glide1_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2611855,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/UR-CityCentered-Glide1_0.jpg?itok=7v9gc94X"}},"59768":{"id":"59768","type":"image","title":"Pigeon Remix","body":null,"created":"1449176227","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:57:07","changed":"1475894265","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:37:45","alt":"Pigeon Remix","file":{"fid":"190986","name":"UR-CityCentered-Glide2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/UR-CityCentered-Glide2_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/UR-CityCentered-Glide2_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2948761,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/UR-CityCentered-Glide2_0.jpg?itok=mHXPXkSs"}}},"media_ids":["59767","59768"],"groups":[{"id":"1217","name":"Digital Lounge - Digital Life"}],"categories":[{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"10157","name":"carl"},{"id":"121","name":"DiSalvo"},{"id":"4284","name":"freeman"},{"id":"10158","name":"jason"},{"id":"6355","name":"Michael"},{"id":"1274","name":"Nitsche"},{"id":"10156","name":"remix"},{"id":"1695","name":"Urban"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}