{"55534":{"#nid":"55534","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Amur Named Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenge Winner","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EComputer science Ph.D. student Hrishikesh Amur is one of 23\nstudents nationwide awarded Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenge\nGrants, the company has announced.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe program rewards the best of those research proposals submitted by students to address 12 different scientific challenges which Yahoo! believes are critical to fueling innovation on the World Wide Web.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmur, a third-year doctoral student advised by Professor Karsten Schwan, submitted his proposal to address the challenge: \u0022What impact will virtualization, cloud computing and other innovations have upon net and relative energy consumption?\u0022 His proposal included previous work on power-proportional distributed file systems, servers with platform low-power states and cooling-driven load migration in the data center done with Schwan and collaborators at Georgia Tech\u0027s Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS) and Consortium for Energy Efficient Thermal Management (CEETHERM), as well as at Carnegie Mellon University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA native of Bangalore, India, Amur earned his bachelor\u0027s degree in computer engineering from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka in India. His grant will provide him $5,000 in unrestricted seed funding, in addition to a trip to Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., in September 2010 for a summit with his fellow winners.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about the Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenge program, visit its \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/labs.yahoo.com\/ksc\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewebsite\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EComputer science Ph.D. student Hrishikesh Amur is one of 23\nstudents nationwide awarded Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenge\nGrants, the company has announced. \u003Cem\u003ESource: Office of Communications\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27174","created_gmt":"2010-04-30 17:50:11","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:53","author":"Mike Terrazas","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-04-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-04-30T00:00:00-04:00","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":""}}}