{"67819":{"#nid":"67819","#data":{"type":"news","title":"DeMillo joins Carter Partnership Foundation board","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Richard A. DeMillo, The John P. Imlay Jr. Dean of the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, has joined the Board of Directors of the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation (JRCPF), the former president and first lady\u0027s Atlanta-based foundation that provides grants and awards to recognize the best practices in campus-community partnership programs and the best new ideas for student-led community service projects to solve community based problems.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDeMillo, who is stepping down as dean effective Nov. 1 to become a joint Distinguished Professor in Georgia Tech\u0027s Colleges of Computing and Management, said the appointment is a perfect opportunity to put both his academic and professional experience to use in service of tangible, humanitarian goals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;President Carter\u0027s reputation for service speaks for itself, and I\u0027m grateful for the opportunity to lend whatever advice and counsel I can to the Carter Partnership Foundation\u0027s efforts,\u0026quot; DeMillo said. \u0026quot;In the College of Computing, we have focused in recent years on \u0027Computing for Good,\u0027 which means exploring the ways in which computing can be put to work for the direct benefit of communities and individuals, supporting the best kinds of social progress. The JRCPF gives me the chance to do just that.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDeMillo said he\u0027s particularly enthused about the foundation\u0027s ServiceBook application (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.servicebook.org\u0022 title=\u0022www.servicebook.org\u0022\u003Ewww.servicebook.org\u003C\/a\u003E), which provides an Internet-based community for the exchange of ideas, best practices, syllabi and other forms of collaboration in academic service-learning. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Richard A. DeMillo, The JohnP. Imlay Jr. Dean of the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, hasjoined the Board of Directors of the Jimmy and Rosalynn CarterPartnership Foundation (JRCPF), the former president and first lady\u0027sAtlanta-based foundation that provides grants and awards to recognizethe best practices in campus-community partnership programs and thebest new ideas for student-led community service projects to solvecommunity based problems.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2011-06-20 17:11:46","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:56","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-09-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-09-08T00:00:00-04:00","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":""}}}