{"68022":{"#nid":"68022","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Peter Freeman To Direct Washington Advisory Group","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E(December 4, 2006)--\u003C\/strong\u003EPeter Freeman, Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), recently announced that he will leave NSF in January to become a director at the prestigious Washington Advisory Group.  The Washington Advisory Group provides strategic counsel and management consulting to the leaders of companies, universities, governments and non-profit organizations. It was founded in 1996 by a group of leaders in national science policy and research funding, including Erich Bloch, former director of NSF.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFreeman has led CISE since 2002, having come from the College of Computing at Georgia Tech where he was founding dean and continues as an emeritus professor.  \u0026quot;Dr. Freeman\u0027s tenure at NSF was filled with many valuable achievements\u0026quot; stated NSF Director Arden Bement.  Freeman led the Information Technology Research Program, oversaw a comprehensive reorganization of CISE, helped lead the elevation of cyberinfrastructure to a major activity across NSF, initiated the GENI Internet Research project, coordinated homeland security research across NSF, and substantially expanded cybersecurity R\u0026amp;D.  He was instrumental in starting several key CISE programs, including Broadening Participation in Computing, Science of Design, Revitalizing Computing Education, and the Computing Community Consortium.  He also served as co-chair of the NSTC Subcommittee on Networking and Information Technology R\u0026amp;D (NITRD).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to consulting, Freeman will remain active within the College of Computing and will continue living in Washington DC. For more information about Dr. Peter Freeman, \u003Ca href=\u0022\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/component\/option,com_peopledb\/task,view\/contact_id,285893849\/Itemid,238\/\u0026quot;\u0022 target=\u0022\u0026quot;_blank\u0026quot;\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe College of Computing founding dean and emeritus professor will provide strategic counsel and management consulting to the leaders of companies, universities, governments and non-profit organizations.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2011-06-20 17:12:35","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:09:11","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-12-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2006-12-04T00:00:00-05:00","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":""}}}