News for the GT Computing Community
October 27, 2017
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Parallel Computing Expert Vivek Sarkar Joins GT Computing
If you ask Vivek Sarkar (at right with Hawaiian shirt) what his research area is, you won’t get just one answer. The School of Computer Science’s newest professor and Stephen Fleming Chair for Telecommunications studies programming languages, compilers, high-performance computing, computer architecture, machine learning, and even security. But all these fields go back to his interest in parallel computing. Read more

 Faculty News
Thomas Ploetz Finds Purpose in Machine Learning Research

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 Student News
Georgia Tech to Participate in Supercomputing Student Cluster Competition

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ICYMI: #GTComputingAdventures Summer Selfie Contest Wraps Up

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Student Team Scores Big at NBA Hackathon

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 #GTComputing in the News
VIDEO: Q&A with Dr. Ling Liu: IEEE Big Data Podcast
  • IEEE TV
  • Oct. 25
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KSU Says Election Server Was Wiped After FBI Gave Clearance
  • WABE-FM
  • Oct. 27
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 Bits & Bytes
• It's a bird, it's a plane, it's SuperComputing 2017! A Georgia Tech team led by the School of Computational Science and Engineering is set to participate the in world's largest high-performance computing conference. SC17 is being held Nov. 12 - 17 in Denver, Colo.

Please send your contributions for Bits & Bytes to Albert Snedeker at albert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu.

 Events
Oct. 23
ARC 11 with Keynote by Robert Schapire
11 a.m.
Klaus Bldg. Atrium
Nov. 2
School of CSE Seminar
Tom Jonsthovel, Schlumberger
Challenges of Developing a Robust, Scalable Linear Solver for an Industrial Application
11 a.m.
Klaus Bldg., Rm. 1116E
Nov. 2
WorkDay Day on Campus
11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
CCB Commons
6:30 - 8 p.m.
Klaus Bldg., Rm. 1116
Nov. 3
IDEaS Seminar Series
Aidong Zhang, NSF
Knowledge Discovery from Literature and Beyond
2 p.m.
TSRB Auditorium
Nov. 3
Cybersecurity Lecture Series
Sakis Meliopoulos, Georgia Tech
Noon
Klaus Bldg., Rm. 1116W
Nov. 7
MailChimp Day on Campus
11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
CCB Commons
6:3 0 - 8 p.m.
CCB Room 017
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