Prof. John Miller is the Program Chair for the 2014 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) to be held December 7-10 in Savannah, GA. WSC is the premier international forum for disseminating recent advances in the field of system simulation. Please visit the conference Web site http://wintersim.org/2014/ for additional information.

Congratulations to Dr. Roberto Perdisci for receiving the Franklin College M. G. Michael Award, which recognizes excellence in research. The primary purpose of the award is to encourage new, adventurous research ideas. Dr. Perdisci will use the award to start up a new research project on "global-scale malware download detection".

UGA’s Faculty of Robotics whose founding director is Prof. Doshi are working to significantly advance the fundamental science and engineering involved in creating the next generation of intelligent machines. A video of the Faculty’s activities is currently featured on the UGA Research Blog.

Position 1: Assistant Professor in Computer Science, starting in August 2014. To apply, please upload the required materials to Franklin college jobs.

Position 2: Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Cellular Biology, starting in August 2014. To apply, please upload the required materials to Franklin college jobs.

This talk will discuss the current state of the art in robotics and particularly focus on the directions that robotics is taking and the impact it will have on our society in the near future. Exciting robotics research will be briefly surveyed. The talk will additionally discuss the National Robotics Initiative whose goal is to accelerate the development and use of robots in the United States that work beside, or cooperatively with, people. This initiative was recently launched by President Obama and has significant participation from all major funding agencies.

Congratulations to Prof. Ramaswamy for receiving a grant from NSF for his project on building Cloud-based Big-Data techniques for federated Internet of Things.

Congratulations to Prof. Tianming Liu for receiving a 5-year NIH R01 grant to develop and validate neuroimaging biomarkers for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. This is a collaborative grant with researchers in UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University.

Congratulations to Prof. Kang Li, Roberto Perdisci have received a two-year NSF award for their project entitled DUE-SATC: Stepwise and Reusable Problem-solving Challenges.