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Nick Feamster, assistant professor at Georgia Tech's College of Computing and researcher at the Georgia Tech Information Security Center offers his expertise on the Epislon data breach and what users and custodians can do to protect their data.Com

ATLANTA – March 22, 2010 – What if Internet users could click a button and determine whether their service was being artificially slowed down? Or if the government were censoring their content? In the name of Internet transparency, a team of Georgia Tech researchers will use a $1 million Google Focused Research Award to provide Internet users around the world with just those kinds of tools.

Patrick Traynor, assistant professor in the School of Computer Science, and colleagues have programmed smartphones to use their accelerometers to detect and decipher strokes on nearby keyboards with up to 80 percent accuracy.

ATLANTA – Oct. 18, 2011 – It’s a pattern that no doubt repeats itself daily in hundreds of millions of offices around the world: People sit down, turn on their computers, set their mobile phones on their desks and begin to work. What if a hacker could use that phone to track what the person was typing on the keyboard just inches away?

Associate Professor Michael Best (left) of the School of Interactive Computing works with undergraduate computer science major Nikea Davis, as they monitor social media activity in Liberia connected to the country's presidential election on Oct. 11, 2011.

ATLANTA – Oct. 11, 2011 – Today the citizens of Liberia will participate in just their second presidential election since the country emerged from a brutal civil war in 2003, and in such an environment the specter of violence or other unrest is never far away. But what if social media, a Georgia Tech professor is asking, could identify and even help prevent dangerous situations from occurring?

School of Computer Science Distinguished Professor Santosh Vempala (front, right) in Cameroon with a team that implemented the Basic Laboratory Information System (BLIS) software in one of the country's health clinics. Cameroon is one of three African nations, along with Uganda and Tanzania, participating in a pilot implementation of BLIS.

ATLANTA – Nov. 8, 2011 – Researchers from the Georgia Tech College of Computing, working in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), have developed a digital data tracking system to assist low-resource clinical laboratories in developing countries.

Professors Wenke Lee and Keith Edwards have been named directors of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) and the GVU Center, respectively, College of Computing Dean Zvi Galil announced Aug. 1.

On July 1, 2012, Lance Fortnow and Annie Antón will become the second chairs ever to lead Georgia Tech's schools of Computer Science and Interactive Computing, respectively.

ATLANTA – March 20, 2012 – Following a year-long national search, Georgia Tech’s College of Computing has hired renowned computing leaders Lance Fortnow and Annie Antón to chair its schools of Computer Science and Interactive Computing, respectively, effective July 1.

Annie Antón has been named Chair of the School of Interactive Computing.

Following a year-long national search, Georgia Tech’s College of Computing has hired renowned computing leaders Lance Fortnow and Annie Antón to chair its schools of Computer Science and Interactive Computing, respectively, effective July 1.

Two Georgia Tech College of Computing professors – Mark Guzdial and Ling Liu – received honors from the IEEE Computer Society for their contributions to the field of computer science.

Patrick Traynor, assistant professor in the School of Computer Science, and Ph.D. student Chaitrali Amrutkar discovered that mobile browsers are inconsistent in implementing the standards for security indicators recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium.

ATLANTA – Dec. 5, 2012 – How unsafe are mobile browsers? Unsafe enough that even cyber-security experts are unable to detect when their smartphone browsers have landed on potentially dangerous websites, according to a recent Georgia Tech study.

Associate Professor Nick Feamster of the Georgia Tech School of Computer Science.

ATLANTA – May 31, 2012 – As Election Day 2012 draws nearer, the “Twitterverse” promises to light up again and again with explosions of political opinion. But which tweets are the genuinely expressed feelings of individual users and which are systematic disseminations of information meant to support or discredit an idea—the textbook definition of propaganda?