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Georgia Tech to Pursue 'Transparent Internet' With $1M Google Focused Research Award


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March 21, 2011

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.

Georgia Tech to Pursue 'Transparent Internet' With $1M Google Focused Research Award

Subtitle: 
Two-year project will provide tools for users worldwide to monitor their Internet Service Providers’ performance
Summary Sentence: 
Researchers will develop tools to measure network performance, detect data censorship.

A team of Georgia Tech researchers will use a $1 million Google award to provide Internet users around the world with tools to measure their Internet Service Providers' performance, as well as detect whether their data is being tampered with. Source: Office of Communications

Location: 
Atlanta, GA
Contact: 

Brendan Streich

Director of Communications

Georgia Tech College of Computing

(404) 313-5944

Release: 
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 08:42
Expire: 
Monday, June 20, 2011 - 08:42
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