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Google has awarded $1 million to a project led by Nick Feamster and Wenke Lee (Computer Science) so that they can develop simple tools to detect Internet throttling, government censorship and other "transparency" problems. Source: Ars Technica

You can benchmark the cycles of your CPU, power of your GPU, speed of your Internet connection and a myriad of other seemingly important things. However, there's one missing benchmark that could make all those seem rather frivolous: the openness of your connection. Source: Engadget

Google has awarded Georgia Tech $1 million to study and develop tools to help people detect if their Internet access is being slowed down—or blocked—by a service provider or even the government. Source: Creative Loafing

With some 60 countries worldwide censoring online content, Georgia Tech will use a $1 million grant from Google to develop tools that will promote Internet transparency. Nick Feamster and Wenke Lee (Computer Science) are principal investigators. Source: AJC.com

In the wake of Internet blackouts in Egypt and Libya, Google has announced it is awarding at least $1 million to Georgia Tech researchers working on tools that will immediately reveal when governments are trying to shut down or censor use of the Internet. Source: Network World