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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.

ATLANTA – Dec. 12, 2012 – Music from stars? One of the country’s fastest supercomputers? Or perhaps four minutes of computational inspiration? Georgia Tech’s College of Computing has all of these and more, as for the second straight year its Holiday Gift Guide decks the halls with some of the more inspired, ambitious and definitely digital “gifts” ever placed under the virtual tree.

Georgia Tech’s College of Computing today announced that a group of its students and their professor have been awarded a Sustainable Vision Grant from the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) to move LifeNet, a flexible ad hoc communications network, from the classroom into the marketplace. LifeNet allows one person to share network connectivity with others via their computer and is especially important for providing instant communications connectivity in post-disaster situations or in rural and developing areas.