The University of Georgia, through the efforts of Professor Thiab Taha,  has been selected by NVIDIA as a 2014  CUDA Research Center on the vision, quality, and impact of research leveraging CUDA technology. For more information on the center, please see: cuda.uga.edu

Prof. Doshi is a Co-PI on a grant awarded through UGA's inaugural Interdisicplinary Proposal Development Grant Program. Only six teams out of about 50 were funded.

Congratulations to Dr. Tianming Liu for receiving the "Creative Research Medal" Award at the 35th. Annual Research Awards Banquet.

CS doctoral student, Aryabrata Basu, and adjunct faculty, Prof. Kyle Johnsen, are co-authors on a paper on using virtual reality for childhood obesity that won a best paper award at IEEE Virtual Reality conference.

The department held its annual Research Day on April 4, which featured two keynote talks by Prof. Munindar Singh of NC State and Prof. Calton Pu of GA Tech, along with 19 research posters.

Time: 4:00 – 7:30 pm, April 4th 2014 (Friday)

Place: Kellogg Concourse (2nd floor) in the Georgia Center

The program is as follows:

• Introduction – MC: C. Neasbitt (4:00 – 4:05)

• Welcome Speech – T. Taha (4:05 – 4:10)

• 1st keynote – M. Singh (4:10 – 5:00)

• Break (5:00 – 5:10)

• 2nd keynote – C. Pu (5:10 – 6:00)

• Poster session & competition & dinner (6:00 - 7:30)

Prof. Lois Delcambre(Professor from Computer Science Department, Portland State University) will give a talk titled "Bringing Structure to (Educational) Repositories (using techniques from databases and the semantic web)" on Wednesday, March 26 from 2-3pm in Aderhold Hall G23 Deans conference room.

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Shannon Quinn (4th-year graduate student in the joint Carnegie Mellon-University of Pittsburgh Ph.D. program in computational biology) will give a talk titled "Distributed Spectral Graph Methods for Analyzing Large-Scale Unstructured Biomedical Data"  on Monday, March 17, 2014 from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m at Room 328 Boyd GSRC. Refreshments will be served at 3:00 p.m. in Room 409, Boyd GSRC

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Dr Jun Kong (a senior research scientist in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Emory University) will give a talk titled "Analysis and Integration of Large-scale Microscopy Imaging Data for Biomedical Translational Research" on Friday, March 7,  10:10 a.m. - 11:10 a.m at Room 328 Boyd GSRC. Refreshments will be served at 9:30 a.m. in Room 409, Boyd GSRC 

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Dr Metin Aktulga (Postdocotoral Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) will give a talk titled "Parallel Algorithms and Software Systems for Data-Intensive Scientific Computing" on Friday, February 28, 2014, 10:10 – 11:10 a.m at Room 328 Boyd GSRC. Refreshments will be served in Boyd Room 409 at 9:30 a.m.

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Rapidly growing importance of computational and data-centric methods in science and engineering, as well as the drastic transformations in computer architecture open up exciting opportunities for research in